Last updated: August 2026
These are the rules for using the KOMPAS site (kompas.guide/sk) — a portal for Ukrainians in Slovakia. It says here who is responsible for the site, what is allowed on it, what is not, how we deal with what readers publish, and where to turn if something has gone wrong. We tried to write clearly: if any point is still unclear — write to us, and we will explain it in plain human language.
1. Who runs the site
The operator of the site is a self-employed individual (OSVČ) registered in the Czech Republic:
- Skoblei Vladyslav
- IČO: 23409797, DIČ: 0009231497
- Address: Uralská 689/7, 160 00 Praha 6 – Bubeneč, Česká republika
- E-mail: [email protected]
This same mailbox is read by a live person — it is our point of contact both for users and for public authorities. The full set of operator details, the languages of communication, the supervisory authorities and the form for reporting illegal content are gathered on the Contacts page.
2. What KOMPAS is and what is here
KOMPAS is an information portal for Ukrainians who live in Slovakia or are planning to move there. We are not a state institution, we do not provide legal, tax or migration services and we do not act as an intermediary in deals between users.
At the moment the Slovak version of the site has:
- articles and news about life, work, documents, taxes and education;
- a calendar of events of the Ukrainian community;
- directories of language schools and education agencies with readers' reviews;
- a directory of universities, faculties and study programmes;
- housing listings posted by realtors and owners;
- a job board;
- a glossary of terms with audio;
- free tools: calculators, a translator, a currency converter, a company check;
- reference guides: emergency phone numbers, holidays and days off, salaries, transport to Ukraine, city guides;
- a personal account;
- a specialists directory — the section which we are preparing to launch.
The set of sections changes: we add new ones and close those that did not prove their worth. KOMPAS works in several countries; the Czech version lives at kompas.guide/cz and has its own Terms — the set of sections and the references to laws there are different.
3. Accepting the Terms and the minimum age
By using the site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree — simply do not use the site.
The site may be read at any age. Creating an account, leaving comments and reviews, sending requests and other forms is allowed from the age of 16. If you are younger — ask your parents or another legal representative to do it.
4. The service is free
Reading the site costs nothing. Housing listings and job listings are also published free of charge: we take no fee for the posting, none for a deal, none from the employer and none from the candidate. The site lives on advertising and partner placements — these are always labelled (Section 9).
If paid services ever appear, their terms and prices will be described separately and before payment, and not hidden in this document.
5. Personal account
Registration is not needed for everything — most of the site is available without an account. An account is created via Google or with an e-mail and a password.
- Give truthful information about yourself. An account in someone else's name, impersonating a company or an official institution — grounds for blocking.
- Access to the account is your responsibility. Do not give your password to third parties; if you notice someone else signing in — change the password immediately and write to us.
- You can delete the account yourself in your account area. Exactly what is deleted, what is anonymised and why is described in the Privacy Policy.
- We may temporarily restrict or block an account from which these Terms are being breached. We will tell you the reason — see Section 7.5.
6. Rules for using the site
By using KOMPAS you agree not to do the following:
- use the site for unlawful acts or to harm other people;
- try to gain access to other people's accounts, to the administrative part or to the database;
- overload the site with automated requests, get around the request rate limits, upload malicious software;
- automatically collect the content of the site (scraping, parsing, bulk downloading) without our written consent;
- pass yourself off as the operator of the site, the editorial team or another user;
- use contacts obtained on the site for mailing lists and cold commercial offers.
7. Your content on the site
7.1. What this section is about
Part of what you see on KOMPAS is published not by us but by readers and companies. These are reviews of schools, agencies and companies, comments under articles, housing listings from realtors and owners, cards and requests in the specialists directory, and also any texts, photographs and files that you send through the site's forms. From here on we call all of this your content.
