The policy objective
The protection of your personal data is important for ThPA. This policy informs you about ThPA information collection practices including the categories of data collected, maintained, treated, the purpose of their collection, the categories of data subjects to whom data are notified and your rights. ThPA uses its best endeavours to protect your personal data on the condition that the data you provide us are accurate and true.
Also, it describes some of the safety measures taken by ThPA in order to protect the confidential nature of the data and provides some guarantees on things that the Company will fail to accomplish.
Legal and regulatory framework
The Société Anonyme under the name Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA SA) that was established in 1999 (Law 2688/99, GG 40A’/1-3-99) with a view to managing and operating the port of Thessaloniki, collects and processes personal data about you, within the framework of the exercise of its competence and the fulfilment of its legal obligations. For the purposes of this Policy, ThPA will be referred to as “Processor” within the meaning of Art. 4, Art. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
The management and protection of the personal data of the visitors of the website www.thpa.gr is subject to these terms, and the relevant provisions of the European Regulation 2016/679, on the Personal Data Protection (GDPR). The present terms are drafted taking into account both the radical development of technology and, especially, Internet, and the existing regulatory package regarding these issues. The www.thpa.gr will not make any misuse and use without your prior approval, in conformity with the principles of protection of personal data provided for by the relevant laws and international conventions. The www.thpa.gr will by no means disclose, publish, exchange the personal data and information you entrust with us. Also, it does not transmit users’ personal information and data or, in general, e-mail addresses and any other information regarding its users to any other not affiliated organization or partner.
What type of data does ThPA collect through its website.
We collect the following personal data:
Identification data: Full name:
Contact details: E-mail address.
We do not collect, or have by no means access, through the website, to special category (“sensible”) data relating to criminal conviction and offences of natural persons. When visiting the ThPA website www.thpa.gr you will not be requested to provide any type of personal data. In a few cases, however, you will be requested to provide some personal data, which are indicated in the respective data fields on the www.thpa.gr website.
Personal data collection and intended use
This Policy informs about the personal data collection method and procedure by www.thpa.gr, stating each category of data that we may collect, store and process during our exchanges with the purpose of collection-storage-processing, the categories of persons concerned by the data and the third parties to whom the data and the rights that natural persons enjoy as data subjects. ThPA uses its best endeavours to protect your personal data on the condition that they are accurate and true. Moreover, this Policy describes to the extent possible the safety measures we adopt to protect the confidentiality of the personal data and lists examples of guarantees for activities and actions from which the Company will abstain. The use of personal or non-personal data collected by the Company, serves the following goals:
Improvement and adaptation of the website: ThPA is going to use these data exclusively for the purposes for which they were collected and for providing you information. Also, it will use them to adjust the content of the website to your needs and improve its composition, its changes and its potential.
Legal use: ThPA can collect, store, disclose and, generally, process your personal data when it is so required by the General Data Protection Regulation and/or by Law, or, when it is necessary, in order to protect or defend its own or your interests.
Use of data
The data you provide to www.thpa.gr can be used to:
– help us manage and contact you about the improvement of the management of services that were, are or will be provided by the Company,
– handle a complaint
– contact you in any way (including post, e-mail, telephone etc.).
Personal Data Transmission
ThPA does not share or transmit personal data to third parties unless it is required for legal purposes in order to reply to your requests and/or provided that it is required or permitted by law. In any case, access to your personal data is only allowed to authorized persons, which are required to have access to allow the attainment of their collection, use and processing, as hereby notified.
In some cases, ThPA may share your personal data with some cooperating companies or service providers in order to respond to your requests or with natural or legal persons entrusted with the processing, provided that we will inform you in advance and will get your prior consent, if required. Persons with access to the data shall respect their confidentiality.
Cookies
A cookie is a set of parameters stored on the User’s hard disc and includes selected data about the User’s browsing activity. A ‘cookie’ may include preferences such as the language selection, the user’s e-name or other similar data, which, otherwise, would have to be frequently submitted by the User. The use of a ‘cookie’ can by no means disclose personal data at the moment you connect with our website. Most ‘cookies’ are automatically deleted when you close the session cookies.
The ‘cookies’ can be deactivated at the User’s programme but this option may restrict some of our website’s possibilities while the User may be requested to submit repeatedly the same data.
ThPA SA currently does not use cookies but could possibly use this technology in the future. In such a case, we will describe to you in detail what cookies do and will give you instructions about how you can control them.
