1.Who we are
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) set out below will govern the protection and processing of your personal data that is collected or submitted, by using the website www.lawyerkaralla.com (the “Website”) (regardless of where you visit it from).
The Website is owned and operated by Theodosia Karalla , a lawyer registered in Rhodes Greece .
Please read this Policy carefully. By submitting your acceptance on the relevant notifications posted on the Website, you are deemed to have read, understood, agreed to and consented to the Policy.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
2.Controller
Any information (including personal data) submitted to the Website by a user, will be handled by us and transmitted to us.
3. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Data retention: How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
4. Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
5.Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
6.Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
7.Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
8.Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
9.How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
10.What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
11.Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
12. Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. You can view our cookie policy below.
13.Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
How is your personal data collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions: You may give us your name, surname, telephone, email by contacting us through the post, telephone, e-mail or through any other means. This. This includes personal data you provide when you communication with us.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies. Please see our cookie policy below for further details.
- Third parties or publicly available sources: We will receive personal data about you from various third parties such as analytics providers.
14.DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above:
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
15. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
In case we do transfer your data outside of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least that we use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
16. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
17. CHANGES TO THE POLICY
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to make changes to any part of this Policy. Should this Policy be ammended, we will publish details of the ammendments on the Website and we will post a notice on the Website to request your acceptance of the ammended Policy.
18. THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
19. SEVERABILITY
If this Policy or any part of it should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any country in which this Policy is intended to be effective, then to the extent that it is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall in that country be treated as severed and deleted from this Policy and the remaining terms of this Policy shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable in that country.
20. EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL
We are not be responsible for any breach of this Policy caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
21. PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 16
The Website is a general audience website that is not designed nor intended to collect personal data of persons under the age of 16. Persons under the age of 16 should not provide any personal data on this Website. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.
22. THE RIGHTS OF WEBSITE USERS WHO SUBMIT PERSONAL DATA THROUGH THE WEBSITE
If you submit or have already submitted to us, personal data about you through the Website, then you have the following rights under this Policy and the relevant legislation on the protection on personal data.
You may at any time cancel the consent you have given us to process your personal data:
You may at any time send us any of the following requests:
- A request for us to permanently delete all or some of your personal data from our records.
- A request for you to access your personal data that are in our records.
- A request for us to provide you with a copy of your personal data that are in our records, in digital or hard copy form.
- A request for us to update or correct your personal data that are in our records.
- A request for us to forward to another party of your choosing, a copy of all or some of your personal data that are in our records.
- A request for us to limit what we do with your personal data or to stop all processing of your personal data.
- If you wish to exercise any of the above rights or if you wish to notify us of a breach of your personal data you will be able to do so by contacting us at any of the following:
Address: Maritsa Rodos Greece
Tel: +30 22410 09080
Email: info@lawyerkaralla.com