GENERAL
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website www.olympismculture.com, owned by “K.O.I.N.S.E.P. OLYMPISM – CULTURE CENTRE KOSTIS PALAMAS'” hereinafter referred to as “the company,” implies your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy for the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user should carefully read the contents of this page before using our website’s internet services. If you do not agree, you should leave and NOT use any of the services and content. This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with the legislation or developments in the field. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website about these changes. Instead, we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Continuing to use the website www.olympismculture.com, even after any changes to the Privacy Policy, signifies your unconditional acceptance of these terms on your part.
Protection of Personal Data: We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose your personal data in any way. If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have the consent of your parents before using the services of this website.
In addition to our internal information technology systems, this website has been designed to comply with the protection of user personal data in accordance with the following laws/regulations: EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 (DPD) EU General Data Protection Regulation of 2018 (GDPR) Personal Information Collected by this Website and Why We Collect It This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Website Visit Tracking
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser, and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor that is compliant with European law. Contact Forms and Email Links In case you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transmitted or processed by any third party. Translate to English: “Third-party data processing entities”, as defined below in the section ‘Third-Party Data Processors,’ will not receive this data. Instead, this data will be sent to us via an email message using the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol. Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS security protocol (sometimes known as SSL), which means that the content of the email is encrypted before being sent over the internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
About Cookies
What is a cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting exclusively of a series of text information that the website transfers to the web browser on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily throughout your visit or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember 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 web browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain from which it originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and 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: Session Cookies – These are temporary cookies that remain in your device’s cookie file only during your visit and are deleted when you close your web browser.
Persistent Cookies
These remain in your device’s cookie file even after you close your web browser, sometimes for a year or longer (the exact duration depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your website customisation preferences).
First-Party Cookies
This is about 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 a unique identifier code to you in order to track your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies for managing visits and identification purposes.
Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to various websites where they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
Cookies on this website and how to manage them: On this website, we use cookies to enhance the user experience for our visitors.
Disabling or not accepting the use of cookies will significantly affect the functionality of the website. Below are details regarding third-party cookies used on this website, including how to disable them and the impact of disabling them on the website’s functionality. For more information on managing certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit the address: www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics service cookies are performance analysis/monitoring cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can inform us about the number of visitors to the website, the time and duration of their visits, and also provide information about how visitors navigate various parts of the website.
This information helps us improve the functionality of our website.
It is anonymous and does not contain personal data.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.
For more information about the Google Analytics service, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
You can disable tracking from the Google Analytics service by clicking on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en=GB.
If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website.
The functionality of the website will not be affected.
Cookies from Video Service Providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos on our website.
Cookies from Social Networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our website by clicking on one of the “Share” buttons. If you disable these cookies, the “Share” functionality will not be available. Regarding the server of this website: All internet traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred using the HTTPS protocol with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). We use a number of third-party data processors to process personal data on our behalf. These processors have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned in this text.
Data breaches
For all your personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to ensure their security. We will report any unlawful breach of this website’s database or any third-party data processing database to all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach, provided that it is apparent that personal data stored in recognisable form has been stolen.
