Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to http://antonispavlakis.gr, which is owned and operated by Antonis Pavlakis.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use information, which may include personal data that you provide on our website, antonispavlakis.gr. It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of your personal data and how you can access and update these data.
Data Collection
The types of personal data we collect may include:
Your first name, last name and email address, as well as the content of the message you send through the website’s form.
Information you provide about your advertising preferences when participating in surveys, competitions and promotions.
You can always choose what personal information you wish to provide to us, and whether to provide any at all. However, choosing not to provide certain information may affect some of your transactions.
Cookies
When you use our website, we may also collect information automatically through what are known as “cookies”. Some of this information may constitute personal data.
This information includes details such as language settings, IP address, location, device settings, the device’s operating system, activity data, time of use, page URL, status report, user information (information about the browser version), operating system, browsing history and the type of data you viewed.
Purposes of Processing
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
A. Marketing activities: With your consent, we may use your information for marketing activities as permitted by law.
When we use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, such as promotional newsletters and communications about new products and services or other offers that we believe may interest you, we include an unsubscribe link that you can use if you no longer wish to receive such messages from us.
B. Other communications: There may be occasions when we contact you by email, post, telephone or text message, depending on the contact details you have shared with us. This may be for various reasons, such as responding to and managing requests you have submitted.
C. Analytics, improvements and research: We use personal data for research and analysis. We may engage a third party to carry out these activities on our behalf.
D. Security, fraud detection and prevention: We use information, which may include personal data, to prevent fraud and other unlawful activities. We also use this information to investigate and detect fraud. We may also use personal data for risk assessment and security purposes, including verifying users’ identities.
For these purposes, personal data may be shared with third parties, such as law enforcement authorities, as permitted by applicable law.
E. Legal proceedings and compliance: In certain cases, we may need to use the information provided, which may include personal data, for the lawful conduct of our activities in accordance with contractual and/or legal requirements, particularly those relating to bookkeeping and the settlement of accounts; to manage and resolve legal disputes or complaints; for regulatory investigations and compliance; to enforce our agreement(s); or to comply with lawful requests from law enforcement authorities, to the extent required by law.
Legal Basis
For purposes A–C, we use the data for our legitimate interests, such as providing you with the best and most relevant content for the website, emails and newsletters; improving and promoting our products, services and website content; and for administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.
For purposes D–E, we also rely, where applicable, on our obligation to comply with applicable law.
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Where required by applicable law, we will ask for your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the email address below. If you wish to opt out of the data processing described in any of the provisions above, please contact [email protected].
Data Sharing
Third-party service providers: We may use service providers to process your personal data strictly on our behalf. This processing is carried out for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, such as sending marketing material or providing analytical support services.
These service providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and are not permitted to use your personal data for their own purposes or for any other purpose. We do not sell or rent your personal data.
Competent authorities: We may disclose personal data to law enforcement authorities and other government authorities to the extent required by law or where strictly necessary to prevent, detect or prosecute criminal offences and fraud.
International Data Transfers
We avoid transferring personal data to countries outside the European Union whose data protection laws are less comprehensive than those of EU countries. If such a transfer nevertheless becomes necessary, and as required by European law, we will transfer personal data only to recipients that provide an adequate level of data protection.
In these cases, we will put the necessary contractual arrangements in place to ensure that your personal data remain protected in accordance with European standards.
Security
We implement reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorised access to and misuse of information, including personal data. We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect information, including personal data. We also implement security procedures and technical and physical restrictions on access to and use of personal data held on our servers.
Only authorised personnel are permitted to access personal data in the course of their work.
To provide the greatest possible security, information you send to us over the internet, including personal information, is transmitted via a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection, which ensures that the data are encrypted during transmission over the internet so that they cannot be read.
Please note that, despite the stringent data protection measures we take, no method of transmitting data over the internet and no method of storing data is 100% secure.
Data Retention
We retain your information, which may include personal data, for as long as we consider necessary to provide our services, comply with applicable law, resolve disputes with various parties and meet any other requirements of our business activities, including detecting and preventing fraud or other unlawful activities.
All personal data we retain are subject to this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about a specific retention period for certain types of personal data, please contact us using the contact details below.
Your Choices and Rights
We want you to understand how we use your personal data. You can do so in the following ways:
- You may ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you.
- You may inform us of any changes to your personal information or ask us to correct any of your information that we hold.
- In certain circumstances, you may ask us to erase, block or restrict the processing of the personal data we hold about you, or object to particular uses of your personal data. Please note that we cannot erase data necessary to meet contractual and/or legal requirements, particularly those relating to bookkeeping and the settlement of accounts.
- In certain circumstances, you may also ask us to send the personal data you have provided to us to a third party.
Where we use your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, in accordance with applicable law. In addition, where we process your personal data on the basis of legitimate interests or the public interest, you have the right to object to this use of your personal data at any time, in accordance with applicable law.
We rely on you to ensure that your personal information is complete, accurate and up to date. Please inform us promptly of any changes or inaccuracies in your personal information by contacting [email protected]. We will handle your request in accordance with applicable law.
Links
Our website may provide links to a number of websites that we believe you may find useful. These external websites are owned by third parties and may not follow the same privacy policy as we do. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of these external websites before providing them with personal data.
Relevant Legislation
Questions or Complaints
If you have questions or concerns about our processing of your personal data, or if you wish to exercise your rights under this policy, you may contact us at [email protected].
Changes to This Policy
As our business continues to change, this Privacy Policy may also change. To keep up to date with changes made to this Privacy Policy from time to time, please revisit it.
If we make material changes or changes that affect you — for example, if we begin processing your personal data for purposes other than those stated above — we will contact you before that processing begins.