With this Policy, we explicitly and thoroughly inform you of how your Personal Data (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” or “Data”) is collected, processed, used and stored. As building a relationship of trust is a cornerstone for the Company, protecting your Personal Data is a top priority for us.
Visiting our Website and using it in any way is tantamount to unconditional acceptance of the practices described in this Policy. Furthermore, the present document is inextricably linked to our Website’s “Terms and Conditions of Website Use” and to the “General Terms and Conditions of Sales” and thus – in reading and interpreting these two texts – they should be considered as a single whole. If you do not accept this Policy in whole or in part, please cease using the services provided through the Website.
1) Framework of the Personal Data Protection Policy
Personal Data are collected, processed and used in accordance with the provisions of Greek and EU law in force, including but not limited to the provisions of Law 3471/2006 “On the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy in the Telecommunications Sector”, Law 3917/2011 “On the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks”, of the European Data Protection and Electronic Communications Directive (EU-EC Directive) and Directive 2009/136/EC (e-Privacy Directive), and in particular Directive 680/2016 and Regulation 679/2016 on the protection of personal data (General Data Protection Regulation-GDPR).
This Data Protection Policy is fully in line with the provisions of Regulation 679/2016, taking all appropriate precautionary, security and safety measures and paying due diligence towards the protection of users’ Personal Data. These include, but are not limited to: providing full and detailed consent for cookies, ensuring the possibility of contacting the Controller at any time, access to a copy of the retained data, deletion of the data at any time upon request (“right to be forgotten”), pseudonymisation and/or encryption of the Data.
Furthermore, for the purposes of this Personal Data Protection Policy, all provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation are fully and strictly applicable.
Indicatively, the following terms have the following meaning:
“personal data”: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)· an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an on-line identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person,
“processing”: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction,
“consent” of the data subject: any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her,
“data controller”: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law,
“processor”: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
“supervisory authority”: an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 51 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
The Company expressly states that it is in no way responsible for the applicable terms under which the Users’ Personal Data is collected, processed and used by other websites, to which the individual user may be redirected via links from the Company’s Website.
2) Data Controller:
In accordance with the definitions of this Statement, the Controller is the company:
Name: ΔΕΣCOLLECTION
Contact telephone number: +302298043803
Email: info@des-collections.com
Address: 25th Martiou Street, Number: 0, 18020, Galatas Trizinias,Greece
3) Personal Data Collection
The Company collects, processes, uses and stores personal information that include both personal data (e.g. name, surname, address and so on, in detail below) and the financial and billing data required for the execution of the transaction (billing data, debit or credit card data, payment data, etc., similarly in detail below), as well as data on the use of the Website and Internet activity, as they result from the users’ visit to the Website. It is expressly stated that the recording of data and any general expression of interest by any user in the special registration form of our Website serves as provision of consent for the collection, processing, use and storage of the User’s Personal Data, in accordance with the specific terms set out herein. It is expressly stated that any consent given by a User may be revoked at any time, by sending the Company a written declaration of revocation, submitted either in hard copy or by email, as described explicitly below.
- What personal data do we collect, process, use and store?
- Identity Data, as provided when you register on our Website or when you place your order or when expressing interest, in particular the user’s full name and capacity.
- Communication Data, as provided (i) compulsorily during your registration on our Website, during the placement of your order or during the expression of interest, in particular the user’s telephone and e-mail address, (ii) optionally during the expression of interest for the receipt of newsletters on the Company’s newsletter.
- Financial Data, as provided upon placement of your order or upon the expression of interest or upon assignment of a specific task to us, through your payment and upon issuance of the relevant document, in particular: Tax identification number, charge and billing details.
- Demographic Data, as provided when you register at our Website or when you place your order or you assign us a task or when expressing interest for newsletters, in particular: area of residence, age.
- Profile Data, as provided upon completion of registration on our Website or upon placement of your order, or upon assignment of a specific task to us or upon expression of interest.
