Privacy

This site collects as little about you as it can. No advertising, no tracking cookies, and your details are never sold.

Who is responsible

The controller of your personal data is Martin Poliačik. For anything about your data, write to hello@poliacik.ai.

When you sign up, I keep your e-mail address, the language version of the site and the page where you signed up (so I can send letters on the topics you came for), and the date of sign-up. I send the newsletter on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in every letter or by writing to me. I keep your address until you unsubscribe.

Readers of my earlier newsletter on Substack were moved to the same list, because they signed up for this newsletter there. They can unsubscribe in the same way.

Messages and inquiries

When you write to me through a form or by e-mail, I use your name, e-mail and whatever you write (for example your organisation, date and place of an event) to reply and to prepare a talk, workshop or other cooperation you ask about (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, steps at your request before a contract; and Art. 6(1)(f), my legitimate interest in answering messages). Writing to me does not sign you up for the newsletter. I keep these messages for as long as we are in touch and then for at most two years, unless a contract or the law requires longer (for example accounting records).

Visits to the site

I count visits with Plausible Analytics. It uses no cookies, does not identify you and stores no personal data; I see only totals such as the number of visits and the pages read. The hosting provider keeps short-lived technical logs (including IP addresses) to run the site securely (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Visitors get no cookies. Only the people who edit the site get a login cookie for the editing area.

Who helps me process your data

Ecomail.cz, s.r.o. (Czech Republic): stores the newsletter list and sends the letters.
Netlify, Inc. (USA): hosts the site and receives messages from the forms. Transfers to the USA rely on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Plausible Insights OÜ (Estonia): visit statistics without personal data.
ImprovMX: forwards e-mails sent to hello@poliacik.ai to my inbox.

They process data only on my instructions. I do not share your data with anyone else, and I make no automated decisions about you.

Your rights

You can ask me for access to your data, to correct or delete it, to restrict its processing, to receive it in a portable form, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to hello@poliacik.ai; I will reply within a month. You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic, the Czech Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, or the authority in your own EU country.