Privacy Policy

Α. Privacy Policy

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 site allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

– Information related to your computer including your IP address, your geographic location your browser type and version and your operating system.

– Information about your visits and use of the website including the external source, duration of the visit, page views and the navigation path to the website;

– Information such as your email address, which you enter when you register on the website.

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

– Information that you enter when using services on our website; – Information that arises from your use of the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.

– Information related to your purchases, services you use and transactions you make on the site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information.

– Information contained in any communication you have with us via email or through the Site, including communication content and metadata.

– Any other personal information you send us.

III. Use of your personal information

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:

– Administration of the website and our business,

– personalising the website for you,

– enabling your use of the services available to you on our website; – shipping the goods you purchase through our website,

– providing services that you purchase through our website,

– sending transactions, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you,

– sending you non-promotional communications,

– sending email notifications about your requests,

– sending you 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),

– sending you promotional communications relating to your business or the businesses of specific third parties that we think may be of interest to you, via notifications 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),

– provide our users’ statistical data to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this information); – manage requests and complaints made by you or relating to your website,

– maintaining the security of the website and preventing against any fraud; – confirming compliance with our website terms and conditions of service (including monitoring personal messages sent 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 authorization.

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

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

Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, or professional advisors, representatives suppliers or subcontractors as required for the purposes stated in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our controlling portfolio company and its affiliates) as required for the purposes stated in this policy.

We may share our personal information:

– to the extent required by law

– in connection with any current or future legal proceedings – in order to establish, exercise or defend 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 are considering selling); and

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

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

International data transfers
The information we collect may be stored to be 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 equivalent data protection legislation to that applicable in the European Economic Area.

Personal information that you post on our website or submit for posting 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 consent to the transfer of temporary data which is described in Section IV.

Retention of personal data
Section VI sets out our procedure and policy for the retention of 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 retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose. Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section VI, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data a) to the extent required by law, b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any legal proceedings in force, and c) 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 mitigation).

VII. Security of your personal data

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

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

All electronic monetary transactions conducted on our site are protected by our encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the internet. You are responsible for keeping the password you use confidential, we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).

VIII. Modifications

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

Your rights
You may ask us to provide you, any information we hold about you’ the provision of such information is subject to the following:

– payment of a fee; and

– the provision of sufficient identifying information for this purpose, we will usually accept a certified photocopy of your passport from a notary public and a photocopy of a utility bill showing your current address.

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

You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, we will usually either explicitly accept in advance the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of having your information used for marketing purposes.

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

Updating information
Please let us know if the information we have about you needs to be updated or corrected.

XII. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a series of letters and numbers) that is sent through a server and stored in the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted earlier by the user; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s session when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user, but your personal data that we maintain may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies.

Most browsers allow you to opt-out of cookies-for example:

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

In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from websites”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and Control” menu and tapping “Settings,” “View advanced settings,” and “Content settings” and selecting “Block websites from data” under the “Cookies” heading.

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

in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 ); in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and Control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “View Custom Settings,” and “Clear Browsing Data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other website data” before clicking “Clear Browsing Data.”