- Electronic identification data, for example MAC address, IP address and cookies (in detail below, Cookie Policy), collected during your browsing and the use of our services in general.
- Purposes of the collection, processing, use and storage of Personal Data:
The Company expressly declares that the above collected Data are processed only either upon your previously given freely and informed consent or for the following lawful purposes such as for the proper performance of a contractual or pre-contractual relationship (created by previous order or by assigning a certain task to us and in general related in any appropriate way to the Company’s statutory purposes), or in order to safeguard your vital interests or to fulfill our legitimate interests, namely:
- To fulfill the principal obligations arising from any contract to be signed between you and the Company.
- To fulfill the subordinate obligations arising from the above contract, such as updating the Customer of the course of task execution, provide information, any obligations arising from the bona fide principle etc.
- To handle requests in relation to the service or exercise of your legal rights.
- To be informed about what our customers like in order to ensure we are giving you the best shopping experience and in order to stay ahead of the competition.
- To ensure a more proper and safer charging and pricing procedure for the services we provide.
- To ensure the smooth operation of this Website (des-collection.com)
- To respond to your relevant requests and questions and to inform you of services provided, special offers and promotions, provided you have expressly stated that you wish to receive such updates.
- To allow traffic analysis for our Website and therefore improve and assure the quality of the services we offer.
- To support and resolve queries in relation to the provided services.
- To ensure network safety and prevent the committing of any offenses, especially cyber crime (such as fraud).
- To provide the necessary information to the competent services and authorities, when needed, in compliance with the legal procedures.
- Legal basis for the processing
It is expressly stipulated that the collection, processing, use and storage of personal data is based on one of the following cases as expressly provided:
- Your freely given consent.
- A specific preliminary or contractual agreement, with you as -exclusive or among others- counterparty.
- Compliance with a specific legal obligation.
- Promoting our legal interests, which supersede your interest in protecting our Data.
- Any other expressly provided grounds under the legislation in force.
- How we use your personal data:
- In shipping and delivery, for the proper and timely shipping of your order.
- In sending messages by e-mail for the confirmation and details of your order.
- To provide customer support before, during and after the order’s performance in order to perform our contact with you and offer you the best possible customer experience
- To send newsletters by electronic mail (email) in order to keep you informed about discounts and new collections, always preceded by your explicit and freely given consent to receive such type of correspondence.
- To prevent and detect criminal actions, either against you, or against our company.
- To be aware of your preferences and thus ensure that we offer you exactly what you want and in order to remain competitive always preceded by your explicit and freely given consent.
More specifically:
- The history of your communication with our company
Everything discussed by phone, email or via Facebook, Instagram etc., is used to serve our customers before, during, and after the execution of the order, thus ensuring its proper execution and the best possible services. In addition, for the training of our staff, so every time you contact us, you get the best customer support possible.
- The history of your orders and the ‘Favorites’
Is used for ordering and selling products, for the proper implementation of the customer service and the product refund-exchange policies, and also for being aware of your preferences, thus ensuring that we offer you exactly what you want and in order to remain competitive.
- Information you provide us when you browse our site (IP address), and data relating to your location.
These information help us improve our website and provide you with personalized options (such as language choice) and thus help you enjoy the best shopping experience, protect our site from criminal action either against you or against our company, and keep our commitment on the safe collection, processing and retention of your data.
You are not required to disclose any kind of information or personal data mentioned above. But in case you do not, you might not be able to buy the products you want from our e-shop, nor enjoy the best shopping experience our company could possibly offer. However, if you choose otherwise, we will absolutely respect your choice.
- Method of collection, processing, use and storage of Personal Data
Your Personal Data are collected – following your relevant consent – as you use our services, namely:
- upon placing of your order and by completion of your purchase,
- when you e-mail, telephone and contact us in general, either to purchase a product or conclude a relevant contract or to complain, comment or express an opinion,
- when you subscribe, upon selection of the relevant option, to our mailing list to receive newsletter, information material and promotions in general.
