Personal data protection:
At rain-umbrellas.gr we operate in compliance with national and EU legislation and in particular with Directive 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and for this reason we could not fail to adopt the relevant Personal Data Protection Policy (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy” or “PDPP”), in order to inform you about the Company’s policy regarding personal data.
Through the Privacy Policy, you are given the opportunity to know the purpose of the processing of your personal data, the type of recipients, and the procedures you can follow to exercise your legal rights.
Data Controller
The data controller for the collection, storage, processing and use of personal data within the meaning of Greek law and personal data protection legislation is:
ATHANASIOU BROS.
- Sofou 13,
2310539328
P.O. BOX: 54625
THESSALONIKI
Definition of personal data
Personal Data is any information that refers to the data subject, i.e. any natural person to whom the data refer and whose identity is known or can be verified. Such information includes for example the name, address, date of birth and gender of the member, mobile phone number, e-mail address as well as usage data, such as for example member name, password and IP address. All personal data are processed lawfully and fairly in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (“lawfulness, objectivity and transparency”), are collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and are not subject to any kind of processing and are not subject to any kind of interference in a way incompatible with those purposes.
Collection and use of personal data
Our business does not collect your personal data unless you have provided it explicitly, voluntarily and for a specific purpose and you have given your consent to its use. In particular, you voluntarily disclose your personal data when you create an account on our website, when you make a remote purchase through our online store or by using our call centre, when you register to receive newsletters by email, as well as when you participate in surveys, competitions or request information about our products or the progress of your purchase or lastly when you exercise your rights as a consumer.
We store, use or transfer/communicate your personal data only if you give your consent for this and only to the extent necessary for the purpose of processing and in the context of your communication and transactions with us, and the improvement of the services provided.
To register as a member and create an account you will need to voluntarily submit to us:
first name, last name, full postal address, contact telephone number, email address and password.
To complete a purchase from our online store you will also need to voluntarily submit to us:
Order shipping address and type of document (receipt, invoice) and, if applicable, your tax information.
Also, users/visitors of the website are provided with the possibility, if they wish, by registering in the respective application, to receive information about new products as well as existing offers via email to the declared email address. By selecting this order, the visitor/user certifies the completeness, correctness and veracity of the necessary contact details and undertakes the obligation to update them in case of change, in order to keep them complete, correct, true, accurate and valid. In the event that the visitor/user wishes to withdraw from this application, the visitor/user must contact the company and declare in writing their will.
The password, username and generally the member’s account is personal and unique for each member, who is fully responsible for the actions taken from their account. Members are required to make careful and prudent use of their account and to exit from it formally. The company shall not be liable for any harm or damage resulting from the failure of members to respect and follow this clause.
The aforementioned disclosure of data constitutes unconditional acceptance of the terms of data retention and use, otherwise the visitor must refrain from filling them in.
It is clarified that during your browsing in our online store you will not be asked for any personal data.
Period of storage of your data
The data provided by you will be kept/stored by us only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which you have provided us with your data and in compliance with the applicable legal provisions.
If you have given us your explicit consent to use your personal data for advertising purposes (subscription to the Newsletter), we will use your data for this purpose until you withdraw your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Data sharing
Our company is committed to not share the personal data of users/visitors to third parties without their consent, beyond the disclosures required by law in any relevant proceedings. However, when processing your request, we reserve the right to disclose the necessary personal information to the companies with which we cooperate (within and outside the European Union), as well as to our employees and the employees of our partner companies, who have access to this information with the permission of the company and who need to know or have access to this information in order to perform services (such as customer service and delivery of orders). In all cases, we require all of our business partners to process your personal data in accordance with our standards and this privacy policy, as well as the laws governing the processing of personal data.
Otherwise, and without your express consent, we will not pass your personal data to third parties or share it for any purpose or use. However, we reserve the right to disclose information about you if we are required to do so by law or if disclosure is requested by law enforcement or criminal prosecution authorities.
Personal Data of Minors
We expressly state our intention not to collect data from minors. However, if it is not perceived that the user is a minor, parents or guardians are requested to inform us without delay so that we can proceed immediately to delete this data.
Data subject rights
You may at any time and without charge, object to the use of your personal data for the future, request their complete deletion, or request information about the data stored by us about your person or their correction. It is not necessary to follow a specific form of communication, as long as your will is brought to our attention.
Update and modification
The Company reserves the right to modify/update individual sections of this Policy, without obligation to inform you in advance. Please always read the Personal Data Protection Policy before using our website in order to be informed of the current version of the Policy, in case any amendments or updates have been made.
COOKIES:
INFORMATION
At rain-umbrellas.gr we think it is important for you to know what cookies we use on our website and why we use them. Our goal is to keep you properly informed and to provide you with a better experience in navigating our website.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies to improve the operation of rain-umbrellas.gr, your proper browsing, your easy login and your smooth navigation on its individual pages. At the same time, cookies allow us to present you with advertising and educational content relevant to your interests and needs.
