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Privacy and Cookie Policy

Updated: September 31, 2025

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1. Who is the Controller of Your Personal Data?

The controller of your personal data is GA Drilling, a. s., Panenská 6, 831 01 Bratislava, IČO: 31 382 606, registered with the Companies Register of the Bratislava III Municipal Court, section: Sa, insert No. 7653/B.

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2. What Personal Data Do We Process?

We only process personal data in order to provide you with our services, products and customer support, to comply with our legal obligations and to protect our legitimate interests. We collect personal data of individuals, who are interested in our services and who have given us consent to reach them with information about our products and services.

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Our servers collect IP addresses for technical reasons that allow you to connect to our website and display it optimally. If we need to collect your personal data for a specific purpose, e.g. in order to provide you with certain information you have requested or if you have expressed the interest to receive informational emails about our company, we will always inform you in advance. This is executed through submitting contact forms on our web pages.

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You are not obliged to give us any additional information that would be unnecessary or inappropriate for the purpose of providing you with the required services.

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3. For What Purposes Do We Process Your Personal Data?

Data Subject	Collected Data	Purpose of Collection	Reasons for Collection
Visitor to our web page	Name, e-mail address	Providing information related to our promotions, news, events, newsletter and other publications, relationships with investors or copies of annual reports.	We process personal data based on your consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR expressed, for example, by selecting related checkbox when providing your personal data
Visitor to our web page	Name, address, phone, e-mail address	Negotiating contract conditions according to your previous request	We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Business Partner, Client, Supplier (or person who works for them)	Name, e-mail address, telephone number, address and information contained in your request and related communication	Answering your questions and processing your requests related to your personal data	We process personal data on the basis of our legal obligation under Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.
Visitor to our web page	Technical data, such as the IP address used to connect your device to the internet and information obtained from cookies used on our website; Data relating to your visit and use of our website, such as page response times, the length of visits to particular sub-pages, error messages, and similar information	Ensuring the proper functioning, security, optimisation, and improvement of our website, as well as to analyse usage patterns and detect errors.	We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR in ensuring the proper functioning, security, optimisation and improvement of our website, as well as detecting errors.
Business Partner / Supplier (or person who works for them)	Name, address, phone, fax, e-mail address, identification data, account number, data contained in contractual documentation, payment and billing data (bank account, payment details, invoice information)	Performance and administration of contracts, orders, invoices, payments, related to provided services.	Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR or we process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR (if you are a person who works for our Business Partner or Supplier).
Contact person of Business Partner/ Supplier	Name, address, telephone, fax number, e-mail address, work position	Contacting Business Partner / Supplier for business purposes (orders, requests of services), building customer relationship, providing updates to customers.	We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Job Candidate	Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, information provided in your CV such as professional qualification, experience and education	Selection of candidates, assessment of your applications, related phone or e-mail communication	We process your personal data, at your request, for the purpose of taking steps prior to entering into a contract, pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, in order to evaluate your job application. With your consent, pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, we may store your CV in our database for the purpose of contacting you regarding future job opportunities.
Visitor to our company	Name, vehicle registration, visual identification data in the form of a camera record	Registration of visits, access to the area of our company, protection of property, life and health of persons moving in the monitored area of our company using the camera system	We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

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You are not obliged to provide us with any personal data, but your personal data are necessary for the fulfilment of our contract. If you do not provide us with these data, we will not be able to deliver the services outlined above.

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4. How Long Do We Process Your Personal Data?

We process your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purpose for which the data were collected.

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Personal data processed on the basis of your consent may be processed for the entire duration of the validity of your consent, which is five years from the date it was granted, if not stated otherwise.

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Personal data processed for the purposes of exercising rights and fulfilling obligations arising from contractual provisions are retained in accordance with the statutory periods laid down by generally binding legal regulations (typically five to ten years).

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Personal data processed on the basis of legitimate interest are processed for the duration of that interest, but no longer than:

in the case of camera records for monitoring our premises – for the period of 72 hours
in the case of visitor records from our premises – for the period of 6 months
in the case of assessment of potential business cooperation are retained for the duration of the negotiations and for a maximum of 2 years.

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Personal data collected in connection with the use of our website (such as IP addresses, log data, and technical information) are retained for a period of up to 3 months. Data collected through cookies are retained for the duration of the cookie’s lifetime as specified in our Cookies policy.

