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GDPR compliance
We promise that we take data safety seriously and we use your private data only to offer a personalized experience. We use cookies to track analytics as well to personalize ads. Cookie data is shared with our advertising company, Google Adsense.
We have never sold, we are not selling, and we will not sell any of your personal data provided to us.
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Be informed regarding how the data is collected and used.
Have access to the data about you.
Ask us to change the data about you.
Ask us to delete the data about you.
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Welcome-greece.gr abides by GDPR regulations, so if you wish to have your information altered and you’re an EU resident, please get in touch with us. We do not retain secondary copies of reader contact information without permission. Similarly, we do not resell or share your contact information with third parties.
Privacy Policy
Welcome-greece.gr, found at https://www.welcome-greece.gr is governed by the following privacy policy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
What information we collect
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. Your information has been anonymized and only is viewed aggregately.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
To operate and maintain the Website;
To send you newsletters. Each email promotion will provide an easy opt-out button;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To track and measure statistics/advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third Party Use Of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
This Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. We have anonymized our Google Analytics data and never look at non-aggregated data.
Akismet- Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information they collect includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). This is to prevent spam on www.welcome-greece.gr
Facebook Pixel
The Website contains tracking technology by Facebook. This may include cookies (see point ‘e’ below). Facebook collects and stores usage data in pseudonymous profiles for the purposes of web analysis and interest-based advertising. You can opt-out of such data collection and storage at any time with effect for the future by visiting https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/ or by setting an opt-out-cookie on your device via the website of the EDAA. You will find further information on the data processing by Facebook in the privacy policy of Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation) and on this webpage.
Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies (see point ‘e’ below) in order to analyse your use of this Website. The information about your use of this Website collected using cookies is usually transferred to and stored on servers of Google in the US. Prior to the transfer to the US, Google masks and thereby anonymises your IP address within the territory of the EU or of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and masked by Google servers in the US. On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not combine your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse to have cookies stored on your device by appropriately configuring your browser or by using a privacy plugin. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. Further information on the data processing in the context of Google Analytics is available under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Google AdWords conversion and remarketing
We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from the Google services AdWords for statistical purposes. This way, in order to improve our services, we can analyse what happens after a user has clicked on one of our ads, e.g. whether a user has ordered a product or has viewed the ad from a mobile device. Furthermore, you may receive interest-based ads through these services. You can opt-out of such interest-based ads via the Google Ads setting pages: https://adssettings.google.com.
The Website uses the remarketing feature of Google. Essentially, this serves to present interest-based advertisements to visitors to a website belonging to the advertising network of Google. To enable this, cookies are stored on your computer. When you visit our site and then call up a website belonging to the advertising network of Google, you may therefore be shown advertisements of welcome-greece.gr. According to Google, it does not collect any personal data in this process. If you, nevertheless, do not wish to use the Google remarketing feature, you can deactivate this by changing the appropriate settings under https://adssettings.google.com. You can find further information about Google remarketing and the Google Privacy Policy under: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager to manage website tags. A tag is a JavaScript snippet that can be used to send information from a website to a third party, in particular in the context of web tracking. The tool Google Tag Manager itself does not collect personal data. Rather, the tool triggers other tags that may collect data (such as the tag of Google Analytics). Google Tag Manager does not access such data. A deactivation on the domain level or cookie level will affect all tracking tags implemented via Google Tag Manager. This facilitates the implementation of an effective opt-out of web tracking.
Cookies
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
For more information about the cookies we use and how to opt-out please visit our Cookies Notice.
Advertising
Welcome-greece.gr is a member of the Google Adsense, which serves content and advertisements while you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Sensitive Personal Information
If you leave a comment, certain information (your name as you provide it) may be publicly visible, however your email address will not be. We will not contact you using your email as this goes against GDPR regulations, so if you wish to be contacted by Welcome-greece.gr, please contact us directly.
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information.
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us. We will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please get in touch.
Privacy Policy last updated on the 11st of June 2021.