Last updated on January 2022
- Introduction
Welcome to “https://aristotlespaths.com/“.
We are a group of people that launches day trips in Eastern Halkidiki in order to get you acquainted with the cultural heritage and flora of our place. We created this website to offer you our costumer services in a quick and easy manner. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible costumer service in a friendly environment. For this reason, we may ask you to provide us the essential information to communicate with you effectively or to book a reservation to one of our day trips.
At ‘Aristotle’s Paths’ the protection of your personal information is a major concern for us. Hence we implement all the appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we collect from you and the way we process them when you visit our website and use our services. Therefore, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to find out more about the reasons we need them, how that information is used and what rights you have regarding your personal information.
- Basic Definitions
The term “Personal Data” refers to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person whose identity can be verified directly or indirectly, such as name, email address, telephone number, Internet Protocol (IP) address, etc.
Some Personal Data is considered not only personal but also sensitive, which due to its nature needs special protection, such as data on health, religious, political, philosophical beliefs, etc.
The term “Personal Data Processing” refers to any operation which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
The “Data Controller” is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing Personal Data.
- Data Controller
The website “https://aristotlespaths.com/” belongs to the sole proprietorship under the name “Politimi……….” and the distinctive title ‘Aristotle’s Paths’, with VAT number…., with headquarters in Stratoniki Halkidiki, e-mail: aristotlespaths@gmail.com and telephone number: +30 6993347321 which is responsible for collecting and processing your personal information. The business, collects , keeps and processes only the information that is considered absolutely essential to fulfill its purposes and ensures the maximum possible privacy protection.
- Information That We Collect About You
In principle, we collect only the essential personal data provided from you to communicate with you for specific questions, queries, concerns, or if you want to book a track for one of the activities we offer, through our Contact or Booking Form, email or phone. In these cases you will be asked for your name, email address and a telephone number. In addition, we will collect personal information that you may provide us in the text that you might send us. You may also provide us with more information on medical conditions or your dietary preferences. Υour personal data are accessible only to the employees of our business who aim at your immediate service.
Also, when you access and navigate our website, we may automatically collect personal information such as your protocol(IP) address, operating system, duration and time of access to our website, so that we can improve our customer services and facilitate your navigation on our website. For further information, we encourage you to read our Cookies Policy.
In principle, personal data of children under 15 are not collected. Should we become aware that personal data concerning children have been collected, we will immediately delete them. Exceptionally, we may collect personal data of children only with the explicit consent of their parents or legal guardians.
Your personal data will be shared with third parties only with your explicit consent or if requested by judicial or police authorities under strict conditions.
- Purposes of collecting Personal Data
The aforementioned data are required in order to communicate effectively with you, to answer your questions and concerns, to book the tracks you may requested from us and to appropriate operate and improve our website. All information collected from you is on the basis of your consent and you may withdraw it at any time.
Exceptionally, we may collect medical data with your explicit consent so that we can provide you with the appropriate medical treatment or take the appropriate actions.
Should you book a track, we will contact you and provide you with additional information about the day trip as well as inform you about the suitable equipment that you need to bring.
- Social Media
This website contains links to easily access to Social Media Platforms (facebook, instagram). Social media providers are solely responsible for the security, quality, content, and use of your personal information when you browse their websites. We cannot control or intervene in these websites. Therefore, the business cannot hold responsible for any errors, misleading content and the processing of your personal information from them. We encourage you to read their Terms of Use and Privacy Policies, while for any issue may arise from the specific platforms we urge you to contact them directly.
- Data retention
In principle, we keep your personal information for the absolutely necessary time to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Once your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes that are collected, they will be destroyed in a secure way. In general, this means that we retain your personal data until the time you complete your day trip, or your requests have been answered.
However, we may retain your personal information for a longer period of time if there are legal obligations that force us or if there are legal claims to protect our rights and legitimate interests.
- Your Privacy Rights
- Right to withdraw consent: You may withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- Right of Access- to Information: You may seek whether we process your personal data. In case of positive answer you may seek what types of information we have collected, whether we transfer it to third parties and the reasons we still keep them.
- Right to Rectification: You may request the correction of any inaccurate personal data we hold about you or their update.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You may request the restriction of processing your personal data.
- Right to Erasure: You may request the erasure of your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability: You may request the direct transmission of your personal data given to us to another Data Controller.
- Right to Object: You may object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation.
The aforementioned requests must be submitted in writing and may not be accepted in cases where other legal rights or obligations regarding the use, retention, or transfer of your personal data are violated. Should your request be rejected, we will immediately and adequately justify the grounds for our refusal.
We respond to your requests without delay and at the latest within one month, unless your request is particularly complicated or the number of requests is particularly high. In this case we will inform you within a month if we need to receive a two-month extension to respond to your request.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You may lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory authority, Hellenic Data Protection Authority(e-mail: contact@dpa.gr ,+30 210 6575600), in case you consider that we are processing your personal data unlawfully.
- Confidentiality and Security
To fulfill our commitment protecting your privacy, we take all the appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent the risk of loss, accidental or unlawful destruction, malicious use, unauthorized access and dissemination of your personal data. For example, we use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt our communications via email.
In case you find that your personal data have been breached, please contact us immediately. Furthermore, if we become aware of a breach of your personal information we will notify you within 72 hours.
- Changes of the Current Privacy Policy
“Aristotle’s Paths” reserves unilaterally the right to modify and readjust this Privacy Policy whenever it deems necessary, while the respective changes will become effective upon posting them publicly on this website. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy, because access to and use of our website and services implies acceptance of this Policy.
- How to contact us
If you want to contact us for any questions, comments, concerns or to exercise any of your rights, please send us an email at: aristotlespaths@gmail.com or call us on : +30 6993347321 .