Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
IN GENERAL
The use of our web pages and the services provided to the visitor on the site https://villamirothea.gr owned by Villa Mirothea hereafter «the company», requires your agreement with the Privacy Policy of this site. Therefore, the visitor must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If he does not agree, he must leave this website and NEVER make use any of its services or content. This privacy policy may change from time to time according the relevant legislation. We will not explicitly notify our customers or our site’s users about these changes. Instead, we recommend you to occasionally visit this page for any changes to this privacy policy. The continued use of the https://villamirothea.gr website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy implies the unconditional acceptance of these terms by you.
Privacy and Protection of personal data
We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or publicize in any way your personal data. If you are under 16, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this site.
Relevant legislation
Along with our company’s internal IT systems, this site is designed to comply with the following laws/regulations regarding the protection of user’s personal data:
- EU Data Protection Directive (DPD of year 1995)
- Regulation on general EU data protection (GDPR of year 2018)
Personal information collected by this site and why we collect it
This site collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Website traffic
This site does not use Google Analytics or any other analytics or advertising tracking tools. Our hosting provider may process technical information, such as your IP address, in its server logs in order to deliver and secure the website.
Contact and booking forms
If you choose to contact us or to send a booking request using a form on this site, the details you enter (such as your name, e-mail address, dates and message) are sent to us through Formspark (formspark.io). Formspark is a form-processing service that acts as a third-party data processor on our behalf and delivers your message to us by e-mail. We use these details to reply to you and to handle your request. If you contact us using an e-mail link, your message is sent to us directly by e-mail.
About Cookies
What is a cookie?
The term «cookie» refers to a small data file consisting solely of a set of text information that the site transmits to the web browser on your computer’s hard disk, either temporarily throughout your visit , or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform different operations (for example, you are distinguished from other site’s visitors or remember certain info for you like your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the cookie field, the cookie’s lifetime, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
Types of cookies
The basic types of cookies are described below
Session cookies. These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies. These remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser even after the browser closes, sometimes for one year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your site configuration preferences).
First-party cookies. These are cookies installed on your browser and/or hard drive of your device from the site you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique ID to you, in order to monitor your site navigation. Site creators often use first-party cookies to handle visits and for identification purposes.
Third-party cookies. These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks to track your visits to the various sites they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
Cookies on this site
This site does not set cookies of its own and does not use analytics or advertising cookies, so it does not show a cookie banner. Some content on the site is loaded from other providers, who may receive your IP address or set their own cookies: the map on the Contact page (OpenStreetMap) and the nature.house badge on the home page. Links to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube take you to those websites, which have their own cookie and privacy policies. If you need any help on how to manage or delete cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
About this site’s web server
All web traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Third-party personal data processors
We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These Third-party personal data processors have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned in this document.
Currently these are Formspark (form submissions), Cloudflare (hosting and delivery of this website) and OpenStreetMap (the map on the Contact page).
Data breaches
For any of your personal information stored in our database, all necessary action will be taken to be secure as possible. We will report any unlawful violation of our database or any third party data processing database to all relevant stakeholders as well as authorities within 72 hours of the violation, if it is obvious that the personal data stored in recognizable form, have been stolen.