Privacy & Cookies Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

 

A few words about website

The domain https://www.echmes.gr/ is the website of ECHMES. The personal data you give us during your visit at our website or your sign in to our services (creation of a user account with name, email, telephone and free text) are processed and are kept in a record under the Company’s responsibility.

Who are the recipients of your Data?

The recipients of your Data are the strictly necessary personnel of the Company, which is committed to confidentiality, and the cooperating with us companies which offer IT services, accounting services, telecommunication companies and public and private tender bodies, process your Data as Data Processors on our behalf and based on our instructions.

When do we erase your Data?

We delete the Data you have submitted to your user account according to the terms of our agreement, in combination with the applicable tax, labor and special legislation on the protection of personal data and consumer protection, based on the purpose of the processing, then make it anonymous, destroys them or delivers them to you.

Are your Data safe and secure?

We commit to safeguard your Personal Data. We have taken all the appropriate organizational and technical measures to secure and protect your Data from any form of accidental or fraudulent processing. Please note that our staff is also committed with the respective confidentiality clauses. These measures are reviewed and amended when deemed necessary.

What are your rights?

The Company protects and secures your rights of your personal data (access/ rectification/ erasure/ portability/ restriction/ objection). To exercise your rights you can send us a request to the Company’s email address echmes@ehmes.gr providing a description of your request and we will forward you the application form of “Exercise of Rights” .

We will reply to your requests for free without delay, and in any case within (1) one month after we receive your request. However, if your request is complex or you submit a large number of requests, we will notify you within one month in case we need to take another two (2) months extension, within which we will respond back to you. In case of no response, you can contact the Hellenic Data Protection Authority for matters concerning the processing of your Personal Data (postal address: 1-3 Kifisias, PC 115 23, Athens, tel. 210 6475600, e-mail address e-mail: contact@dpa.gr).

We update this Policy whenever necessary. If there are any significant changes to the Policy or the way we use your Data, we will notify you by posting those changes on a visible place to our website, before the changes come into force, in any other appropriate manner. We encourage you to read this Policy on a regular basis in order for you to be aware on the way your Data are protected.

 

Cookies Policy

 

1. What is cookies?

Cookies are small text files of data that are stored on your computer or other device when you visit a website. They are used to operate the website you are visiting and provide additional functionality (such as user identification, remember preferences).

2. Why are cookies used on this site?

The website uses only the necessary cookies for its basic functions, such as:

  1. website appearance and user preferences storage (e.g. choice of language / colors, search results presentation)
  2. user protection, (eg cookies that detect repeated failed attempts to enter a user’s account),
  3. load balancing.

Third parties also place cookies on behalf of this site for collecting statistics on website traffic and the way visitors use it.

3. Which cookies does this site install?

This site uses the following cookies:

Name of Cookie Description of functionality       Origin Preservation Time
Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid, _gali)

They collect information on how visitors use the site and their storage time length is set by Google. The information is collected in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the origin of the visitors and the pages visited within the site. These are covered by Google’s Policy.

        Google As defined at Google’s Policy
4. How can I control Cookies?

All web browsers allow you to manage cookies, and you can decide whether to delete cookies as soon as you complete your visit to the website or define your preferences before starting your navigation. Please note that if you choose to reject or delete cookies the website functionality may be impaired (e.g. some function may not be fully available). You may find more information about your web browser to the following links:

If you decide to completely deactivate Google Analytics for every website you visit and not just for this one, follow the relevant link.

5. Where can I get further information about cookies?

Further details about the use of Cookies, as well as about the way they are restricted or rejected, you may find in the websites below:

 
6. Is this policy likely to change?

This policy may be modified at any time and the current one is always the most recent version. We suggest you regularly refer to this page, which is effective since 15/03/2019.

Note

The Company is not responsible for the references from this Policy to external websites, for their content and services, which the Company cannot control nor adopts, as well as for any damage may result from their use, as the visitor has access to them at his/her own risk.