Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
GENERALLY
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website yarns.gr owned by “Νίματα Πλεκτικής – Knitting Yarns – Yarns.Gr” hereinafter “the company”, requires your unconditional agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If he/she does not agree, he/she must leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or industry developments. We will not expressly inform our customers or users of our website of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes to this privacy policy. Your continued use of the yarns.gr website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy constitute your unconditional acceptance of these terms.
Privacy policy
We collect and process your personal data only when absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose 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.
Relevant legislation
In parallel with our company's internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the following laws/regulations regarding the protection of users' personal data:
- EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
- 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:
Website traffic tracking
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our website, to better understand how they find and use our pages, and to see their journey around the site. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, device, web browser, and operating system, none of this information identifies you personally to us. GA also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not provide us with access to it. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor that is compliant with European law.
Contact forms and email links
If you choose 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.
About cookies
What is a cookie?
The term "cookie" refers to a small data file consisting solely of a string of information in text format, which 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 various functions (for example, distinguishing you from other visitors to the same website or remembering 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 "lifetime" 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.
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Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your device's browser cookie file only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
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Persistent cookies
These remain in your device's browser cookie file even after you close the 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 multiple visits (e.g. to remember your username or your preferences for website customization).
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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 for the purpose of tracking your navigation on the website. Website operators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
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Third-party cookies
These are cookies 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 our visitors. The functionality 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: www.aboutcookies.org .
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis/tracking 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.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred to and stored on Google servers in accordance with Google's privacy policy.
For more information regarding the Google Analytics service, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en=GB
If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. The functioning of the website will not be affected.
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 material from our website with them by clicking on one of the embedded buttons titled "Share".
If you disable these cookies, the "Share" feature will not be available.
About this website's server
All internet traffic (file transfers) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred over the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Our third-party data processors
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.
Data breaches
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, provided that it is obvious that personal data stored in identifiable form has been stolen.
