Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information can be collected, stored, and used:
- Information related to your computer, including your IP address, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.
- Information about your visits and use of the website, including the external source, duration of the visit, page views, and navigation path on the website.
- Information such as your email address, which you enter when filling out our contact form.
- Information, such as your name and email, which you enter for sending emails and/or newsletters.
- Information you enter when using services on our website.
- Information that arises when using the website, such as when, how often, and under what conditions you use it.
- Information contained in any communications with us via email or through the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
- Any other personal information you send to us.
Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes defined by this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We can use personal information for the following purposes:
- Management of the website and our business.
- Personalization of the website for you.
- Enabling your use of the available services on our website.
- Sending non-marketing communications.
- Sending email notifications regarding your requests.
- Sending our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter).
- Sending advertising communications, relevant to your business or businesses of specific third parties we believe may interest you, through notifications or, if you have agreed to it, via email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive advertising communications).
- Providing statistics about our users to third parties (which will not be able to identify any user from this information).
- Handling requests and complaints you have made or that are related to your website.
- Maintaining the security of the website and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with our terms and conditions for the provision of our website (including monitoring personal messages sent through our private messaging service).
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your permission.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.
We will not transfer your personal information to any third party or any third party’s commercial department without your consent.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- As required by law.
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- For the establishment, exercise, or defense of our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
- To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Furthermore, as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International Data Transfers
Your information may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have equivalent data protection laws to the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You explicitly agree to the transfer of data described in this section.
Retention of Personal Data
This section defines the process and policy of retaining personal data designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
Personal data processed for any purpose will not be kept for longer than necessary for that purpose.
Despite other provisions in Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- As required by law.
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- For the establishment, exercise, or defense of our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
H. Security of Your Personal Data
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal data you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website are protected by our encryption technology.
You acknowledge that data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password confidential. We will not ask for your password (except when you log into our website).
I. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your Rights
You can request to provide you with any personal information we hold. Provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
You can ask at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third-party websites. We cannot control and do not take responsibility for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Information Update
Please inform us if the information we have about you needs updating or correction.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server and stored by a web browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user, while a session cookie will expire at the end of the user’s session when the browser is closed.
Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user, but your personal data that we maintain may be linked to data stored or retrieved from cookies. We only use session cookies or persistent cookies on our website.
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and their purposes are defined below:
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Expiry |
| Google Analytics |
For monitoring website usage and providing detailed analytics data |
2 years |
| Facebook |
For monitoring website usage and providing detailed analytics data |
3 months |
| Contact Form 7 |
To remember the details of your contact form |
1 month |
| YouTube |
For embedding and playing videos from YouTube on our website |
Varies depending on the video |
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- We use Google Analytics and AdWords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s functionality / analyze website usage / manage the website / protect against fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / target ads that may interest specific users / describe the purposes;
- Most web browsers allow you to refuse cookies—for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling settings found by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and “Advanced”;
- In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by entering the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
- You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you will need to manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies”; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by entering the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
- Deleting all cookies will have a negative impact on the functionality of many websites.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding the Privacy and Cookies Policy or if you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, please contact us at the following address:
Association of Friends of the Rehabilitation Clinic for Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries of the University General Hospital of Patras
Phones: +30 2613 603143
Email: info@sfikapatras.com