Privacy Policy

The use of the electronic page provided to the visitor/user by the website bythesea.gr owned by “Maria Efstathiou – Apartments for Rent” implies your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. The visitor/user is obliged to carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If he/she does not agree, he/she should leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change in accordance with the legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you periodically check this page for changes to this privacy policy. Continuing to use the website bythesea.gr even after any changes to the Privacy Policy means your unconditional acceptance of these terms.

We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute or make public in any way your personal data.
If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.

In addition to our company’s internal systems, this website has been designed to comply with the following legislation/regulations regarding the protection of users’ personal data:
1. 1. EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
2. 2. EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

Personal information this website collects and why we collect it This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to Mailchimp, which provides us with our email marketing services. Mailchimp is a third party data processor (see the section “Our third party data processors” below). The email address you submit will not be stored in the database within the website or in any of our company’s internal IT systems.
Your email address will remain in Mailchimp’s database for as long as we continue to use its services for our email marketing or until you explicitly request to be removed from the list. You can do this by using the unsubscribe link included in all email newsletters we send you.
As long as your email address remains in Mailchimp’s database, you will receive periodic (approximately once a month) newsletter emails from us.

If you wish to contact us using a contact form or a link in our email, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transferred to or processed by any third party data processor as defined below in the section “Our third party data processors”. Instead, this data will be sent to us in an email message via the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by the TLS security protocol (sometimes known as SSL), which means that the content of the email is encrypted before it is sent over the internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

What is a cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a string of text information that a website transfers to your web browser on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily for the duration of your visit or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform a variety of functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain from which the cookie originated, the “lifespan” of the cookie, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

Types of cookies
The main types of cookies that websites may use are described below

Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your device’s browser’s cookie file only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies
These remain in your device’s cookie file even after you close your browser, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of time depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are across more than one visit (e.g. to remember your username or your preferences for customizing the website).

First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed in your browser and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting. This involves assigning a unique identifier to you in order to track your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.

Third-party cookies
These are cookies that are used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.

Cookies on this website and how to manage them
On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of using the website by its visitors. The functioning of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Below is information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling them on the functioning of the website. If you would like more information about how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics cookies are performance/analysis cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the website, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about how visitors navigate around the website. This information helps us to improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data.

Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide to us as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.

Cookies from social networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our website with them by clicking on one of the embedded “Share” buttons. If you disable these cookies, the “Share” feature will not be available.

All internet traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred over the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These parties have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this text.

For any personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to secure it.
We will report any illegal breach of this website’s database or the database of any third party data processor to any and all directly interested parties as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, if it is obvious that personal data stored in identifiable form has been stolen.

The person responsible for editing this website is: “Maria Efstathiou”

In our online store you have the option to download or delete the personal data that has been collected by us. In case you are a registered user you should log in to your account and by clicking on your account icon, you will see the two options (Delete and View) that we have prepared for you. In any other case or if you have ordered as a guest in our online store you can still request the sending of your data or its deletion by sending us an email using the details that you will find on our contact page.