Log Files
We use IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to analyse trends in the use of Internet, manage the resources of our computers and our network, monitor any unauthorized illegal or malicious activities (attacks) and collect general demographic data (country of origin) for an aggregate utilization.
How safe are your data?
ThPA tries to keep strict safety and control measures to protect your personal data in order to ensure compliance with all applicable legal requirements.
In ThPA, we apply safety measures at a technical and organizational level in order to protect the data we collected from you against any voluntary or involuntary attempt, handling, loss, destruction or access by an unauthorized person. Our safety measures are continuously subject to re-audits and reforms, in line with the latest technological developments.
Access to your personal data is only limited to the duly authorized employees in order to provide you products and services and come in contact with these data.
Natural, electronic and procedural safeguards have been put in place in line with the personal data protection regulations.
ThPA takes any possible precaution in order to protect your data. However, due to the nature of the Internet, it cannot guarantee the protection of communications or data stored in its browsers against any unauthorized access by third parties.
Access on Internet
If you contact ThPA online, we may occasionally use e-mail or postal address or telephone number to contact you regarding our services, provided that you have provided them to us voluntarily.
Please note that online communications such as emails etc. are not safe, unless they are encrypted.
ThPA does not bear any responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of your personal data beyond its control.
Privacy policy and Children: This website has been designed and meant for use by adults. If you are an underage and parental consent is required in your country, you need to check the terms of this Privacy Policy together with your parent or your guardian to make sure that you understand and accept these terms. Once it has been established that we have collected information from an underage without the consent of his parent or guardian, while we should obtain such consent, we shall delete such data as soon as possible.
IP Addresses: The IP address of the computer used by the visitor/user/member to have access on the Internet and then on the Website/Application, is stored and can be used, if necessary, in case of infringement of the Terms of Use of the Website/Application by the visitor/user/member.
Communication through the website platform: If a user contacts us through the Contact Form or in any other way, the provision of his personal data is done voluntarily and exclusively at the user’s free will. We will process the personal data provided only to the extent required and for this specific goal.
Social networks: Our Website may offer the possibility to share on Social Networks and other similar tools that allow you to share your actions on the Website with other applications, websites or media and vice versa. The use of such features allows the exchange of data with your friends or the general public, depending on the settings of your personal profile. Please consult the privacy policies of the social network services for more information about the processing of your data.
Special Category Data: You are requested not to send us by e-mail or disclose using a contact platform your sensitive personal data. The processing of personal data under this category does by no means serve the purpose of processing, as defined above.
Monitoring communications
All communications of ThPA with you (including phone calls, e-mails etc) are neither monitored nor recorded.
What are your rights?
According to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679], as applicable, you have the following rights:
A) right of access
B) right to rectification
C) Right to erasure, under some conditions, e.g. When the personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were intended and where there is no other legal ground for the processing (or storage),
D) right to restriction of processing,
E) the right to data portability
F) the data subject right to object and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling,
G) right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority
I.e. you have the right to receive, upon request, free information about your stored personal data or to object, upon request, the processing of your personal data with future validity and withdrawal of your consent and also, according to the applicable provisions, the right of rectification, right of restriction to processing, right of data portability, right to erasure of such data and the right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority
You are requested to address to the competent Personal Data Protection of ThPA below in writing, by an original letter, by fax or email.
Policy reviews
ThPA reserves the right to amend or review periodically this Policy in its sole discretion. In case of changes, ThPA will record the date of the modification or revision on this Policy and the updated Policy will apply for you as from this date onwards. We encourage you to examine from times to times this Policy in order to identify any changes in the way we manage your personal data.
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
For any dispute that may arise between a user and ThPA, the applicable law will be the Greek one and the competent courts for resolving the dispute are the competent courts of Thessaloniki.
Links
Our website may contain links to other websites. This Policy on personal data protection applies only for the user’s access to this website and other websites that are exclusively managed by ThPA. The administrator of this website shall in no way be held liable for the protection terms of the personal data of other websites under the responsibility of third parties (natural or legal persons).
Communication
ThPA informs you that it has appointed a Data Protected Officer that you can contact at the email address dpo@thpa.gr
If you have questions or recommendations about this Policy, please address them to the above address. Due to constant developments on the Internet, we are required to adjust from time to time our rules about the protection of online data. ThPA reserves the right to proceed to any indicated changes in the rules, at any time.
The current policy was last updated on 29/05/2020
