PRIVACY POLICY – GDPR
"www.kostasgold.com" is the online store for the exhibition and sale via the Internet of the products of the company "Angelos Aslanidis" with the distinctive title "kostas Aslanidis" (hereinafter "the Company", based in Thessaloniki, Egnatia Street, no. 128, box 54622, Greece, VAT number 062841390, D.O.Y D' Thessaloniki).
The specific website and the transactions carried out are designed and addressed to a general audience of adults and in any case to persons aged at least 16 years, but again an order may be rejected in accordance with the legislation on the protection of minors depending on the type and amount of the requested transaction.
Any use of the Company's website and any transaction carried out through it, presupposes the user's prior consent to the following conditions. The Company maintains a retail store, the address of which is listed on this website in a separate field. It is noted that the Company reserves the right to unilaterally modify or renew these terms and conditions of transactions, provided that the modified terms will be previously posted on its website. Any such modification does not affect orders placed prior to the posting of the new terms.
The names, images, logos and distinctive features that represent the Company and/or its online store and/or third parties contracted with them as well as its products or services are exclusively trademarks and distinctive features of the Company and/or and the above third parties and are protected by Greek, Community and international laws on trademarks and industrial and intellectual property and unfair competition. In any case, their appearance and display on the Company's website should in no way be taken as a transfer or assignment of a license or right to use them.
Website terms of use and privacy policy statement
The use of the online page and services of the website www.kostasgold.com (hereinafter "website") of the "Company", "We", "Us") by the visitor/user presupposes his unreserved agreement with the conditions stated therein .
Please read the terms of use of our Website carefully before using it. These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you signify your acceptance of these Terms of Use.
- Website User Suitability
The website is provided by the Company and is available to both legal entities and natural persons over the age of 16, who can enter into legally binding agreements within the framework of applicable legislation.
If you do not meet the requirements, you may not use the website.
- Personal data protection policy
The security and privacy of Personal Data are a high priority for the Company. The purpose of this Privacy Policy and Personal Data Security Statement is to explain how and why we use and process your Personal Data and to inform you about our privacy practices. Please read it carefully.
This Personal Data Protection Policy has been created in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter "Regulation") of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 for the protection of natural persons against the processing of personal data and for the free movement of such data. Through this Personal Data Protection Policy, we inform you about what information (hereinafter "Personal Data") we collect from you, why it will be used, with whom we will share this information as well as what security procedures we have implemented to protect of Personal Data.
Personal Data means information that can be linked to your identification as a natural person. Processing is the performance of any task or set of tasks on Personal Data, including: a) collection, registration or retention of data, b) organization or modification of data, c) retrieval, search or use of data, d) disclosure of data to a third party (including publication) e) delete or destroy the data.
Your Personal Data is processed for specified, explicit and legal purposes and is not further processed in a manner incompatible with these purposes (Article 5 par. 1b of Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
- Processing Principles We Follow
Having the protection of Personal Data and the information that We manage as our main concern, we adopt a detailed Security and Protection of Personal Data Policy with the aim of:
- Ensuring the trust of our customers, employees and suppliers
- The protection of information and Personal Data that we process
- Our compliance with the Regulation on security and data protection
In this context, when processing Personal Data, we follow the following basic principles:
3.1 Lawfulness, Objectivity and Transparency: We collect your Personal Data exclusively and only in a fair, legal and transparent manner. We process your personal data lawfully and lawfully and maintain complete transparency with you in relation to the way in which we manage it.
3.2 Purpose limitation: We collect and process your Personal Data only for specified, express and lawful purposes as stated in this policy and do not further process it in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
3.3 Data minimization: We limit the collection of your Personal Data to only that which is directly relevant and necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. We process your Personal Data, only to the extent that it is suitable and relevant for the above purposes, at the same time limiting the relevant processing to the measure necessary for these purposes.
3.4 Accuracy: We make reasonable efforts, and with your assistance, so that the Personal Data being processed is accurate and, when necessary, updated in relation to the purposes of the processing, taking all reasonable measures for immediate deletion or correction them in case of inaccuracy.
3.5 Retention time limitation: We retain your Personal Data in a manner consistent with applicable Personal Data protection laws and regulations and for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
3.6 Integrity and Confidentiality: We process Personal Data in a way that guarantees its security, including its protection from unauthorized or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction or deterioration, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.
