(Your Privacy is important to us. We are committed to providing you with an experience on our site and services that is safe, secure an trustworthy).
Hintsdeco is committed to respect your privacy and aims your personal data to be and remain confidential. In order to achieve this goal, Hintsdeco fully complies with the provisions of National and European legislation regarding the protection of personal data, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“General Data Protection Regulation”, hereinafter “GDPR”), as applicable.
This Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we collect and process your personal data when visiting and using our website, including any data you may provide through this website or due to its interaction with other websites.
This Privacy Policy should be taken into account along with any other relevant Privacy Notice or any other Notice we provide when collecting and processing your personal data in special cases.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy, so that you will be aware of when, how and why we use your personal data.
Hintsdeco is a website operated by Katerina Iliadi.
It provides general information and news on interior decoration subjects and personal advices on questions presented by its members (hereinafter also referred to as the “services”)
Hintsdeco is fully committed to protecting the personal data of the visitors of its website and of its visitors.
We aim to inform you in advance of which personal data we collect, the way we use it, the recipients of your data and the rights you are entitled to exercise under applicable data protection laws. For the purposes of data protection legislation regarding the delivery of our newsletters to you or the collection of other data through our website, we are considered to be the Data Controller of your personal data.
We encourage you to read carefully our Privacy Policy and the additional Cookies Policy.
Some of the terms included in this Privacy Policy are legal terms defined by the regulatory framework. Therefore:
Processing: means 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;
Personal Data:means 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 online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Consent: means 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: means 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;
For more information about the definitions please see article 4 of the GDPR (https://eurlex.europa.eu/legal-content/EL/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EL)
The collection and processing of your personal data by Hintsdeco is governed by the following principles as further specified by the GDPR:
We do everything possible to implement the above principles at all stages of interaction with you through this site.
We collect and process your personal data solely for the purposes of fulfilling our obligations towards you and the delivery of our newsletters arising out of your subscription to our newsletter registration form.
When you register as a member in our website, we collect personal information such as name, surname, and email address.
In case you wish to enter our online store through Facebook, you provide (as mentioned in the separate pop up window) authorization to our website to collect the above necessary information. A
We also automatically collect information about how you use our services, such as the type of webpages you visit, or the frequency and duration of your activities. In addition, servers, logs, and other technologies automatically collect certain information to help us manage, protect and improve our services. We share personal information with third parties only as described in this policy or if required by applicable law.
We use cookies and other technologies such as web beacons, web storage and unique ad ids in order to gather information about your activity, browser and device. This data helps us to create a profile for our users. Some of these data will be aggregated or statistic, which means that we will not be able to track them individually. You may remove or reject browser cookies through settings in your browser or device. However, rejecting or removing cookies may affect the availability and functionality of our services. Please find more information about our cookies policy here.
Device information: We may also collect information about your device anytime you visit a website. If you are a registered account holder in our website, we may collect information from or about the computers, phones or other devices from where you connect to our services. We may correlate the information we collect from your different devices, so that we can provide you specialized services depending on the device you use. For instance, we collect:
The table below details what personal data we process, the scope of processing and the lawfulness of processing.
| Category of personal data | Purpose for processing | Legal basis under the GDPR |
| Name and contact details | Delivery of newsletters | Obligation of service |
|
Send
you service messages by email or text, such as order updates
| Obligation of service | |
|
Send
you information by email or post about our new products or
services
| Consent | |
| Send you adverts | Consent | |
|
Device information such as type and language of web browsing program |
Improve
our website and set default options for you (such as language and
currency)
|
Legitimate
interests of the company
|
|
Information
about your computer, your visits and the use of this Web site (eg
your IP address, your location, your browser, the way the site was
updated, the duration of the visit and the number views of the
page).
|
Statistical
reasons and for Improvement of our site
| Legitimate interests of the company Consent |
By navigating to our site or registering as a member of our website or by subscribing to our newsletter form you declare that you accept and consent to this Policy as well as you give us your explicit consent to the collection and processing of your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
You can withdraw this consent at any time by signing up directly with the submission of the corresponding form posted on the site.
We will keep your personal information as long as you are logged into our site, that is, as long as you maintain your account active or for as long as necessary to provide our services. We may continue to maintain your personal data even after your account expires, respecting the principle of proportionality and only on the basis of the “absolute necessity of knowledge” to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, or prevent fraud and abuse.
The
information collected by the site may be stored, processed, and
transferred to any of the countries in which it is active in order to
facilitate the use of this information in accordance with this
Policy.
Information
collected by the site may also be transferred to the following
countries, which do not apply data protection laws similar to those
existing in the European Economic Area: United States of America,
Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal
information published by users or linked applications on the site or
submitted for publication on the site or linked applications may be
made available via the Internet worldwide. The site may not prevent
the use or misuse of such information by other persons. In any case,
the transfer to third countries will be made in accordance with the
provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and any applicable Greek law
and only in full compliance with the law.
Visitors / users of the site who are minors are not allowed to access the services of the site. If, however, minor users visit our site on their own, this can not be controlled and the site is not responsible.
We inform you that you have the right of:
The site will review and respond to your requests within one month of receipt, and this deadline may be extended by a further 2 months if further time is required.
We have taken appropriate security measures to prevent accidental loss of personal information or unauthorized use or access.
Those who process your information for the legitimate purposes explained above are subject to a confidentiality obligation.
In addition, we have procedures to deal with any data breaches.
Specifically, the site:
The user acknowledges that sending information over the Internet presents inherent security concerns and therefore Hintsdeco can not guarantee the security of the data being trafficked through it.
The exercise of any of the rights described above can be done by email: kate@hintsdeco.com
You can submit a request for access without any cost, however, depending on the personal information you request, we may charge an amount to cover the cost of providing details of the information we have. We will notify you of the possibility of such charges upon receipt of your request for access and we will await your confirmation of the continuation of the procedure and payment of this amount.
We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you may have about the use of your information. If you are unhappy with the way Hintsdeco manages your personal data, you have the right to contact the competent supervisor. The competent supervisory authority is the Personal Data Protection Authority, which is located at 1-3, Kifissias Avenue, Athens, Zipcode. 11523, tel. +30 2106475600 and with e-mail address contact@dpa.gr
The site updates this policy from time to time by publishing the new version on the site or linked apps. The user should check this page regularly to make sure he is in compliance with any changes to the terms of this Policy. Hintsdeco may inform users about changes to this Policy (either by email or through the personal message service of the site or linked apps).
