Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
GENERAL
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website www.realgreekdairies.gr owned by “Real Greek Dairies S.A.” hereinafter “the company”, presupposes your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy for the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If you do not agree, you should leave it and NOT use any of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change from time to time according to legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website about these changes. Instead, we recommend that you periodically check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Continuing to use the website www.realgreekdairies.gr even after any changes to the Privacy Policy signifies your unconditional acceptance of these terms.
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 old, you MUST have the consent of your parents before using the services of this website.
Relevant Legislation
In addition to our company’s internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the protection of users’ personal data with the following laws/regulations:
- EU Directive on Data Protection of 1995 (DPD)
- 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 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 website, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the site. While GA records data such as your geographical location, your device, your internet browser, and your operating system, none of this information makes you personally identifiable 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 it. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor that is compliant with European legislation.
Contact forms and email links
If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link on our website, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website, or transferred or processed by any third-party data processors, as defined below in the “Our Third-Party Data Processors” section. Instead, this data will be sent to us via an email message over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) security protocol, meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent over the internet. The content of the email is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
About cookies
What is a cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a series of information in text format, which the website transfers to the web browser program located on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily for the duration of 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 program and contains some anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain from which the cookie 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 the cookie file of your device’s web browser only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close the web browser program.
- Persistent cookies
These remain in the cookie file of your device’s web browser even after the web browser program is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact duration depends on the lifetime 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 customization preferences).
- First-party cookies
These are cookies installed on the web browser program and/or the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identification code to you for tracking your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for 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 are advertised. 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 improve the user experience of the website visitors. The functionality of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies. Below are details regarding third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the impact of disabling them on the functionality of the website. If you want more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics service cookies are performance/analytics 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 access, and also provide information about visitors’ navigation throughout the various points of the website. This information helps us improve the functionality of our website. They are anonymous and do not contain personal data. Information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred and stored on Google’s servers according to 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 Google Analytics service by clicking on https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpa ge/gaoptout?hl =en=GB. If you disable these cookies, your usage of the website will not be counted, nor will the statistical data we collect to improve the services we provide through the website be used. 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 provided by them on our website as an external service. If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.
Cookies from Social Networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our website with them by clicking on one of the share buttons. If you disable these cookies, the “Share” functionality will not be available.
About the server of this website
All internet traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Our Third-Party Data Processors
We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These processors have been carefully chosen to comply with the legislation referred to in this document.
Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database of any third-party data processor to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach, if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.