FAQ

FAQ

In agorateka Slovakia, can I find free services and content or only payment required services?

agorateka Slovakia collects a variety of Legal Offer Sites. This includes both types of services, payment required services and services for which you don’t have to pay because they are free and/or supported by advertising, i.e. providing free programming to an audience along with advertising messages.

Can I access agorateka Slovakia on all types of devices?

Yes, the portal can be accessed through all types of devices. However, we recommend to access agorateka through your pc to obtain its best performance.

The agorateka Slovakia team is constantly working to improve its usability and to ensure the best user experience including portable devices.For the moment, you can access the portal through computers. The possibility to access via mobile devices is planned for a future stage of development.

Who do I have to contact if I have detected a problem?

For any technical issues, please contact agorateka Slovakia. You will find the contact details in our Contact section.

For enquiries about the content in agorateka Slovakia, please contact us too. You will find contact details in our Contact section.

What is the relationship between agorateka Slovakia and the EU portal agorateka?

agorateka Slovakia is a national portal containing lists of websites that offer digital content legally. It is linked to a gateway at European level, called agorateka, which encompasses national portals from a variety of participating European countries, most notably the Member States of the European Union.

agorateka Slovakia is an initiative by administered by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, which decided to raise the awareness about legally available on-line content to the public.

Together with other national portals, agorateka Slovakia is part of agorateka, the EU portal to Legal Offer websites. Some of the national portals have been created by the public bodies of the participating country, others exist due to collaboration between public entities and private sector organisations, and again others are from the private sector and have been included by the participating country to be present in the portal.

The fact that a website providing access to the digital content covered is not listed in a national portal does not necessarily mean that this site is illegal. Such a website might be still unknown to the national portal, it might not wish to be listed or it might have applied to be listed, but the validation procedure is still ongoing.

Why should I use agorateka Slovakia as a consumer or as a digital content provider?

Using agorateka Slovakia, consumers have quick access to Legal Offer websites. This portal addresses concerns consumers often have with regard to quality, safety (for example malware) and security when accessing content on the internet. 

For digital content providers, agorateka Slovakia is a platform on which to display and make available to consumers their portfolio of digital content. (name) provides an overview about the variety and the trends of legal offer sites for digital content in the Slovak Republic. This will enable citizens and businesses to perform a deeper analysis of the legal offers landscape.

agorateka Slovakia provides an overview about the variety and the trends of Legal Offer Sites for digital content in the Slovak Republic. This will enable citizens and businesses to perform a deeper analysis of the legal offers landscape. 

How does agorateka Slovakia work?

agorateka Slovakia offers several search possibilities of digital content websites. The search can be filtered by content type (for example, music). If you choose the option to search by content type, agorateka Slovakia will show you all the Legal Offer websites that contain the selected content type (for example, all Legal Offer Sites that cover the content type “music”).

What can I find in agorateka Slovakia?

agorateka Slovakia provides links to digital content websites in up to five different areas (music, films & television, e-books, video games and sports events) in the Slovak Republic.

Useful information about digital content online such as the type of format or whether it is free-of-charge or requires payment can also be found in agorateka Slovakia. Furthermore, the portal contains additional information, such as statistics, useful for citizens and businesses.

If a content field (for example, film) is not available in agorateka Slovakia, this means either that there is no Legal Offer Site for this type of content to date or that agorateka Slovakia has not yet identified such Legal Offer Sites in the Slovak Republic.

What is agorateka Slovakia and why has it been created?

agorateka Slovakia is the national Slovak online portal that helps consumers to find legal digital content. It provides a fast and easy access to websites that offer this digital content respecting the intellectual property rights of authors and creators.

agorateka Slovakia provides an alternative legal option to non-licensed, illegal internet content which, if accessed, might be detrimental to you and others. The portal gives you an opportunity to reach these alternative options.

Why should I use agorateka Slovakia as a consumer or as a digital content provider?

Thanks to agorateka Slovakia, consumers have quick access to Legal Offer websites. This portal addresses worries that consumers often have with regard to quality, safety (for example malware) and security when accessing content on the internet.

For digital content providers, agorateka Slovakia is a platform on which they can display and make available their portfolio of digital content to consumers.

agorateka Slovakia provides an overview about the variety and the trends of Legal Offer Sites for digital content in the Slovak Republic. This will enable citizens and businesses to perform a deeper analysis of the legal offers landscape.