APOSTOLOS GEORGIADES & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM (ABA number 80015) situated in Athens (18 Hatzikonstanti str.) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy in conjunction with our Cookie Policy sets the framework in which we process personal data held about you. Personal data is any information about an identifiable person, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, tax number etc.
1. Personal data that we collect
Our website visitors are not required to provide us with their personal data, in order to access any area of our website. We clarify that we do not collect any personal data of the website users on an automated method, with the exception of statistical data through which, though, the users are not identifiable. However, we may collect information you provide us using the email hyperlinks of the website. We may also collect information which is publicly available.
2. Purposes for which we use your personal data
We use personal information held about you to provide you with the services or information requested by you. In addition, we use this information for internal customer administration, as well as to send you material relating to us or updates of our firm.
3. Disclosure of your personal data
We assure you that we do not disclose your personal data to any third party, unless we are fulfilling a legal obligation or in case this is necessary to bring or defend legal claims against our firm, to protect our rights or in connection with investigating fraud or other crime. We only share personal data with our IT service provider. We clarify that he only acts as a data processor under the instructions of our firm and for purposes identified by our firm. In no case, he controls your personal data and is bound towards our firm to comply with all technical and organizational measures necessary to protect your personal data.
4. Retention
We retain personal data as long as it is required for us to fulfill the purposes outlined under n. 2 of this Policy unless otherwise required or permitted by law. According to article 37 Greek Code of Ethics for Attorneys this retention period is currently five (5) years, but it can be extended according to the provisions of tax or other legislation.
5. Security
The security of your personal data is very important to our firm. We commit to apply the highest technical and organizational measures in order to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction or loss. However, unfortunately, the transmission of information via internet is not completely secure, to the effect that we cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted to us while using internet.
6. Cookies
We use cookies to collect information about your activity across our website. For more information please refer to our Cookie Policy.
7. Your rights
You are entitled to request a copy of all your personal data we possess. In addition, you have the right to request erasion or rectification of your data, as well as to object to our possession of your personal data. Moreover, you are entitled to withdraw your consent from receiving information from our firm. Furthermore, we will provide you with the personal data kept by ourselves in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and/or transmit them to the companies that you wish, if technically possible, without any hindrance. You may exercise the above mentioned rights by sending an email to dpo@georgiades.com.
Please note that in case you consider that your personal data has been violated by our firm, you are entitled to file a complaint to the Data Protection Authority.
We reserve the right to amend and update this Policy. Please check this policy on a periodical basis.