Privacy Policy

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

Business Interval values and respects your privacy as well as protects your personal data. The present Personal Data Protection Policy (hereinafter, simply, “Policy”) concerns the conditions under which your personal information is collected, stored and used by our company, located at: Ioustinianou 31, Thessaloniki, tel. (+30) 2312311010 and email: [email protected]
About us

Our Company is responsible for the website www.businessinterval.com which is the internet site of the Company (hereinafter, “site”). The personal data which you provide to us during your registration or while visiting our site is all processed and kept in a file for which Business Interval is responsible. Moreover, whatever other personal data you provide to us is also processed and kept in a file for which our office is responsible.

The present Policy and its Terms may be updated from time to time and, for this reason, you should regularly visit our website and this Policy to ensure that you are aware of any possible changes.

Definition of personal data

The term “personal data”, as it is used in the current Policy, refers to information relating to data subjects, that is to say, identified or identifiable natural persons whether private or professional, such as your full name, postal address, email address, contact telephone number, etc., which may be used in order to determine the identity of a customer or visitor to our site.

Definition of personal data processing

Personal data processing includes the collection, entry, organization, storage, adaptation, modification, retrieval, information search, use, transfer to third parties, dissemination, correlation, combination, restriction, deletion and destruction of the personal data of natural persons.

How we collect personal data

We collect information about you in the following cases among others:

1. When you contact us directly, by means of our telephone center in order to ask for information.
2. When you visit our site
3. When you respond to our promotional materials or you ask for information, e.g., by filling out a response form or entering your digital data in our webpage through our contact form.
4. In order to create a business listing.
5. If you are providing personal data for an account of a third party, you will need to ensure that the third party in question has previously been made aware of the content of the present Policy. If you are under 16 years old, you should not provide any information about yourself, unless you have the consent of the person who is your legal guardian. We kindly ask that you help us keep your information up to date, by informing us about possible changes to your personal data.

What personal data do we collect?

We may collect data about you from the following categories and submit them to further processing through different services and means of communication that are described in the present Policy:

  1. Contact Information: full name, telephone numbers, web address, email address, postal code, etc.
  2. Website use and communication: IP address, browser information for statistical purposes.
  3. Information for the purpose of communication with us: information that has to do with your reasons for showing interest, support services, requests for our services, including grievances and claims.
  4. Our site may use cookies in order to enhance the experience of the user while navigating it, as well as to improve the quality of our services as a whole. Cookies are small text files that are sent to the computer of a user when visiting a website. Cookies are saved to the hard disk of the visitor/user but do not include information about any document or file on their computer. They are used in order to facilitate the visitor’s/user’s access to particular services, for statistics that assist in determining in what areas the services in question are useful or popular, or for marketing purposes. The visitor/user/member/subscriber to the website/application may change the settings of their browser so that it forbids the collection of all cookies, or so that it notifies them when each cookie is sent. However, the visitor/user/member/subscriber to the website should know that certain features or services of the site may not function properly without cookies.

We collect the above necessary information from you, which you voluntarily provide to us.

Personal data processing

We do not make decisions, nor do we create profiles on the basis of the automatic processing of your data.

Legal basis for personal data processing

Concerning the data related to your above actions, the legality of its processing is based on your own consent.

Purpose of personal data processing

The personal data that you provide anywhere on the pages and services of our site is intended exclusively for reasons that concern the provision of our services as well as the communication of new information to you.

Personal data provided by the user/member anywhere on our site is intended exclusively to ensure the proper operation of the services that we provide and the legality of related communications. This data is not allowed to be used by any third party not involved, without observing the decrees of the General Regulation for Data Protection (EU) 2016/679, national (Greek) legislation and the relevant acts of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, under law 3471/2006 and e-Privacy directive (2002/58/EC, as amended by directive 2009/136/EC) as is in force today regarding the protection of personal data from modification. Finally, by using the services of our site, other information may be requested or collected for statistical purposes, which does not incorporate the personal data of the user/member in accordance with the requirements of the existing legislation concerning personal data protection. 

Our company operates in accordance with existing Greek and community legislation and keeps your personal data secure.

