Privacy Policy - GDPR

The "www.venetiavildiridis.com" is the online store of exhibition and distribution via the Internet of the products of the Greek companies "VENETIA APOSTOLOU VILDIRIDI JΕWELERY – ASIMICAL ANONYMOUS COMPANY" and "STELLA APOSTOLOU VILDIRIDI HOROLOGY ANONYMOUS COMPANY" (now jointly called "Company", both based in Kifisia Attica, 19 Kassavetti Street, Greece (VAT Number 099536680 for the first and 998158672 for the second, both subject to the Athens Tax Office) These terms are common and concern both companies. the transactions carried out are designed and addressed to a general adult audience and in any case to persons at least 16 years of age, but an order may still be rejected in accordance with the legislation on the protection of minors depending on the type and amount of the transaction requested.

Any use of the Company's website and any transaction made through it requires the prior consent of the user as to the following terms. The Company maintains retail stores, the addresses of which are listed on this website in a separate field. Please note that the Company reserves the right to unilaterally modify or renew these terms and conditions of transactions, provided that the amended terms have previously been posted on its website. Any such modification shall not affect orders placed prior to the posting of the new terms.

The names, images, logos and distinctive features representing the Company and/or its online store and/or third parties contracted with them as well as their products or services are exclusive trademarks and distinctive features of the Company and/or the above third parties and are protected by Greek, Community and international trademark laws and industrial and intellectual property and unfair competition. In any case, their appearance and exposure on the Company's website should in no way be regarded as a transfer or assignment of a license or right to use them.

 

Website terms of use and privacy policy statement.

The use of the web pages and services of the Website www.venetiavildiridis.com & shop.venetiavildiridis.com (hereinafter "website") of the company VENETIA VILDIRIDIS (hereinafter "Company", "We", "Us") by the visitor / user, presupposes his unconditional agreement with the terms stated.

Please read the terms of use of our Website carefully before using it. These Terms of Use regulate your access to and use of the Website.

By accessing the Website or using it, you declare that you accept these Terms of Use.

1. Website user suitability

The website is provided by the Company and is available to both legal entities and individuals over 16 years of age, who may enter into legally binding agreements under applicable law.

If you do not meet the conditions, you may not use the Website.

2. Privacy Policy

Security and privacy of Personal Data are a high priority for the firm. The purpose of the present Declaration of Personal Data Protection and Security Policy is to explain how and why we use and process your Personal Data as well as to inform you about our privacy practices. Please read it carefully.

This Personal Data Protection Policy has been created in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter "Regulation") of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. Through this Personal Data Protection Policy, we inform you about which information (hereinafter "Personal Data") we collect from you, why it will be used, with whom we will share this information, and which security procedures we have applied for the protection of Personal Data. 

Personal Data is the information that can be associated with your identification as a natural person. Processing is the execution of any work or set of work in Personal Data, including: a) collecting, recording or maintaining data, b) organizing or modifying data,c) retrieving, searching or using data, d) disclosing data to a third party (including publication), d) deleting or destroying data.

Your Personal Data is processed for defined, explicit and legal purposes and is not further processed in a manner incompatible with these purposes (Article 5 par. 1b of Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

3. Principles of Processing we follow

Having as a primary concern the protection of the Personal Data and the information we manage, we adopt a detailed Personal Data Security and Protection Policy aiming to:

• Ensuring the trust of our customers, employees and suppliers

• The protection of information and Personal Data we process

• Compliance with the Regulation on security and data protection issues

In this context, when processing Personal Data, we follow the following basic principles of:

3.1 Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency: We collect your Personal Data solely in a fair, legal and transparent manner. We subject your personal data to lawful and fair processing and we keep full transparency towards you regarding the way we handle them.

3.2 Purpose limitation: we collect and process your Personal Data only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, as listed in this policy and we do not subject them to further processing in a way incompatible with these purposes. 

3.3 Minimizing Data: We limit the collection of your Personal Data only to what is directly relevant and necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.  We process your Personal Data only to the extent that it is appropriate and relevant to the above purposes, while limiting this processing to the measure necessary for those purposes.

3.4 Accuracy: We make reasonable efforts and with your help, in order for the Personal Data under processing to be accurate and, where necessary, updated in relation to the purposes of the processing, taking all reasonable steps for the immediate deletion or correction in the event of inaccuracy. 

3.5 Limitation of retention time: We keep your Personal Data in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations regarding the protection of Personal Data and not for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been collected. 

3.6 Integrity and Confidentiality: We process Personal Data in a manner that ensures their security inter alia, their protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures. 

