scholarship.sk Independent guide to scholarships in Slovakia SK

Privacy

scholarship.sk has no user accounts, registration, forms or newsletters. We therefore process very little data: technical records of visits, emails you send us and visit statistics that store cookies only with your consent.

Controller

The website scholarship.sk is run by Jaroslav Bryndza, Slovakia, who is also the controller of personal data. Please send questions about privacy to info@scholarship.sk. Processing is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Slovak Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on Personal Data Protection.

In short

  • You do not have to give us your name or email address to use the site.
  • Analytics cookies (Google Analytics) are stored only after you agree in the consent bar. You can change your choice at any time.
  • There are no ads or advertising cookies on the site.
  • We do not sell your data.

What we process, why and on what basis

Technical records of visits

The website runs on the Cloudflare network. Each time a page loads, Cloudflare processes ordinary technical data about the request: your IP address, the time, the requested address and the type of your browser. This data is used to deliver the page, to protect the site against attacks and to solve technical problems. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running the site securely (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). The data is kept only as long as these purposes require, and we do not use it for anything else.

Emails you send us

When you write to info@scholarship.sk, we receive your email address, the content of your message and your name if you include it. We use them only to reply and to deal with your request. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering readers’ messages (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). For requests to exercise your rights, it is compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR). We keep the correspondence only as long as we need it to deal with your message.

Visit statistics: Google Analytics 4

To learn which pages people read and which websites send them here, we use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). With your consent, it stores the cookies _ga and _ga_* in your browser for up to two years. The measured data produces aggregated statistics: the number of visits, page views, device types and approximate location derived from the IP address, which Google does not store for visitors from the EU. The reports show totals, not individual people. The legal basis is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Without it, your browser stores no analytics cookies and Google only receives records of visits without persistent identifiers. We process these on the basis of our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Browser storage

The site remembers your choice in the consent bar in your browser’s local storage under the key scholarship:consent. It is not sent to any server, contains no personal data and you can delete it in your browser settings at any time.

On your first visit, a bar lets you accept or decline analytics cookies. The site works the same either way. You can change your choice at any time with the Cookie settings link in the footer. When you withdraw consent, the site deletes the Google Analytics cookies from your browser. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

Who receives the data

  • Hosting and email providers (processors), mainly Cloudflare: they run the website and the mailbox and therefore keep technical records and delivered emails.
  • Google Ireland Limited (processor): visit statistics as described above.

Google and Cloudflare may transfer data to the United States. The transfer relies on the European Commission’s decision that the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework ensures an adequate level of protection, and on standard contractual clauses. We do not sell your data or pass it on to anyone else unless the law requires it.

We link to official websites of SAIA, ministries, universities and other organisations. Their own privacy policies apply once you leave this site.

Your rights

Under the conditions set out in the GDPR, you have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict its processing and to data portability, the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest and the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Send your request to info@scholarship.sk and you will receive a reply within one month at the latest. If you believe your data is handled unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic (Hraničná 4826/12, 820 07 Bratislava 27).

Children

The site is intended for university students and scholarship applicants, not for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

Changes

When the way we process data changes, we will update this text. Last updated: 1 November 2026.