The website chaniaorthopaedic.com would like to inform its visitors/users/members (hereinafter: "Users") about the type and amount of information that it collects and processes as a Data Controller when they visit and browse this Website and to assure them that any processing of their personal data is always guided by the interest of the users, in compliance with the principles of lawfulness, transparency, accuracy, availability and integrity in all its aspects, as well as fully harmonized with the European Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulation").

By reading the following you will be fully informed about how we process your personal data (collection, management, use, storage, transfer to third parties, protection), the period of their retention, as well as the rights you can exercise at any time regarding your personal data.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

What is Personal Data:

It is any information relating to an identifiable or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); location data; electronic identity; or one or more factors relating to the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

What is the Processing of Personal Data:

any operation or sequence of operations performed, with or without the use of automated means, on personal data or on sets of personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or any other form of making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Our users who visit the Website may under certain circumstances be asked to disclose their personal data to us (e.g. when you subscribe to our newsletters or contact us form, we ask for your name, e-mail, address and telephone number so that we can contact you).

Under no circumstances is personal data of minors collected except with the express consent of those exercising parental responsibility.

When you browse the Website, you unconditionally and unconditionally acknowledge that you have read, understood and accepted the privacy policy and the use of cookies.

A cookie is a file that is stored on your computer, mobile phone or tablet when you visit any website and can, for example, store relevant information:

- your online behaviour, your user preferences to send (by us, our partners and/or our advertisers/sponsors) targeted advertisements or offers that correspond to your preferences and which will continue to be presented to you when you visit a Website that matches your interests (behavioural cookies - advertising/third party cookies),

- with the pages you visit on the Website and if errors occur with them (performance cookies),

- analyzing the use of the Website (e.g. google analytics),

- by browser type,

- the Internet Service Provider (ISP),

- using social media, based on your geographical location (e.g. searching for the weather forecast for a particular city) or storing your username (where applicable) so that you do not have to enter it from the beginning, your return to our site (functionality-related cookies).

Our website uses cookies, mainly to improve the user experience and to provide the highest possible quality of service to our users.

You do not have to accept cookies and therefore you can, as an additional measure, modify your browser to refuse cookies. The browser you use to "surf" the internet not only allows you to see the cookies you have, but also allows you to control their use.

You can control them by allowing them or deleting all or some of them. You can also set your browser to not accept cookies from any website. You can also set your browser to ask for your consent before accepting a cookie on your device. This gives you full control over cookies, but has the disadvantage of slowing down your Internet browsing.

It should be noted that there are different levels of cookie control. You have the option through your browser to opt out of receiving third party or behavioural advertising cookies. In some browsers you can even block certain companies from which you do not want to receive cookies.

USE OF PERSONAL DATA - PURPOSES

The Personal Data of the users of the Website provided through them or through connected applications may be used for the purposes mentioned herein or in the connected applications, namely:

- personalize the Website for users in order to provide an optimal user experience and enjoy the services provided

- it is possible to provide statistical information to third parties, but in such a way that they cannot identify the subject of the personal data

- be able to manage the Website and any form of communication

Be able to manage connected applications

- it may be possible to send updates or notifications or even promotions after prior user selection that must meet the conditions now in force under the GDPR and can be freely revoked at any time.

By subscribing the users of the Website to the newsletters, users accept, having given their express consent, to receive the information that we will provide them both for the development of the current news and for any competitions and/or prizes as a result of participation in them.

There is a possibility of transferring user data to our third parties / partners acting on our behalf (who perform the processing) and it has been verified that they meet the data protection requirements by applying a parallel protection policy to ours.

Under no circumstances and for any reason whatsoever will chaniaorthopaedic.com communicate or disclose the personal data of the users of the Website unless it has their free and express consent to do so or if this is required due to the existence of a corresponding obligation; in compliance with the applicable rules of law and always with the specific principle that will be defined by the Law.

The chaniaorthopaedic.com:

- It shall respect the confidentiality of personal data known to it.

- It adopts organisational and technical security measures for data processing, which protect the logical and physical security of the data, such as secure software, physical protection, pseudonymisation, encryption.

- Our systems by design and by default ensure that we will be able to meet our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

- We will notify you immediately of any incident involving a breach of your personal data.

- Complies with the legal framework for the protection of personal data and in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a controller.

PERSONAL DATA SECURITY

chaniaorthopaedic.com continuously takes all such Appropriate Technical and Organisational Measures (ITPM) to protect your personal data and your privacy.

Access to personal data is strictly limited to the staff of chaniaorthopaedic.com and strict rules of professional secrecy, confidentiality and discretion apply. Any processing of your personal data is carried out by authorised persons in a manner that fully complies with the rules and procedures required by the GDPR, ensuring the security of your personal data and protecting it from any unauthorised access and use, manipulation, loss/theft or destruction.

This Privacy & Data Protection Policy does not apply if you link through this Website to another Website for processing that may be carried out by the other Website for which we are not responsible. For this reason we encourage you to refer to the Privacy & Data Protection Policy of each Website you browse.

DURATION OF PERSONAL DATA

Users' personal data are kept for as long as it is the legitimate purpose of the processing for which they were originally collected with the free consent of the users.

The visitor / user can configure their servers (browser) in such a way that it either warns them (the user) about the use of cookies in specific services of the pages, or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case. If the visitor/user does not wish to use cookies to identify himself/herself, he/she cannot access these services any further.

You can also modify the settings in your browser. In some cases, you can even accept cookies from certain websites and block the creation of cookies by third parties. Please note that deleting or blocking cookies may reduce the functionality of the website you are browsing. For more information about cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu in the browser you are using. If you have problems deleting or blocking cookies from your browser, contact your browser provider. In the links below you can find additional information on how to prevent the use or delete cookies from the browser you are using.Firefox 2.0+ / 3.0+ / 4.0+ / 8.0+

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The site uses completely anonymous data to record behaviours. No personally identifiable user data is collected under any circumstances and IP address and data anonymisation is applied. For users who do not want there to be absolutely - not anonymous - recording, behaviour, an opt-out procedure is provided (see details here). The user expressly accepts that the exclusive competence and jurisdiction for any dispute arising with chaniaorthopaedic.com, belongs to the Courts of Chania. These terms of use are governed by Greek law. If any of the above terms are found to be invalid, this shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms which shall remain in full force and effect.

The use of the website, its services and its content are subject to the above terms of use. If the user-visitor finds these terms unacceptable, please do not use the website.