This Privacy Policy regulates the processing of your personal data by the controller “Philosophical Paths” with registered office at 3 Propontidos, 10444 Athens, Greece and registered in the General Commercial Register under the number 180286003000. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as it contains your rights and obligations in relation to “Philosophical Paths”. This Privacy Policy may be updated or revised from time to time, so we encourage you to consult it again on a regular basis.

Article 1 – General

1.1 Philosophical Paths, through this Privacy Policy, also complies with the European Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of personal data.

1.2 The controller of your personal data is “Philosophical Paths”. A declaration has been submitted to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority regarding the processing of your personal data.

1.3 This Privacy Policy applies to all platforms and channels used by “Philosophical Paths” for the collection of personal data – corporate website, forms to be filled in, emails, etc. – including the websites of other projects owned and managed by “Philosophical Paths”. .

Article 2 – Personal data we collect

2.1. During a visit to our website:

• IP address
• Via cookies: see article 10, read our cookie policy

2.2. When registering for our newsletters:

• Email address
• Name
• Last name
• Field of interest
• Age
• Country
• City of residence
• Occupation

2.3. When you register for a tour or seminar:

• Email address, first name, last name, telephone number, address, date of birth, consent for the use of photos and videos

2.4. When creating an account on e-learning platforms (Moodle) owned and/or managed by “Philosophical Paths”:

• Name and surname
• Email address

Article 3 – Personal data we collect indirectly

• 1. Public data of the principal, client or other business relationship
• “Philosophical Paths” sometimes processes public data, e.g. data subject to a publication obligation or data that you yourself have made public, such as information posted on your website or data shared in your area or published in the press.

Article 4 – Purposes of processing

4.1. General objectives:

“Philosophical Paths” will use the personal data collected exclusively for the following purposes:

• IP address (see article 2.1.): for the care and improvement of its website (www…………………….com) and the inclusion of personal data in anonymous statistical data, from which the identity of specific persons or companies cannot be discovered, on the legal basis of the legitimate interests of “Philosophical Paths” for the continuous improvement of its website and the provision of services,
• Email address, first and last name, when registering for newsletters (see article 2.2.): for the purpose of sending you special direct marketing (automatic emails or other emails), company and project newsletters, job vacancies, training opportunities or information on planned activities (tours, seminars), on the legal basis of your prior explicit consent,
• Email address, first name, surname, last name, telephone number, address, date of birth, consent to use photos and videos (see article 2.3.): in order to record your presence and participation in the event for reporting purposes (e.g. in the context of EU-funded projects where a number of direct beneficiaries are foreseen), on the legal basis of your prior explicit consent,
• Photos and videos (see article 2.3): to be used for internal communication, promotion and reporting purposes, on the legal basis of your prior explicit consent,
• You are not obliged to provide your personal data, but you understand that the provision of certain services becomes impossible if you refuse processing.

4.2. Direct marketing (newsletters and emails):

• Personal data will also be used for direct marketing (sending newsletters and emails with content that directly or indirectly promotes our activities). The personal data you provide will require additional explicit consent which we will ask for. If you are already subscribed to our mailing list to receive marketing material in electronic form, Philosophical Pathways may use your data to send you marketing material about Philosophical Pathways and its activities. This consent can be withdrawn at any time – free of charge and without obligation to give reasons – by contacting by e-mail at ……………………..

4.3. Transfer to third parties:

• “Philosophical Paths” will never transmit your personal data to third parties, with the exception of technical service providers who undertake technical support to the extent that this is necessary for the technical provision of services and/or if they are obliged to do so by law or court order. Philosophical Pathways makes reasonable efforts to inform you in advance of the fact that Philosophical Pathways discloses your data to named third parties, but you also acknowledge that this is not technically or commercially feasible under all circumstances.
• Philosophical Paths will not sell, rent, share or otherwise commercially dispose of your personal data to third parties, except as described above or without your prior consent.

4.4 Legal requirements: In rare cases it may happen that “Philosophical Paths” has to disclose your personal data on the basis of a court order or in order to comply with other mandatory laws or regulations. Philosophical Pathways will use reasonable efforts to provide you with advance notice of this, unless otherwise restricted by law.

Article 5 – Duration of processing

• Personal data are kept and processed by us for the period of time necessary in connection with the purposes of processing as described in Article 4 and in connection with the contractual relationship between “Philosophical Paths” and you.
• The aforementioned personal data are in any case retained in accordance with the specific legal provisions, as well as with the limitation periods that oblige us to retain your personal data for a longer period of time, e.g. to defend ourselves against legal action.

