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INFORMATION OF OBLIGATION ACCORDING TO THE Art. 13 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data

Protection of your data is important for us!

At Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos, accessible from www.hfaistos.eu, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos and how we use it.

As of the legal background, it serves mainly the Act No. 18/2018 of the Digest on Personal Data Protection and on Amendments to Certain Regulations (hereinafter only „Act on Personal Data Protection“) and the REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter only “GDPR”).

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our owned media platforms with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos.

Personal Data Operator

Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos

Registered office: Tsiller 61, 11144 Athens, Greece

Organisation ID: E10195233

Tax registration number: 090159656

Legal Representative: Andreas Stefanidis

Contact details

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at info@hfaistos.eu, or call the phone number: +30 2103313690 or visit us personally in our office at the above address.

Consent of the person concerned

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The organization obtains the consent of the person concerned freely, without pressure and enforcement, as well as without conditional on the threat of rejection of the contractual relationship, services provided or obligations arising for the operator from legally binding acts of European Union, international contract the Hellenic Republic is bound by or the law.

Consent is granted separately for each purpose of personal data processing.

The person concerned is entitled to withdraw the consent at any time, in the same form as the consent was granted.

The company respects the privacy and considers the personal data provided to be confidential.

Personal data will be processed:

    With the consent of person concerned for the purpose of: registration on the website; filling in of the contact form/questionnaire; for profiling activities based on an analysis of your search habits and preferences; marketing activities and newsletter.

    Without the consent of person concerned for the purpose of: cooperation with a judicial or other state authority; when it is required by the special legislation; for safety reasons; for legitimate interest of the company;

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

    Provide, operate, and maintain our website

    Improve, personalize, and expand our website

    Understand and analyze how you use our website

    Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

    Communicate with you directly to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes

    Send you emails

    Find and prevent fraud

Conditions and methods of processing the personal data of the persons concerned

In its information systems, the organization processes the personal data of persons concerned with partly or fully automated and non-automated processing means.

The company does not publish the personal data processed, unless required by special legislation or decision of the court or other state authority.

The company will not process your personal data without your express consent or without any other legal basis for another purpose or in the extent, bigger than stated in this information and record sheets of the individual information systems of the provider.

Cookies & Social Media

Like any other website, Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

The majority of internet browsers accept cookies; however, the visitors have the possibility to cancel them or deny automatically. Since every browser is different, the visitors can set their preferences regarding cookies individually, using the browser toolbar. If you decide not to accept cookies, you will not be able to use certain functions of our web site.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.

The organization can be contacted also by means of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The purpose of data management is to share the content of the organisation’s website.

By means of Facebook page the visitors can find out about news, current special offers and also view photos from selected initiatives and events. By clicking “like” on Facebook page of the organization, the subjects agree that the company can post its news and offers on their message board. These data of the natural persons are published only with their prior written consent. Further information about data management of Facebook page, LinkedIn page and Twitter profile can be found in the Manual and Rules of the personal data protection at www.facebook.com, www.linkedin.com, and twitter.com

Transfer of personal data to third countries and international institutions

The company does not transfer personal data to third countries and international institutions.

Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult the Privacy Policy for each of the partners of the Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos, for whose we share content through our owned media platforms.

Third-party servers or networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Third Party Privacy Policies

The Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Information for persons under 18 years old

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children and teens while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

The Educational Association of Athens Hfaistos does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from persons under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

The organization hereby informed you, as person concerned, about the protection of your personal data and instructed you about your rights in relation to the protection of personal data within the extent of this written Information Obligation.