Legal

Effective date: 13.10.2025

Platform Regulation Academy is a company registered in Slovakia.

  • Platform Regulation Academy, s.r.o. (limited liability company)
  • Reg. No. 62875/V, the Commercial Registry of the City Court of Košice
  • Address: Alvinczyho 26, 04001, Košice, Slovakia
  • Org. ID: 57078254; Tax ID: SK2122558757
  • Director: Martin Husovec, Alvinczyho 26, 04001, Košice, Slovakia 

GDPR Policy

This online privacy policy provides an overview of how we process personal data at www.platform.courses with registered seat at Alvinczyho 26, company ID No.: 57078254, registered in Slovakia (hereinafter referred to as “us“ or “we“).

This Privacy Policy is primarily designed to ensure compliance with our informational obligations pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 GDPR towards data subjects about whom we process personal data as a controller. Typical data subjects are our users. Being an EU-based company, we must comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR “) providing your individual rights[1]  when processing the personal data, applicable sections of the national data protection legislation (the “Data Protection Act”) and other legislation.

Why do we process personal data?

Generally, we need to process personal data in order to:

  • provide our services and products and for that purpose process personal data of our clients, suppliers, business partners, employees and other persons;
  • meet our legal and contractual obligations; and
  • pursue our own legitimate interests.

For what purposes and under which legal bases do we process personal data?

We process personal data for the following purposes and legal grounds:

Purpose of processing

Legal Ground

Provision of services

Contract pursuant to Article 6 (1) b) GDPR

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Consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) a) GDPR

Marketing of similar services

Legitimate Interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) GDPR

Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

Legitimate Interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) GDPR

 

What are our legitimate interests that we pursue?

We rely on a legal ground of legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) of GDPR for the following purposes. We provide a description of these purposes and legitimate interests below:

Purpose of processing

Explanation

Marketing of similar services

If we send you an offer for similar courses you have attended, we rely on the exception for the marketing of similar services in § 116 sec. 14 of the Act No. 452/2021 Z. z. on electronic communications.

Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

From time to time, we might need to pursue a legal claim, ask for compensation or off-court settlement or report certain facts to public authorities and aforementioned processing operations shall be considered as our legitimate interest.

 

What personal data do we process?

In most cases, we process standard contact and identification types of personal data, such as name, surname, address, and email.

Who are the recipients of your personal data?

We take the confidentiality of your personal data very seriously and have internal policies in place to ensure that your data is only shared with a verified third party. Personal data of our clients is provided to the extent necessary to the following categories of recipients:

  • our verified and properly mandated processors;
  • payroll and accounting companies;
  • providers of standard software and cloud services (e.g. Dropbox);

What countries do we transfer your personal data to?

By default, we seek not to transfer your personal data outside the EU and/or European Economic Area where not necessary. However, some of our sub-contractors or the above-mentioned recipients of personal data might be based, or their servers might be located, in the United States of America. In this case, we rely on the adequacy decision between the EU and the United States of America as a legal ground for international transfer of personal data.

How long do we store your personal data?

We must not, and we do not want to store your personal data for longer than necessary for the given purpose of processing. Due to this legal requirement, but also due to technical and financial aspects of data storage, we actively delete data where it is no longer necessary. Retention periods are either provided for in respective laws or are set out by us in our internal policies. When processing of your personal data is based on consent and you decide to withdraw your consent, we will further not process your personal data for the specific purpose. However, it does not exclude the possibility that we process your personal data on different legal grounds, especially due to our legal obligations.

General retention periods for our purposes are as follows:

Purpose of processing

Retention period

Provision of services

During the contractual relationship with a natural person.

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Until the withdrawal of your consent

Marketing of similar services

Until a successful objection against processing.

Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

Based on the limitation period according to the law.

 

How do we collect your personal data?

Generally, we collect your personal data directly from you. In this case provision of personal data is voluntary. You can provide your personal data to us by different means, e.g.:

  • By registration on our websites;
  • communication with you;
  • Subscribing to the newsletter.

What rights do you have?

"If we process your personal data on the basis of consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You have the right to effectively object to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling.

"You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of the legitimate interests we follow, as explained above. You are also entitled to the processing of personal data on the legal basis of a public interest.”

If you exercise your right to object, we will gladly demonstrate to you the way how we evaluated these legitimate interests as overriding the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subjects.

The GDPR lays down general conditions for the exercise of your individual rights. However, their existence does not automatically mean that they will be accepted by us because, in a particular case exception may apply. Some rights are linked to specific conditions that do not have to be met in every case. Your request for enforcing a specific right will always be dealt with and examined in terms of legal regulations and applicable exemptions.

Among others, you have:

  • Right to request access to your personal data according to Article 15 of the GDPR. This right includes the right to confirm whether we process personal data about you, the right to access personal data and the right to obtain a copy of the personal data we process about you if it is technically feasible.
  • Right to rectification according to Article 16 of the GDPR, if we process incomplete or inaccurate personal data about you.
  • Right to erasure of personal data according to Article 17 of the GDPR;
  • Right to restriction of processing according to Article 18 GDPR
  • Right to data portability according to Article 20 GDPR;
  • Right to object against the processing, including profiling, based on legitimate or public interest according to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR;
  • Right to object against processing for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, according to Article 21 (2) of the GDPR;
  • Right to not be subject to the automated individual decision-making according to Article 22 of the GDPR.

You have a right to lodge a complaint related to personal data with the relevant data protection supervisory authority or apply for a judicial remedy. Please note that our competent data protection authority is the Office for the Protection of Personal Data of the Slovak Republic. In any case, we advise you to primarily consult us with your questions or requests.

Do we process your personal data via automated means which produce legal effects concerning you?

We do not currently conduct processing operations that would lead to the decision which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you based solely on automated processing of your personal data in light of Article 22 GDPR.

External websites

Our website might contain links to other websites and/or services of different providers than us (e.g.. reCAPTCHA from Google Inc.). We are not responsible for the content and provision of websites or services of providers other than us. This privacy policy does not apply to the processing of personal data during browsing or using websites or services of different providers than us.

[1] See Articles. 12 - 22 GDPR: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/SK/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN  

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us:

  • By email: info (at) platform (dot) courses
  • By mail: Platform Regulation Academy, s.r.o., Alvinczyho 26, Kosice, 04001, Slovakia