Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
GENERALLY
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user, from the company’s website, presupposes your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If you do not agree, you should leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or industry developments. We will not expressly notify our customers or website users of these changes. Instead, we encourage you to periodically check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Your continued use of the site even after any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes your unreserved acceptance of these terms.
Privacy
We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose your personal information in any way, except as required.
If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.
Relevant legislation
Along with our company’s internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the following laws/regulations regarding the protection of users’ personal data:
- EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
- EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018
Personal information this website collects and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Website traffic monitoring
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our website, to better understand how they find and use our websites, and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, device, web browser and operating system, none of this information makes you personally identifiable to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not give us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor that is compliant with the requirements of European legislation.
Contact forms and email links
In the event that you choose to contact us using a contact form or a link in our email, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transferred to or processed by any third party data processor as defined below under “Our Third Party Data Processors”. Instead, this data will be sent to us in an email message via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS/SSL security protocol, which means that email content is encrypted before it is sent over the internet. Email content is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Electronic newsletter
If you choose to participate in our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to Mailchimp who provides us with our email marketing services. Mailchimp is a third party data processor (see our Third Party Data Processors section below). The email address you submit will not be stored in the database within the website or in any of our company’s internal IT systems. Your email address will remain in Mailchimp’s database as long as we continue to use its services for our email marketing or until you explicitly request to be removed from the list. You can do this by using the unsubscribe link contained in all email newsletters we send you. As long as your email address remains in Mailchimp’s database, you will receive periodic informational emails from us about offers on our products or services.
Customer satisfaction survey / customer reward program
The data we collect from the website, provided you have accepted the terms of use, may be used for your participation in a Customer Satisfaction Survey where your opinion is asked about the experience of using the website and our products/services or in a customer reward program where you receive special sales / offers on our products and services, under specific conditions.
Live chat
When communicating via live chat, the information we collect is the name, email address, IP, the date and time of the communication as well as the text exchanged during this communication. These data are collected for better customer service and for security reasons.
Advertising campaigns
Third party vendors, including Google, may display our advertisements on websites on the Internet. For this reason, it is possible to use cookies to update, optimize and display advertisements based on the user’s previous visit to our website, as well as for repetitive marketing actions (Remarketing). You can opt out of such use of cookies by Google by clicking here. You can also opt out of the use of such cookies by third-party vendors by clicking here.
About cookies
What is a cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a series of information in text form, which the website transfers to your web browser located on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily throughout your visit , or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, distinguishing you from other visitors to the same website or remembering certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the field where the cookie came from, the “lifetime” of the cookie and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
Types of cookies
The main types of cookies that websites may use are described below
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Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
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Persistent cookies
These remain in your device’s browser cookie file even after the browser is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (eg to remember your username or your website customization preferences).
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First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed on your browser and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identifier to you for the purpose of tracking your browsing on the website. Website operators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
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Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as e.g. social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
Cookies on this website and how to manage them
On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of using the website by its visitors. The operation of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Here is information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and how disabling them affects the functionality of the website. If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org.
Cookies της Google Analytics
Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis/logging cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the site, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about how visitors navigate through the various parts of the site. This information helps us improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred to and stored on Google servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.
For more information regarding the Google Analytics service, please click https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpa ge/gaoptout?hl=en=GB
If you disable these cookies your use of the website will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. Website operation will not be affected.
Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide to us as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.
Cookies from social networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our website with them by clicking one of the embedded share buttons.
If you disable these cookies, the “Share” function will not be available.
Cloudflare Cookies
Cloudflare’s DNS records are used to offer secure connections between visitors and our servers as well as to protect our servers from DDOS attacks. The cloudflare cookie helps to identify the visitor as trustworthy.
More information about the cookie can be found here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do-
About this website’s server
All internet traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred over the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). In order to ensure the smooth and safe operation of our services, our servers record the user’s IP and, in case of failed connections, the login username in log files, through security systems (firewalls, ddos filters, http filters, sql injection filters, visit statistics, cloudflare services) and backup. All the above data are kept for short periods of time on our servers with modern security protocols, so that only authorized personnel have access to them and only in cases to prevent malicious actions.
Our third party data processors
We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us (eg data center services, hosting services, backup services, payment providers, transport companies, marketing services, etc.). These agencies have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned herein.
Data breaches
For all your personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to secure it.
We will report any unlawful breach of the database of this website or the database of any third party data processor to any and all directly concerned as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, as long as it is apparent that the personal data that is stored in a recognizable format, have been stolen.
Access to data
For all your personal information stored in our database, you have the right to access, correct, delete it. You can get information about it and its limitations by contacting us.
Data controller
You can contact the controller of this website at the email listed on the contact page.