7.2. What may not be published
There is no place on the site for materials that:
- break the law — in particular calls to violence, incitement to hatred, threats, defamation, fraudulent schemes, trade in prohibited goods and services;
- insult people or companies, contain abusive language, humiliation, harassment;
- discriminate on grounds of nationality, language, sex, age, religion, state of health, sexual orientation or any other characteristic;
- disclose other people's personal data — surnames, addresses, phone numbers, documents, photographs — without their consent;
- infringe other people's copyright: someone else's texts, photographs, logos or videos without the rightholder's permission;
- are spam: advertising, disguised links, repeated identical messages, artificial boosting;
- knowingly mislead — invented facts about a company or a person, fake listings, non-existent vacancies, “guarantees” of a result in matters where nobody can guarantee one;
- concern topics that have nothing to do with the page in question (a review of a school is about the school, not about politics).
Separately: if you are offering services for money, do not disguise it as a review or as neutral advice. Advertising is placed by agreement with us, and it is labelled as advertising.
7.3. Rights to your content and the permission you give us
Your content stays yours — we do not acquire copyright in it. By publishing material on KOMPAS you give us free of charge, non-exclusive permission to:
- place it on the site and show it to visitors;
- keep a copy of it, including in backups;
- translate it into the languages of the site — Ukrainian, Russian and English (the translation is machine-made, so inaccuracies are possible);
- adapt it technically: compress images, bring the formatting into line with the look of the site, make a short quotation or announcement in our channels on Telegram, Instagram and Facebook with a link to the page.
The permission lasts as long as the material is published, and only within the operation of the site itself and its official channels. It does not give us the right to sell your content separately from the site or to hand it over to third parties for their own purposes.
When you delete material or we take it down, the permission for further display ends. It does not disappear instantly: backups are overwritten on the schedule described in the Privacy Policy, and we cannot influence search engine caches or other people's reposts.
By publishing material you confirm that it is yours or that you have permission to publish it, that you have not used someone else's photographs, texts or logos without the rightholder's permission, and that you are not making other people's personal data public without their consent.
7.4. How we moderate
We write this plainly because Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (DSA) requires it — and because it is useful for you to know how things really work.
- Reviews and comments go through pre-moderation. After you send them they do not appear on the site straight away: first a person looks them over. That is why time passes between sending and publication.
- Housing listings and cards in the directories are published after a check. A realtor submits a listing for checking, and it becomes visible only after an administrator approves it.
- Automation filters, a person takes the decision. Technical filters — a limit on how often you can submit, a filter for spam and suspicious links — may reject a submission before a person even sees it. Everything that gets through the filters is published by a person. We do not use systems that decide the fate of already published material on their own and definitively.
- We do not review the whole site all the time. We are not obliged to look for infringements by ourselves and we give no guarantee that no prohibited material will appear. We react to reports from users, to our own observations and to orders from public authorities.
We may take material down, restrict its visibility, close the ability to comment or block an account if:
- the material is unlawful or breaches the rules in point 7.2;
- we have received a substantiated notice of illegality (point 7.6) and agreed with it;
- a court decision or an order of a competent authority requires it;
- the account breaches these Terms systematically or was created again after a block.
7.5. What happens if we take your content down
If we take your material down, restrict its visibility or block an account, we write to the e-mail address given in the account or in the form and explain:
- what exactly was removed and at which link;
- on what basis — which rule of these Terms or which provision of the law;
- whether we relied on automated means in doing so;
- what you can do next.
If you disagree — reply to that message or write to [email protected]. We will review the decision and reply; if the mistake was ours, the material goes back on the site. You can also go to court or to a supervisory authority — that right does not depend on our decision or on whether you wrote to us.
7.6. How to report someone else's content
If you have spotted material on the site that you consider unlawful — someone else's personal data, an infringement of copyright, a fraudulent listing, defamation — use the form on the Contacts page.
In the form give the exact link to the page (without it we will not be able to find the material), explain why you consider it unlawful, leave your e-mail address and confirm that you are submitting the notice in good faith. Immediately after sending you will see a confirmation that the notice has been accepted. We will examine it within a reasonable time and inform you by e-mail of the decision and its grounds, and also of how to appeal against that decision.
Notices sent knowingly falsely, or in order to remove an inconvenient review or a competitor, we do not examine — and we take this into account for further submissions from the same source.
