Society for the Protection of Biodiversity of Thrace Policy Privacy
Information helps make biodiversity conservation happen
At Society for the Protection of Biodiversity of Thrace (SPBT), we rely on the support of individuals like you to carry out our vital biodiversity conservation work. That is why we want to be completely transparent about why we need the personal details we request, when you engage with us and how we will use them.
As you browse our website and whenever you communicate with us, we collect information. It deepens our understanding about things that work or not, which helps to make our communications more effective. The more we understand our supporters and the people we engage with, the more efficiently we are able to operate.
We take protecting your privacy very seriously and will always take all reasonable steps within our power to make sure your information is safe.
You can generally visit the SPBT websites without us requiring your personal data. Personal data are acquired only if you provide us with this kind of data.
The processing of the personal data of the users of the website is governed by the following terms and conditions, the relevant provisions of the applicable personal data protection legislation for personal data protection, instructions and regulatory acts of the Personal Data Protection Authority.
What data do we collect and process
As you browse our website, the SPBT and and / or third-party processing personnel, that have been contracted by the SPBT can collect personal information that you provide, such as your full name, address and e-mail address. ‘Personal information’ is information, or a combination of pieces of information, that could reasonably allow you to be identified.
Moreover, the SPBT and third-party processing personnel use different methods for other data collection related to your websites’ use, such as IP address, browser type, device type, the visited content, duration of website visits. “Other information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or is not directly related to an individual.
Method of Data Collection
Your personal data is been collected with your prior consent. In different areas of the site, you may ask you to provide your consent to create an account or subscribe to a contact list to receive news and information about our actions.
Your personal data and the reasons of their collection will be clearly explained to you in a very comprehensible way at point where you will be asked to provide us with your consent for their collection and processing.
On our websites, we may use cookies to collect information about you, but not for advertising with special tools via the internet.
Purpose of processing
The purpose of processing your personal data collected through this site is as follows:
- Verify compliance with the terms of use of this website and its proper use
- The following actions related to our purposes and our presence on the Internet:
- To ensure that our websites will work the most effectively on all your devices.
- To share with you you news and information about our actions in order to evaluate our work and actively participate in the nature protection.
- To invite you to engage in interactive activities through our website.
- To ask you to participate in surveys we are organizing.
- To store information about your preferences, that will be used to share news and information based on your preferences.
- To inform you of any changes to our terms of use.
Cookies
The SPBT may use cookies to enable or facilitate the transmission of a communication between the SPBT and the user, through the electronic communications network. These cookies, if you have chosen to accept them, based on your own computer configurations, are small text files stored temporarily in the web browser cache of the person visiting the page. Cookies might possibly recognize your web browser, however without noticing any document or file from your computer.
From these data, profiles for use are created with a pseudonym. Cookies or pixel tags may be used. This data are collected anonymously for marketing use and optimization purposes. All visitor data are stored using an anonymous user ID and might be grouped into a user profile. Cookies can be used to collect and store these data, but the data remains strictly anonymous. The data will not be used for personal identification of a visitor and will not be collected together with personal data. Data collection and storage can be discarded at any time for subsequent services.
The pixel tags, web beacons, GIF, or similar tools (all hereinafter referred to as "pixel tags") are used to measure the volume of a webpage use and the statistical increase in response rates. Pixel tags allow us to measure users who visit specific pages of a website, perform our branded services, and help us calculate and optimize the performance or our sites.
Data collected through etracker technologies are not used to identify personally a visitor at the site and are not consolidated with personal data regarding the bearer's alias without the explicit and clear consent of the person. Data collection and storage might be effectively objected at any time in the future.
You can configure your computer's browser in a way that it either alerts you to the use of cookies in specific fields of this website or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case.
Under Age Users
The SPBT restricts the use of this Site only to adult users. Furthermore, the SPBT intends not to collect personal data of minors who may have access to its website in violation of the above. However, as this is not feasible for the SPBT to ensure / confirm that any minor users of the site who transmit their personal data to the SPBT are obliged and expected to have received the consent of their parental concern or their potential commissioners. Adults are required to exercise proper supervision of minors under their responsibility when browsing the web on the Internet and in particular on this Site.
Changes to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
The SPBT might modify these privacy terms and conditions at any time in any applicable law, and any amendment will be effective from posting it on this Site.
Data Security
The SPBT applies the most optimal technical and organizational security measures to protect your data, which we manage against inadvertent or deliberate manipulation, loss or destruction and against unauthorized access. Our security measures are continually improving in line with technological progress. The SPBT saves information related to data protection only to insured systems located in Greece. Only a few authorized persons and persons committed to improving data protection involved in technical, administrative or editorial supervision of data can access this data.
Contact us
If you have any queries or you might want to exercise your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact us at info@spbt.gr
In case you are not satisfied with how we process your personal data and how we serve you to exercise your rights then you have the right to address a complaint or a complaint to the relevant competent supervisory authority:
Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA)
Postal Address:
Data Protection Authority Offices: Kifissias 1-3, 115 23 Athens, Greece
Call Centre: +30-210 6475600
Fax: +30210 6475 628
E-mail: contact@dpa.gr contact@dpa.gr
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