Data protection declaration

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It is natural that you are interested in information. We want to offer it to you based on certain rules. On the following pages, you will find information on data protection and general conditions for handling data on these pages.

Data Protection

All texts, images, audio files, and other published information on this website, except for marked articles, are subject to the copyright of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. and/or Volkswagen Group Services GmbH. Reproduction, translation, or reuse of the whole or any part thereof is not permitted without the written permission of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. and/or Volkswagen Group Services GmbH. The use of images is only allowed for personal purposes.

The fact that a certain mark is not designated as a trademark (registered trademark) cannot be interpreted to mean that the mark is not a registered trademark (registered trademark) and/or that it may be used without prior written consent from VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. and/or Volkswagen Group Services GmbH.

General Conditions

This website is operated by VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. and contains the main page (or first page) and all other web pages of this website.

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. welcomes and allows, in principle according to the following rules, the creation of legally correct references or links from the Internet to the homepage of this website.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the creation of "Deep links" from the Internet to the homepage of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. is only permissible if there is express written consent to this; it should be noted that VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. considers it necessary and essential that the Internet user always has access to the information sources of this website only via the homepage. The homepage of this website contains important information; VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. has a legitimate interest in bringing this information to every Internet user before further access to other sources of information on this website (including repeated access); therefore, any creation of a link or redirection to the websites of this website that bypasses the homepage of this website is prohibited.

The creation of redirections/pages referring to www.volkswagen-groupservices.sk through searches using common search engines (yahoo, google, etc.) is permissible in any case.

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. reserves the right to change these restrictions at any time and in any direction without giving a reason.

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. does not assume liability for damages and deficiencies of any kind and legal nature that arise from redirection/redirecting and are in conflict with the restrictions.

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. reserves the right, without giving reasons, to prohibit linking/creating links for certain entities, companies, organizations, groups of persons and/or groups of companies or to prohibit them with respect to certain web content, websites or web sites.

The creation of direct or indirect links to this website, which are related to any legally impermissible, immoral, politically radical, discriminatory, criminal, offensive or similar information, web content, websites or web sites, is in any case prohibited.

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, S.R.O. reserves the right to take action against violations of the restrictions at any time by all technical and legal means at its disposal.

Information obligation of the operator

Given that Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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, entered into force on 25 May 2018, it is necessary to inform you of this change.

We would like to inform you of this PRIVACY POLICY (hereinafter referred to as the “Policy”), which will apply to you and your personal data. For the purposes of this statement, an employee is considered to be a person employed by VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s.r.o., including members of management and executive directors, full-time or part-time employees, persons working for the company under agreements on work performed outside of employment, temporary workers and employees temporarily assigned to the company under a personnel leasing contract, or seasonal workers, and also a person who has the status of an employee within the meaning of the relevant internal HR guidelines of the company. This statement explains how we will use your personal data obtained directly from you or from third parties during the duration of your employment relationship with the company.

Please read the information below on the processing of personal data, which we have prepared in the form of questions to make this information memorandum as clear and practical as possible in terms of information retrieval.

Who is the administrator of your personal data?

The controller of your personal data is VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s.r.o., which determines the purpose and means of processing personal data.

Privacy policy

Your personal data is processed by the controller in order to ensure the implementation and fulfillment of the employer's obligations in connection with the employment relationship. We process your personal data only on the basis of a legal basis (authorization to process personal data) arising from the Regulation, the Personal Data Protection Act or other special regulations (for example, the Labor Code).

As a controller, we have a legal obligation to provide your personal data during inspections, supervisory activities or at the request of authorized state authorities or institutions, if this results from special regulations[1].

The operator will provide and make your personal data available to the following recipients:

  • Social insurance company, health insurance company, supplementary pension institutions
  • Banks, insurance companies, postal companies
  • Courts, state and local government authorities, public institutions, law enforcement agencies, tax authorities, customs authorities and financial administration authorities, notary offices, bailiff offices
  • Trade unions and other employee representatives
  • Intermediaries that process personal data for VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s.r.o., or companies for which VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s. r. o. processes personal data as an intermediary
  • Contractual partners of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s. r. o. (suppliers, customers, service providers) in connection with the performance of the relevant contract (including the exercise or defense of rights, legitimate interests and claims under the contract)
  • Other persons, authorities or institutions, if the provision of personal data results from legal regulations, or is necessary for the performance of the contract, or is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s. r. o. or a third party, or is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, or is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s. r. o., or if this is expressly agreed between VOLKSWAGEN GROUP SERVICES, s. r. o. and the data subject or based on the consent of the data subject

Your personal data will be stored securely, in accordance with the security policy of the operator and only for the period necessary to fulfill the purpose of the processing. Access to your personal data will be exclusively granted to persons authorized by the operator to process personal data, who process them on the basis of the operator's instructions, in accordance with the operator's security policy.

When personal data is processed by the operator, you are the data subject, i.e. the person about whom personal data concerning him or her is processed.

