Privacy policy

This privacy policy explains how Simpraxi gia tin Athina “Athens Partnership”, with its registered office at Anaxagora 3-5, Athens, 105 52, (“AP” or “we”) processes personal data.

We collect, use, and process your personal information in accordance with actual data protection legislation. This includes but is not limited to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and applicable national data protection legislation.

Your personal data are usually obtained directly from you. In this case, you provide your personal data on a voluntary basis. As a visitor to www.athenspartnership.org, you will remain anonymous. The data we store and analyze are used only for statistical purposes, in order to continually improve our website and its content. The data stored in our records is the internet provider you use, the website from which you visited our website, the individual pages of our website you were browsing, your IP address and the date and the duration of your browsing on the Site.

For what purposes are personal data processed?

AP processes your personal data as needed for the following purposes:

(i) Provision of services – this includes the delivery of digital content (legal basis: processing necessary for contractual performance or for the implementation of measures taken before a contract is concluded);

(ii) Processing payments – this includes the maintenance of donations and payments, together with payment processors (legal basis: processing necessary for contractual performance);

(iii) Marketing activities – this includes the delivery of personalized content, targeting of advertising or the sending of newsletters, provided we have obtained your prior consent (legal basis: legitimate interest);

(iv) Determination and enforcement of AP‘s legal claims (legal basis: legitimate interest);

(v) Compliance with legislation.

What kind of personal data do we process?

  • Name, surname, job title, company and industry, country of residence;

  • Address, telephone number, and email;

  • Records of communication with you either by phone, email, social media or in any other way.

When do we collect data?

All data that we receive is obtained directly or indirectly from you when you choose to use our services. This includes the following situations: 

  • When you subscribe to our newsletter;

  • When you browse our website;

  • When you interact with us via social media platforms;

  • When you send us your CV to apply for a work opportunity'

  • When you register to our events;

  • When you participate in a contest (eg, on social media platforms).

Who do we share personal data with?

In order to provide you with the services you request, your personal data may be provided to:

(i) Selected employees of AP;

(ii) Service providers – those ensuring provision of the services provided by AP, in particular software services providers, marketing providers, customer service providers, and distributors of marketing and other materials such as newsletters, including employees of such entities;

(iii) Tax advisors, professional advisers (e.g. auditors, lawyers), including employees of such entities;

(iv) Entities providing payment services;

(v) Social media providers – using the services of AP together with a social network may require AP to share your personal data with social media providers. 

Data recipients for information that AP is obliged or entitled to notify by contract, law, court and regulatory decision may include public and independent administrative authorities, judicial authorities and civil servants

AP will not disclose, exchange, grant or otherwise make available without your consent to third parties, natural or legal persons, your personal data, except in the cases referred to above, within the scope of mandatory national laws.

How long is your data retained?

We keep your data for the period of time necessary to fulfill the purposes of processing as defined above; however, this data will be erased, when you stop interacting with AP (i.e. after delivery of a particular service, unless AP has a legitimate interest in keeping the personal data longer (for example to protect AP’s legal claims). This would be the case if AP had a legal obligation to keep your data for a longer period of time (for example, based on applicable accounting rules), or in cases where applicable law obliges us to keep such records for a longer period.

Is your personal data secured?

In accordance with best practices, we apply security measures to protect your data, against inadvertent or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against unauthorized access. AP stores information related to data protection only to servers located in Greece. A minimum of authorized persons and persons committed to improving data protection involved in technical, administrative or editorial supervision of data can access this data.

Website cookies

AP may use cookies to enable or facilitate the transmission of a communication between AP and its website users. These cookies, if you have chosen to accept them, based on your own computer configurations, are small text files that are stored locally in the web browser cache of the person visiting the page.

Data relating to the behavior of users to our website is collected anonymously for use for marketing and optimization purposes. The data will not be used for personal identification of a visitor and will not be collected together with personal data. Data collection and storage can be discarded at any time for subsequent services.

You can configure your computer's browser in such a way that it either alerts you to the use of cookies in specific fields of this website or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case.

What are your rights?

Regarding your data, you have the following rights:

(i) Recall consent to the processing of your data;

(ii) Unsubscribe from subscribed contact lists and no longer receive email, telephone calls from us;

(iii) To request access to your data in order to review, correct, update or delete your personal data, as well as to restrict its processing.

However, in the above cases your right to delete or restrict processing is applicable only if AP is not required to process it on another legal basis (i.e. compliance with a legal obligation) or in order to protect AP’s legitimate legal interests.

If you wish to exercise your rights above or have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact the administrator by email at: info@athenspartnership.org

The information that AP is required to provide to you regarding the processing of your personal data may change over time or become outdated. For this reason, AP reserves the right to modify and change these conditions at any time, in which case the policy on this website will be updated.