- upon your visiting our Website and the subsequent collection, through the use and acceptance of cookies, of information from your terminal device, e.g. Information such as the IP address, the MAC address, the operating system used, the type and version of the browser and other web log files,
- upon receipt of documents, requests, orders, legal documents, warrants and all types of similar documents and orders by bodies and authorities, e.g. Supervisory, prosecution, judicial, tax authorities, for the purpose of crime investigation, protection against fraud, combating any type of offences and criminality in general and for preventing the breach of legal and protected rights of any type (e.g. Intellectual property, industrial property and so on).
4) Collection and processing principles:
It is expressly stated that the Company and its skilled staff stringently apply the ten (10) Processing Principles of the General Data Protection Regulation, namely the principles of lawfulness, fairness and transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, confidentiality and accountability), as also provided under the legislation in force. The above principles apply without exception to all processing actions and to the services provided.
5) Data Security
The Company takes the necessary technical and organisational measures, during transmission of Personal Data between your system and ours, in order to ensure the privacy, secrecy, integrity and availability of your Data. As indicative measures of protection we mention the use of firewalls and specialised detection systems that identify potential attempts of unauthorised persons to access your Personal Data, the establishment of distinct access levels, tokenization, the systematic training of authorised staff, the conduct of period controls, compliance with international security and business continuity standards, as well as any suitable means to ensure protection for your Personal Data. Furthermore, our technicians are constantly working to safeguard the use of the Website, upgrading the protection offered whenever deemed necessary.
Moreover, it is expressly stated that appropriate internal policies have been established for the protection and lawful and proper processing of Data, while appropriate technical measures are applied both at the time of determination of the processing means and at the time of processing, in strict compliance with the principles of data protection by design and of data protection by default.
In specific, at the design stage of the processing actions and systems, and at the stage of determination of the processing means, the Controller – taking into account the risk-based approach and various other parameters (such as the technical developments, the application cost and the nature of the measures applied, the application scope, the framework and the purposes of processing and so on) – applies appropriate measures and uses technologies to enhance privacy and generally to protect Data (privacy by default). Indicatively, protection measures are the pseudonymisation of Data (i.e. the replacement of personally identifiable information with artificial identifiers), the encryption of Data (i.e. the codification of personal Data in a manner that renders them identifiable only to specifically authorised staff), the minimisation of existing processing of Data and, generally, the incorporation of all necessary guarantees throughout the processing procedure, in a manner ensuring that the terms and obligations of the Regulation are met, also including the obligation to prove compliance under the Regulation (accountability obligation) and ensuring the protection of Data subjects’ rights.
Accordingly, the Controller shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures for ensuring that, by default, only Personal Data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed (privacy by default). The above obligation extends, specifically to the range of collected Data, the level of processing, the storage period, their accessibility, in order to ensure first, that the processing is carried out with the highest level of privacy protection only with the necessary data, second, that the Data is not accessible to an indefinite number of natural persons without the intervention of another natural person.
6)Third party transmission of personal data
It is expressly stated that the Company does not disclose Personal Data to third parties, taking all necessary actions to safeguard your privacy. However it is expressly stated that the Company may share your Personal Data, in order to respond to requests of law-enforcement services or when this is imposed by the provisions of the legislation in force or by court judgements. In specific, police and supervisory authorities, administration bodies, judicial or other public authorities, emergency services and generally services and authorities, to which we are required to provide information or are authorised by law to request it. Moreover, it is possible to disclose your Personal Data in order to protect the rights, property or safety of the Company and the Website or the rights of users or for any other reason provided by the legislation in force. Finally, we may use your Personal Data for the purpose of exercising any legal right or objection and defence against any claims.