Article 6 – Your rights

• 1 Right of access and inspection: You have the right – at any time, free of charge – to be informed of your personal data and of the use that “Philosophical Paths” makes your personal data.
• 2. Right to rectification, deletion and restriction: You are free to disclose or not your personal data to “Philosophical Paths”. In addition, you always have the right to ask us to correct, supplement or delete your personal data. You acknowledge that if you refuse to disclose or request deletion of personal data, certain services and products may not be provided. You may also request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
• 3 Right of objection: You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on serious and legitimate grounds. In addition, you always have the right to object to the use of personal data for direct marketing purposes; in this case, you do not need to give any reasons.
• 4 Right to free transfer of data: you have the right to receive your personal data that we process in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or to transfer it to other data controllers.
• 5 Right to withdraw consent: where processing is based on your prior consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent.
• 6. Exercising your rights: You may exercise your rights by contacting us for this purpose by post to “Philosophical Paths” – 3 Propontidos, 10444, Athens, Greece, provided that you submit a copy of your identity card.
• 7 Automatic decisions and profiling: Our processing of your personal data does not involve any profiling, nor will you be subjected by us to automated decisions.
• 8. Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

Article 7 – Security and confidentiality

• 1 We have developed security measures that are appropriate on a technical and organizational level to prevent the destruction, loss, alteration, modification, unauthorized access or accidental disclosure to third parties of the collected personal data, as well as any other unauthorized processing of such data.
• 2 Under no circumstances can “Philosophical Paths” be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from incorrect or improper use of personal data by third parties. The “Philosophical Paths” has ensured that when it calls upon third parties to process personal data, such third parties are bound by the same rules.
• 3 You must at all times comply with the security rules, including by preventing any unauthorized access to your devices. You are therefore solely responsible for the use made of your computer, your IP address and your identification data on the website and for their confidentiality.

Article 8 – Third party access

8.1 In order to enable the processing of your personal data, we may provide access to your personal data to certain members and/or employees who are assigned to specific tasks/activities.

8.2 We guarantee an identical level of protection by assuming contractual obligations to such employees and agents that are identical to this Data Privacy Policy.

8.3. List of data processing subcontractors:

• Google Analytics
• Google Suite
• WIX
• Mailchimp

Article 9 – Declaration to the Data Protection Authority

A declaration has been made to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. You can always contact this Commission at the following addresses: Offices of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority – Kifissias 1-3, 115 23 Athens, Greece | Phone +30-210 6475600 | Fax +30-210 6475628 | E-mail:contact@dpa.gr about this processing of personal data.

Article 10 – Cookies Policy

10.1. What are cookies?

A “cookie” is a small file sent by the Google Analytics and WIX servers and installed on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored in these cookies can only be read by us and only during your visit to the website.

10.2. Why do we use cookies?

Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish your usage preferences from those of other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a better user experience when you visit our Site and also allows us to optimize our Site. As a result of recent legal changes, all Sites directed to certain parts of the European Union are required to ask for your consent to use or store cookies and similar technologies on your computers or mobile devices. This cookie policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use and their purpose.

10.3. The Website uses exclusively the following cookies:

WIX is the Content Management System (CMS) that manages this website. It uses a cookie on entry and exit and is necessary for the proper functioning of the site. It is only set up if you are a registered user, so most people don’t need to set it up at all. User data is all anonymous.

Google Analytics cookie: to understand how people use our website and to discover areas of our website with problems, we use Google Analytics. Most websites use an analytics program like this. The data it collects helps us to see things like how many people visit our site, which country they come from, how many pages they visit, how fast our site loads and so on. All data collected is completely anonymous, it does not identify you as an individual in any way.

Social media cookies: used to offer social media modules on a website, such as the like button on Facebook, Twitter, Follow and other social media pages.

Note: we have absolutely no influence on the content of these statements, nor on the content of third-party cookies.

10.4. Your consent:

You can refuse or block cookies by changing the configuration parameters of your browser. Disabling cookies may mean that you can no longer use certain features of the website.

You can also find more information about cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Article 11 – Applicable law and competent court

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by, interpreted and enforced in accordance with Greek law, which shall be exclusively applicable. The courts of Athens shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute arising from the interpretation or enforcement of this Privacy Policy.