Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
General
The use of the web pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website maichosis.gr, owned by “Maichosis Theodoros” hereinafter referred to as “the company”, presupposes your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy regarding the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using our website’s internet services. 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 developments in the field. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website about these changes. Instead, we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Continuing to use the maichosis.gr website, even after any changes to this Privacy Policy, signifies your unconditional acceptance of these terms on your part.
Protection of Personal Data
We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise disclose your personal data in any way. If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.
Relevant Legislation
In addition to our internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the protection of users’ personal data as much as possible with the laws/regulations that follow:
- EU Directive on Data Protection of 1995 (DPD)
- 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Personal Information Collected by This Website and Why We Collect It
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Monitoring Website Traffic
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 site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to track their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser, and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant 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
Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our contact us page or an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to/be processed by any of the third-party data processors defined below. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
About Cookies
What is a Cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a set of text information that the website transfers to the web browser on your computer’s hard disk, either temporarily throughout your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember 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 web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers.
Types of Cookies
The basic types of cookies that websites may use are described below:
Session Cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your device’s browser file only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser program.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain in your device’s browser file even after you close the browser program, sometimes for a year or more (the exact duration depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator needs to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your site customization preferences).
First-Party Cookies
These are cookies installed in your browser program and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identifier code to you for tracking your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies for visit management and identification purposes.
Third-Party Cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to various websites where 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 enhance the user experience for our visitors. The website’s functionality will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Below, you will find information about third-party cookies used on this website, including how to disable them and the impact of disabling them on the website’s functionality. For more information on managing certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit the following address:
www.aboutcookies.org .
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics service cookies are performance/analysis cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can inform us about the number of visitors to the website, the time and duration of their visits, and provide information about how visitors navigate different parts of the website. This information helps us improve the functionality of our website. The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred to and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy. For more information about Google Analytics service, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en=GB. If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be tracked, and the statistics we collect to improve our services through the website will not be affected. The website’s functionality will not be impacted.
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 as an external service. Disabling these cookies may affect your ability to view embedded videos on our website.
Cookies from Social Networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our website through them by clicking on one of the “Share” buttons. Disabling these cookies may affect the “Share” functionality, making it unavailable..
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 as an external service. Disabling these cookies may affect your ability to view embedded videos on our website.
About the Server of this Website
All online traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transmitted using the HTTPS protocol with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology.
Third-Party Data Processors
We use a number of third-party processors to process personal data for us. These processors have been carefully chosen to comply with the legislation mentioned in this document.
Data Breaches
If a data breach occurs, we will report it to all relevant parties and authorities within 72 hours of the breach, provided that it is apparent that personal data stored in identifiable form has been stolen.
Data Controller
The data controller for this website is: “Theodoros Maichosis”.