In addition, we do share personal data that you have given us your explicit consent to do so, to the following categories of cooperating with ΔΕΣCOLLECTION companies-businesses, to support, promote, and execute your trading relationship with us, but always under conditions that fully ensure that your personal information does not undergo any unlawful processing:
- Companies that contribute to the proper and smooth functioning of our e-shop and to the proper execution of your order, such as web and digital application development companies as well as courier services companies.
- Companies providing professional advertising and promotional services.
You may choose to take advantage of some of our additional services, in which case, depending on your choices, we may share your data with the following categories of companies to fulfill the services you have asked for:
- Social Media sites (for example if you choose to link your accounts to us) and other companies approved by you.
- Marketplace sellers where you place a Marketplace order.
- Other third party payment providers, when you choose to use their payment services.
If you would like to know more about the third parties we may share personal data with, or how to find out more on how they will use your data, please contact us via e-mail at info@des-collections.com.
7) Display of targeted advertisements
Upon your express and written consent, we may use Cookies, Personal Data, tags or other similar information to display advertisements related to user preferences and browsing habits, on our Website or on third party websites or on any other medium, e.g. on social media. It is expressly stated that the above display of targeted advertisements is carried out following human intervention of our Business’s managers, while neither the above advertisements are displayed nor any personalised offers are sent using automated tools for consumer profile tracking and assessment and generally using preferences with other personal information of the user (e.g. e-mail address). Moreover, your Personal Data are not shared with any third parties for the display of similar advertisements or for sending promotional messages, unless you provide your express and written consent.
How to stop receiving promotional/advertising messages from ΔΕΣ COLLECTION:
You can stop receiving promotional / advertising messages at any time, a) by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link that will be included in each email you receive from our company, or b) by contacting us at info@des-collections.com, stating that you no longer wish to receive such type of correspondence.
Once our company receives your request, in either of these ways, it will be processed and you will stop receiving such type of electronic mail (e-mail).
8) Data Retention
Personal Data are kept exclusively for the entire period imposed by the contractual terms of the relevant service, also based on the purpose of processing, unless their retention is imposed by the legislation in force, and then said Data are anonymised or destroyed. Furthermore, it is possible to request the erasure of Data at any time, by making a relevant written request to the Controller, in which case Data are erased without delay, provided that their retention is not imposed by the legislation in force or by other binding contracts.
To the extent deemed reasonably necessary, our company in compliance with obligations and requirements that derive from the law, either to resolve disputes or for the prevention and detection of criminal acts, is entitled to retain your stored personal data, even if you have disabled your account, or it is no longer necessary to provide you our services.
9)Your rights
You have a series of rights on the personal information/data that you have provided our company. More explicitly:
- The right to be informed about the collection, processing, preservation and storage of your personal data from our company
- The right to have access at all times to the personal data, information and details that you yourself have provided us
- The right to ask us to modify- in case they are not correct- the data that our company keeps about you, and the right to modify (through your personal account / profile) all details relating to the provided personal data
- The right to ask us to delete personal data the company keeps about you. In this case, the company is obliged to delete your data without undue delay, if one of the following exclusively mentioned reasons is applicable:
- the personal data is no longer necessary, in relation to the purposes for which it was collected by our company,
- you have withdrawn your consent to the collection, processing and storage of your personal data from our company and there is no other legal basis for the processing
- you object to the processing of your personal data and no other legal grounds for processing exist,
- the personal data have been illegally processed,
- the personal data must be deleted in order to respect legal obligation under EU law in which our business is subject,
- the personal data have been collected in connection with the provision of services of the Information Society directly to a child, as specifically mentioned in no. 8 par. 1 GDPR.
- The right to stop receiving promotional / advertising messages from our company either through your personal account, or via the link ‘unsubscribe’, which is included in each email you receive from us
- The right to receive the personal data you have provided our company,in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and also the right to transmit such data to another controller (right to data portability).
In case you decide to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, no fee shall be payable. We may ask you to pay a fee in case your claim will be clearly unfounded and we will be charged with administrative costs. To exercise any of the aforementioned rights, please contact us at info@des-collections.com or alternatively contact us by Post to the following address: ΔΕΣ COLLECTION, 25th Martiou Street, Number: 0, 18020, Galatas Trizinias, Greece.
