The privacy and protection of our customers’ personal data is of paramount importance to us. We want you to feel happy and secure when visiting our website and to consider the implementation of data protection as a customer-oriented quality feature. Please read this privacy policy carefully because it informs you of your rights and the way and scope of the processing of personal data by our website, which has fully complied with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2016/679 – General Data Protection Regulation). For the text of the regulation you can click on the link https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EL/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679. The Regulation requires that any information to the data subject on the processing of data must be provided in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form. For this reason:

• Our website is intended to provide information about the services and products we offer. Browsing our website is done on a secure server with Standard SSL encryption protocol with 256-bit encryption.
• Users of https://www.ktimakalogeropoulos.gr/ who are minors have access to its services exclusively with the consent of their parents and/or guardians. In the event that the aforementioned conditions are not met, such minors should refrain from any attempt to use the services, the pages and the general content of the website.

What is personal data and which of it do we collect?

“personal data” means” is defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). This does not include anonymous information. When you yourself fill in the contact form of our website, register on it, register to receive our newsletter, connect to our website from a social media, request information or technical support, use the on-line chat/message boards of our website, we collect the given data from you, such as identity data, contact data with you or your financial data. We may also receive your personal data from third parties, such as technical and tracking data from appropriate providers, such as google analytics, google and so on, or from third parties who are permitted by law or have your permission to provide this information to us, such as social media. Of course, this will only be used if the law allows us to do so. NOT we collect special categories of your personal data, i.e. data “revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, as well as genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of positive identification of a person, data concerning health or data concerning the sex life of a natural person or sexual orientation” (Article 9(1) GDPR/GDPR) or data relating to criminal convictions and offences (Article 10 GDPR/GDPR). If you do not allow us to collect your personal data for the purposes stated here, we may not be able to provide you with our services in an optimal way.

How and why do we use your personal data?

When their use is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, i.e. when you make a purchase from our online or physical store and when their use is necessary to comply with our legal obligation, i.e. we file them for accounting and tax purposes.

Advertising- marketing

If you have given us your explicit consent and depending on the personal data you have provided us with, we will send you marketing messages via e-mail, SMS, Viber, etc., in order to inform you about our products and services. At any time you can stop receiving communications from us, either by using the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter, or by contacting our customer service at our call centre (+30) 2710 572 527, or by sending an e-mail to sales@ktimakalogeropoulos.gr

Participation in competitions

You can participate in competitions through our website or our newsletters or through our social media page. The personal data that you provide to us in the context of participation in a competition will be used exclusively for the processing of the competition (e.g. announcement of winners, notification of winners, sending of gifts) and will only be processed for this purpose if you have given us your consent, which you can give at any time with effect for the future, either by contacting our customer service at our call centre (+30) 2710 572 527, or by sending an e-mail to sales@ktimakalogeropoulos.gr. The transfer to third parties is only carried out if this is required for the execution of the competition (e.g. sending the gift via a partner transport company). Further transmission to third parties is normally excluded. After the end of the competition and the announcement of the winners, the winners’ data is kept for the duration of any legal warranty claims, in order to enable subsequent restoration or exchange in case of defects.

Use of cookies

Cookies are in simple terms small pieces of code that record your movements while you are browsing our website and are divided into

