Sends automated outreach, in Slovakia

Zákon 452/2021 Z. z., § 116 ods. 3-6 a 14-16 · Read the law's page

• Use automated calling and communication systems without human intervention, telefax, e-mail, SMS and MMS for direct marketing to a subscriber or user only with their provable consent obtained before you contact them, and do not call or use those systems to obtain that consent (section 116, paragraphs 3 and 4).
• Keep a durable medium recording the provable consent for at least four years from its withdrawal, and state when you obtain the consent how it can easily be withdrawn (section 116, paragraph 5).
• Let the subscriber or user withdraw consent or object to calls at any time, confirm the withdrawal or objection provably within 30 days, and keep the confirmation on a durable medium for at least four years (section 116, paragraph 6).
• You need no prior consent for e-mail, SMS or MMS marketing of your own similar goods and services where you obtained the contact details in connection with a sale, or for marketing addressed to the published contact details of a subscriber or user who is a sole trader or a legal person. Give the recipient an easy and free possibility to refuse that use of contact details when the details are collected and in every message, and stop using details obtained in a sale one year after the contractual relationship ends (section 116, paragraphs 15 and 16).
• Do not send e-mail from which the identity and address of the sender, to which the recipient can send a request to end such messages, are not known, and do not encourage a visit to a website in breach of a special regulation (section 116, paragraph 15).

Zákon 452/2021 Z. z., § 116 ods. 7-14 · Read the law's page

• Do not make any call for direct marketing to a telephone number that the subscriber or user entered in the Authority's list, or to a person who objected to such calls to the person for whom the marketing is done, unless the subscriber or user gave that person consent after the last update of the entry (section 116, paragraph 8).
• Check in the list on the Authority's website every telephone number or group of numbers you intend to call for direct marketing, and pay the fee the Authority sets for the check (section 116, paragraph 10).
• For direct marketing by calls, automated calling and communication systems, telefax, SMS or MMS, and for obtaining prior consent to such calls, use only numbers identified by the national destination code for that purpose in the numbering plan. This does not apply to calls to the published contact details of a subscriber or user who is a sole trader or a legal person (section 116, paragraph 12).
• The call prohibition and the number rule do not apply to direct marketing of your own similar goods and services where you obtained the contact details in connection with a sale or have a contractual relationship with the person, or to a person who requested such communication in advance in a provable way. Give the person an easy and free possibility to refuse that use of contact details when the details are collected and at every contact (section 116, paragraph 14).

Zákon č. 242/2026 Z. z. o zodpovednosti za škodu spôsobenú vadným výrobkom · Read the law's page

• This Act is enacted but does not apply yet: it applies to damage caused by a product placed on the market or put into service from 9 December 2026, and Act No. 294/1999 Z. z. keeps governing earlier products (Secs. 17, 19 and 20).
• If you develop, make or produce a product, software included, have it designed or made, or present yourself as its manufacturer by your name, trade mark or other distinguishing sign, you answer as its manufacturer; free and open-source software developed or supplied outside a business activity is outside the Act (Secs. 1(2)(a), 2(a) and (f), 6(1)).
• Keep supplying the software updates and upgrades needed to keep the product safe while it is under your control: a defect caused by software, an update or upgrade, a missing necessary update, a related service or a substantial modification under your control is not excused on the ground that it arose after you placed the product on the market (Secs. 2(g), 7(1)(c) and 7(4)).
• Treat safety-relevant cybersecurity requirements and any recall or other corrective measure as part of what decides whether your product is defective (Sec. 5(2)(f) and (g)).
• Allow for what the product learns or acquires after it is placed on the market, because the effect of that ability is weighed in deciding whether it is defective (Sec. 5(2)(c)).
• Keep evidence you could produce if a court orders you to disclose it on a claimant's plausible claim: failing to disclose presumes the product defective (Secs. 14(1) and 15(2)(a)).
• Meet the binding product-safety requirements that protect against the harm: failing them presumes the product defective (Sec. 15(2)(b)).
• If you are a manufacturer outside the EU or the EEA, your importer, your authorized representative and, failing both, the logistics service provider answer in addition to you (Sec. 6(3)).
• If you distribute a product or run an online platform that lets consumers contract with traders, identify the liable person established in a Member State, or your own supplier, within one month of the injured person's request, or you answer for the damage (Sec. 6(4) and (5)).
• If you substantially modify a product outside the manufacturer's control and then make it available on the market or put it into service, you answer as a liable person (Sec. 6(6)).
• If you made only a component, be ready to prove that the design of the product it was incorporated into, or the product manufacturer's instructions, caused the defect (Secs. 6(2) and 7(2)).
• Do not rely on a contract term or a unilateral declaration to exclude or limit your liability to the injured person, because it is void (Sec. 8).
• Keep the claim periods in view: three years from when the injured person learned or could have learned of the damage, the defect and your identity, and ten years from when you placed the product on the market or put it into service, or 25 years for a delayed injury to health (Secs. 12 and 13).