Cookies also help us to analyse how visitors use our website, how they navigate and where they struggle. In this way we can continually optimise the operation of the e-shop and address any problems that may arise. All information collected by these cookies is anonymous and is only used to improve your shopping experience, the structure and content of rain-umbrellas.gr.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are pieces of information in the form of very small text, stored in the browser you use on your PC on your Smartphone & tablet (Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc), helping our site to function more efficiently. Cookies in no way cause damage to users’ computers or to the files stored on them. The information stored in cookies is used for identification & optimization purposes.
CATEGORIES
1) Necessary Cookies
They allow the execution of basic functions of the site, such as adding products to the cart, online payment and storing products in the wish-list. Without these absolutely necessary Cookies, the smooth operation of the e-shop is immediately affected but your personal navigation experience is also degraded as basic e-commerce functions are underperforming.
2) Performance cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use the website. They allow us to see which pages they visit most often or show us if they experience a problem while browsing. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the visitor. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve the way rain-umbrellas.gr works
3) Functionality cookies
These cookies “remember” your preferences when you browse our site, so that we can recommend the right products based on your needs, so that you can find what you are looking for much more easily.
4) Advertising cookies
These cookies are used to provide advertisements relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to send advertising or offers that are more relevant to your needs, with the aim of limiting bulk, unwanted and meaningless advertising messages. At the same time they help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
5) Cookies Analytics
These are a subset of the Functionality Cookies and enable us to evaluate the effectiveness of the various functions of our site, so that we can continually improve the experience we offer you.
Specifically:
Third party vendors, including Google, may display Company advertisements on websites on the internet.
Third party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to inform, optimize and display advertisements based on a user’s previous visit to the rain-umbrellas.gr website.
Rain-umbrellas.gr may also use cookies from a previous visit to its website for re-marketing.
Users can opt out of such use of cookies by Google here. You can set your Browser to inform you each time before a cookie is downloaded and you can decide whether to accept or reject it. In this case, please note that you may not be able to use all its features.
Rain-umbrellas.gr may use Google Analytics features for display advertising (e.g., repeat marketing, Google Display Network display reports, Double Click Campaign Manager integration and demographic and interest reporting).
Using Ad Settings, visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for display ads and customize Google Display Network ads.
Here are the available options for opting out of Google Analytics for the web.
Rain-umbrellas.gr complies with the Google Ad Words interest-based advertising policy and restrictions for sensitive categories and:
Uses iterative marketing with Google Analytics for web advertising.
Rain-umbrellas.gr and third-party vendors, including Google, use both an original manufacturer cookie (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and a third-party cookie (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to update, optimize and serve ads based on some users’ previous visits to its website.
Rain-umbrellas.gr and third-party vendors, including Google, use both a primary manufacturer cookie (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and a third-party cookie (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to run reports on how rain-umbrellas.gr’s ad impressions, other uses of advertising services, and interactions with those ad impressions and advertising services relate to visits to rain-umbrellas.gr’s website.
Rain-umbrellas.gr may use data from Google’s interest-based advertising or third-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics.
We reserve the right to change this cookie policy at any time. Any changes to this Cookies Policy will take effect once the revised Cookies Policy is made available on the Website.
Third party advertisers and other businesses we partner with may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our Website. We do not control these Cookies.
TRANSACTION SECURITY:
The security of transactions is our primary concern. That is why both our website and our partner payment institution operate under the certified SSL 128 security system, in order to ensure the secure transfer of data.
In addition, the partner payment institution has received PCI DSS certification, complying in all applications of controlled access, encryption and transaction confidentiality with the required specifications.
In addition, personal security is provided by the password that the user provides when becoming a member of www.rain-umbrellas.gr. It is recommended, for security reasons, to regularly change passwords and to avoid using the same and easily traceable ones.
The company does not guarantee that the page, services, options and contents will be provided without interruption, without errors, that this website will be secure, that errors will be corrected on this website or that the server that makes www.rain-umbrellas.gr available is free of viruses or other harmful elements. The cost of any corrections or services is borne by the visitor/user and in no case by the company.
LINKS TO OTHER LINKS:
The website, solely for the convenience and full information of its users and visitors, contains references to other websites through links, without being understood to endorse or contribute to the dissemination of the opinions and services contained therein. Under no circumstances should the aforementioned links be considered as content of the website www.rain-umbrellas.gr. The company cannot control the aforementioned websites and therefore bears no responsibility for their content and operating conditions and is not obliged to compensate for any damage caused by the linked websites. Exclusively responsible for the security, legality and validity of their content are the respective websites to which the user/visitor must address.