PRIVACY POLICY
Personal Data Protection Policy
Latest update: 02.07.2024
The Personal Data Protection Policy (hereinafter referred to as the “Policy”) applies to the conditions for the collection, use, and processing of your personal data by the Company under the corporate name “EPOPS PUBLISHING CIVIL NON-PROFIT COMPANY” and the distinctive title “EPOPS”, with registered offices in Koropi, Attica, on the 5th km. Varis – Koropiou Av., P.C. 19400, with Tax ID No. 996774878 and G.E.MI. No. 174487201000 (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), when using the services and website https://www.epopspublishing.com (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) of the Company. The processing of your personal data is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2016/679), any specific national and European legislation for certain sectors, the applicable Greek legislation on the protection of personal data, as well as on the protection of personal data and private life in the electronic communications sector (indicatively Law 3471/2006, as in force) and decisions of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA). If anyone who visits or uses the Website (hereinafter referred to as “User” or “You”) does not agree with the terms of this Policy, they must refrain from registering and creating an account on the Website.
1. Purpose of collecting and processing personal data
1.1 Personal Data constitutes all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”). The Company processes your personal data, as a rule, on your own initiative and on the basis of your consent. If your consent is withdrawn and subject to the other terms hereof, any such processing will cease. Furthermore, the processing of personal data may take place for the purposes of performing the services provided by the Company, in accordance with the terms of their use and to serve the legitimate interests of the Company.
1.2 It is clarified that the Company is the Data Controller and collects and processes exclusively and only the personal data that You disclose to the company in the context of providing its services, selling and shipping its products to You and/or any other commercial transaction with the Company, as well as by registering to the services of the Website and by using them. The use of your personal data takes place solely to inform and support you during the operation of the services to which you subscribe, to carry out the purchase of products, to satisfy your requirements and to inform you about the promotion of new services or products.
1.3 From the fact of your navigation on the Website, the data collected are necessary for the management and operation of our Website, its security, as well as for its personalization in relation to the User. By navigating the Website you accept this collection and processing. Through your browser's privacy settings it is possible to customize this collection and processing. For your simple browsing on the Company's Website no other personal data are collected, other than your IP address, unless you choose to contact our Company through the electronic contact form ("Contact Form"), the use of which requires the completion of your personal information, such as name, e-mail address and telephone number. The Company has the right to store your IP address, User profile details, and the data delivery details to cooperating courier companies (such as, but not limited to, the shipping address of the products) and, if necessary, to use them in case of violation of the terms of use of its Website by You.
1.4 In the context of providing its services and products, the Company reserves the right to use the contact details you have provided to send informative messages about its products and services as well as relevant offers, announcements or promotional material, provided that you have granted explicit electronic consent to this effect (opt-in). In case you no longer wish your personal data to be used for sending such information by the Company, you are provided with the opportunity to object at any time to the above updates (opt-out / unsubscribe), in an easy way and without any charge, either through the user's Account screen, or by sending an e-mail to the address “epops@epopspublishing.com” from the e-mail address you have declared, stating that you do not wish to receive information material from now on, but also through any relevant message, in case you did not initially object to this use from your Account settings.
1.5 The Company reserves the right to use the information you disclose in such a way that it is not possible to identify or disclose the person concerned, for statistical, promotional, research, or advertising purposes, disclosing them to third parties responsible for the completion of the above purposes.
1.6 Your personal data will not be used for purposes other than those described in this Policy, unless we obtain your prior consent, or unless required or permitted by law.
2. Security and Confidentiality
2.1 The collection, use, and processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with the applicable provisions on the protection of personal data, and in particular in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the applicable Greek legislation on the protection of personal data (indicatively Law 4624/2019), as well as on the protection of personal data and private life in the electronic communications sector and the decisions of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), the relevant laws and regulations, as well as Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data.
2.2 The Company is committed to implementing appropriate technical and security measures in order to adequately ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal data against risks of breach.
2.3 The Company undertakes to protect the confidentiality of the personal data you disclose excluding their use by any third party for any purpose other than those mentioned in this Policy. Access to personal data is limited to the Company's employees, who reasonably ought to know such information for the performance of their work, or to authorized third parties (indicatively to cooperating courier companies as detailed in the general terms of use of the Website), who may be assigned to carry out the use and processing of personal data in order to enable the completion of the purpose of collection, use, and processing thereof.
