Privacy Policy

GENERAL

The use of the web pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website annamariavasilaki.com, owned by “VASILAKI ANNA MARIA,” hereinafter referred to as “the company,” requires your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy regarding the protection of personal data on this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If they do not agree, they should leave it and NOT make any use of the services and content of this site. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time according to legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our customers or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Continued use of the annamariavasilaki.com website, even after any changes to the Privacy Policy, means your unconditional acceptance of these terms.

Protection of Personal Data

We collect and process your personal data only when 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 your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.

Relevant Legislation

Along with our company’s internal information systems, this website is designed to comply with the following data protection laws/regulations:

  1. EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 (DPD)
  2. EU General Data Protection Regulation 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 Traffic Monitoring

Like most websites, this site 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 monitor their journey through the site. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, web 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 provide us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor compliant with European legislation requirements.

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 transmitted or processed by any third-party data processor, as defined in the section “Our Third-Party Data Processors.” Instead, this data will be sent to us by email via the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS security protocol (sometimes known as SSL), meaning that email content is encrypted before being sent over the internet. The email content is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

About Cookies

What is a cookie?

A “cookie” is a small data file consisting exclusively of a series of text information that the website transfers to your web browser’s cookie file on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily during your visit or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the cookie type. Cookies perform various functions (for example, distinguishing you from other visitors to the same site 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. Typically, a cookie contains the name of the domain it came from, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value (usually a randomly generated unique number).

Types of Cookies

The main types of cookies that may be used by websites are described below:

  • Session Cookies

    These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.

  • Persistent Cookies

    These remain in your browser’s cookie file even after the browser is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact duration depends on the cookie’s lifetime). Persistent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or site customization preferences).

  • First-party Cookies

    These are cookies installed by the website you are visiting and involve assigning a unique identifier code to you to track your navigation on the site. Website administrators often use first-party cookies for visitor management and recognition 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

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the button above. This will allow you to revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately. Additionally, different browsers provide different methods for blocking and deleting cookies used by websites. You can change your browser settings to block/delete cookies. Below are links to support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics cookies are performance/analysis cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies inform us about the number of visitors to the site, the time and duration of access, and provide information about how visitors navigate different areas of the site. This information helps us improve how our site works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data. The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred and stored on Google’s servers under Google’s privacy policy. For more information about Google Analytics, please click here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. If you disable these cookies, your use of the site will not be counted or used in the statistics we collect to improve our services. The website’s operation 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 provided 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 with them by clicking one of the embedded “Share” buttons. If you disable these cookies, the “Share” function will not be available.

About This Website’s Server

All web traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transmitted via HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Our Third-Party Data Processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These entities have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned in this document.

Data Breaches

For any personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to ensure its security. We will report any unlawful breach of this website’s database or the database of any third-party data processor to all directly affected individuals, as well as to the relevant authorities, within 72 hours of the breach, provided that it is evident that identifiable personal data has been stolen.