2.6.1 We do not intend to further process the Personal Data for a purpose different than that for which it was collected.

2.6.2 Subject to what is stated in the present policy, we do not disclose and transmit Personal Data to third parties without your consent unless permitted by law or by our contract. 

2.6.3 We inform you that we do not transmit Personal Data to a third country or international organization, for which there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission in accordance with the Regulation EU 2016/679.

2.6.4 We do not take decisions which may have a significant impact on you, including profiling, in an automated manner (decision making exclusively using electronic system without human involvement) 

3.7 Accountability: We fully abide by the applicable legislation and comply with all of our obligations arising therefrom as resulting from the "Data Controller" law. 

In order to protect and secure your data, our company has defined a security plan, policies, procedures, technical and organizational measures, as well as specific roles and responsibilities for its personnel in order to achieve maximum protection of the Personal Data We process for You.

 

4. Which Personal Data we collect and process

For the operation of the Firm and the provision of our services, we process the following Personal Data: 

Website contact form:

• Name

• Email Address

• Telephone number

Newsletter:

• Email Address

Website account creation form - Eshop:

• Name

• Email Address

• Telephone number

• Shipping - address details

 

• 5. For what purposes we collect and process Personal Data

In particular, we will use your Personal Data for the following general purposes, provided you have given us your explicit consent:

The Company uses: 

• the data of the contact form for the purpose of communication.

• the newsletter subscription data for the purpose of sending newsletters

• to complete your order through the eshop we maintain.

 

6. Who we share your Personal Data with

We keep the Personal Data we collect from You in confidence. We are not to sell, rent, market or lease your Personal Data to others. We do not disclose any Personal Data we collect for You except for the cases described in this Declaration of Personal Data Protection and Security Policy or in separate notices provided in relation to specific activities.

We may disclose Personal Data relating to You:

6.1) To comply with the applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence. 

6.2) To comply with a legal provision or legal procedure.

6.3) When we believe that disclosure is necessary or appropriate for the prevention of bodily injury or economic loss or in connection with investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity

6.4) To the Personal Data Protection Authority, in the event of an occurrence of Personal Data breach.

6.5 We also retain the right to transfer Personal Data in the event that we sell or transfer all or part of our Firm or assets (including cases of reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).

6.6) We may share Personal Data with partners, employees, or representatives who provide services on our behalf under our guidelines, including collaborating private insurance companies, doctors, health care providers, third-party healthcare providers, etc., with the necessary confidentiality pledges to protect Personal Data.

 

7. For how long we store Personal Data

Our policy focuses on minimizing the processing time of your Personal Data. In other words, we make sure to delete your data if the processing goal has been performed. Many times, however, current legislation and our legitimate interest require that they be kept. In any case, we ensure the security and protection of Personal Data. 

• We will retain your Personal Data that comes from the contact form for 2 years and then it will be deleted.

• We will retain your Personal Newsletter subscription information until you request your deletion from this service.

 

8. Your rights with respect to the protection of Personal Data.

The Regulation gives you the following rights, which you can exercise free of charge and based on what is set out by the legal framework:

8.1 Access right: be informed about which personal data we have collected from You and are processed by Us, their origins, the purposes and the legal basis for processing them, any recipients or recipient categories of personal data. 

8.2 Right to correct any inaccurate Personal Data in order to make it accurate. 

8.3 Right to complete any incomplete Personal Data in order to make it complete. 

8.4 Right to Delete your Personal Data in the following cases:  

8.4.1 When Personal Data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, 

8.4.2 When you withdraw your consent on which the processing of Personal Data has been based and there is no other legal basis for the processing,

8.4.3 When Personal Data has been processed without the necessary legal basis, 

8.4.4 When the obligation to delete the Personal Data is provided for by law.

8.5 Right to limit the processing of Personal Data in the following cases:  

8.5.1 When you question the accuracy of the Personal Data and until its accuracy is verified by Us, 

8.5.2 When, instead of deleting, you request the limitation of the processing of Personal Data,

8.5.3 When We no longer need the Personal Data for processing purposes, but are required by You in order to establish, exercise or support legal claims.

8.6 Right to object to the processing of Personal Data, unless there are imperative and legitimate grounds for processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or support of legal claims by Us. 

8.7 Rights to data portability: to receive the Personal Data we have collected from You in a machine-readable format and send them to another person responsible for processing.  

