1. We or the Company under the name M P ALEXOPOULOS LTD, with Tax Registration Number [•], having its registered offices in [•] Athens, with the distinctive title “al2”, (hereinafter referred to as “al2”) are responsible for the collection and processing of personal data of the Users of this website. The collection and processing of personal data is governed by EU and Greek law and in particular by the EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), as well as by the corresponding Greek Law No. 4624/2019, as well as by the relevant decisions, guidelines and regulations of the Data Protection Authority. The processing of personal data consists of operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, restriction, erasure or destruction of personal data.
2. al2 is committed to making sure that your privacy is protected. Our Data Protection Policy explains how we collect, process, use and disclose personal information through our website, through marketing emails and social media platforms, in providing our products to our clients and in dealing with our service providers. This Policy describes:
i. What personal information we collect about you
ii. How we obtain your personal information
iii. How we use your personal information
iv. How long we keep your personal information
v. Who we share your personal information with
vi. On what basis we use your personal information
vii. How we protect your personal information
viii. Cookies
ix. Your rights regarding your personal information
i. What personal information do we collect about you?
3. We may collect personal information from you when you contact us or apply for employment or obtain information about this website and / or our products. When we refer to “personal information” in this Policy, we mean any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. We collect the following kinds of personal information:
3.1. Information that you provide by completing forms on this website (such as requests for offers, quotations etc.) or when you contact us for information. This includes your contact details such as name, job title, employer (company, firm or organization), e-mail address, phone numbers and postal address, as well as business interest information such as types of information you are interested in receiving and practice areas of interest and financial information, such as payment-related information
3.2. Details of your visits to this website, including requested web pages, forms, search requests and terms, publications and other resources that you access. We automatically record your page requests when you visit our website and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) click stream to, through and from our website, as well as your IP address. Our website also uses cookies for which please see section under (viii) below.
3.3. Information that you provide in applying for a position with us, such as through our website. This includes your contact details such as name, e-mail address, phone numbers and postal address, information about the position for which you are applying, information included in your CV and other information collected through our recruitment process.
3.4. Information that we receive from you or from others in relation to our provision of services and supply of products to our clients.
3.5. Information that we receive when you interact with us via social media platforms such as LinkedIn or Twitter.
3.6. Any other information relating to you which you may provide to us
ii. How we obtain your personal information
4. We obtain your personal information in the following ways:
4.1. We collect information from you in the course of providing our services and products to you
4.2 We collect information about you when you provide it to us;
4.3. We collect information about you when you apply for employment;
4.4. We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date using publicly available sources
iii. How we use your personal information
5. We use personal information that we collect about you in the following ways:
5.1. To provide our products and services to our clients.
5.2. To evaluate your user experience and improve the quality of our services.
5.3. To provide website content that is relevant and engages our clientele
5.4. To protect our information technology systems and data against fraud, unauthorized use and security threats.
5.5. If you join one or more of our mailing lists or request information from us, we will use the personal information you provide to send you the information you have requested.
5.6. If you register for an event, we will use your information for purposes of fulfilling your request.
5.7. To send you information (such as specifications of any products, brochures, news, events etc.) in which we believe you may be interested.
5.8. To receive services from our service providers and administer our relationship with them.
5.9. To enforce our contractual and other rights.
iv. How long we keep your personal information
6. Your personal information will be retained for as long as required for the purpose for which the information is collected and used, taking into account legal and regulatory requirements to retain the information for a minimum period, limitation periods for taking legal action and al2’s business purposes. The period for which we keep your personal information is determined by a number of criteria, including our legal and regulatory obligations, the purposes for which we are using the information, the amount and sensitivity of the information, and the potential risk from any unauthorized use or disclosure of the information.
v. Who we share your personal information with
7. Unless you have given us your consent, we will not disclose your personally identifiable information outside al2 except for third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf or where we are required to do so by law or where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights. In particular, we disclose your personal information:
7.1. To third parties as necessary in providing services to our clients.
7.2. To companies who provide services to us, such as hosting and other information technology services as well as to the companies we cooperate for the transfer and delivery of the products
7.3. In order to comply with applicable law and regulation, a legally binding request from a governmental or regulatory body or law enforcement agency, or any other legal obligation to which we are subject.
7.4. In order to detect or prevent fraud.
7.5. To enforce our contractual and other rights.
vi. On what basis we use your personal information
8. We use your personal information on the following bases:
8.1. To perform a contract, such as engaging with an individual to provide our products and services
8.2. For the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or proceedings
8.3. To comply with legal and regulatory obligations
8.4. For legitimate business purposes
8.5. For carrying out the obligations and exercising the rights in the field of employment and social security legislation, in accordance with applicable law
8.6. If we have your consent, where this is required
8.7 Our legitimate interest in improving the experience of visitors to our website
vii. How we protect your personal information
9. We use a variety of technical and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws. We employ multiple technology and security solutions to safeguard our networks and data. We limit access to your personal information to only those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
9.1. However, the transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our website.
viii. Cookies
10. Most websites which you visit use cookies in order to improve user’s experience. They enable websites to “remember” you – either for the duration of your visit (using a “session cookie”) or for repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). Cookies can have a host of different functions. They let you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website does not use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site.
10.1. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and collect information and details of our visitors’ behaviour patterns in order to obtain statistics on the number of visits and the popular pages of our website. On our website we use strictly necessary cookies, analytics cookies, and third-party cookies (Google analytics, social media plug-ins). We use two cookie categories: Session cookies (temporary cookies), which remain on your device until you leave our website and Persistent cookies (permanent cookies), which remain on your device for a longer period of time or until you delete them. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
10.1. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or other device (e.g. notebook, tablet, smartphone, etc.) while navigating the website. We use cookies to remember your settings for certain tools provided on this website and to provide us with information about how visitors use this website. More information on cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
10.2. You can choose whether to accept or refuse most cookies on our website. Some cookies are necessary for our website to function, which means that we will need to set them if you want to use our website.
10.3. You can also disable cookies by activating the setting on your browser. For information on how to disable and/or clear cookies, on your device please follow the instructions in the links below:
a. Internet Explorer (IE)
b. Google Chrome
c. Safari (desktop)
d. Safari (mobile)
e. Firefox
However, if you select this setting some features of our website may not function properly.
10.4. We use essential cookies that are necessary for the basic functionality of our website. An essential cookie remembers a given user as they browse our site. For example, essential cookies keep track of what page a user is on, or from what account a user is accessing your site. Essential cookies and strictly necessary cookies are the same, and these necessary trackers are used any time you navigate our website.
10.5. Further, we use analytics cookie in order to track and analyze user behavior, site owners and operators.
ix. Your rights regarding your personal information
11. The General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable data protection legislation provide certain rights for data subjects. You are entitled to request access to the information we hold about you. You also have the right in accordance with applicable data protection law to request the rectification or erasure of your personal data, the restriction of our processing of that data, to object to the processing as well, in some circumstances, to ask that your personal information be transmitted to another organization. You also have the right to lodge a complaint in relation to al2 processing of your personal information with a local supervisory authority.
11.1. If you object to the processing of your personal information, or if you have provided your consent to processing and you later choose to withdraw it, we will respect that choice in accordance with our legal obligations. Withdrawal of previously given consent will have effect for the future and will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent until the time of its withdrawal.
11.2. Your objection (or withdrawal of any previously given consent) could mean that we are unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out in this Policy. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent we may be able to continue to process your personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with exercising and defending our legal rights or meeting our legal and regulatory obligations. To exercise your rights and withdraw your consent, you may contact us.
12. We regularly review this Data Protection Policy. Any changes will be reflected within an updated version available on our website.