Privacy Policy/ Website Terms of Use
Website Privacy Policy
Protection of Personal Data
Last amendment: 10 January 2022
1. Introduction
The Website’s Privacy Policy governs the processing of Personal Data (“PD”) collected or provided by users through the Website. The Privacy Policy is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation on the Protection of personal data (2016/679) and with the applicable legislation in general. The PD collected or provided by the users of the Website are processed in accordance with the applicable legislation on PD and the Website’s Privacy Policy. VGLAWYERS is entitled to revise and/or unilaterally update the Privacy Policy at any time and always in conformity with applicable legislation. VGLAWYERS does not guarantee that third-party websites links of which are included in the Website comply with the requirements of applicable legislation in order to safeguard the protection of users’ PD. Use of these websites is made at the sole responsibility of the users, excluding any liability of VGLAWYERS.
2. Data Controller and Data Processor
2.1 VGLAWYERS is the data controller of Website users’ PD. VGLAWYERS determines the purposes and means of the processing of Website users’ PD. VGLAWYERS’ contact details are the following:
2 Ermou str, 105 63, Syntagma, Athens – Greece,
TEL: +30 210 72 56 047
Email address: info@vglawyers.gr
2.2 VGLAWYERS may assign to a natural or legal person the processing of Website users’ PD on behalf of the Company within the limits of the Privacy Policy. In such cases, VGLAWYERS uses processors providing sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation and/or other applicable legislation and the relevant contracts with data processors shall meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation and/or other applicable legislation.
3. Purpose of Processing
Website users’ PD are processed for explicit and legitimate purposes and are not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. In particular, Website users’ PD are processed for the purpose of (a) responding to a user’s request of communication (b) recruitment of personnel (c) improvement of the Website.
4. Lawfulness of Processing
4.1 In principle, the lawfulness of processing Website users’ PD by VGLAWYERS is the consent of the Website users. More specifically, the users are informed for the use of non-technically necessary cookies through the relevant pop-up window, and if they wish, they accept the cookies.
4.2 The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time by email sent to: info@vglawyers.gr.
4.3 The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
4.4 Users’ consent is retained by VGLAWYERS for the time period required for the purposes of the processing, which does not exceed six (6) months from the of processing or withdrawal of consent.
4.5 In any case, even without the consent of the users, the Company or third parties on behalf of VGLAWYERS may process users’ PD in all cases provided for in Articles 6 and 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation and/or other applicable legislation.
5. Recipients of PD
Recipient of PD collected from and/or provided by the Website’s users is VGLAWYERS.
6. Technical and Organisational Measures
Users’ PD are processed using both electronic and printed form. VGLAWYERS makes every effort to ensure that the Website users’ PD are processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures. The Website uses a security protocol with encryption, for secure electronic communications. This encrypts all users’ PD entries so they cannot be read or modified when transferred in the Internet.
7. PD Storage
VGLAWYERS keeps Website users’ PD only for the period necessary for the fulfilment of the processing purposes for which the PD were collected. In particular, it maintains PD, in the case of a user’s request for communication, for a period reasonably necessary to respond to the request for communication and in the case of a CV no more than six (6) months from the submission of the CV. For the period of Cookies maintenance see above the Cookie Policy.
8. Users’ Rights (Data Subjects’ Rights)
8.1 According to the General Data Protection Regulation on the Protection of personal data Website users, have the following rights:
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Right to Information and Access.. The data subject has the right to be informed with respect the process of his/her PD and to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed.
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Right to rectification. The data subject has the right to obtain from VGLAWYERS without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.
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Right to erasure. ΤThe data subject shall have the right to obtain from VGLAWYERS the erasure of PD concerning him or her without undue delay and the Company shall have the obligation to erase PD without undue delay, where the process of such PD is no longer necessary or unlawful.
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Right to restriction of processing. The data subject shall have the right to obtain from VGLAWYERS restriction of processing in certain cases.
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Right to data portability. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to VGLAWYERS, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the Company.
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Right to object. The data subject shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her. VGLAWYERS shall no longer process the personal data unless it demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.2 The abovementioned rights may be exercised by email sent to: info@vglawyers. For this purpose the request template, attached in the end of the present, shall be used.
8.3 The Website users, as data subjects, may additionaly file a complaint before the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (http://www.dpa.gr/).
9. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
Any dispute with respect to the implementation, interpretation, invalidity of the Terms of Use, the existence or non-existence of rights and obligations of users or the Company, under contract and/or tort, is governed by Greek law and is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Athens.
Website Terms of Use
Last amendment: 10 January 2022
1. Introduction
Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) before using vglawyers.gr (the “Website”), which is property of the law partnership VRETTOS & ASSOCIATES with registered offices at 2 Ermou Street, GR-105 63 Athens-Syntagma, (+30 2107256047, info@vglawyers.gr) (“VGLAWYERS”).
Access to and use of the Website shall constitute full and unconditional acceptance of the Terms of Use. VGLAWYERS is entitled to unilaterally revise and/or update the Terms of Use at any time. Use of the Website after any revision and/or update of the Terms of Use implies that the users have accepted the Terms of Use in accordance with the revisions and/or updates. In the event users do not accept all Terms of Use, they should not use the Website.
In the event that one or more Terms of Use are found to be in violation of applicable law or void by a competent Authority or Court, they shall immediately cease to apply, without prejudice to the validity of the other Terms of Use.
The Website has been created for information and communication purposes between the users and VGLAWYERS. VGLAWYERS is entitled, at any time and without prior notice to the users, to interrupt or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the Website.
2. Websıte Users
The Websıte is addressed exclusively to adults. Minors are prohibited from usıng the Website. VGLAWYERS bears no responsibility in the event that minors use the Website.
3. Website Content and Use of Content
3.1 The entire content of the Website in any form, including but not limited to texts, photographs, videos, sounds and graphics (“Content”), together with trademarks, logos, distinctive features and/or other proprietary rights, and the Website itself are intellectual and/or industrial property of VGLAWYERS and are protected in accordance with applicable laws. Intellectual and/or other proprietary rights of third parties that may be found in the Website belong to their rightful owners.
3.2 Commercial use of the Website and/or its Content, copying and/or modifying and/or reproducing and/or retransmission and/or distributing in any way and/or presenting and/or linking and/or downloading and/or otherwise exploiting, all or part, of the Website and/or its Content and/or trademarks, logos, distinctive features and/or other proprietary rights, without the prior written consent of VGLAWYERS, is prohibited. Furthermore, the use of the Website and/or its Content for any unlawful purpose or in any way that is inconsistent with these Terms of Use is prohibited.
3.3 Any breach of the Terms of Use resulting in infringement of the intellectual and/or other property rights of VGLAWYERS shall entitle VGLAWYERS to bring a claim seeking redress for the breach. Νon-exercise by VGLAWYERS of any right or claim shall not imply a waiver from such rights or claims.
3.4 Use of the Website’s Content is made at the sole responsibility of the users, excluding any liability of VGLAWYERS.
4. Links to Third Party Websites
The Website is likely to include links to third-party websites exclusively for the purpose of facilitating the users. Use of these websites is made at the sole responsibility of the users, excluding any liability of VGLAWYERS.
5. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
Any dispute with respect to the implementation, interpretation, invalidity of the Terms of Use, the existence or non-existence of rights and obligations of users or the Company, under contract and/or tort, is governed by Greek law and is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Athens.