3.6.1 We do not intend to further process the Personal Data for a purpose other than that for which it was collected.
3.6.2 Subject to what is stated in this policy, we do not disclose or pass on Personal Data to third parties without your consent, unless this is permitted by law or by contract between us.
3.6.3 We inform you that we do not transmit Personal Data to a third country or international organization, for which there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission in accordance with the GDPR.
3.6.4 We do not process your Personal Data in an automated manner, including profiling.
3.7 Accountability: We fully comply with the existing legislation and comply with all our obligations arising from it, as according to the law "responsible for the processing of Personal Data".
For the protection and security of your data, our company has defined specific roles and responsibilities within it in order to achieve the maximum possible protection of Personal Data.
- What Personal Data we collect and process
For the operation of the Company and the provision of our services, we process the following Personal Data:
Website contact form:
- Full name
- Electronic address (email)
- Phone number
- For what purposes we collect and process Personal Data
In particular, we will use your Personal Data for the following general purposes, provided you have given us your express consent:
The Company uses:
- the contact form data for the purpose of the communication.
- With whom we share Personal Data
We keep the Personal Data we collect from you confidential. We will not sell, rent, trade or lease your Personal Data to others. We do not disclose Personal Data that we collect about You, except as described in this Privacy and Security Statement or in separate notices provided in connection with specific activities.
We may disclose Personal Data about You:
6.1) if we are requested to do so pursuant to a legal provision or legal process.
6.2) to law enforcement or other government officials based on a lawful request for disclosure
6.3) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent personal injury or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity and
6.4) To the Personal Data Protection Authority, in the event of a breach of Personal Data.
6.5) We also reserve the right to transfer Personal Data we hold about You in the event that we sell or transfer all or part of our business or assets (including in the event of reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).
6.6) We may share Personal Data with our partners, employees or agents who perform services on our behalf based on our instructions, subject to the necessary confidentiality commitments to protect the Personal Data
- How long we store Personal Data
Our policy focuses on minimizing the processing time of Personal Data. In other words, we make sure to delete your data if the processing purpose has been fulfilled. However, many times the existing legislation as well as our legal interest force us to comply with them. In any case, we take care of the security of Personal Data and its protection.
- We will keep your Personal Data obtained from the contact form for 2 years, after which it will be deleted
- Your rights regarding the protection of Personal Data.
The Regulation provides you with the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge and based on what is provided for in the legal framework:
8.1 Right of access: to be informed about which Personal Data we have collected from You and are being processed by Us, their origin, the purposes and legal basis of their processing, any recipients or categories of recipients of the Personal Data.
8.2 Right to correct any inaccurate Personal Data of yours to make it accurate.
8.3 Right to complete any incomplete Personal Data of yours so that it becomes complete.
8.4 Right to delete your Personal Data in the following cases:
8.4.1 When the Personal Data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed,
8.4.2 Where you withdraw your consent on which the processing of Personal Data was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing,
8.4.3 When the Personal Data was processed without the existence of the necessary legal basis,
8.4.4 When the obligation to delete Personal Data is provided by law.
8.5 Right to restrict the processing of Personal Data, in the following cases:
8.5.1 When you dispute the accuracy of Personal Data and until such accuracy is verified by Us,
8.5.2 When instead of erasure, you request restriction of processing of Personal Data,
8.5.3 When We no longer need the Personal Data for the purposes of processing, but are required by You to establish, exercise or support legal claims
8.6 Right to object to the processing of Personal Data, unless there are compelling and legitimate reasons for the processing, which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or support of legal claims by Us.
8.7 Right to portability: to receive the Personal Data we have collected from You in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller
8.8 Right to withdraw consent (without retroactive effect) you have given at any time.
For more information regarding the conditions for exercising your rights, as well as your right not to be subject to automated decision-making processes, you can contact the Data Protection Officer directly at info@kostasgold.com to exercise your rights, as well as for any other information. The request to exercise the rights is free of charge, unless the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
- How you can file a complaint
In case you consider that the protection of Personal Data is affected in any way, you can appeal to the Personal Data Protection Authority: Kifisias 1-3, P.O. 115 23, Athens, www.dpa.gr, tel.: +30 2106475600, email: contact@dpa.gr
You also have the right to appeal to the competent judicial authorities for the protection of Personal Data.
