Data protection Policy

The goal of ALFA CONEX SLOVAKIA s.r.o., abbreviated ALFACOS s.r.o., with its registered seat at Cestárska 9, 979 01 Rimavská Sobota, Company ID: 31 595 260, registered with the Commercial Registry of District Court Banská Bystrica, Section: Sro, File No.: 1527/S (hereinafter only “ALFACOS s.r.o.” or “controller”) is to protect your personal data.

When processing personal data, we abide by the requirements set out by 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, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter only “GDPR”) and by the Act. No. 18/2018 Coll. on Personal Data Protection and on Changes and Amendments of other Acts (hereinafter only “Personal Data Protection Act”).

When processing personal data you are referred to as data subject, whose personal data are processed. We are obliged to inform you and provide you with additional information regarding processing of your personal data.

All data which are collected by ALFACOS s.r.o. are processed only for legitimate purposes, temporarily  with the use of highest possible organizational and technical security measures.

Shall you have any questions regarding your personal data processing, please do not hesitate to contact us per email: acs@alfacos.sk.

1.      Personal data we process

ALFACOS s.r.o. obtains personal data directly from data subjects. When processing personal data we are particular about processing data of data subjects only to extent necessary to fulfil the purpose of processing. We process personal data to necessary extent (in particular name, surname, address, phone number, e-mail address). We do not process special categories of personal data. ALFACOS s.r.o. is processing the following personal data:

A.        Personal data of customers, which are necessary for purposes of selling machinery and equipment and provision of services of ALFACOS s.r.o. as well as for regulatory and contractual purposes.

B.        Personal data of suppliers obtained before and during realization of business transactions.

C.        Personal data of employees within scope of applicable legal regulations.

D.        Personal data of employee candidates.

2.      Period for which personal data will be stored

ALFACOS s.r.o. is processing your personal data for different periods depending on purpose and legal basis of processing. The following periods for data processing are applicable in our company:

A.        For purposes of execution of a contract – for the duration of the contract.

B.        For purposes of compliance with legal regulations – until it is required by the respective legal regulation.

C.        For purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller – during period of legitimate interests.

D.        For purposes of personal data processing based on consent – for the period for which the consent was given or until withdrawal of such consent.

3.      Legal basis and purposes of personal data processing

Your personal data are processed by our company based on the following legal basis and for the following purposes:

A.        Selling of goods and provision of services of ALFACOS s.r.o.

B.        Human resources and wages

C.        Compliance with valid legal regulations

D.        Security of information systems

E.         Security of movable and immovable property

F.         Accounting and tax purposes

G.        Mailing records

H.        Records of employee candidates

I.          Archive records

J.         Administration of applications of data subjects regarding processing of their personal data.

4.      Your rights within the context of personal data processing

ALFACOS s.r.o. respects your right of access to your personal data, which we are processing and makes sure your personal data are legally processed. You have the following rights regarding processing of your personal data:

A.        The right to access your personal data – this right includes the right to ask for a copy of your personal data we hold, as well as the right to provide information on how your personal data is used.

B.        The right to rectification – this right includes the right to ask for rectification, update or completion of your personal data, in case you think your personal data processed by us is inaccurate, incomplete or not up-to-date.

C.        The right to erasure – this right includes the right to ask for erasure of your personal data while taking into consideration all relevant facts. This relates to the cases when your personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they had originally been collected and processed for; when you withdraw your consent with processing of your personal data we have been processing with your consent, you object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate grounds and we determine we have no legitimate grounds for processing any longer or when you assume processing of your personal data does not comply with valid legal regulations.

D.        The right to restriction of processing – this right includes your right to obtain restrictions of processing from us in case you think your personal data are inaccurate, their processing is unlawful, you require your personal data for exercise or defence of legal claims and we no longer need them for purposes of processing or in case you object against processing pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds override yours.

E.         The right to data portability – this right includes the right to transmit your personal data to another controller without our hindrance. This relates to personal data obtained based on your consent or on a contract you are a party of.

