Personal Data Management and Protection Policy
The Organization Branding Heritage attaches great importance to the protection of the privacy and personal data of visitors/users. This Privacy Policy is fully compatible with the European Regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (EU/2016/679) and the Greek Legislation and aims to inform you about the information being collected during your visit to the Branding Heritage website. For your browsing on our website, no entry of personal information is required, except in case you wish to contact us.
Personal information collected by the website
Newsletter & contact forms
During your visit to the Branding Heritage website, you can provide us personal information only if you would like to contact us by filling in the electronic forms we have on our website on the Ways to Support page, but also in case you register for our Newsletter to receive the news of the organization. If you choose to sign up for our email newsletter, your email address may be used so that we may contact you via email, mailchimp.com, providing us with email marketing services and complying with the legislation, and so that we may notify you on our events that may be of interest to you and/or by phone; provided you have given your consent, under the specific conditions set by the legal framework. The interested party may unsubscribe from the list of newsletter recipients whenever they wish and the data entered for the above purpose are deleted.
Website visits tracking
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track users’ interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people who use our website and to better understand how users find our website. Although GA records data such as geographic location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information is used to personally identify you.
Cookies
Cookies are separated into permanent and Session Cookies. The permanent ones remain on your hard drive after you finish your visit, memorizing a wide range of information that is used for the next visit. Session cookies are only used to identify that you are entering the site. Those are erased immediately after you leave the website. Cookies do not cause damage to users’ computers or to the files stored on them. In the browser settings, the visitor/user may choose to prevent their browser from accepting new cookies or being asked each time a new cookie is to be installed on their hard drive. However, the visitor/user should be aware that if they choose to prevent cookies from being stored on their hard drive, they will not be able to use certain services. Our primary goal is to continuously upgrade the navigation experience of visitors to our website. In order to achieve this and to meet your every need, we use data that are exclusively related to your preferences when you browse our website. Third party vendors, third parties, advertisers or advertising servers may place or recognize unique cookies in your browser. The use of cookies by such third-party advertisers or advertising servers is not subject to this particular Policy, but is subject to the respective privacy policies of thοse third parties. You may opt out of such use of cookies by third-party vendors by visiting the opt-out page of the Advertising Network Initiative.
Personal Data Breach
In the event of a personal data breach, the controller of data processing shall promptly and, if possible, within 72 hours from the moment they become aware of the incident, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority, unless the personal data breach is not likely to pose a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
Information security
During your visit to our website, information may be automatically collected in the server logs such as the IP address (internet protocol address) of your computer. Device event information, such as any outages, system activity, device settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and the referral URL. We encrypt many of our services by using SSL and use cloudflare for security and protection against spambots. We control data collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to protect against unauthorized access to systems. Access to personal information is limited only to employees and partners of Branding Heritage who need to know this information in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual obligations of confidentiality and may be subject to disciplinary proceedings if they do not meet those obligations. With respect to third-party data processors, we use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These have been carefully selected and are all compliant with the legislation.
Changes to the privacy policy
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. You can request us to delete the personal data we keep about you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security reasons.