By this, you grant consent to the company TAX LAW, s. r. o., with its registered office at Radlinského 2920/23A, 901 01 Malacky, Company ID No.: 53 160 657, Tax ID No.: 2121285309, VAT ID No.: SK2121285309, registered in the Commercial Register of the Municipal Court Bratislava III, Section: Sro, Insert No.: 51662/N, registered in the list of law firms maintained by the Slovak Bar Association, contact: taxlaw@taxlaw.sk, +421 948 889 312 (hereinafter referred to as the “Law Firm”), to process the following personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR Regulation”), and Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on Personal Data Protection and on amendments to certain acts (hereinafter referred to as the “Personal Data Protection Act”): – first name, surname, birth surname, residential address, electronic (e-mail) address, telephone number, date of birth, and personal identification number (hereinafter referred to as the “personal data”).
Personal data may be processed on the basis of the consent granted by you. Such processing is permitted under the GDPR Regulation.
Personal data will be processed for the following purpose: provision of legal services. By consenting to the above-mentioned processing of personal data, you grant your explicit consent. The provision of personal data is voluntary. Consent may be withdrawn at any time. The processing of personal data is carried out by the Law Firm. However, personal data may also be processed on behalf of the Law Firm by the following processors:

the Law Firm’s IT service provider;
the provider of software for mass e-mail distribution;
where applicable, other providers of processing software, services, and applications used by the Law Firm.

Please note that, pursuant to the GDPR Regulation and the Personal Data Protection Act, you have, among other rights, the right to:

withdraw your consent at any time;
request information regarding which of your personal data we process;
request access to such data and have such data updated or corrected, or request restriction of processing;
request the deletion of such personal data;
lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for personal data protection (the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic).

Why do we process personal data?
The processing of personal data on our part is necessary primarily in order to:

provide legal services to our clients and practise the legal profession;
fulfil various statutory and tax obligations;
protect the legitimate interests of us, our clients, and other persons.

What legitimate interests do we pursue when processing personal data?

Assertion and defence of legal claims – we rely on our legitimate interest in judicial proceedings, during out-of-court negotiations, as well as in the recovery of our claims, when we do not represent clients but instead assert our own claims against third parties.

Direct marketing – under the GDPR, direct marketing may also constitute a legitimate interest; in such cases, we require your consent for the sending of newsletters or other marketing communications where necessary.

Who has access to your personal data?

We provide access to the personal data of our clients and other natural persons only to the extent strictly necessary and always subject to confidentiality obligations, for example to our employees, persons entrusted by us with the performance of specific activities related to the provision of legal services, our cooperating attorneys, our accounting advisor, our professional advisors (e.g. tax advisors), the Slovak Bar Association (e.g. in the case of disciplinary proceedings), or providers of software, support, and services for our law firm, including the employees of such persons.
Where we are legally obliged to do so due to statutory confidentiality exceptions, we are also required to provide your personal data to public authorities (which are not considered recipients under Article 4(9) GDPR), particularly in the field of prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.

To which countries do we transfer your personal data?
The personal data of the Law Firm’s clients are not transferred to third countries outside the European Economic Area (EU, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein).
However, in connection with the operation of the website www.taxlaw.sk and the use of Google services, a limited scope of website visitor data (in particular cookies, IP address, and device identifiers) may be transferred to the United States of America; further details are provided below in the section “Cookies, Online Identifiers and Advertising Services”.
How long do we retain your personal data?
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed.
When retaining personal data, we follow the recommended retention periods pursuant to Resolution of the Presidium of the Slovak Bar Association No. 29/11/2011, for example:

the register of incoming mail and the register of outgoing mail shall, upon being filled, be retained by the attorney for a period of ten years from the date of receipt or dispatch of the last item entered in the register;
the inventory list shall be archived by the attorney for a period of ten years from the date of its preparation;
where the attorney maintains a register of clients and a client file log electronically, the attorney shall prepare a printed version thereof for each calendar year at the end of that calendar year and retain it at the law office without any time limitation;
the retention period for a client file is 10 years and commences on the date on which all conditions for placing the file into the archive have been fulfilled.

Attorneys are subject to professional regulations interpreting the obligations of attorneys under the Act on the Legal Profession, pursuant to which certain circumstances may extend our retention periods for personal data or prevent us from destroying certain documents for understandable reasons. For example:

a client file containing original documents provided to the attorney by the client may not be destroyed;
client file registers and indexes of client files may not be destroyed;
a client file, or any part thereof, which the attorney is obliged to hand over to the state archives may not be destroyed;
a client file may not be destroyed for as long as any proceedings are pending before a court, administrative authority, law enforcement authority, or the Slovak Bar Association, where such proceedings are substantively related to the contents of the client file or concern the conduct or omission of the attorney in the provision of legal services to the client.

How do we obtain your personal data?
If you are our client, we most often obtain your personal data directly from you. In such cases, the provision of your personal data is voluntary. Depending on the specific circumstances, failure by the client to provide personal data may affect our ability to provide high-quality legal advice or, in exceptional cases, may result in our obligation to refuse the provision of legal services.
We may also obtain personal data relating to our clients from publicly available sources, public authorities, or other persons.
If you are not our client, we most often obtain your personal data from our clients or from other public or lawful sources, such as requests to public authorities, extracts from public registers, obtaining evidence on behalf of a client, and similar sources.
In such cases, we may obtain your personal data without informing you and even against your will, on the basis of our statutory authorization and obligation to practise law in accordance with the Act on the Legal Profession.

Processing of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that improve the use of a website, for example by enabling the recognition of previous visitors when logging into the user environment, remembering a visitor’s preferences when opening a new window, measuring website traffic, or analysing the manner in which the website is used for the purpose of improving user experience.
Our website uses cookies for the purpose of improving our services and for other purposes specified below in the section “Cookies, Online Identifiers and Advertising Services”. The method of granting and withdrawing consent to the use of cookies is described in the aforementioned section.
Third-Party Tools on the Website
Further information regarding cookies and third-party tools (in particular Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Google Tag Manager), their purposes, and retention periods is provided below in the section “Cookies, Online Identifiers and Advertising Services”.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
The protection of personal data is not a one-time matter for us. The information that we are required to provide to you in connection with our processing of personal data may change or cease to be up to date over time.
For this reason, we reserve the right to amend and modify these conditions at any time and to any extent. In the event that we materially change these conditions, we will bring such changes to your attention, for example by means of a general notice on this website or by a separate notification.
Cookies, Online Identifiers and Advertising Services
When visiting the website www.taxlaw.sk, the Law Firm uses cookies and similar technologies, including mobile advertising identifiers, in order to ensure website functionality, analyse website traffic, and display customised (personalised) as well as non-customised (non-personalised) advertising.
For these purposes, the Law Firm primarily uses advertising and analytical services provided by Google Ireland Limited, with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (in particular Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager).
Within the scope of these services, personal data may be processed, including cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, and data relating to visitor behaviour on the website.
In this context, Google acts as an independent controller and/or processor. Further information regarding how Google uses data when its partners use Google services is available at:
Google Privacy & Terms Information

Google Business Safety Privacy

The processing of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes of advertising personalisation and analytics is carried out exclusively on the basis of your prior consent pursuant to Section 109(8) of Act No. 452/2021 Coll. on Electronic Communications.
You may grant, refuse, or modify your consent through the consent management banner (cookie banner) displayed upon your first visit to the website.
You may change your preferences at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” button located in the footer of the website.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time; however, the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to such withdrawal.