3. Your Rights
3.1 According to the GDPR (Articles 12-22) you have the following rights:
• Request a copy of your personal data.
• Withdraw your consent when this constitutes the legal basis on which the processing of your personal data is based.
• Request that your personal data be corrected if it is inaccurate.
• Request the deletion of the personal data you have provided, under the conditions set by law.
• Request the restriction of processing carried out by the Company, under the conditions set by law.
• Request portability of your personal data if you have provided us with the data and their processing is based on consent or on the performance of a contract as well as on automated means.
• Object to some form of processing of your personal data by the Company.
3.2 To exercise any of the above rights, you can contact us via e-mail at epops@epopspublishing.com from the contact email address you have stated, attaching a copy of your identity card. We will take all possible steps to satisfy your request within a reasonable time, no later than one (1) month from the submission of the request and receipt of proof of your identity. This time period may be extended by two (2) more months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests. Note that the absolutely necessary user data may be retained in order to safeguard the legitimate interests of the Company.
3.3 The Company does not engage in automated individual decision-making. In any case, however, and if in the future the Company proceeds to automated individual decision-making, you have the right to object to a decision taken solely on the basis of automated processing, including profiling, when such a decision produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
3.4. Each user has the right to submit a request to the Company to ask how the Company processes and protects your personal data and if you consider that your rights are violated, you have the right to file a complaint on the website of the Data Protection Authority by filling in the appropriate form depending on the subject of the complaint to the <https:// www.dpa.gr/el/polites/katagelia_stin_arxi (1-3 Kifisias, P.C. 115 23, Athens, 210 6475600).
4. Links to other websites and social media
4.1 This Policy applies only to the Website of the Company excluding web pages or websites belonging to any third party. The Company may provide links to other websites, which do not belong to the Company but may be of interest to the User. However, the Company does not guarantee nor is responsible for the level of protection of personal data of websites that do not belong to it.
4.2 The Company also has a presence in the following social media:
You can visit us there by clicking on the relevant links (Social Plug-ins Buttons) located on our Website. Through these links, you are transferred to other Websites, which collect personal data based on their own policy for which the Company is not responsible. It is your responsibility to be informed about their Privacy Policy.
5. Cookies
5.1. Our Website may use cookies in order to improve the experience of the user while browsing and to improve the overall quality of its services. Cookies are small text files that are sent to a user's computer when they visit a website. Cookies are stored on the visitor's hard drive but do not receive knowledge of any document or file from the computer. They may be used to facilitate the User's access to specific services of the Company, for statistical purposes in order to determine the areas in which these services are useful or popular or for marketing purposes. The User of the Website may configure their browser in such a way as to prohibit the receipt of all cookies or to be notified about the use of cookies in specific services of the pages. However, the User of the Website should be aware that certain features or services of the Website may not work or function normally without cookies.
5.2. For more information regarding cookies please visit our cookies policy.
6. Minors
The Company does not collect information on users under the age of 15. The content and services of this Website are not intended for persons under the age of 15 and no personal data should be submitted to the Company through the Website by users under the age of 15. If we become aware that a user under the age of 15 has registered and provided personal data without the express consent of their parent or legal guardian, we will immediately delete, upon receipt of such information or requests, the relevant data in accordance with the applicable Company Policy.
7. Retention of Data
We retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary and for the purposes for which they have been collected, in compliance with legal, tax, or judicial obligations or for the establishment/documentation or exercise of legal claims by the Company or defense of legal claims against the Company.
8. Transmission of Data
We do not transfer your data to third countries. The Personal Data we collect is processed on servers located in the EU or EEA.
9. Amendment to the present Policy
9.1 The Company reserves the right to modify this Policy by posting the latest version on its Website https://www.epopspublishing.com. Please check the effective date at the top of the Policy to see when it was last revised.
9.2 If we make essential changes to this Policy that expand our rights to use Personal Data we have already collected from you, we will notify you and provide you with a choice about the future use of that data.