PRIVACY POLICY & GDPR COMPLIANCE
GENERAL
The use of the website provided to the visitor/user through https://www.greekdreamcreations.com/, owned by “MARIANTHI THEODORIDOU”, requires your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy regarding the protection of personal data of this website.
The visitor/user is required to carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If the visitor/user does not agree, they must leave the website and must NOT use any of its services or content.
This Privacy Policy may change in accordance with legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly notify our customers or website users of such changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page periodically for any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Continued use of https://www.greekdreamcreations.com/ even after any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these terms.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose your personal data in any way.
If you are under the age of 16, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.
RELEVANT LEGISLATION
In addition to our company’s internal systems, this website has been designed to comply, with regard to the protection of users’ personal data, with the following laws/regulations:
- The EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 (DPD)
- The EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIS WEBSITE AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
WEBSITE TRAFFIC MONITORING
Like most websites, this website uses Google Analytics (GA) to monitor user activity.
We use this data to determine the number of people using our website, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the website.
Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, web browser, and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us.
Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address, which could potentially be used to identify you, but Google does not provide us with access to this information.
We consider Google to be a third-party data processor that complies with the requirements of European legislation.
NEWSLETTER
If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to Mailchimp, which provides us with email marketing services.
Mailchimp is a third-party data processor. Please see the section below titled “Our Third-Party Data Processors”.
The email address you submit will not be stored in the website’s database or in any of our company’s internal IT systems.
Your email address will remain in Mailchimp’s database for as long as we continue to use its services for email marketing, or until you explicitly request its removal from the list.
You can do this by using the unsubscribe link included in all email newsletters we send you.
As long as your email address remains in Mailchimp’s database, you will receive periodic email newsletters from us, approximately once a month.
CONTACT METHODS AND NEWSLETTER
If you wish to contact us using a contact form or an email link on our website, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website, nor will it be transferred or processed by any third-party data processor as defined below in the section “Our Third-Party Data Processors”.
Instead, this data will be sent to us by email through the SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS security protocol, sometimes also known as SSL, which means that the email content is encrypted before being sent over 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 exclusively of a series of information in text format, which a website transfers to the web browser located on your computer’s hard drive.
This may happen either temporarily during your visit or, in some cases, 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.
They are used by most websites in order 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 domain from which it originated, 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 your device browser’s cookie file only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
PERSISTENT COOKIES
These remain in your device browser’s cookie file even after the browser is closed, sometimes for one year or more.
The exact duration 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, for example to remember your username or website customization preferences.
FIRST-PARTY COOKIES
These are cookies installed in your browser and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting.
This includes assigning a unique identification code to you in order to track your browsing activity on the website.
Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for recognition purposes.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits across different 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 website, we use cookies to improve visitors’ user experience.
The functionality of the website may be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Below you will find information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the effect that disabling them may have on the website’s functionality.
If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit:
https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
GOOGLE ANALYTICS COOKIES
Google Analytics cookies are analytics/performance cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website.
These cookies can inform us about how many visitors use the website, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about how visitors navigate through different areas of the website.
This information helps us improve the way our website works.
The information is anonymous and does not contain personal data.
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 are provided to us as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able 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 material from our website with them by clicking one of the embedded “Share” buttons.
If you disable these cookies, the “Share” functionality will not be available.
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER
All web traffic, meaning file transfer between this website and your browser, is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
OUR THIRD-PARTY DATA PROCESSORS
We use a number of third-party providers to process personal data on our behalf.
These providers have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this document.
DATA BREACHES
For any personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to ensure its security.
We will report any unlawful breach of this website’s database or the database of any third-party data processor to all directly affected parties, as well as to the relevant authorities, within 72 hours of the breach, provided that it is clear that personal data stored in an identifiable form has been stolen.
DATA CONTROLLER
The data controller of this website is greekdreamcreations.com.
DOWNLOAD / DELETION OF DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GDPR
In our online store, you have the ability to download or delete the personal data that has been collected by us.
If you are a registered user, you must log in to your account. By clicking on your account icon, you will see the two options, “Delete” and “View”, that we have prepared for you.
In any other case, or if you have placed an order as a guest in our online store, you may still request that your data be sent to you or deleted by sending us an email using the contact details available on our Contact page.