8.8 Right to withdraw at any time the consent (without retro-active effect) that you have provided. 

For more information on the conditions for exercising your rights, and your right not to be subject to automated decision-making procedures, you can contact the controller directly at info@venetiavildiridis.com for the exercise of your rights, as well as for any other information. The request for exercising the rights is free of charge unless the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

 

9. How to lodge a complaint

If you believe that the Personal Data protection is affected in any way, you may appeal to the Personal Data Protection Authority: 1-3 Kifissias Str., 115 23 Athens, www.dpa.gr. tel.: +30 2106475600, email: contact@dpa.gr  

You also have the right to appeal to the competent judicial authorities for the protection of Personal Data.

 

10. Communication

You can contact us at the following address:

VENETIA VILDIRIDIS, 19 Kassaveti str, Kifisia, 14562, Greece, Tel.: +30 2103635145 - 2103219408 -2106236617

If you have any questions regarding the processing of Personal Data, whether you wish to exercise any of your rights, or make a complaint regarding your Personal Data, you may contact our controller either by telephone or by letter to our address under the heading For Controller or at the e-mail: info@venetiavildiridis.com

 

11. Use of Cookies

The Website may collect user’s identification data using appropriate technologies, such as cookies and / or the monitoring of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of each visitor / user and do not access any document or file on his computer.

They are used to facilitate the access of the visitor / user regarding the use of specific services and / or its pages, for statistical purposes and in order to determine the areas that are useful or popular.

This information may also include the type of browser used by the visitor / user, the type of computer, its operating system, Internet service providers and other such information. In addition, the information system of the website automatically collects information about the sites visited by its visitor / user and about the links to third party websites that it may choose through its use.

The visitor / user can configure his program for Internet browsing (web browser) in such a way that either warns him about the use of cookies in specific services or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case. In case the visitor / user of the specific services and pages does not wish the use of cookies for his / her identification, he / she cannot have further access to these services.

The Website includes links to other websites which are under the responsibility of third parties (natural or legal persons). In no event is the Website responsible for the privacy policy that these websites follow.

For more detailed information, refer to the cookies section of the Website.

The website www.allaboutcookies.org offers good and simple instructions on how to manage cookies, using different types of web browsers.

At the website www.networkadvertising.org/choices/  you can find out more about behavioral advertising and how you can opt out of such ads.

12. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

The content of the website is available "as is" and does not provide any warranty, explicit or implied, regarding the completeness, correctness, timeliness, commerciality, non-infringement or suitability of this content for any use, application or purpose.

The Company, under any circumstances, including the case of negligence, is not responsible for any kind of damage suffered by the visitor / user of its pages, services, options and contents which it proceeds on its own initiative and with the knowledge of these terms.

It also does not guarantee that the pages, services, options and contents will be provided without interruption, without errors, that the errors will be corrected or that all questions asked will be answered. Likewise, it does not guarantee that any other related website or servers through which the content is made available to visitors / users are provided free of "viruses" or other harmful components.

13. Use of links to third party websites 

The website provides the possibility of accessing third party websites through suitable links. These links have been placed solely for the convenience of its visitors / users, while the websites to which they refer are subject to the respective terms of use of these websites.  The placement of the links is not an indication of approval or acceptance of the content of the corresponded websites by its administrator, who bears no responsibility for their content or for the privacy practices or the accuracy of the materials contained therein. If the visitor / user decides to use, through its links, one of the third-party websites, he accepts that he does so at his own risk.

14. Applicable law and other terms

The above terms and conditions of use of the website, as well as any modification or change are regulated by national law, Community law and relevant international treaties. Any provision of the above terms is found to be contrary to the above legal framework or becomes invalid, automatically ceases to be valid and is removed from here, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms. This constitutes the entire agreement between the administrator of the website and the visitor / user of its pages and services and binds only them. No modification of these terms will be considered and will not form part of this agreement unless it has been set out in writing and incorporated into it. 

For any communication with the administrator of the website or if you have noticed any problems in the content related to legal or ethical issues, in particular regarding its reproduction and the use of copyright, please contact us at: VENETIA VILDIRIDIS, 19 Kassaveti str, Kifisia, 14562, Greece, Tel.: +30 2103635145 - 2103219408 -2106236617 or at the e-mail: info@venetiavildiridis.com

15. Other information you need to know

This Personal Data Protection Policy has been reviewed and published by the Firm since 09/2022. We may, at our absolute discretionary power, revise the Personal Data Protection Policy at any time (the particular version becomes effective as soon as it is published). Changes to the Personal Data Protection Policy will apply to the information collected, from the date of publication of the revised version, as well as to the existing information we hold.