• “Cookies” which are necessary for the identification and/or preservation of content entered by the subscriber or user during a session on a website throughout the duration of the specific connection, e.g. when the user fills in an online form. The same category includes ‘persistent cookies’ which are installed for the same purpose and last for a period of a few hours.
• “Cookies” that are necessary for the authentication of the subscriber or user in services that require authentication (e.g. when carrying out a banking transaction via the internet).
• “Cookies” installed for the purpose of subscriber or user security, such as “cookies” that detect repeated failed attempts to log in to a user’s account on a particular website.
• “Cookies” with multimedia content, such as flash player “cookies”, during a session on a website. Such are, for example, “cookies” that are installed when a video is shown on the website visited by the user.
• “Cookies” which are necessary for the realization of the technique of load balancing on a connection to an internet website.
• “Cookies” that “remember” the subscriber’s or user’s choices regarding the presentation of the website (e.g. “cookies” regarding the choice of language or the presentation of search results on a website).
• “Cookies” that are installed through plug-ins on social networking sites and relate to the sharing of content between authenticated members who have already logged in.
• “Cookies” that are installed for the purpose of advertising and are installed by the provider of the website visited by the user (first party cookies), as well as “cookies” installed by others (e.g. advertising networks) through the website provider (third party cookies).
• “Cookies” that are installed by others (e.g. advertising networks) through the website provider (third party cookies) and are necessary for other purposes (e.g. market research and analysis, improvement of advertised products, etc.) and are not directly related to the identification of the user.
• Cookies” installed for the purpose of statistical analysis (web analytics)

By using our website, you will need to agree what kind of cookies you allow us to place. When you enter the main page of our website, you will be informed of a note on the use of cookies and the possibilities of deactivating them or not.

As a rule, the transfer of your data to third parties is excluded.

Exceptionally, the data is processed by processors on our behalf. These are selected carefully each time, checked by us and contractually bound in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR. In addition, we may be required to forward extracts of your request to our contractors (e.g. suppliers, for requests relating to products) in order to process your request. These may be auditors and professional advisors (lawyers, accountants, bank) and/or companies related to the transfer of products, professional service providers, such as marketing, advertising and web support, optimization and hosting companies, payment verification services, the Cybercrime Unit, Consumer Protection Services and e-Fraud prevention services, for cases of malicious use, social media if you choose to link your account to If the transfer of your personal data is required in an individual case, we will inform you about it in order to obtain your consent. We do NOT transfer your personal data to recipients outside the European Union.

Security of your personal data

We have effectively implemented, both at the time of determining the means of processing and at the time of processing, appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to implement data protection principles and incorporate the necessary safeguards in the processing in such a way that the requirements of the GDPR are met and your rights are protected. We have also implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that, by default, only personal data that is necessary for the purpose of the processing is processed. We have active procedures in place to monitor a possible personal data breach and in such a case we will inform you and the competent supervisory authority immediately.

How long do we keep your personal data?

The computers and programs used by our company are created in such a way that the use of personal and identifying information is kept to a minimum. These data are processed only to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Policy and will be stored for as long as strictly necessary to achieve the specific purposes pursued. In each case, the criterion used to determine the storage period is based on compliance with the time limits allowed by law and the principles of data minimisation, storage limitation or rational management of our records.

Find out your rights under the GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Union, you have the following rights in simple terms:

1. The right to be informed about how we use your personal data.
2. The right of access, i.e. you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
3. The right of rectification, i.e. to correct your personal data that may be incomplete or inaccurate.
4. The right to erasure (the right to “be forgotten”), i.e. in specific cases to ask us to delete your personal data we hold (unless there is a legal reason for us not to do so)
5. The right to restrict the processing of your personal data.
6. The right to portability of your data, i.e. to request a copy of your personal data in a common file format and to transfer that data to another company.
7. The right to object to the processing of your personal data, e.g. for direct marketing purposes.
8. The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or significantly affects you in a similar way.
9. The right to complain to the competent data protection supervisory authority in the Member State where you have your habitual residence or place of work.

The above rights are subject to specific rules on when you can exercise them. You do not have to pay to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your rights) unless your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we may refuse to comply. Please note that we may ask for some additional information in order to confirm your identity when you request access to your rights or to exercise any other rights you may have, as a security measure to ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to others. We will respond to each request within one (1) month, if we need more time due to complexity or number of requests, we will inform you.

This privacy policy was updated on 12 September 2023.

Please check back periodically for any changes to it.

Processing manager

The Data Controller is PETROS KALOGEROPOULOS (+30) 2710 572 527, sales@ktimakalogeropoulos.gr), to whom you can address any questions you may have regarding the privacy policy or the exercise of any of your rights under the GDPR.