A. Intorduction

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1. The website https://spyrakopoulos.gr, hereinafter referred to as "the Website", is managed by the sole proprietorship "Spyrakopoulos Sotirios" (Ioannou Foka 64, 111 42 Athens), hereinafter referred to as the "company", which is the Data Controller of your personal data collected during your visit to the Website, i.e. all information that identifies you as a person or can identify you directly or indirectly.

2. 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.

3. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy during your first visit to the website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

4. Please address any question/request regarding your personal data collected by our website to the Data Protection Officer at dpo@spyrakopoulos.gr

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B. Collection of personal data

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The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

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• Information about your computer including your IP address, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.

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

• Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the website.

• Information that you enter when creating your profile on our website—for example, your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, your personal status, your interests and hobbies, information about your education, and information about your employment.

• Information, such as your name and email, 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 when using the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.

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

• Information that you share with the website with the intention of publishing online, which includes your username, your profile information and the content of your posts.

• Information contained in any communication you have with us by email or through the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.

• Any other personal information you send us.

• Before you disclose any personal information of a third party, you must have that person's consent to the sharing and processing of their personal information, in accordance with this policy.

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C. Usage of personal data

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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 your personal information for the following purposes:

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• administering the website and business

• personalizing the website for you

• enabling you to use the services available on our website

• delivering goods you purchase through our website

• providing services you purchase through our website

• sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, as well as collecting payments from you

• sending you non-promotional communications

• sending you email notifications about your requests

• sending you our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter)

• sending you promotional communications, related to your business or the businesses of certain third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by means of notifications or, if you have agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive advertising communications)

• providing statistical data of our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this information)

• managing requests and complaints submitted by you or relating to your website

• maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud

• confirming compliance with the terms and conditions of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our private online messaging service) and other uses.

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If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your authorization.

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Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.

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We will not share your personal information without your consent with any third party or any third party business unit.

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D. Sharing personal data

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We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, underwriters, or professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

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We may share your personal information with any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries and affiliates, our holding company and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

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We may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent required by law

• in connection with any current or future legal proceedings

• for the establishment, exercise or defence of our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)

• to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business assets that we are selling (or considering selling) and

• to anyone we reasonably believe may be required by law to disclose information if we believe that the relevant authority requires the disclosure of such personal information.

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In addition, as set out in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to any third party.

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E. International transfer of data

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The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the 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 laws to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.

The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

You expressly consent to the transfer of temporary data described in Section E.

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F. Personal data preservation

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Section F sets out our personal data retention policy and procedure, which is 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 F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data

• to the extent required by law.

• if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any legal process in force and

• for the establishment, exercise or defence of our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)

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G. Personal data safety

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We will take the necessary precautions at a technical and organizational level 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 financial transactions carried out on our website are protected by our encryption technology.

You accept 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 website).

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H. Updates & modifications

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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.

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I. Your rights

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You can ask us to provide you with any information we hold about you. The provision of such information is subject to the provision of sufficient identification details. For this purpose, we usually accept a photocopy of an Identity Card or Passport together with a sworn statement at gov.gr

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

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for advertising purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly accept in advance the use of your personal information for advertising purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to exclude your information from use for advertising purposes.

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Please address any question/request regarding your personal data collected by our website to the Data Protection Officer at dpo@spyrakopoulos.com

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J. Third party websites

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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.

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K. Update your information

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Please let us know if the information we have about you needs updating or correction.

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L. Cookies

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Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by 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 expiration 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 do not usually contain information that can identify the user, but the personal data we hold about you may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies. We use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

 

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purpose of their use are defined below:

We use Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, as well as the Meta Platforms pixel (Facebook, Instagram) on our website to:

• recognize a computer when a user visits the website

• identify users while navigating the website

• enable the use of a shopping cart on the website

• improve the functionality of the website

• analyze the use of the website

• administer the website

• protect against fraud and improve the protection of the website

• personalize the website for each user

• target advertisements that may be of interest to specific users.

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We also use the following cookies that are necessary for the normal operation of the website as follows (cookie name, purpose, duration):

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XSRF-TOKEN, security reasons, session

hs, security reasons, session

svSessio, use for registered users, 12 months

SSR-caching, site origin system indication, 1 minute

_wixCIDX, System audit and debugging, 3 months

_wix_browser_sess, system audit and debugging, session

consent-policy, cookie banner configuration, 12 months

smSession, Registered user identification, session

TS*, security and fraud protection, session

bSession, system performance measurement, 30 minutes

fedops.logger.X, system stability/performance measurement, 12 months

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Below are links to instructions for configuring cookies in some popular browsers:

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