GDPR Privacy Policy & Compliance
GENERAL
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website www.eshops.gr presupposes your unreserved agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If you do not agree, you should leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or industry developments. We will not expressly notify our customers or website users of these changes. Instead, we encourage you to periodically check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Continuing to use the www.eshops.gr website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy means your unconditional acceptance of these terms.
Privacy
We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose your personal information in any way.
If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have your parents' consent before using the services on this site.
Relevant legislation
In addition to our company's internal information systems, this website is designed to comply with the following laws / regulations regarding the protection of users' personal data:
- EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
- EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018
Personal information collected by this site and why we collect it
This site collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Monitor site traffic
Like most websites, it uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people who use our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their progress within the site. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, your device, your web browser and your operating system, none of this information is made personally known to us. GA also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not give us access to it. We believe that Google is a third party data processing entity that complies with the requirements of European law.
Contact forms and email links
If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you provide will be stored on this website or transferred or processed by any third party data processing provider as defined below. in the section "Our third party data processors". Instead, this data will be emailed to us via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (sometimes known as SSL), which means that e-mail content is encrypted before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Electronic newsletter
If you choose to participate in our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to Mailchimp who provides us with our email marketing services. Mailchimp is a third party data processor (see our Third Party Data Processors section below). The email address you submit will not be stored in the database within the website or in any of our company's internal IT systems.
Your email address will remain in Mailchimp's database as long as we continue to use its services for our email marketing or until you explicitly request to be removed from the list. You can do this by using the unsubscribe link contained in all email newsletters we send you.
As long as your email address remains in the Mailchimp database, you will receive periodic (approximately once a month) informational emails from us.
About cookies
What is a cookie?
The term "cookie" refers to a small data file consisting exclusively of a set of textual information, which the site transfers to the web browser on your computer's hard drive, or temporarily throughout your visit. , or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, distinguishing you from other visitors to the same website or remembering certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the field from which the cookie originated, the "lifetime" of the cookie as well as a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
Types of cookies
The basic types of cookies that websites may use are described below
Visit cookies (session cookies)
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device's browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies
These remain in the cookies of your device's browser even after the browser is shut down, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the webmaster may need to know who you are for more than one visit (eg to remember your username or web site customization preferences).
First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed in the browser and / or on the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning you a unique ID to track your site navigation. Webmasters often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as e.g. social networks, to track your visits to the various sites on which they are advertised. The webmaster has no control over these third party cookies.
About the server of this site
All web traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred via HTTPS using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Our third party data processors
We use a number of third parties to process personal data about us. These bodies have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this text.
Violations of data
For all your personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to ensure it.
We will report any unlawful breach of this website or any third party data processing database to anyone and anyone directly concerned and to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, provided that the personal data that is stored in a recognizable form, have been stolen.
