Privacy Policy

Welcome to www.beyondathens.net. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and make use of the various services offered by Beyond Athens. Greek National Law 3471/2006 applies. 

 

PRIVACY POLICY PROMISE

Beyond Athens is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide while using the web site www.beyondathens.net. This Statement describes how we treat personal information received. 

Beyond Athens needs to collect, use and disclose personal information in order to perform its business and provide top quality customer service. While information is the main ingredient of its ability to provide superior service, its most important asset is the clients’ trust. Keeping client information secure, and using it only as its clients would want to, is a top priority for Beyond Athens. So Beyond Athens’ promise to its individual customers is to safeguard, according to strict standards of security and confidentiality, any information customers share.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) the personal data you disclose to Beyond Athens, through www.beyondathens.net, are collected, used and processed in accordance with the applicable personal data protection provisions as the Law 2472/1997 and the Law 3471/2006, as in force, as well as the new European General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Directive 95/46/EC, related to the protection of personal data.

“Personally Identifiable Information” 

Refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual. 

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES BEYOND ATHENS COLLECT?

General:

When you fill in the respective fields in the electronic booking form, when you register, and at other times, Beyond Athens may collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and facts about your computer. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. In addition, if a user is under 18, unless consent is obtained from your parent/guardian, you are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Web Site Usage Information:

Beyond Athens automatically collects IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit www.beyondathens.net. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and customers use and navigate  our website on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors and customers and the length of their visits.

How does Beyond Athens collect personal information?

Beyond Athens will only collect personal information in compliance with your local data protection laws, usually collecting your personal information from the information you submit during the course of your relationship with us.

Generally, this collection will occur when you:

  • Contact Beyond Athens in person, by telephone, letter, email;
  • Visit www.beyondathens.net;
  • Connect with Beyond Athens on social media.

Beyond Athens may collect personal information about you when you:

  • Purchase or make enquires about travel arrangements or other products and services;
  • Enter competitions or register for promotions;
  • Subscribe to receive marketing from Beyond Athens(e.g. e-newsletters);
  • Request brochures or other information from Beyond Athens; or
  • Provide information, or use Beyond Athens’ services, on social media.

Unless you choose to do so under a pseudonym or anonymously, we may also collect your personal information (except sensitive information) when you complete surveys or provide Beyond Athens with feedback.

In some circumstances, it may be necessary for Beyond Athens to collect personal information about you from a third party. This includes where a person makes a travel booking on your behalf which includes travel arrangements to be used by you, and vice versa (i.e. a group booking made for you by your friend or a group making made for a friend by you). Where this occurs, Beyond Athens will rely on the authority of the person making the travel booking as the Lead passenger to act on behalf of any other passenger on the booking.

You should let Beyond Athens know immediately if you become aware that your personal information has been provided to Beyond Athens by another person without your consent or if you did not obtain consent before providing another person’s personal information to Beyond Athens.

Beyond Athens strives to maintain the accuracy of your personal information that Beyond Athens’ store, however, you can assist Beyond Athens with this considerably by promptly contacting Beyond Athens if there are any changes to your personal information or if you become aware that we have inaccurate personal information relating to you. Beyond Athens will not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete personal information that you, or a person acting on your behalf, provide to Beyond Athens.

Beyond Athens collects “sensitive” personal data only when you offer voluntarily those data or when these data are required or their collection is allowed by the law. Beyond Athens advise you to abstain from providing sensitive data, except if this is required for the purpose of providing personal data or if you hereby consent with the use of these data from Beyond Athens for its purposes.

How does Beyond Athens Use Personal Information collected?

Beyond Athens may use information in the following ways:

We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site and to make appropriate service offerings. We may send emails to acquired addresses about research or purchase and selling opportunities on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Customers in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information. 

  • For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information.
  • To send you e-mail notifications about Beyond Athens new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
  • To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.
  • To allow Beyond Athens to personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.
  • Beyond Athens may combine the information that Beyond Athens collect from you on http://www.beyondathens.net with information that you provide to Beyond Athens in connection with your use of Beyond Athens other products, services and web site.
  • Beyond Athens may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce Beyond Athens Terms of Use (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights). Beyond Athens may also disclose or use your personal information when Beyond Athens, in good faith, believes that the law requires to do so.

Beyond Athens has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors.Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a need to know basis for evaluating Customers for service eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to comply with law. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Customers. 

TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Beyond Athens will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Security

The personally identifiable information Beyond Athens collect about you is stored in limited access servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.

Analytics

Beyond Athens may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of Beyond Athens Service.

Beyond Athens may use third-party web analytics services on website and mobile apps (such as Google, Facebook, affiliate tracking etc.). The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies to help Beyond Athens analyses how visitors use Beyond Athens website and apps.

When you access www.beyondathens.net, open electronic correspondence or communications from us, Beyond Athens servers may record data regarding your device and the network you are using to connect with us, including your IP address. We may use IP addresses for system administration, investigation of security issues and compiling anonymised data regarding usage of our website and/or mobile applications. Beyond Athens may also link IP addresses to other personal information Beyond Athens hold about you and use it for the purposes described above (e.g. to tailored online advertising, provided you have opted in).

Links: 

www.beyondathens.net contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours. 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Behavioral Remarketing

Beyond Athens uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited www.beyondathens.net. Beyond Athens and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

Google AdWords

Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Twitter

Twitter remarketing service is provided by Twitter Inc.

You can opt-out from Twitter’s interest-based ads by following their instructions.

You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Twitter by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://twitter.com/privacy

Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting their page.

To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy.

Instagram

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting their page.

To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Instagram.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Instagram’s Data Policy.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Beyond Athens strongly advises you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

Beyond Athens has no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

YOUR RIGHTS

Beyond Athens aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data Beyond Athens holds about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the right:

  • To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you
  • To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
  • To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you
  • To block your personal data
  • To withdraw your consent
  • To data portability for the information you provide to Beyond Athens
  • To request to obtain a copy of your Personal Data in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Beyond Athens may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Beyond Athens will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Beyond Athens will let you know via email, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

FEEDBACK & CONTACT

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or If you wish to inform us of a change or correction to your personal information, request a copy of the information we collect on you, request deletion of your information or would like to restrict the further processing of your data, please contact us at  info@beyondathens.net.

 

 

 

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