7.7. Repeat infringements
If prohibited content comes regularly from one account, we restrict access: first temporarily, then permanently. We do the same with those who systematically send unfounded notices about other people's content.
8. Reviews of schools, agencies and companies
Reviews are left by visitors to the site. We want you to understand exactly what you are looking at:
- We do not check whether the author really used the service. We have no technical way of confirming this, so we do not call reviews “verified” and we do not put any confirmation badges on them.
- We publish everything that has passed moderation for insults, spam and other people's personal data.
- We do not delete negative reviews and do not push them down at the request of companies — not for money, not for a partnership, not after a complaint.
- A company's rating is the arithmetic mean of all published reviews, without weighting coefficients and without manual corrections.
- We do not place paid reviews and we do not order them.
- Reviews marked “Imported” are taken from other platforms (from Google Maps in particular) and were not left on our site. The label stands next to every such review.
The company concerned may reply to a review on the merits — this is normal practice, and we do not remove a reply because we did not like it.
Do you consider a review fake, paid for or in breach of the rules? Write to us through the form on the Contacts page, giving the link to the page with the review and the reason. The procedure for handling it is the same as in point 7.6.
9. Directories, the order of cards and advertising
The order of cards in the directories is determined by neutral criteria: how completely the card is filled in, the presence and content of reviews, how up to date the data is and how active the company is, the match with your filter or search query, the date of the last update. Payment does not affect the position in the results — a place in the directory is not for sale.
Advertising and partner materials are shown separately from ordinary results and are always labelled with the word “Advertising” or “Partner material”. A partnership does not change the editorial assessment: we do not write approving texts to order and we do not remove criticism for money.
The presence of a company in the directory is not our recommendation and not a guarantee of the quality of its services. We do not check companies' licences, qualifications or financial standing; check that yourself in the official registers.
10. Housing listings
Listings are posted by realtors and owners, not by us. Posting is free; we receive no reward from a deal and we are not a party to it.
Whoever posts a listing confirms that:
- they have the right to offer this property;
- the data about the floor area, price, utility charges and conditions is accurate, and the photographs relate to that very property;
- the offer states the energy performance indicator of the building — this is required by § 8 ods. 5 zákona č. 555/2005 Z. z., and the law expressly extends the obligation to listings published by a real estate company;
- if they are acting as a realtor — they hold the appropriate business licence and insurance where the law requires it.
We do not check ownership, the condition of the property or the intentions of the person posting the listing. Remember the widespread fraud scheme: a deposit, an advance payment or a “reservation” before you have viewed the property. We never ask you to transfer money for housing and we take no part in settlements between the parties. If you spot a suspicious listing — report it to us under point 7.6.
11. Job listings
Job listings are published free of charge. We take no fee either from the employer or from the candidate, we do not do recruitment, we are not an employer and we are not a party to any employment relationship. Some of the job listings we collect from public sources.
Slovak law requires the employer to state in the listing the amount of the basic component of the wage (základná zložka mzdy) and prohibits discriminatory restrictions — § 62 ods. 2 zákona č. 5/2004 Z. z. Therefore:
- we do not publish listings without a wage figure, and those already published we take down;
- we do not publish listings with requirements as to age, sex, nationality, religion, state of health or marital status;
- check the working conditions directly with the employer: the contract is concluded by you with them, not with us.
Never pay “for a job placement” and do not send copies of your documents before a face-to-face interview: under Slovak law an employment intermediary has no right to charge a fee to a candidate (§ 25 ods. 3 zákona č. 5/2004 Z. z.).
12. The specialists directory
The “Specialists” section, which we are preparing to launch, is a directory of people and small companies that provide services in Ukrainian. Some of the cards we collected from public sources: public channels, listings and profiles where these people offer their services themselves.
If it is your card, you can claim it, correct the data or ask us to take it down. We take it down without asking for reasons and without unnecessary delay — as a rule, within 72 hours. There is a button for this on every card, and a form on the Contacts page. Where we get the data from, on what basis we process it and what rights you have — in the Privacy Policy.
The presence of a card in the directory does not mean that we have checked the specialist's qualifications, licence or insurance, and it is not our recommendation.