- Contact
You can contact us at the following address:
Angelos Aslanidis, Thessaloniki, Egnatia street no. 128, Greece, t.k. 54622, tel.: +30 2310 227200 or via email: info@kostasgold.com
If you have any questions regarding the processing of Personal Data, if you wish to exercise any of your rights, or submit a complaint regarding your Personal Data, you can contact our Data Controller either by phone or by letter at our address marked Attention Data Controller or email: info@kostasgold.com
- Use of Cookies
The website may collect identification information of its users using corresponding technologies, such as cookies and/or the tracking of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of each visitor/user and do not take notice of any document or file from their computer. They are used to facilitate the access of the visitor/user regarding the use of specific services and/or its pages, for statistical reasons and in order to determine the areas which are useful or popular.
These data may also include the type of browser used by the visitor/user, the type of computer, its operating system, internet service providers and other such information. In addition, the website's information system automatically collects information about the locations visited by its visitor/user and about the links to third-party websites that may be selected through its use.
The visitor/user can set his web browser in such a way that it either warns him about the use of cookies in specific services or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies under any circumstances. In the event that the visitor/user of the specific services and pages does not wish to use cookies for his identification, he cannot have further access to these services.
The website includes links to other websites which are under the responsibility of third parties (natural or legal persons). In no case is it responsible for the terms of protection of personal data which these websites follow.
For more detailed information, see the cookies section of the website.
The website www.allaboutcookies.org offers good and simple instructions on how to manage cookies, using different types of internet browsers.
At http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ you can learn about behavioral advertising and how you can opt out of seeing such ads.
- Limitation of Liability – Disclaimer
The content of the website is provided "as is" and makes no warranty, express or implied, regarding the completeness, correctness, timeliness, merchantability, non-infringement or suitability of such content for any use, application or purpose.
The Company, under any circumstances, including the case of negligence, is not responsible for any form of damage suffered by the visitor / user of its pages, services, options and contents which he proceeds on his own initiative and with the knowledge of these terms. It also does not guarantee that the pages, services, options and contents will be provided without interruption, without errors, that errors will be corrected or that all questions put to it will be answered. Likewise, it does not guarantee that any other related website or the servers through which the content is made available to visitors/users are provided without viruses or other harmful components.
- Use of links on third party websites (links)
The website provides access to third party websites through appropriate links. The links in question have been placed exclusively for the convenience of its visitors/users, while the websites to which they refer are subject to the respective terms of use of these websites. The inclusion of links does not constitute an endorsement or acceptance of the content of the respective websites by its operator, who is not responsible for their content or the privacy practices or accuracy of the materials contained therein. If its visitor/user decides to use, through its links, one of the third party websites, he accepts that he does so at his own risk.
- Applicable Law and Other Terms
The above terms and conditions of use of the website, as well as any modification or change thereof, are governed by national law, Community law and relevant international treaties. Any provision of the above terms that is found to be contrary to the above legal framework or becomes invalid, automatically ceases to be valid and is removed from this, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms. This constitutes the overall agreement between the website administrator and the visitor/user of its pages and services and only binds them. No modification of these terms shall be considered and shall not form a part of this agreement unless made in writing and incorporated herein.
For any communication with the administrator of the website or if you have found any problems with the content related to legal or ethical issues, especially regarding its reproduction and the use of intellectual property rights, please contact us at the address: Angelos Aslanidis, Thessaloniki, street Egnatia no. 128, Greece, t.k. 54622, tel.: +30 2310227200 or email: info@kostasgold.com
- Other information you should know
These Website Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement were revised and published by the Company as of 12/2022. We may, at our sole discretion, revise the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy at any time (each version is effective upon posting). Changes to the Privacy Policy will apply to information collected as well as existing information held by us from the date the revised version is published.
Competent courts for any disputes arising from matters concerning your personal data are the Courts of Thessaloniki.
If you have any questions about the terms used in this Policy or about Privacy and Personal Data Protection please contact the Company at +30 2310 227200 and at the email address info@kostasgold.com.