Providing personal data for the implementation of employment or similar relationships is a legal obligation of the data subject and is also necessary for the conclusion of a contractual relationship between the employer and the employee. In the event of failure to provide personal data to employees to the extent necessary to fulfill legal obligations or to fulfill obligations arising from contractual relationships, the employer will not be able to fulfill its legal obligations or obligations arising from the contractual relationship. Failure to provide personal data may result in the termination or non-implementation of an employment relationship or similar relationship; financial damage to both the employer and the employee (for example, non-payment of financial claims), etc.

What types of personal data about you do we process?

We process the following data about you:

Personal contact details - such as your name, address, email address, telephone number;

Work contact details - such as your company address, work email address and telephone number, place of work;

Personal data - such as gender, marital status, date of birth, nationality and birth number (or national identification number), photo

Contractual data - such as the content of your employment contract;

Family and dependent information - such as emergency contact, details of partners and children for tax purposes;

Payment information - such as bank account number and claims for expenses and payments;

Details of your position - such as position title, department, classification and responsibilities;

Information relating to remuneration, pensions and other benefits - such as your salary, agreed bonuses, company car and pension plan;

Details of hours worked, vacation and (medical) leave (ML) - for example, your work schedule, vacation entitlement, absence due to PM;

Information related to education, training and career development - for example, information about your previous education and professional background, any courses or training you have completed or certificates obtained.

Performance and evaluations - for example, the content of your performance evaluations, numerical and other information related to your work performance;

Entrusted assets - for example, information about company assets that have been provided to you for use, such as a company phone, motor vehicle or laptop;

Correspondence and communication data - for example, email correspondence from a work or private email address, internet data traffic and IP address;

Digital access rights - for example, your access rights to various applications within the employer's IT infrastructure;

Security-related information - such as your access card number, information about whether you are in the building and CCTV (closed circuit television) recordings;

Data for the purposes of providing health services - such as information about assessed fitness to perform work;

Data necessary for accident insurance purposes - such as name, job title;

We will process your sensitive personal data only for purposes strictly related to the proper performance of our duties as your employer and to the extent permitted or required by applicable law. We will process the following types of sensitive personal data:

• data about your health condition.

For what purpose will your personal data be processed and under what legal basis?

The employer will process your data for the following purposes (legal basis):

(the legal basis is detailed below)

  • HR administration. We keep personal records of all our employees. Based on the analysis of our HR records, we also make strategic decisions about our HR policies (1 to 15);
  • HR management. We deal with the day-to-day management of HR issues, such as ensuring that positions are properly filled (1. 7);
  • Adaptation. We process your personal data when you join us to ensure that you are properly trained and equipped for your position (1, 7, 11, 15);
  • Payment of salary and pension and provision of other benefits. We process your data so that we can pay you salary, contribute to your pension and provide other benefits (linked to your performance) (1 to 15);
  • Taxes and social security. In order to fulfil our obligations under tax law and other regulations related to social security and insurance, we are obliged to process certain personal data (2 to 6, 8, 9, 13, 14);
  • Provision of communication and information technology. We provide you with the IT equipment and services that you need to perform your duties for the company, such as a company mobile phone or email account. In order to do this, we need to process your personal data (1).
  • Communication/IT monitoring. We will monitor communication and network usage in order to secure our IT environment and network infrastructure (fulfilling the controller's obligation to ensure the protection of personal data, in particular its integrity, confidentiality and availability and to prevent unwanted impacts on the rights and freedoms of data subjects), and also to ensure that our employees use these facilities in a manner that is in accordance with applicable laws and internal regulations (1, 16).
  • Performance and training management. To ensure your adequate performance, we carry out performance appraisals. In addition, we also try to support the growth of our employees by providing or designing courses and training (1, 7);
  • Creating a healthy and safe workplace. We want our employees to be healthy and feel safe. Therefore, we may process the personal data of our employees in order to analyze how the quality of their work can be improved and any potential unhealthy impacts can be reduced (1, 9, 10, 11). We also implement security measures, such as KIS, to ensure the safety of our employees, visitors and property (1, 16);
  • Recruitment. We process your information when you apply for a job within the company. We may also review employee records to determine whether we have people in our organization who are suitable for the job in question (16). For more details on the processing of data related to recruitment, please read our DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT – JOB APPLICANT;
  • Dispute resolution and investigation of violations and breaches of labor discipline. We may process personal data for the purpose of resolving various employment disputes, complaints or other legal disputes and procedures, or if we suspect a violation of labor discipline or the commission of a violation, which we would like and are authorized to deal with further (1, 7, 10, 11, 15);
  • Compliance with the law. We may need to process your personal data in order to comply with the law, or to comply with a decision of a competent public authority or court (other specific regulations that we cannot identify in advance, such as the Police Force Act).