13. Our materials and copyright
The texts, data compilations, illustrations, design and code of the site belong to the operator or are used with the permission of the rightholders. They are protected by copyright — by the law of the EU, of the Czech Republic (zákon č. 121/2000 Sb.) and of Slovakia (zákon č. 185/2015 Z. z.).
Allowed: reading, saving for yourself, sharing a link, quoting a short extract with a credit to KOMPAS and an active link to the source page.
Not allowed: copying materials in full or in substantial part to other sites, to channels and mailing lists; automatically collecting the content of the site; using our materials to train artificial intelligence models — we expressly reserve this right and do not give consent to such use.
Some of the materials are prepared by the editorial team with the use of AI tools. Every material is read over by a person before publication, and a named editor is responsible for the publication — see the Editorial policy.
14. External links and third-party services
The site contains links to other people's resources — state registers, websites of schools and companies, news. We do not control their content, availability or safety and we are not responsible for them. Following an external link is at your own discretion.
Some functions of the site work through third-party services (for example, machine translation, maps, the voicing of terms, analytics). This means that part of the data is processed outside our servers. Which services exactly and what they receive — in the Privacy Policy. We draw your attention separately: do not paste passport details, medical certificates or contracts into the translator — the text is processed by an external service.
15. Liability and availability of the site
KOMPAS is an information portal. The materials, calculators and reference guides are for information only, they are not legal, tax, financial or medical advice and they do not replace consulting a specialist or checking an official source. Laws and rates change, and our texts may lag behind. More details — Disclaimer.
In respect of user content we act as a hosting provider within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (DSA): we do not check everything in advance and we are not liable for other people's materials until we learn that they are unlawful. Once we learn of it — we act without delay. The author is responsible for the content of their own material.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted operation of the site. Maintenance work, failures, temporary shutdown of sections and loss of form data are possible; we try to give notice of planned work in advance. The site is provided “as is”.
We do not limit our liability for intent, gross negligence, harm to life and health, or in cases where such a limitation is prohibited by law. If you are a consumer, these Terms do not deprive you of any right granted by the mandatory provisions of consumer protection law.
16. Personal data and cookies
What data we collect, why, how long we keep it, who we pass it to and what rights you have — in the Privacy Policy. About cookies and tracking — on the Cookies page; there you can also change your choice at any time. The “Change cookie settings” button is in the footer of every page.
17. Applicable law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the law of the Czech Republic — the operator is registered in the Czech Republic. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection given by the mandatory rules of the law of the country of your habitual residence: for users from Slovakia, Slovak consumer protection law applies in the part where it protects you more strongly.
Disputes are heard by the courts of the Czech Republic. If you are a consumer, you may bring a claim before the court of your place of residence, and a claim against you may be brought only in the country of your residence.
Write to us first — most questions are resolved by a single message. If our answer did not satisfy you:
- the operator is registered in the Czech Republic, so the body for the out-of-court resolution of consumer disputes in relation to it is the Česká obchodní inspekce — coi.gov.cz;
- if you are a consumer in Slovakia, you can turn to the Slovenská obchodná inšpekcia — soi.sk;
- in a cross-border dispute the European Consumer Centre (ECC-Net) of your country will help free of charge.
Turning to these bodies does not deprive you of the right to go to court. Complaints about personal data are handled by the data protection authorities — their addresses are gathered on the Contacts page.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may change these Terms — the site develops and the law changes. A new version is published here with a new update date. About significant changes — new rules for content, new conditions for realtors and employers, the appearance of paid services — we give notice by a visible message on the site.
Business users (realtors, employers, specialists in the directory) are notified of changes to these Terms at least 15 days before they take effect. You may disagree with the changes — in that case stop using the site and, if necessary, delete your account.
19. Contacts
Questions about these Terms, complaints, suggestions:
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Address: Uralská 689/7, 160 00 Praha 6 – Bubeneč, Česká republika
- All contacts, the points of contact under the DSA and the form for reporting illegal content: Contacts
We reply in Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, Slovak and English.