Data security and compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
In our company, we respect the personal data of each visitor to the our website. This text entitled Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy explains in simple and understandable language but also clearly how we process the personal data that we collect from you or that you provide to us.
The Company collects only the personal data that is voluntarily provided by you, our online visitors, when completing the contact form so that we can satisfy your requests, be able to provide you with information about our products and services and to serve you in the best possible way. Where additional, optional information is sought, you will be informed about it at the time of collection. The management and protection of the personal data of the visitor/user of the Company is subject to the terms of this announcement as well as to the provisions of national, community and international law regarding the protection of the individual from the processing of personal data, as applicable from time to time.
Any future relevant regulation will be the subject of this announcement. In any case, the Company reserves the right to change the terms of protection of personal data, in accordance with the relevant legal framework in force from time to time. Therefore, these terms of protection of personal data may be revised and updated at any time and without notice. The Company’s users are requested to check these terms at regular intervals for any changes, as the use of this website implies that they accept all possible modifications thereof.
1 WHAT PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED
The company collects personal information from visitors/users of the Website only when they voluntarily provide it for the purpose of providing information about the company’s products/services and activities. Personal information is information that can be used to identify or contact an individual as well as other information concerning that individual. Specifically, to communicate with the company, only your NAME and your ELECTRONIC ADDRESS (e-mail) will be requested. Those of you who have provided us with your consent to process your data for the above purpose (i.e. for the purpose of informing you about the company’s products/services and actions) reserve the right to withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the relevant command on the company’s Website
2 WHAT IS THE USE OF THIS DATA
The company processes this data in compliance with the provisions of Law. 2472/1997 and from 25.5.2018 the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), for the purpose of informing the user and in no way will they be disclosed, made public or sold to third parties, unless the procedure established by the legislation for the lifting of confidentiality (Law 2225/1994) or any obligations arising from the national implementation of Directive 24/2006 is initiated.
The purpose of receiving, processing and maintaining your data concerning contact details is to satisfy the exclusive purpose of informing you about the Company’s products and actions.
The company does not collect “sensitive” personal data except when you voluntarily offer us this data or when this data is required or its collection is permitted by law. We advise you to refrain from providing sensitive data (for example, CVs) unless this is required for the purpose of providing the personal data or if you hereby consent to the use by the company of such data for its purposes. The company may ask you to provide it with certain personal data in order to send it informational messages about products and services and/or related offers and announcements. The company may also ask for your permission for certain uses of your personal data and you can either consent to or refuse these uses.
If you wish to receive specific services or communications, such as an electronic newsletter, you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from the relevant list of recipients at any time by following the instructions contained in each communication.
If you decide to unsubscribe from a service or communication, we will try to delete your data as soon as possible, although we may need some time and/or information before we can process your request. If you wish, you can request at any time to be informed about your personal data held by the Company, the recipients, the purpose of their storage and processing as well as their modification, correction, portability or deletion, by sending a relevant email to marketing@kassidiaris.gr from the contact email address you have stated. You also have the right to review the personal data we hold and generally exercise any right provided for by the legislation on the protection of personal data.
3 TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
The Company does not share or transfer personal data with third parties, unless this is required for legitimate professional purposes and business needs, in order to respond to your requests and/or if it is imposed or permitted by law. In any case, access to your personal data is allowed only to authorized persons who are required to have access in order to be able to complete the purposes of their collection, use and processing, as disclosed in this Statement. Persons who have access to the data are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of this data.
4 Cookies
The company adheres to a strict policy for the protection of the privacy of website visitors. With this note we provide you with more information on how we use cookies, each time you visit our website.
4.1 What are Cookies?
Cookies are short pieces of software code, which are sent to, stored by our Company’s web server (“server”) on your terminal equipment with their main function of communicating to us data from your browser (“browser”). Depending on their duration, cookies are either “temporary” (session cookies) or “persistent” (persistent cookies). “Temporary cookies” are cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser, while “persistent cookies” remain stored on your terminal equipment until their predetermined validity period is completed.
4.2 Does our Company use Cookies?
Yes, we use certain cookies with the main purpose of making the Website more functional and appealing to our users.
4.3 What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
Our Company uses “temporary cookies” for the following purposes:
– To automatically recognize you as a registered user after you log in or to browse secure subpages.
– To automatically recognize you when making purchases and which are necessary for the operation of the standard “electronic shopping cart” application.
Furthermore, we use “persistent cookies” for the following purposes:
– To improve the performance of our website.
– To personalize your interface and personalize the operation of our website.
– To provide online content that matches your choices and interests
– For the “Remember me” function
4.4 What Types of Cookies Do We Not Use?
Our Company uses exclusively its own cookies and does not use any cookies that come from third parties. For example, we do not use cookies from online advertising companies to record the consumer behavior of our users.
4.5 What Types of Data Do We Collect through the Use of Cookies?
All data that we collect from the use of cookies through the Website is processed and stored exclusively in the form of anonymized statistical data and does not bear any direct connection to your person. Also, our Company does not proceed with any act of selling or trading data collected in this way.
Through our cookies we collect and process the following types of data:
– Terminal equipment identification data and user’s Internet Protocol address.
– Navigation data within the website.
– Product/service preference information.
4.6 How Can You Disable the Use of Cookies?
In case you wish to enable or disable the use of cookies from your browser settings, depending on your browser, visit the following websites to learn about the necessary relevant actions
Internet Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
Firefox http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websitesstored
Chrome http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
5 YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO PERSONAL DATA
5.1. Right to Information: You retain the right to request information regarding the personal data we have received from you and that we retain for one or more purposes as described in clause 4.1.
This text as a whole constitutes a manual of basic information and understanding of the philosophy of the regulatory framework that governs the protection of your personal data.
5.2. Right of Access: You retain the right to request from our company access to your data that we hold and confirmation as to whether it is being processed and more specifically information regarding the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the recipients or categories of recipients, the period of their retention and processing, the existence of a right to complain to the Personal Data Protection Authority, any available information regarding the origin of the data when it has not been made available by you yourself, the existence or non-existence of automated decision-making including profiling and the relevant methodology, guarantees regarding the policy we follow when the transfer takes place to third countries, a copy of the personal data that is held and processed.
5.3 Right to Rectification: You retain the right to request from our Company the correction of your data in the event that any element of it for which we have the right to process has changed or has been incorrectly recorded.
5.4. Right to Digital Oblivion: You retain the right to request from our Company the complete or partial deletion of your data that we have the right to keep and process either because they are no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which they were collected, or because you withdraw your consent, or because the data was collected for a purpose that you consider unlawful. Our Company, within a reasonable time (no longer than one month and under conditions if there is difficulty no longer than three months in total) will respond to you confirming the complete or partial deletion of your data respectively or regarding the impossibility of deleting specific data if a law or the fulfillment of a duty in the public interest, or the right to freedom of expression and information or the exercise or support of a legal claim requires their retention.
5.5. Right to Portability: You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit it without objection, given that the processing of your data is based on consent. In the context of exercising this right, you also have the possibility to request direct transmission from the Company to the third party without your intervention.
This right is exercised subject to the conditions for erasure and its exercise may not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
5.6. Right to Object: You have the right to object to the use of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing and profiling related to such direct marketing.