Parties that may have access to your data

The employer may share your data with third parties in the following circumstances:

  • We may share your personal data with other third parties acting on our behalf, for example with suppliers of certain services for our company - intermediaries (accounting firms, contracted SBS service, etc.). In such cases, these third parties may use your personal data only for the purposes described above and only in accordance with our instructions, and on the basis of a concluded mediation agreement;
  • Our employees will have access to your personal data. In such a case, access will be granted only if necessary for the above purposes and only if the employee is bound by a confidentiality obligation;
  • If required by law or a decision of a competent public authority or court, we may share your personal data, for example, with our suppliers or clients, tax authorities, social security authorities, law enforcement agencies or other public authorities

Personal data retention

We only store your personal data for a limited period of time and delete it when it is no longer necessary for the purposes of the processing as set out in this statement. This means that we will store your data for the duration of your employment relationship. If possible, we will delete the data during the duration of your employment as soon as it is no longer necessary. In any case, we will delete your personal records no later than 10 years after the end of your employment relationship, unless a specific regulation requires further storage.

In addition, we may process your personal data for a longer period of time after termination of employment in the event of an ongoing legal dispute or if you have granted us permission to store your personal data for a longer period of time.

Your personal data is also backed up in accordance with the controller's retention rules. Your personal data will be completely deleted from backup storage as soon as possible in accordance with the backup rules. Personal data stored in backup storage serves to prevent security incidents, in particular disruption of data availability due to a security incident. The operator is obliged to ensure data backup in accordance with the security requirements of the Regulation and the Act on the Protection of Personal Data.

What are your rights under the regulation and the data protection act?

We consider it important that you understand that the personal data we process is your data and that there are rights associated with its processing. In addition to the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, you also have other rights that arise from the Regulation and the Personal Data Protection Act.

Right of access

You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to be informed about how we use your personal data.

In most cases, your personal data will be provided to you in written form, unless you request otherwise. If you have requested this information by electronic means, it will be provided to you electronically, where technically feasible.

The right to remedy

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Right to erasure

In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data, for example where the personal data we have collected about you is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or where you withdraw your consent to the processing. However, your right needs to be assessed in the light of all the relevant circumstances. For example, we may have certain legal and regulatory obligations which mean we will not be able to comply with your request.

Right to restriction of processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to stop using your personal data. For example, if you believe that the personal data we hold about you may be inaccurate or if you believe that we no longer need to use your personal data.

Right to data portability

In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to transfer the personal data you have provided to us to another third party of your choice. However, the right to portability only applies to personal data that we have obtained from you based on your consent or on the basis of a contract to which you are a party. (e.g. PHOTOGRAPHY)

Right to object

You have the right to object to data processing that is based on our legitimate interests (for example, we process personal data for the purpose of network and infrastructure security). If we do not have a compelling legitimate reason for the processing and you object, we will no longer process your personal data.

Rights related to automated decision-making

You have the right to object to automated decision-making, including profiling, which produces legal or similar significant consequences for you. The Company does not typically use automated decision-making or profiling in the employment context.

Right to withdraw consent

In most cases, we do not process your personal data based on your consent. However, we may ask for your consent in specific cases. In cases where we do, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the further use of your personal data. (e.g. Photography)

Right to complaint

If you wish to file a complaint about the way your personal data is processed, including exercising the rights listed above, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (contact details are provided above). We will properly review all your suggestions and complaints.

If you are not satisfied with our response, or if you believe that we are processing your personal data unfairly or unlawfully, you can file a complaint with the supervisory authority, which is the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic, dataprotection.gov.sk, Hraničná 12, 820 07 Bratislava 27; tel. number: +421 /2/ 3231 3214; E-mail: statny.dozor@pdp.gov.sk.

In case of any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact us through our Data Protection Officer.

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List of legal bases that authorize the company to process personal data about an employee.


1. Act No. 311/2001 Coll. Labour Code, as amended.

2. Act No. 580/2004 Coll. on health insurance, amending and supplementing Act No. 95/2002 Coll. on insurance and amending and supplementing certain acts, as amended.

3. Act No. 461/2003 Coll. on social insurance, as amended.

4. Act No. 595/2003 Coll. on income tax, as amended.

5. Act No. 43/2004 Coll. on old-age pension savings, as amended.

6. Act No. 650/2004 Coll. on supplementary pension savings and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

7. Act No. 5/2004 Coll. on employment services and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

8. Act No. 462/2003 Coll. on income compensation in the event of temporary incapacity for work of an employee and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

9. Act No. 152/1994 Coll. on the social fund and on amendments and supplements to Act No. 286/1992 Coll. on income taxes, as amended.

10. Act No. 355/2007 Coll. on the protection, support and development of public health and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

11. Act No. 124/2006 Coll. on occupational safety and health protection and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

12. Act No. 570/2005 Coll. on military service and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, as amended.

13. Act No. 431/2002 Coll. on accounting, as amended.

14. Act No. 222/2004 Coll. on value added tax, as amended.

15. Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on personal data protection and on amendments and supplements to certain acts.

16. Legitimate interest of the controller.

 

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[1] For example, Act No. 171/1993 Coll. on the Police Force; Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data.