A.Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.

Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy on your first visit to the website, allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

  • Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geolocation, browser type and version, and operating system.

Information about your visits and use of the website including the external source, duration of the visit, page views and navigation path on the website:

Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the site.

Information you enter when you create your profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, personal status, interests and hobbies, information about your education, and information about your employment.

Information, such as your name and email, that you enter when setting up your subscriptions and sending emails and/or newsletters.

Information you enter when using services on our website.

Information that arises when you use the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.

Information about your purchases, the services you use, and the transactions you make on the website, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information.

Information that you share on the website with the intention of posting online, which includes your username, profile information, and the content of your posts.

Information contained in any of your communications with us via email or through the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.

Any other personal information you send us.

Before you disclose any personal information of a third party, you must have that person’s consent to share and process their personal information, in accordance with this policy.

  • Use of your personal information

The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We may use personal information for the following purposes:

administering our website and business

Personalized website configuration for you

Enable the use of your available services on our website

shipping the goods you purchase through our website providing services that you purchase through our website send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, as well as collect payments from you

Sending non-advertising communications

Send email notifications about your requests

Send our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter)

send you marketing communications, relating to your business or the businesses of certain third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, through communications or, if you have agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive promotional communications)

Providing statistical data of our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this information)

Manage requests and complaints that you made yourself or related to your website

maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud

Confirming compliance with the terms and conditions of provision of our website (including monitoring of personal messages circulated through our private online messaging service) and other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your license.

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.

We will not disclose your personal information without your consent to any third party or any third-party commercial department.

  • Disclosure of personal information

We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, or professional advisors, representatives, suppliers, or subcontractors as required for the purposes set forth in this policy.

We may share your personal information with any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our portfolio control company, and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may share our personal information:

to the extent required by law

in connection with any current or future legal proceedings

for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business asset that we sell (or intend to sell), and

to anyone we reasonably believe may belong to the judicial or any other competent authority in relation to the disclosure of information in the event that we believe that the relevant authority will require the disclosure of that personal information.

Also, as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

  • International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and moved between any countries in which we operate so that we can use it in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have corresponding data protection laws as those applicable in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.

The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available online around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of temporary data which is described in Section D.

  • Retention of personal data

Section C sets out the process and policy for retaining personal data, designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.

Personal data that we process for any purpose will not be kept for longer than is necessary for this purpose.

Your personal data will be kept by us until it is deleted. The retention period of your data will always be in compliance with national legislation.

If we believe that the documents may relate to any legal process in force and for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)

Security of your personal data

We will take the necessary precautions at a technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.

We will store all personal data you provide on secure (password protected and firewall) servers.

All electronic money transactions carried out on our website are protected by our encryption technology.

You accept that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data that is transmitted over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use confidential, we will not ask you for your password.

  • Amendments

We may update our policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website from time to time. You should check the page from time to time to make sure you understand any changes to our policy. We may notify you of changes to our policy via email or through a private messaging system on our website.

  • Your rights

You can ask us to provide you with any information we hold about you. The provision of such information is subject to the following:

You have the right at any time to inspect the data we hold about you and to update it. If you wish to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us at: harmanis@otenet.gr.

If for any reason you believe that the personal data we hold about you is incorrect, please visit our website and contact us asking to be given the opportunity to inspect and amend your personal information.

We may withhold the personal information you request, for the period permitted by law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for advertising purposes.

In practice, you will usually either explicitly consent to the use of your personal information for advertising purposes in advance, or we will provide you with the ability to opt out of use for advertising purposes.

K.Third Parties

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third-party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the protection policies and practices of third parties.

  • Information Update

Please let us know by email: harmanis@otenet.gr if the information we have about you needs to be updated or corrected.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent through a server and stored in the browser. The ID is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “login” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains in effect until its expiry date, unless it is deleted earlier by the user, a login cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s login, when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user, but the personal data we hold about you may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies. We use cookies to provide you with information and to process your orders, while they are automatically deleted every time you leave the site. You should keep in mind that cookies are absolutely necessary in order for our website to function properly and smoothly.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and their purpose are defined below:

We use Google Analytics, Adwords, Facebook, Instagram on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website. This helps us to better understand how you use our website in order to improve your experience and navigation on it. This data is collected through Google Analytics in accordance with Google’s GDPR data processing terms and Facebook Pixel in accordance with Facebook’s GDPR data processing terms. Your IP anonymization has been ensured and the unique user identification feature remains inactive.

The Company’s website uses cookies or similar technologies to ensure the best user experience and to analyze trends, to administer the website, to track users’ movements throughout the website, and to gather demographic information relevant to our user base as a whole.

Most browsers allow you not to accept cookies—for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie settings found by tapping “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”

in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by tapping “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and removing the option “Accept cookies from websites”; and

in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by entering the “Customization and control” menu and tapping “Settings”, “View advanced settings”, and “Content settings” and selecting “Block websites from data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of your website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 10), you will have to manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions in the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by tapping “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” tapping “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies,” and

In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize & Control” menu, and tapping “Settings,” “View Custom Settings,” and “Clear Browsing Data,” then selecting “Clear Cookies and Other Site Data” before tapping “Clear Browsing Data.”

Deleting all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

in Internet Explorer (version 10), you will have to manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions in the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by tapping “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” tapping “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies,” and

In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize & Control” menu, and tapping “Settings,” “View Custom Settings,” and “Clear Browsing Data,” then selecting “Clear Cookies and Other Site Data” before tapping “Clear Browsing Data.”

Deleting all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites.