PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy statement

PressiousArvanitidis appreciates your visit to our website and your interest in our products. At PressiousArvanitidis, your right to privacy and the protection of your personal data is our primary concern. We want you to feel comfortable when you visit our site. By accessing or using the PressiousArvanitidis website, you agree to our Legal Terms as described hereinbelow.

Please note that this privacy statement only applies to our websites. It will cease to apply when you follow links to third party webpages and websites.

Cookies

This website may use cookies that help to collect information about your visit and your preferences that are completely related to the visit of our website and are not transferred to other websites that you may browse. A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a website you visit and helps the website remember information and makes your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Cookies (i.e., remarketing tags, Teracent cookies, marketing pixels) are used for the easier and faster connection to our site in future visits, for search preferences, to make the ads you see more relevant to you, to measure the visitors of the website, and to help you sign up for our services and protect your data. The cookies of our website are completely safe for your files, as they cannot read information from your device.

This website may use remarketing tags for advertising purposes. “Remarketing” means that another party / third party vendors may place our ads on other sites on the web. The aforementioned vendors may use cookies to provide you with ads based on your previous visit to our website. If you would like to opt out of the use of Google cookies, you can visit http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can also opt out of the use of cookies by third parties on the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. This website may use the Teracent (Dynamic Advertising) cookie. You can opt out of the Teracent cookie on the Teracent opt-out page at http://www.teracent.com/about-us/opt-out. This website may also use Double Click’s pixel remarketing. If you would like to opt out of double click cookies, you can visit the DoubleClick opt-out page at http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb#dislplayOptOut.

Data system protocol and storage of IP addresses

The use of our website leads to the automatic recording of technical data in order to ensure the reliability of the operation. Said data cannot lead to a specific person. They include, for example, the IP addresses of the communication computer, the date and time, the requested pages and files, the type and version of the browser, and the operating system. These data are anonymized and analysed exclusively for statistical purposes.

Newsletter

If you have given your explicit consent, we will use your e-mail address as well as your personal data in order to send you newsletters at regular intervals. To receive our newsletter, it is enough to indicate an e-mail address (email). Additional voluntary information about you is only used to personalize the newsletter.

At the end of each newsletter, you will find a link where you can unsubscribe at any time. You can revoke your consent at any time by clicking on the link provided in each e-mail of the newsletter or by sending a “DELETE” e-mail to [email protected]. Therefore, there are no costs other than postage or shipping costs according to the basic rates.

Personal Data

In some cases, i.e., when ordering printed material, PressiousArvanitidis may provide you with a form where you will be asked to fill out information about you. Your participation in these activities is completely optional.

PressiousArvanitidis uses and stores personal data exclusively for the intended purposes within the company and shall not transmit or sell any personal data to third parties. Personal data will only be passed on to third parties following your explicit consent or when necessary for the performance of a contract (e.g., when a provider needs your address to deliver goods). The applicable legislation on personal data protection will be complied with from a technical and organizational point of view. If you have given your consent for the transfer of your data to third parties, you can revoke said consent at any time with effect for the future.

Your personal data will only be used for marketing purposes if you have given your prior consent, if this is in accordance with the requirements of the law and provided you have not revoked your consent.

Security

PressiousArvanitidis recognizes that your personal data and security are paramount, and we have worked hard to ensure that your privacy is protected. In order to ensure high safety standards, we use technical and organizational security measures. Our security measures are constantly updated as new technology is available.

Employees’ privacy policy

PressiousArvanitidis, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a “data controller”.

PressiousArvanitidis is committed to ensuring the protection of the privacy of the personal data we collect about our candidates, our current and former employees (“you” or the “employees”) for management, human resources and payroll purposes.

As an employee of PressiousArvanitidis (or prospective employee), you understand and acknowledge that we collect, use and disclose your personal data before, during and after your employment with us in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Employee Privacy Policy (this “Policy”). This Policy may be updated at any time.

It is important that you read this Policy along with other policies we may provide in certain cases where we collect or process personal data about you so that you know how and why we use said data.

1.Application of this Policy

This Policy applies to the personal data of employees and to the management of said personal data in any form – orally, electronically or in writing.

This Policy implements PressiousArvanitidis’ commitment to protect your personal data that will be processed by PressiousArvanitidis with which you have, have had or are likely to have an employment contract, for the purposes set out in Section 3 hereinbelow.

This Policy is intended to describe the widest range of personal data processing activities and always in accordance with the requirements of local applicable law. If you accept this Policy, you grant, to the extent required by local law, your express and written consent to the processing of the personal data you provide to PressiousArvanitidis.

Principles regarding the Protection of Data

We shall comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Regulation states that the personal data we retain about you must be:

  1. Used fairly, legally and transparently.

  2. Collected exclusively for the valid purposes that we have explained to you and must not be used in any way incompatible with these purposes.

  3. relevant to the purposes to which we have already referred and be limited only to said purposes.

  4. accurate and up to date.

  5. retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes to which we have already referred

  6. stored safely.

  1. Types of Personal Data we Process

The term “personal data” in this Policy refers to information that identifies you or may identify you as an individual. The types of personal data we process include:

  • name, gender, home address and telephone number, date of birth, photograph, biometric information, marital status, contact numbers in case of emergency

  • details relating to residence and work permit status, military status, nationality and passport

  • social security number or other taxpayer’s number, bank account details

  • information on sickness benefits, pensions, insurance and other benefits (including gender, age, nationality and passport details of any spouses, minor children or other dependent persons and beneficiaries)

  • date of recruitment, date/s of promotion, employment history, technical skills, educational background, professional certifications and registers, language skills, attendance of educational programmes

  • height, weight, clothing size, photograph, physical limitations and special needs

  • record of absences from work, leave and leave requests, payroll history, performance evaluations, letters of recommendation, disciplinary proceedings and grievances (including monitoring and observance PressiousArvanitidis’ policies)

  • where permitted by law and depending on the work performed by an employee or to be performed by a prospective employee, the results of credit and criminal record checks, the results of drug and alcohol tests and the initial examination for choosing an employee, health certificates, driving license number, car registration number

  • information required in order to observe compliance with the law, as well as requests made and orders given by law enforcement authorities or the courts (e.g., child support or debt payments)

  • findings about PressiousArvanitidis policies, including those relating to conduct and ethics and/or conflict of interest and policies regarding the use of computers and other company resources

  • information received from security systems, including CCTV, timekeeping and other security and technology systems, to the extent permitted by applicable law

  • voicemails, emails and other work products and messages created, stored or transmitted by an employee using PressiousArvanitidis’ computers or communications equipment (although messages exchanged using PressiousArvanitidis’ equipment between personal addresses are processed only to the extent permitted by applicable law)

  • date of resignation or dismissal, reason for resignation or dismissal, information on termination of employment (e.g., warnings) and

  • any other relevant data that may be necessary to comply with the purposes of PressiousArvanitidis.

Most of the personal data we process is information that you have knowingly provided to us. However, in other cases, we process personal data that we are able to deduce about you from other data you provide us with, or data inferred during our transactions with you, or personal data about you that we receive from third parties using a process you have been made aware of.

In some cases, the personal information you provide or we collect is considered Sensitive Personal Data and is subject to the privacy policy legislation. Within the framework of this law, “Sensitive Personal Data” is defined as personal data, from which we can identify or deduce information such as a person’s racial or ethnic origin, his/her political beliefs, religious or other related beliefs, his/her trade union or professional association membership, his/her physical or mental health or condition, his/her genetic data, his/her sexual life or forensic data (including information relating to the commission or alleged commission of a criminal offense). We only process Sensitive Personal Data within your jurisdiction if and to the extent permitted by applicable law.

  1. Use of Personal Data

In accordance with applicable law, we may collect, use and disclose personal data about employees for the following purposes:

  • evaluate job applications and make a decision regarding their recruitment or placement.

  • ensure their working capacity and check that they have a legal right to work in Greece.

  • manage all matters relating to an employee’s employment, including, but not limited to, payroll, benefits, company travel and other reimbursable expenses, development and training, absenteeism monitoring, evaluation of disciplinary proceedings and complaints, and other general management and human resources

  • develop human resources and succession plans

  • keep disease records

  • gather evidence for possible protests or disciplinary hearings

  • protection of the security of PressiousArvanitidis’ clients, staff and assets (including controlling and facilitating access to and monitoring activities in secure areas and activities involving the use of PressiousArvanitidis’ computers, media and other resources)

  • Investigate and address claims against PressiousArvanitidis, its staff and clients

  • conduct employee opinion polls and manage employee recognition programmes

  • dismiss and provide and maintain warnings

  • retain emergency contact details and beneficiaries (including retainment of data by PressiousArvanitidis for the people you name), and

  • comply with applicable law (e.g., health and safety) including court or administrative decisions concerning individual workers (e.g., foreclosures or support payments).

There are CCTV cameras in operation in and around our premises and in our other areas, which may be used for the following purposes:

  • to prevent and investigate crimes

  • to protect the health and safety of PressiousArvanitidis’ clients and staff

  • to manage and protect the property of both PressiousArvanitidis and its personnel, clients and other visitors; and

  • for quality assurance purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We may monitor internet usage and communications in accordance with applicable law. We may retain specific personal data of employees after the termination of their employment with us for any remaining areas of the purposes set out hereinabove. We will retain such personal data only for as long as is required and, in any case, for the maximum period allowed by applicable law.

Unless otherwise specified, all personal data we request from you is mandatory. If you do not provide and/or allow us to process all the personal data required, we will not be able to retain complete information about you and this will, therefore, affect our ability to achieve the purposes set out hereinabove.

  1. Data Protection Authorities

According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the personal data we retain about you must be:

  1. Used fairly, legally and transparently.

  2. Collected exclusively for the valid purposes that we have explained to you and must not be used in any way incompatible with these purposes.

  3. relevant to the purposes to which we have already referred and be limited only to said purposes.

  4. accurate and up to date. It is important that the personal data we retain about you is accurate and up to date. Please inform us if your personal data change during the course of your employment.

  5. retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes to which we have already referred

  6. stored safely.

  1. Disclosure of your Personal Data

General

To achieve the above purposes, your data will be disclosed for the aforementioned purposes to the personnel of the human resources department, to managers, consultants and other suitable persons in our offices.

Our Agents, Service Providers and Vendors 

Like most companies, from time to time, we outsource certain functions and/or the processing of certain data to third parties. Please note that when you apply to us for a job online, you may be redirected to a third-party website with which PressiousArvanitidis has a contract for the processing of your personal data on our behalf. When we outsource the processing of your personal data to third parties or provide your personal data to third party service providers, we oblige such third parties to protect your personal data in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Policy, using appropriate security measures. 

Legal Requirements

We reserve the right to disclose any personal data we have about you in the event that this is so requested by a court or a government authority or in the event that we deem it necessary or desirable in order to comply with the law or to protect or defend our rights or property in accordance with applicable law. We also have the right to keep the personal data collected and to process them in order to comply with the rules and regulations concerning accounting and taxation as well as the special laws on records retention. 

  1. Information or Access to your Personal Data

With a few limited exceptions, you may request to be informed about the personal data we retain about you by sending us a written request by post or e-mail to the address specified in Section 9 hereinbelow. Please make sure you include your name, title of your present (or last) job position and place of work at PressiousArvanitidis, as well as a copy of a document proving your identity (such as an identity card or passport) in order to verify your identity and the personal data we keep about you. We are not permitted to disclose data that you are not entitled to receive under applicable law (e.g., data that discloses information about another person).

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with such requests.

If you submit more than one requests in a short period of time, we may respond to the most recent request by referring to our previous response and identifying only the data where substantial changes have taken place.

You have the right to request the correction, erasure or termination of the processing of your personal data retained by us for legal reasons, by sending us a written request by post or by e-mail to the address specified in Section 9 hereinbelow. If we agree that said information is incorrect or that processing should be stopped, we will delete or correct it. If we do not agree that the data is incorrect, we will inform you of our disagreement and we will record the fact that you consider said data to be incorrect in the relevant file or files.

  1. Protection of your Personal Data

The personal data we collect from you is stored by us and/or our service providers in databases protected by a combination of physical and electronic means of access control, firewall technology and other reasonable security measures. However, such security measures are not capable of preventing all loss, misuse or alteration of personal data and we shall not be held liable for any damages or liabilities associated with any such event, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Where required by law, we will notify you of any such loss, misuse or alteration of personal data that may affect you so that you can take appropriate action to legally defend your rights.

  1. Changes to this Policy

The date of entry into force of this Policy is mentioned at the end of this document. We reserve the right to update this policy at any time and we shall notify you when we make substantial changes. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.

  1. Request to Access Personal Data, Questions or Complaints

If you have any questions about this Policy regarding the reported processing of your personal data, or concerns or complaints about the management of the Policy or if you would like to make a request (as described above in Section 6) to access your personal data retained by us, please contact us:

  • for present and former employees and candidates, contact PressiousArvanitidis’s Human Resources Officer at [email protected].

All requests for access to your personal data must be made in writing, by letter or e-mail. We will respond to your request by letter, e-mail or any other appropriate means of communication.

Use of GoogleAnalytics

This site uses Google Analytics for online advertising. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place ads on our Website. Our Website and third-party vendors, including Google, use the first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to update, optimize, and display ads based on previous visits of certain users on our website. Our Website and third party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to indicate how our ad impressions, and interactions with these ad impressions are related to the visits to our website. Google interest-based ad data or data exchanged with third parties (such as age, gender, and interests) is used in conjunction with Google Analytics to display ads on selected sites.

Google Analytics Terms of Service and Privacy Policy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html.

Information, erasure, corrections and communication

You have the right to be informed about your stored personal data at any time and you have the right to correct or erase it. In the event that we store data due to legal obligations, your data may not be deleted. Please contact the Personal Data Protection Officer if you have questions about the collection, processing and use of your personal data, if you need information about the data or if there is a need to erase or correct your personal data.

Personal Data Protection Officer

If you have any further questions on the security of your personal data, please contact the Personal Data Protection Officer of PressiousArvanitidis:

T 216 100 5 251

E [email protected]οus.com.