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5. Data Security

To protect your data against unauthorised persons, unlawful processing, unforeseen loss, destruction and damage, both online or offline, we apply strict physical, electronic, and organisational security measures.

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6. What Rights Do You Have as a Data Subject?

You have the rights under the conditions of Chapter III of the GDPR. You have the right to determine what personal data we hold about you, the right to rectify your data if they are inaccurate or incomplete, the right to having your data deleted or removed without the need for a specific reason, the right to restrict the processing of data, and the right to object to the processing of personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to transfer your personal data from us to any data controller of your choice.

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You have also the right to submit complaints concerning the processing and protection of personal data to the supervisory authority, which is the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic, dataprotection.gov.sk.

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Please note that certain exceptions apply to the exercise of these rights, so you will not be able to claim them in all situations.

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7. How Can You Withdraw Your Consent to the Processing of Personal Data?

If we have asked you to consent to the processing of your personal data, you may withdraw your consent at any time, without prejudice to the lawfulness of processing based on consent given prior to its recall. If you would like to do so, please contact us through the contact details listed in the Contact Us section or by other means listed below.

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8. Where Can You Claim Your Rights and is it Free?

You can claim your rights by sending an email to gdpr@gadrilling.com, or contacting us in writing at our postal address provided in the Contact us section.

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We provide all notices and statements related to the enforcement of your rights free of charge. In the case of unjustified or inappropriate application (in particular because it is repeated), we are entitled to charge a reasonable amount towards the costs associated with providing the requested information.

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9. Who Has Access to Your Personal Data?

The access to your personal data is granted to us as the data controller, our employees, and, eventually, contracted third parties, i.e. vendors of IT services like external companies maintaining our IT systems, or other services that ensure the proper operation of the company and the processing of personal data. We have an agreement on processing personal data with these processors and they are bound by strict data protection rules, including confidentiality, to comply with legal protection standards that meet the requirements of applicable law in the Slovak Republic.

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10. What are the Key Laws Governing Personal Data?

European framework:
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, GDPR).

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National legislation:
Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on Personal Data Protection and on the amendment of certain other Acts, as amended.

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11. Profiling and Transferring Data Outside the EU

We do not use profiling and personal data are not transferred, nor planned to be transferred to the third countries.

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12. Cookies policy

How do we use cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files of letters and numbers that we store in your browser for a certain time, more specifically:

Essential and technical cookies help make the website usable by enabling basic functions, such as page navigation. Without these cookies, the website would not function properly, and therefore your consent is not required for their use. The storage period of these cookies is, in some cases, limited to the duration of a specific session; in the case of technical cookies, a maximum of 24 hours; and in the case of authentication cookies, a maximum of 2 weeks.
Statistical cookies are used to monitor the number of new and returning visitors, to enable an internal analysis of visited pages, and to better understand how our website is used. If you grant us your consent to the use of cookies, the period of their use shall not exceed 13 months.

Duration of Storage (Temporary vs. Permanent Cookies):

Temporary cookies contain information that is used during the current browser session. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. There is nothing left on your computer, except for the time spent on the site.
Permanent cookies store information that is used between sessions. These data allow our site to recognise you as a returning visitor and respond accordingly. Permanent cookies have a lifetime determined by the site, which may range from several minutes to several years.

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Cookies can store information about the language in which the content should appear, whether the mobile version of the page should be displayed, what font size to use, what data was inserted to a form, etc. This means that when you return to our site, you do not have to set these settings again.

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We use Google Analytics. For information on Google’s Privacy Policy, click the following link: www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/.

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We hereby inform you that in cases where you have granted us consent to use specific types of cookies, you are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing (cookies) carried out prior to its withdrawal.

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How Can You Disable/Enable Cookies?

You can accept or reject cookies using the settings in your browser. If you have not allowed cookies, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website.

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There are several ways to manage cookies. For more information about these features, see the documentation/help of your browser. For example, in Internet Explorer, you can go to Tools / Internet options / Privacy to set your browser the way you want it. If you use different computers in different places, you’ll need to make sure that each browser is set to deal with cookies according to your preferences.

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If you do not use Microsoft Windows Explorer, you should search for “cookies” in “Help” to find related information.

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13. How Can You Contact Us?

If you have any comments, questions or requests regarding the use of your personal data, or if you have any questions related to this privacy notice or cookies, please contact us either by email at gdpr@gadrilling.com or in writing at the postal address provided in the Contact Us section. Your questions and suggestions regarding this document are welcomed.