Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
IN GENERAL
The use of our web pages and the services provided to the visitor on the site
throniopistachios.com owned by Thronio pistachios 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 to 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 throniopistachios.com website even after any changes to the Privacy
Policy implies the unconditional acceptance of these terms by you.
Intellectual property rights
All the content of the website, including images, graphics, photographs, plans, texts,
services and products provided are the intellectual property of the owner of the website and
are protected according to the relevant provisions of Greek Law, the right holder and
International Conventions. All intellectual property rights of this website belong to «the
company» or to third parties who have legally granted us their use. Any copying,
reproduction and retransmission of website material is prohibited without the prior written
permission of the company or any other legal owner thereof. The appearance of the material
on the website should in no way be construed as a transfer or assignment of a license or
right to use them.
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 monitoring
Like most sites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data
to determine the number of our site visitors to better understand how they find and use our
web pages. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, your device, your
web browser, and your operating system, none of this information identify you to us. GA also
records your computer's IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does
not provide access to it. We believe that Google is a third data processor that is compliant
with the requirements of European legislation.
Contact forms and e-mail links
If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you
provide will be stored to our site or transferred or processed by any third party data
processor as defined below in the section «Our third-party data processors». Instead, these
data will be sent to us via an SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP
servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (also known as SSL), meaning that email
content is encrypted before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is
decrypted by our local computers and devices.
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 and how to manage them
On this site, we use cookies to improve your user experience. Site functionality will be
significantly affected if you disable or disagree with the use of cookies.
See the following information about the third-party cookies we use on this site, including how
to disable them and the effect of disabling on the site's functionality. If you need any help on
how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to check or delete them, please visit
www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics cookies are performance analytics/logging cookies that allow us to collect
anonymous information about how visitors use our site. These cookies can inform us on how
many visitors use the site, the visit's time and duration, and also provide information on how
visitors navigate across the site. This information helps us improve the way our site works.
They are anonymous information and do not contain personal information.
The information collected by the Google Analytics cookies about our site is transferred and
stored on Google's servers in accordance with Google's privacy policy.
For more information on Google Analytics, please visit
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable Google Analytics tracking by visiting https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpa
ge/gaoptout?hl =en=GB
If you disable these cookies, your activity will not be counted or used in the statistics we
collect to improve the services we provide through this site. Website functionality will not be
affected.
Video providers cookies
Video providers can place cookies on your device if you watch their video on our site.
If you disable these cookies you may not be able to see the embedded videos on our site.
Social Networks cookies
Third-party social networks can place cookies on your device if you choose to share a web
page of our site with another third-party Social Network site, by clicking on one of the
«share» buttons.
If you disable these cookies, you will not be able to share any of our content with third-party
social networks
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.
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.
Data Protection Officer
The data protection officer (DPO) of this site is: «Evangelia Koutsodonti»
