Privacy Policy and Use of Cookies
Last updated: September 3, 2026
We take the privacy of XNEWS visitors seriously. This policy explains what personal data we may process when you use the website xnews.sk, the purposes for which we use it, your rights, and how we use cookies and similar technologies.
1. Data Controller
The operator of the XNEWS website and the controller of personal data is:
Entera s.r.o.
Na križovatkách 18821/49
821 04 Bratislava – Ružinov
Slovak Republic
Company ID: 51 172 241
Commercial Register: Mestský súd Bratislava III
Section: Sro
File No.: 123555/B
Contact for privacy and data protection matters:
redakcia@xnews.sk
Entera s.r.o. entry in the Slovak Commercial Register
2. Personal Data We May Process
The scope of personal data processed depends on how you use XNEWS.
- Contact information – in particular your name, email address and any other information you voluntarily provide when communicating with us.
- Communication content – for example a message, submission, error report or other information you send to us.
- Technical data – for example IP address, device type, browser, operating system, request time, visited URL, HTTP status and other data recorded by the server to ensure the operation and security of the website.
- Website usage data – if you consent to analytics cookies, information about page visits, traffic sources, interactions and similar analytical data may be processed.
- Cookie preference data – in particular information about which categories of cookies you have accepted or rejected.
3. Purposes for Which We Use Personal Data
Website Operation and Security
We may process technical data to ensure the functionality of the website, detect technical errors, prevent misuse, attacks and unauthorized access, and protect our systems and visitors.
The legal basis is our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR in operating a secure and reliable website.
Communication with Visitors
If you contact us by email or through another available method, we process the information provided in order to respond to your message, question, submission, correction request or other request.
The legal basis may be our legitimate interest in communicating with users and handling their requests under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, or another applicable legal basis depending on the nature of the specific request.
Traffic Measurement and Analytics
If analytics services are enabled on XNEWS, we use them only after the appropriate consent has been given where such consent is required by law.
Analytics data helps us understand, for example, which articles are read, how visitors use the website and where we can improve its technical or editorial quality.
The legal basis for processing personal data through optional analytics cookies is consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Compliance with Legal Obligations
We may also process personal data where such processing is required by law or is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
4. How Long We Retain Personal Data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or for the period required by applicable law.
Technical and security logs are retained in accordance with server and security system settings for the period necessary to ensure website operation, diagnose errors and investigate security incidents.
Communications with visitors are retained for as long as necessary to handle the relevant request and subsequently only to the extent justified by the protection of our legitimate interests or compliance with legal obligations.
The lifetime of individual cookies may vary depending on their purpose and provider. Details about cookies are provided below or directly in the cookie consent settings.
5. Who May Have Access to Personal Data
We do not provide personal data to third parties for their own marketing purposes without an appropriate legal basis.
Where necessary, personal data may be processed by our technical service providers, in particular providers of web hosting, security services, website administration, analytics services and technology tools, where such services are enabled on the website.
Personal data may also be disclosed to public authorities, courts or other authorized entities where we are legally required to do so.
6. Transfers of Personal Data Outside the European Economic Area
Some technology service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.
Where such transfers take place, data protection mechanisms required by applicable law are used, such as a European Commission adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses or another valid transfer mechanism under the GDPR.
7. Your Rights Under the GDPR
To the extent provided by applicable law, you have the right to request access to your personal data, rectification or erasure of your data, restriction of processing and data portability. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
If processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the consent was withdrawn.
You may exercise your rights by contacting us at redakcia@xnews.sk.
8. Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you believe that the processing of your personal data has violated applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority:
Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic
dataprotection.gov.sk
9. Automated Decision-Making
XNEWS does not use visitor data for automated individual decision-making that produces legal effects concerning visitors or similarly significantly affects them.
10. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small data files or similar technologies that a website may store in a user’s browser or device and access again at a later time.
They may be used, for example, to provide essential website functionality, remember user preferences, protect against misuse or measure website traffic.
The use of cookies on XNEWS is governed in particular by Section 109(8) of Slovak Act No. 452/2021 Coll. on Electronic Communications and, where personal data is processed, by the GDPR.
11. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies provide essential technical and security functionality of the website. They may be required, for example, to store your cookie preferences, provide website security or correctly deliver website content.
Consent is not required for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user or for the basic functioning of the website.
12. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies may help us obtain information about website usage and traffic, for example the number of visits, pages viewed or technical characteristics of a visitor’s device.
If XNEWS uses analytics services that require storing or accessing optional information on a user’s device, such services are activated only after the appropriate consent has been given.
13. Functional Cookies and External Content
Some website features may use third-party services, such as embedded video, maps, social media content or other interactive elements.
If such a service uses optional cookies or similar technologies, it should only be loaded after the appropriate consent has been given.
14. Marketing Cookies
If XNEWS uses advertising or marketing technologies based on cookies or similar identifiers, these technologies are activated only after the appropriate consent has been given where required by law.
Users will be informed about active marketing technologies and their providers through the cookie banner or cookie settings.
15. Google and Other Analytics Services
XNEWS may use services provided by Google or other technology providers for website administration, traffic measurement or analysis of website usage.
The use of tools intended solely for technical website administration does not necessarily involve placing analytics cookies on visitors’ devices. However, if a service is enabled that uses optional cookies or similar technologies on a user’s device, it will only be activated on the basis of the appropriate consent.
Information about privacy in connection with Google services is available in the Google Privacy Policy.
16. How You Give Consent to Cookies
When you first visit the website, a cookie banner or cookie settings panel may be displayed.
Optional cookies must not be activated merely because you continue browsing the website, scroll through its content or close the cookie banner. Consent must result from an active choice by the user.
You may accept all optional cookies, reject them, or select individual categories depending on the options available in the cookie settings.
Rejecting optional cookies does not prevent access to standard XNEWS news content.
17. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You may change or withdraw your decision regarding optional cookies at any time through the cookie settings available on the website.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
18. Managing Cookies in Your Web Browser
You may also manage or delete cookies through your web browser settings. However, blocking all cookies may affect certain technical functions of the website.
19. Current List of Cookies Used
The specific list of cookies and similar technologies used by XNEWS, their purpose, provider and retention period may change depending on the technical services currently in use.
Current information about optional cookies should be available directly in the cookie banner settings. Optional categories remain disabled until consent is given.
20. Security of Personal Data
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
Security measures are adapted to the nature of the website, the personal data processed and current security risks.
21. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy, in particular when the technologies we use, our service providers or applicable legal requirements change.
The current version is always published on this page together with the date of the latest update.
22. Contact
If you have any questions about privacy, personal data protection or the use of cookies on XNEWS, please contact us:
Entera s.r.o.
Email: redakcia@xnews.sk
Further information about the publisher, our editorial principles and how XNEWS operates can be found on the About XNEWS page.