F.         The right to object to processing of your personal data – this right includes the right to object to processing of your personal data on grounds in relation to your particular situation, even though we process them lawfully. In case you object to processing of your personal data, we cease to process them, unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or compelling legitimate grounds for the defence of legal claims, which allow us to continue processing of your personal data despite of your objections.

G.        The right to lodge a complaint – with regard to processing of your personal data you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority which is the Office for personal data protection, with its registered seat at Hraničná 12, 820 07 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, email: statny.dozor@pdp.gov.sk.

H.        The right to withdraw the consent with processing of your personal data –includes the right to exercise of your right to withdraw your consent with processing of your personal data at any time. Withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data based on the consent before its withdrawal.

In case you would like to exercise any of the above mentioned rights, please do not hesitate to contact us per following email address: acs@alfacos.sk or per post to: ALFACOS s.r.o., Cestárska 9, 979 01 Rimavská Sobota. Please note, in case of doubt our company asks for verification of your identity.

5.      Principles relating to processing of your personal data

ALFACOS s.r.o. abides by the following principles of processing your personal data:

A.        Principles of lawful, fair and transparent personal data processing – which means your personal data are processed lawfully, fairly and in transparent manner.

B.        Principle of purpose limitation – which means your personal data are collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.

C.        Principle of data minimisation – which means only adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.

D.        Principle of accuracy – which means that only accurate personal data are processed and in case of inaccurate personal data being processed with regard to the purposes for which they are processed, thus data will be erased or rectified without undue delay.

E.         Principle of storage limitations – which means that your personal data are kept in a form which permits your identification for a period no longer than necessary for the purposes for which your personal data are processed.

F.         Principle of integrity and confidentiality – which means that your personal data are processed in a manner which ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage using technical and organisational measures.

G.        Principle of accountability – which means ALFACOS s.r.o. is responsible for compliance with the principles relating to processing of your personal data.

6.      Who is provided access to your personal data

Our employees have access to your personal data for no longer than necessary. Occasionally, our IT suppliers and other support providers and their employees have access to your personal data.

We do not realize cross-border data transfer.

7.      Processing of personal data of visitors of our website

A.        Cookies

When you access our website www.alfacos.sk cookies may be stored. As a visitor of our website, you have the right to consent with storage of cookies or reject storage of cookies by setting your internet browser, i.e. by consenting to or rejecting the storage of cookies.

Setting of your browser is according to Article 55 Section 5 of the Act No. 351/2011 Coll. on Electronic Communications, as later amended, considered to be your consent to the use of cookies on our website. As soon as your browser is closed your consent is disabled.

Consent with cookies:

If you consent with storage of cookies on your electronic device, it may store the following:

a)         temporary cookies files, which are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser

b)         long-term cookies, which will be stored by your internet browser when you close your internet browser you are using as a user to access our websites www.alfacos.sk. You as a user can delete these cookies anytime or they will be automatically deleted after a few weeks or months.

Rejection of cookies:

In case of rejection of cookies on our web browser, we cannot guarantee you a full functionality of our website www.alfacos.sk

Data on your behaviour on our website does not only get collected from cookies, but also from the following data:

B.        The IP address of your device

C.        The operating system of your device, its versions and language settings

D.        The browser you are using on your device, its versions and language setting

E.         The address of your website, your URL address, you use to access our website.

We process data of your behaviour on our website based on our legitimate interests for the following purposes:

1.         Collection of data based on which we will able to improve our website.

2.         Review of effectiveness of our website.

The collected data from our website on your behaviour will not be used neither for marketing nor advertising purposes.

8.      Amendments to Data Protection Policy in ALFACOS s.r.o. and additional information

ALFACOS s.r.o. reserves the right to amend the Data Protection Policy in order to adapt it to a change on the legal basis and other changes. We disclose all amendments to our Data Protection Policy on our website.

In ALFACOS s.r.o. your personal data are neither subject to automated decision-making nor profiling.