In brief, we require only as much information as is necessary for us to ensure that you enjoy an exceptional user experience, service based on your needs, and communication with you. Thus, we collect your information with the aim of supporting our visitors, providing services and communication with our clients.

Specifically, we collect your information in order to register you as a member of the site and to communicate with you to deliver the services you requested or to inform you about our services.

Data recipients

Data recipients are the staff and associates of the Company who have been bound to observe confidentiality. We may also share or make known your data when you have explicitly requested us to do so, or when it is demanded by the law.

Data processors

Those who carry out personal data processing have agreed and been bound by the Company:

  • To have an agreement to confidentiality ,
  • To not send data to third parties without the permission of the company,
  • To take appropriate security measures,
  • To conform to the legal framework in place regarding the protection of personal data and, in particular, the GDPR.
How long can data be processed and stored? – Timeframe for deleting personal data

The data that you provide is kept/stored by us only for the length of time necessary to fulfil the purpose for which you initially shared your data with us and in conformity with existing legal provisions.

More specifically, your data is kept only upon receiving your relevant consent, which is considered to be voluntarily given by you, and only after you have understood the Terms of the Privacy Policy which are posted on the home page of our site and until you revoke this consent by sending us a relevant request to the email address of the Company or when these data is no longer necessary for the above purposes.

We limit access to your data to those persons which by their involvement need to use them for a specific purpose.

Data Security

We are committed to protecting your personal data. We have taken the appropriate organizational and technical measures to ensure the security and protection of your data from every form of accidental or unlawful processing. Our site has an installed SSL certificate that encrypts and protects your personal and browser data.

The measures in question are re-examined and modified when deemed necessary in order to keep your personal data as secure as possible.

Processing of your data in any fashion is permitted only to those given authority to do so by us, our employees and associates, and exclusively for the already-mentioned purposes.

Data subject rights

1. You have the right to access your personal data.

This means that you have the right to be informed by us about whether and which data of yours is being processed. If we happen to be processing your data kept by us, you may ask to be informed about the purpose of this processing, the kind of data that we are keeping, with whom we are sharing it, for how long we are storing it, if decisions are being taken automatically, as well as about your other rights, such as correction, deletion of data, restrictions on processing, and ability to submit a complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

2. You have the right to rectify inaccurate personal data.

If you discover that an error has occurred with regard to any personal data concerning you, you may submit a request for their correction.

3. You have the right to deletion/right to be forgotten

You can ask us to delete your data if it is no longer necessary for the processing purposes listed above, or if you wish to revoke your consent in the case that this is the only legal basis.

4. You have the right to data portability.

You may ask us to give you in readable format the data that you have provided, or you may ask us to transfer your data to a different data processor.

5. You have the right to restrict processing.

You may ask us to limit the way we use your data for the duration of time in which the examination of your objections to that processing remains pending.

6. You have the right to object to the processing of your data.

You may oppose our processing of your data, or you may withdraw your consent and we will cease processing your data, if there are no urgent and legal reasons that would override your right.

How to exercise your rights

For the above purposes, you may direct your request in writing to the email address of the company: [email protected].

If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns related to these issues, we kindly ask that you contact us via email or using the contact form on the site.

In the above ways, you can also contact us for more information regarding the fulfillment of your request.

Handling requests

We respond to your requests free of charge and without delay, and in each case within (1) one month from the time that we receive your request. If, however, your request is complicated or there is a large number of requests from you, we will inform you within a month if we will require an extension of (2) two months, within which time, we will respond to you.

If your requests are obviously groundless or exaggerated, especially on account of their repeated nature, we may impose the payment of a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative expenses of providing updates or carrying out the requested action or even to deny continuation to the request.

Applicable law

We process your data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679/EU, and in general the valid national (Greek) and European legislative and regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.

Right of appeal

You have the right to submit a claim to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (postal address Kifisias 1-3, ZIP Code 115 23, tel. (+30)2106475600, email address [email protected], if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates existing national law and the regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will update the present Policy whenever necessary. If there are important changes to the Policy or to the manner in which we use your personal data, we will notify you either by publishing a notification in a prominent place before the changes are put into effect or in another suitable way. We encourage you to read the present Policy again at regular intervals in order to know how your data are being protected.

The company is the data controller of the data that it processes.