Once you will exercise any of the aforementioned rights, we will immediately take care of your request and we will answer you within (30) workable days after its receipt. In any case, we will immediately contact you, in order to inform you either about meeting your request or about the objective reasons that prevented us from meeting it.
In case you believe the protection of your personal data is in any way compromised you are able to contact our company- by using the contact details provided to this Privacy Policy, before contacting Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), having as goal to address your concerns. Otherwise, you can directly file a complaint to the HDPA, by using the following contact details:
Website: www.dpa.gr
Postal Address: 1-3, Kifisias av., Athens, Greece (PC 11523)
Call Centre: +30210 6475600
Fax: +30210 6475628
Email: complaints@dpa.gr
10) Cookies policy
a) General Information
Cookies are small text files or data sets, used for storing and receiving identifiers and other information in browsers, which are accepted by our Website. While you browse our Website, Cookies are sent and installed in your computer or electronic device. These are on-line tools for information collection and analysis, collected from media or social networking platforms in general or cooperating with third party web pages. Cookies contribute to the smooth operation and easier use of the site, the measuring of traffic and performance of the Website, the upgrade of content, appearance and function of the Website, the adjustment to the needs and wishes of users, and the improvement and measurement of the effectiveness of display of the Company on third party Websites.
For example, when browsing our Website, anonymous information is collected, especially web log data. These data include the browser name and type used, the type of computer or electronic device, the operating system, the pages from where you were directed to our Website, without in any way being related to Personal Data, the pages you visited while browsing the Website, the general user preferences (e.g. Language, country etc.) and other information of this type.
Cookies are sent via the Browser and are stored in the user’s computer as trace. Therefore, through the use of Cookies, the computer used may be identified but not the user’s Personal Data. Namely, the Cookies used do not collect Data that identify the relevant user and do not gain access or knowledge of any document or file on your electronic device. Moreover, the Cookies used and Data in general are encrypted for security reasons.
Furthermore, when you visit third party websites or log in to social media (e.g. Facebook, Youtube, Google Analytics, Twitter etc.), the installation of Cookies in enabled by the above websites or media, immediately upon connecting to the relevant link. It is expressly stated that the Company has no liability whatsoever or any type of involvement in relation to the above Cookies, as the sole parties liable for them are said third parties. If you do not wish the installation of the above Cookies, you may choose to be excluded from this installation, as per the procedure set out in the Use Policy of the relevant third party.
b) Function and types of Cookies
Depending on their type, Cookies perform functions of measuring page traffic, recording number of visitors, language, login time, geographical origin, device IDs and so on. These are online tools for collecting and analyzing information, which are collected during your navigation, through or in general social networking platforms or from websites of third parties and collaborators. Cookies may or may not constitute Personal Data, might be technically necessary for the operation of the website or serve commercial and / or advertising purposes.
Cookies help in the smooth operation and easier use of the site by you, in measuring the traffic and effectiveness of the Website, upgrading the content, appearance and operation of the Website, adapting to the needs and desires of users, and measuring the effectiveness of the Company’s appearance on Third Party Websites.
Cookies are distinguished accordingly in functional, technical, advertising and social media, featured Website. The permanent cookies are stored in the respective device and are not deleted automatically, when the respective browser is closed, while the session cookies are deleted as soon as the user closes the respective browser. In addition, necessary Cookies are those that are technically necessary for the connection to the Website or for the provision of the requested internet service, ie they serve for the sole purpose of the transmission of a communication through electronic communications network or are necessary for the service explicitly requested by the user. The cookies of the displayed Website are installed by the website and are readable by it, while if the Website uses external services of third parties (eg Google Analytics, Facebook and so on), then they are installed on the device and their own cookies, called third party cookies ( third party cookies).
