PRIVACY POLICY & GDPR COMPLIANCE

In general

Usage of the webpages and services provided to the visitor/user, by our website https://e-dedes.gr/ owned by Athanasios Dedes-Evangelia Dede, hereinafter "the company", presupposes your unreserved agreement with 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. Continuing to use the website https://e-dedes.gr/ even after any changes to the Privacy Policy implies the unconditional acceptance of these terms by you.

Privacy and protection of personal data

We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise make public your personal information.
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 of year 1995)
• Regulation on general EU data protection (GDPR of year 2018), which allows individuals to take control of their Personal Data as follows: right to access, right to correct, right to delete, right of restriction of processing, right of information on correction or deletion or restriction of processing, right of portability, right to object.
• 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 sites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of our site visitors to better understand how they find and use our web pages. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, your device, your web browser, and your operating system, none of this information identify you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not provide access to it. We believe that Google is a third data processor that is compliant with the requirements of European legislation.

Contact forms and email links

If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you provide will be stored to our site or transferred or processed by any third party data processor as defined below in the section «Our third-party data processors». Instead, these data will be sent to us via an SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (also known as SSL), meaning that email content is encrypted before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Newsletters

If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, the email address you submit will be forwarded to MailChimp (or similar service) which manages our e-mail marketing services. MailChimp (or similar service) is a third-party data processor (see «Our third-party data processors» below). Your e-mail address will not be stored in any of our databases. Your e-mail address will remain in the MailChimp (or similar service)  database for as long as we continue to use our e-mail marketing services or until you explicitly request to be removed from the mailing list. You can do, using the delete link contained in all the email newsletters we send you. As long as your e-mail address remains in the MailChimp (or similar service) database, you will receive e-mail newsletters from us.

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 during 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:

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.

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).

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.

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 site, we use cookies to improve your user experience. Site functionality will be significantly affected if you disable or disagree with the use of cookies.

See the following information about the third-party cookies we use on this site, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling on the site’s functionality. If you need any help on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to check or delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics cookies are performance analytics/logging cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site. These cookies can inform us on how many visitors use the site, the visit’s time and duration, and also provide information on how visitors navigate across the site. This information helps us improve the way our site works. They are anonymous information and do not contain personal information.

The information collected by the Google Analytics cookies about our site is transferred and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.

For more information on Google Analytics, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

You can disable Google Analytics tracking by visting https://tools.google.com/dlpa ge/gaoptout?hl =en=GB

If you disable these cookies, your activity will not be counted or used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through this site. Website functionality 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.

Social Networks cookies

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.

About this website's server

All internet traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Third-party personal data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. 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.

Data protection officer

The data protection officer (DPO) of this site is: "Athanasios Dedes".