Privacy Policy
The INFOYOUTH.GR website of the Thessaloniki Youth Club for UNESCO (Leontos Sofou 6, 54625, Thessaloniki) respects your privacy and complies with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the corresponding Greek implementing legislation.
Personal Data
Our Privacy Policy fully complies with the latest guidelines regarding the use and processing of personal data, as published by the European Union.
You can read the legislation regarding personal data as published by the European Union at the following link: EU Data Protection
Data Controller & Personal Data Processing
The Thessaloniki Youth Club for UNESCO is the Data Controller responsible for the management and processing of personal data. Its registered office is in Thessaloniki, at 3 Tsimiski Street, 54624, and its GEMI number is ……..
Your data is used and processed only for the purposes for which you have given your consent.
Personal Data Collected
Your personal data is collected to meet your various needs, such as receiving our latest articles by email (Newsletter), communicating with our website, and interacting with our website while visiting it. More specifically, the personal data collected, depending on the circumstances, includes:
- If you use the Contact Form, various contact details are collected, including your first name, last name and email address.
- During your interaction with our website, certain additional information is automatically collected by us. This includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, information about your web browser (browser information), tags and cookies.
- If you wish to receive informational Newsletters, your email address, full name and the IP address from which the subscription request was sent are collected. The collected information is retained for accountability purposes in accordance with the GDPR exclusively by MailChimp, which acts as the Data Processor and is responsible for protecting your data.
Purposes of Data Collection
- Communication with us: Whether through our Contact Form or through your own email software, the data you provide and send to us is used exclusively to respond to your request and only for as long as necessary to address it. This data will not be used for promotional or marketing purposes.
- Information purposes: This includes sharing new articles from our website and our organization. Once we have received your consent, our organization may include you in its information activities at regular intervals. Under no circumstances will these communications contain promotional marketing activities.
- Research and website performance analysis: Data may be collected and processed in order to understand how our website is being used, such as the number of unique visitors, which pages are visited, how much time visitors spend on each page and other interaction data that enables us to optimize and improve our website.
- Other purposes: We will not use your personal data for any other purposes unless we provide specific information when the data is collected. Where required, we will obtain your consent before using your data for such purposes.
Disclosure of Personal Data
1) Disclosure by our organization
Personal data may be disclosed to third-party service providers, such as web hosting providers, cloud providers, email automation software providers and other third parties, to the extent necessary for purposes including compliance with a government request, court order or applicable law; prevention of unlawful use of our websites or violations of our Terms of Use and policies; protection of our organization against third-party claims; and assistance in preventing or investigating cases of fraud.
2) Disclosure by you
User disclosure includes interactive activities with social networking websites, where your profile may be displayed and may include photographs, name, date of birth and other personal information.
Retention of Personal Data
The period for which we retain your personal data varies depending on the purpose for which it was collected. More specifically:
a) Data collected for communication purposes is retained for as long as communication with the user continues and is deleted 30 calendar days after the last communication.
b) Contact information used for Newsletter distribution is retained indefinitely. However, if you wish to stop receiving our Newsletter, you can simply click the unsubscribe link included in each Newsletter and you will be removed from our mailing list. Nevertheless, in accordance with GDPR requirements, certain information will be retained in backups in order to meet the requirements concerning accountability and proof of consent.
c) Interaction data is retained for 30 days, except for Cookies for which a different retention period may apply. For more information regarding Cookies, please read our Cookie Policy.
Data Security
Our organization uses a wide range of tools aimed at protecting your personal data. These include encrypted communication between the user and the server, a firewall on the server, and a server protected by a third-party firewall provided by Cloudflare.
We will report any unlawful breach of our website database or of our partners (Data Processors) to all directly affected parties and to the relevant authorities within 72 hours of becoming aware that such a breach has occurred.
Cookies & Pixel Tags
Our organization collects information that may include personal data as you interact with our website. More specifically, we use cookies that allow us to recognize each visitor based on information collected, such as your IP address, unique cookie identifier, information about your cookies, information regarding whether your device has software required to access certain features, unique device identifier and device type, domain, browser type and language, operating system and system settings, country and time zone, previous visits to websites, information about your interaction with our websites, such as the number of clicks, purchases, stated preferences and access times and related URLs.
It is also important to mention that we use third-party cookies, including Google Analytics and Facebook, which allow us to better personalize advertisements according to your interests, both on our website and on other websites.
We do not use Pixel Tags on our website.
For more information regarding Cookies, please read our Cookie Policy.
Children
We comply with applicable local legislation and do not allow registration on our website by individuals under the age of sixteen (16). Parental consent is required in cases where minors participate in our events.
Questions & Comments
If you have any questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