The storage or access to the above-mentioned information in the terminal equipment of each user, is allowed only with the condition of his consent, after his clear and extensive information. The necessary cookies (as described above) are excluded from the obligation of consent, the installation of which becomes necessary for the provision of the requested service.
If you choose to accept Cookies, the Website stores the preferences and information of each user (eg username, language and so on), so that during the next visit you do not need to re-enter the same information. The above information, which is memorized, is retained for a certain period of time, after which it ceases to be retained.
c) Cookies that we use
It is expressly stated that the acceptance of Cookies does not in any way constitute a condition for entering and browsing the Website. In this way, each user is given the opportunity to navigate our Website, accepting or not the Cookies (first or third party cookies). Please note that when accepting Cookies, in the displayed table is placed a link, which transports, if selected, the respective user to this policy, through which he is thoroughly informed about the Cookies policy, in order to take a duly updated decision about the acceptance of Cookies. Disabling Cookies and being informed about this feature is done in the same way as activation.
Consent may be given, inter alia, through the web browser settings or other related settings (as described below). Browsers usually accept automatically the use of Cookies, so if you wish not to accept the use of Cookies you must make the appropriate settings of your computer or your electronic device and the browser, by completely disabling cookies. Furthermore, it is possible to set the browser so that a question appears before receiving each individual Cookie, so that it is possible each time to accept or reject each cookie separately. However, it is noted that disabling or not accepting Cookies may restrict or prevent the use of some of the services or tools provided.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- technical cookies that are necessary for correct functioning of a website and to permit browsing by
the user; without these the user may not be able to visualize the pages correctly or to use some
services. - profiling cookies that are used for creating user profiles to send advertising messages in line with
preferences shown by the user during browsing.
Cookies, whether “technical” or “profiling”, can also be classified as:
• “session” cookies, which are deleted immediately on closing of the browser;
• “persistent” cookies, which remain in the browser for a determinate period of time; these are used,
for example, to recognize the device which connects to a website, facilitating user authentication
operations;
• “own” cookies, generated and managed directly by the operator of the website on which the user is
browsing;
The Website uses “own” cookies, session or persistent, necessary to allow browsing on the Website, for the purpose of
internal security and systems administration;
Third Party Cookies: our Website makes it possible to link to external providers, ie third party websites or social media (eg Facebook, Google Analytics, Twitter, etc.). Some of these websites, or some social media sites, install cookies by linking to a relevant link or by sharing content, provided that you have accepted the terms and conditions of this third party. Our Website is in no way related to the installation and acceptance of third party cookies and does not collect relevant information, and these third parties are solely responsible. Our website simply stores the user’s choice to activate the relevant feature. If you do not wish to install the above cookies, you can choose to opt out of this installation, according to the procedure defined in the policy of each third party. The above Policy of Use is determined solely by the third party, hence this party bears the sole legal responsibility for these third party cookies. Please read carefully the respective Protection Policies on third party websites and note that you visit them exclusively at your own risk.
d) Managing cookies
You can adjust your Cookies preferences by clicking at the section “Cookies Preferences”.
Moreover, most browsers allow you to refuse to accept Cookies and to delete Cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting Cookies via these links:
(i) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);
(ii) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(iii) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);
(iv) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(v) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
(vi) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
All in all, blocking all Cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block Cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
11) California Consumer Privacy Act Notice
This section applies only to ΔΕΣ COLLECTION customers who are California, United States residents and supplements the details provided in our Privacy and Cookies Policy and contains the information that the Californian Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to make available to customers. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
a) Information we collect
We generally collect the following categories of personal information about you when you use our services:
- Identity Data, as provided when you register on our Website or when you place your order or when expressing interest, in particular the user’s full name and capacity.
- Communication Data, as provided a) compulsorily during your registration on our Website, during the placement of your order or during the expression of interest, in particular the user’s telephone and e-mail address, b) optionally during the expression of interest for the receipt of newsletters on the Company’s newsletter.
