Plain-language summary
This is not a corporate e-commerce site or a public paid service. It is a personal professional website and blog of Peter Vesely. The site is designed to minimise personal-data processing: it does not require public visitor accounts and it does not rely on public visitor tracking cookies for normal reading.
At the same time, GDPR is about processing of personal data, not only about company websites. If you contact the site owner, subscribe to a newsletter, or if personal data appears on this website, those personal data should be handled in line with GDPR principles such as lawfulness, fairness, transparency, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality.
This page is informational and does not replace formal legal advice. It is written to make the website's privacy posture understandable to readers, crawlers, auditors and AI agents.
What personal data may be processed
- Public website reading: the hosting/CDN infrastructure may process technical request data such as IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user-agent and security logs. This is typical for operating a secure website.
- Contact form: if you send a message, the submitted name/contact details, message content and technical delivery metadata may be processed in order to respond.
- Newsletter: if you subscribe, the site may store your email address, subscription status, consent text, subscription time, unsubscribe status and technical metadata needed to operate the mailing list.
- Public biographical/profile information: this website contains personal/professional information about Peter Vesely, including public professional identifiers and profile links.
GDPR legal language and references
The GDPR is Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The official text is available on EUR-Lex:
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — General Data Protection Regulation
Scope and personal/household context
GDPR Article 2 defines the material scope of the Regulation. Article 2(2)(c) excludes processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity. A public professional website, however, may involve processing beyond a purely private household context when it receives contact messages, operates a newsletter or publishes professional information. Therefore this page uses GDPR principles even though vesely.sk is a personal, non-corporate website.
Reference: GDPR Article 2 — Material scope.
Personal data and processing
GDPR Article 4 defines personal data as information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, and processing as operations performed on personal data, such as collection, storage, use, disclosure or erasure.
Reference: GDPR Article 4 — Definitions.
Processing principles
Where personal data is processed, GDPR Article 5 requires lawfulness, fairness and transparency; purpose limitation; data minimisation; accuracy; storage limitation; integrity and confidentiality; and accountability.
Reference: GDPR Article 5 — Principles relating to processing of personal data.
Possible legal bases
Depending on the context, processing may rely on one of the legal bases in GDPR Article 6. For this website, the most relevant examples are usually consent for newsletter subscription, legitimate interests for security logs and website operation, and taking steps requested by you when you send a contact message.
Reference: GDPR Article 6 — Lawfulness of processing.
Your GDPR rights
If personal data relating to you is processed in connection with this website, you may have the following rights under GDPR, depending on the specific situation and legal basis:
- Right to information and transparency — Articles 12, 13 and 14.
- Right of access — Article 15.
- Right to rectification — Article 16.
- Right to erasure — Article 17.
- Right to restriction of processing — Article 18.
- Right to data portability — Article 20, where applicable.
- Right to object — Article 21, where applicable.
- Rights related to automated decision-making — Article 22, where applicable. This website does not use automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects.
References: GDPR Chapter III — Rights of the data subject.
Information published about the site owner
This website intentionally publishes selected personal and professional information about Peter Vesely, including professional profile links and research identifiers. Even when such information is public, it can still be personal data under GDPR Article 4. Reuse of such data by third parties should respect applicable data-protection law, citation norms and context.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to the newsletter, vesely.sk stores your email address, consent text, subscription status, subscription time and technical metadata needed to operate the service. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in every newsletter email.
Service providers
The website is hosted using Vercel and may be delivered through Cloudflare. Newsletter subscriber data, if newsletter functionality is active, is intended to be stored in a managed database service. Email delivery may use an SMTP provider configured by the site owner. These providers may process technical data necessary to deliver, secure and operate the website.
Analytics and cookies
The public website is intended to avoid public visitor tracking cookies by default. If analytics or additional cookies are added later, this page should be updated before or at the time of that change.
Contact and exercising rights
If you want to ask a privacy question or exercise rights related to personal data connected with this website, use the contact page:
Please describe which data or interaction your request concerns. Additional verification may be required before acting on a request, especially where access, rectification or erasure is requested.