Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THE PRIVACY POLICY OF THE SITE CAREFULLY. THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

ATHENS SAILING is committed to protecting your privacy. ATHENS SAILING shall process your personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) as it has been incorporated into Greek legislation by Law 4624/2019.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website:

www.athenssailing.gr

In charge of data processing:

Contact e-mail: info@athenssailing.gr

2. What kind of data do we collect?
We may collect the following types of personal data

  • First name and surname, date of birth, country of birth, nationality, passport details, email address and contact details, as provided at the time of booking. Your email address may be used for the purpose of sending you our newsletter, if you have consented so.
  • Technical data such as IP addresses, browser type and versions, browsing behavior and device type when you are using our websites (see our “Cookies” policy for more information).
  • Financial data such as: credit card details, the bank account used, as well as other means of payment that are permitted. We process your card details that you have indicated during the booking process until the day of the charter.
  • Date of boarding, port of boarding, name of yacht or boat, number of skipper license, number of VHF license, booking number, GPS coordinates of navigation
  • Any other additional information you provide while booking a cruise via contact forms or email.

We bear no liability for the privacy policy of third-party providers, including payment providers, that may be used during your experience with our company, so you will have to refer to their own privacy policy statements for further information.

In the event that you provide third-party data, ATHENS SAILING bears no responsibility if you have failed to obtain their consent for said usage. By using this website, you declare that in the case you provide us with third-party data, you have their consent to do so. 

3. Legal basis and purposes of personal data processing
All types of your personal data are processed for the following legal basis and purposes:

a) Legal obligations – We process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations
b) Fulfillment of agreement – We process your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations as they are defined by our agreement. For example, we use your data to contact you, process bookings and payments, to send you important updates about your reservation, to process and attend to your request in case you have contacted our customer support, as well as to provide you with the best possible service.
c) Marketing purposes– If you have given us your consent, we may use your date for marketing purposes (e.g. promotional offers, satisfaction surveys and feedback after the charter period, and for the purpose of improving our customer experience.)

We may collect your personal data in person, via phone, email, website or by your tourist agency.

4. How long do we keep your data?
ATHENS SAILING keeps your personal data only during the period indicated by our contractual relationship, unless legislation in force indicates a longer retention period. In any case, we shall delete your personal data no later than the period indicated by our legal obligations related to legal protection.

5. Consent management
You can revoke your consent or object to our processing of your personal data at any time  by e-mail at info@athenssailing.gr If you revoke the given consent, we will no longer use your data for the said purposes.

If your consent is not granted to us, or it is revoked, or you have not provided us with the necessary data for the fulfillment of our contractual or legal obligations, then we will not be able to conclude an agreement with you, or fulfill any of our contractional obligations to you.

6. Your rights

  1. Right of access and receive information regarding your personal data, in accordance with Art. 15 of GDPR.
  2. Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 of the GDPR
  3. Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 of the GDPR. Please note that we may not be able to erase your personal data if we are required to keep them in conformity with obligations laid down by law.
  4. Right of restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 of the GDPR
  5. Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 of the GDPR: You may ask us to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without hindrance
  6. Right to object in accordance with Art. 21 of the GDPR
  7. Right to object to competent authority: In the case that you believe that we have breached our aforementioned obligations, you have the right to file a complaint with the Greek Data Protection Agency, or any other body that will assume its jurisdiction in Greece or in the EU.

– If you wish to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, or report any misuse, you may contact us via email at: info@athenssailing.gr

7. Transfer of data to third parties
In principle, we do not disclose or make your personal data available to third parties, except in the following cases:

– If such data is mandatory by our payment providers to process transactions.

– If you explicitly and in writing, agree to disclose certain confidential data for a particular purpose or to a particular person.

– If you explicitly and in writing allow us to use your data for our Marketing platforms.

– If we are obliged by law to disclose your data to competent authorities and bodies, courts, tribunals or any other third parties legitimized in accordance with the applicable regulations;

We may also disclose your personal data to third countries (countries outside the EU) only in the following cases:

– if we are obliged to do so by law

– if the transfer is necessary for the fulfillment of contractual obligations

– if you have given your explicit consent

8.Security
We implement proper security measures to protect your data, according to the General Data Protection Regulation. We make every effort to ensure the confidentiality of your personal data, but we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your protection.

9.Disclaimer
The website may include links to other websites. We bear no responsibility for the content or policies of said websites and under no circumstances should it be considered that we endorse or accept the content of third-party websites or the misuse of personal data provided to third-party websites.

10. Changes to this policy
Please note that our Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect any changes of legislation or company policy on the topic of data protection. The updated version of our Privacy Policy will be available on our website www.athensailing.gr