- Financial Data, as provided upon placement of your order or upon the expression of interest or upon assignment of a specific task to us, through your payment and upon issuance of the relevant document, in particular: Tax identification number, charge and billing details.
- Demographic Data, as provided when you register on our Website or when you place your order or you assign us a task or when expressing interest for newsletters, in particular: area of residence, age.
- Profile Data, as provided upon completion of registration on our Website or upon placement of your order, or upon assignment of a specific task to us or upon expression of interest.
- Electronic identification data, for example MAC address, IP address and cookies (in detail above), collected during your browsing and the use of our services in general.
You can find more information about the personal information we collect and how we collect it in the section (articles 3d and 3e respectively) above titled “How we use your personal data”.
b) Use of personal information
We collect your personal information for the business purposes described above in the section (article 3c and 3d) titled “How we use your personal data” and “Method of collection, processing, use and storage of Personal Data”. The CCPA defines a “business purpose” as the use of personal information for the business’s operational purposes, or other notified purposes, provided the use of personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the operational purpose for which the personal information was collected or another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.
c) Sharing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to an organization for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient organization to keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract with us.
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the categories of third parties listed above in the section (article 6) titled “Third party transmission of personal data”.
d) Your rights and choices
If you are a California, United States resident, you also have many rights in relation to your personal information; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. More specifically:
- Right Against Discrimination – You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section.
- Right to Know – You have the right to request in writing a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, address, email address, that a business has disclosed to third parties during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of all such third parties. In addition, you have the right to request:
(i) the categories of personal information we have collected about you,
(ii) the categories of sources from which personal information is collected,
(iii) the business or commercial purpose for the information collection,
(iv) the categories of third parties with whom we have shared personal information, and
(v) the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you.
You have the right to request a copy of the specific personal information we collected about you during the twelve (12) months before your request.
- Right to Delete – You have the right to request us delete any personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions.
To assert your right to know or your right to delete your personal information, please contact according to the “Communication with the Company” section below. To confirm your identity, we may ask you to verify personal information we already have on file for you. If we cannot confirm your identity from the information we have on file, we may request additional information from you, which we will only use to verify your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
- Right to Opt-Out of Selling – We do not sell your personal information but in any case you have the right to opt-out of having your personal information sold.
In addition, California Law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third-parties for their direct marketing purposes. Please allow 30 days for a response. To make such a request, contact us according to the “Communication with the Company” section below.
12)Communication with the Company
ΔΕΣ COLLECTION will gladly reply to any comments or questions in relation to this Personal Data Protection Policy. In case of doubts, questions in relation to this Policy or to any provided service in general, as well as if you think that the principles set out herein are not met, please contact the Company and the Controller by e-mail at:info@des-collections.com or at the postal address: ΔΕΣCOLLECTION, 25th Martiou Street, Number: 0, 18020, Galatas Trizinias,Greece. Any information or clarification provide in the context of the above communication shall in no way modify, replace or abolish this Protection Policy and shall be construed in the context of this Policy.
13) Validity of the Personal Data Protection Policy – Amendments
The Protection Policy was published by ΔΕΣ COLLECTION on 15.07.2022and is effective as of the date of publication and replaces all previous published Protection Policies, as well as any preceding protection practices applied. The Company reserves the right to amend this Policy, but has the obligation to notify these amendments to users during their browsing of the Website, within a reasonable period from the amendment. In case any user continues to use the Website after these amendments have been disclosed, it shall be presumed that they have accepted the amended Protection Policy.
This Policy is governed by the provisions of national and communal law, in relation to Personal Data protection and the overall protection of privacy and secrecy, as well as by any applicable international conventions. If any changes are effected to the above regulatory texts, we will amend – if necessary – this Policy as well as the practices applied, to ensure harmonization with the relevant regulatory framework. In this case, any changes in this Policy shall be expressly notified and in all other respects the above provisions apply.
Last updated: 15.07.2022