Terms of use
Valid from 3-8-2022
Version 0.1.
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE TERMS OF USE OF OUR WEBSITE BEFORE USING IT. THESE TERMS OF USE GOVERN YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE.
- THE WEBSITE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR ACCESS AND USE ONLY IF YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT BELOW.
- IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL THE TERMS OF USE, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ACCESS AND USE THE WEBSITE.
- BY ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE, YOU DECLARE THAT YOU ACCEPT YOUR COMMITMENT AS SET OUT IN THE TERMS OF USE.
1. ABOUT RYTHMISIS
The website is provided by the “National Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Personal Data and Digital Governance Law NON-PROFIT CIVIL PARTNERSHIP” (Rythmisis), hereinafter referred to as “the Institute”, based in Greece, located in Palaio Faliro and is available to both legal entities and natural persons over 18 years of age, who can enter into legally binding agreements within the framework of the applicable legislation. If you do not meet the requirements, you are not allowed to use the website. The Institute is registered to the Hellenic Business Registry under the number 164946201000.
2. AMENDMENTS OF THE TERMS OF USE
The Institute has the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. Your use of the Site after any changes to these Terms of Use are made means that you accept those changes. Any element of the Website may be modified, supplemented, deleted or updated without notice at the Institute’s sole discretion.
3. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
Our Institute’s Privacy Policy governs the use of information collected or provided by you on the website. To read the Privacy Policy, please click on the relevant link on the website.
4 . LICENCE – OWNERSHIP OF THE WEBSITE
The entire content of the website including, without limitation, texts, news, graphics, photographs, diagrams, images, services and generally any kind of files, is subject to intellectual property rights and is governed by the national, European and international provisions on Copyright.
Therefore, the reproduction, republication, copying, copying, storage, sale, transmission, distribution, publication, execution, downloading, translation and modification of any part of the website is expressly prohibited, in any way, without the prior express written consent of our Institute. The registered trademarks and names included in this website are registered trademarks and are protected by the aforementioned copyright provisions. Exceptionally, individual parts of the content of the website may be stored or copied on a simple personal computer, strictly for personal use without the intention of commercial exploitation. Where content from the website is stored or copied, the source must be acknowledged as the source, although this in no way implies the granting of intellectual property rights. Certain elements contained on the website and originating from other entities are the intellectual property of the originating entities.
5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THE WEBSITE
In addition to the other restrictions set forth in these Terms of Use, you agree to the following:
- You will not conceal the origin of information transmitted through the website.
- You will not provide false or misleading information through the website.
- You will not link to or use any services, information, applications, etc. available through the website in a manner not expressly permitted by our Institute.
- You will not enter/upload to the website any items containing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routines that are intended to cause damage, interference, interception or hijacking of any system, the website or the Information or that infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
6. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
a) External connections. The website may contain links to third party websites and resources (linked sites). These Linked Sites are provided for your convenience only and not as sites whose content is endorsed by the Institute. Our Institute makes no promises or warranties as to the correctness, accuracy, performance or quality of any content, software, service or application present on any Linked Site. The Institute is not responsible for the availability of linked sites or the content or activities of such sites. If you decide to enter Linked Sites, you do so at your own risk and responsibility. In addition, your use of Linked Sites is subject to the policies, terms and conditions in effect, including, but not limited to, the Linked Site’s privacy policy.
(b) Internal connections. Linking to any page of the website, through a plain text link, is strictly prohibited unless there is a separate linking agreement with our Institute. Any website or other device that provides a link to www.rythmisis.gr or any page available within it may not (a) reproduce the content, (b) use a browser environment or margin around the content, (c) imply in any way that our Institute endorses it, (d) misrepresent any situation, including its relationship with our Institute, (e) present false information about our Institute’s services, and (f) use any of our Institute’s logos or trademarks without our prior express written permission.
7. TERMINATION – SUSPENSION OF THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE
You agree that our Institute, in its sole discretion, has the right to terminate or suspend your use of the website, its content and/or information at any time and for any reason or no reason, even if access and use continues to be permitted to others. Upon such suspension or termination of use, you shall (a) immediately discontinue your use of the Site and Services, and (b) destroy any copy of any portion of the Content you have created. Your access to the Site, information or services after termination, suspension or discontinuance as described above constitutes an act of unlawful entry. You further agree that our Institute shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any termination or suspension of your access to the Website, information and/or services.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Our Institute makes every effort to ensure that the information on the website and its content as a whole is accurate, clear, valid, complete, correct and available.
Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall our Institute be liable for any damage caused to the public as a result of this use of the website www.rythmisis.gr.
9. VISITOR’S OBLIGATIONS
The visitor of the website www.rythmisis.gr is obliged to comply with the relevant provisions of Greek, European and International Law and the relevant legislation governing telecommunications. In addition, the interested party must refrain from any illegal and abusive use of the content of the Network. The visitor assumes responsibility for any form of damage caused to the website by the visitor due to inappropriate actions of the visitor. In the event of any action, claim, administrative or judicial against the website, due to any form of infringement, the latter undertakes the obligation both to intervene in the relevant legal proceedings and to compensate the website in the event that it is obliged to pay compensation.
10. APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER CONDITIONS
These terms of use are governed by the provisions of Greek and International Law, as well as the directives and regulations of European Law. It shall be interpreted in accordance with the rules of good faith and commercial usage. In the event that any provision is found to be contrary to the law and therefore invalid or void, it shall cease to apply automatically, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms. The competent courts for any disputes arising from this agreement are the Courts of Piraeus.
Privacy Policy
Valid from 3-8-2022
Version 0.1.
Thank you for visiting the website of the “National Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Personal Data and Digital Governance Law NON-PROFIT CIVIL PARTNERSHIP” (Rythmisis) located in Paleo Faliro, Attica. Before using our website, please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Introduction
Our Institute, as “data controller”, informs you about how we collect and process information about you.
Personal Data (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).
The protection of your personal data is very important to our Institute, which takes measures to this end when you visit its website.
This Privacy Policy sets out the type of information we may collect when you visit our website and explains to you how we use that information. When you voluntarily provide us with personal information, such as your name or email address, we treat that information in the strictest confidence. Subject to specific provisions of our Privacy Policy, no personal information is rented, sold, publicly posted or disclosed to other companies, organizations or websites.
As reflected in the Terms of Use of the website and the Cookies Policy, the services provided through the website are directed to a general audience, are not targeted at children and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18.
The Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website. This Policy applies to our Institute’s collection and use of your personal information (e.g., information that identifies a specific person, such as full name or email address).
What information do we collect from you?
If you are interested in being contacted via the contact form, we will collect your name/last name and email address.
Our Institute reserves the right to collect non-personal identification data of users [browser type, type of computer, operating system, internet providers, etc.] and/or to monitor Internet Protocol (IP) addresses using corresponding technologies (cookies). Cookies are small text files stored on the hard drive of each user without being able to access documents or files from the user’s computer. They are used to facilitate the user’s access when using specific services and/or pages of the website, as well as for statistical purposes.
For more information about the cookies used by the website, users are invited to visit the Cookies Policy page.
How do we collect your personal data?
You provide us with your personal data when you fill in the contact form which is available on our website.
Information contained in the log files, such as IP address, geographic location data, day and time of your visit to the website, etc. is collected by your navigation on our website.
Some cookies are stored by the server on your terminal device (computer, mobile phone, etc.) when you browse the website because they are necessary for the correct and efficient operation of the website, while other cookies are stored on your terminal device only if you give your consent to do so (e.g., cookies for traffic measurement and analysis, cookies for sharing content on other pages, etc.). For more details, see the relevant policy.
On what legal bases do we process your personal data?
Your contact information is collected in order to be able to provide you with information about our activities, in accordance with article 6 par. 1 (f) of GDPR.
The information contained in the log files, such as IP address, geographic location data, day and time of visit to the website, etc. is collected because we have a legitimate interest, in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 (f) of GDPR, to protect the security of networks, information and services from accidental events or illegal or malicious actions (e.g. cyber fraud) related to the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of data and at the same time we have an obligation to provide on our part, according to art. 6 par. 1 (c) of GDPR (see also art. 5 par. 1 (f) and art. 32 of GDPR), a more secure environment for the processing of personal data.
The installation of a tracker on a terminal device requires in principle the consent of the user, regardless of whether personal data is ultimately processed through it. The trackers that are exempted from the obligation to obtain consent are those that are considered technically necessary for the connection to the website or for the provision of the internet service requested by the user himself (Article 4 par. 5 of Law 3471/2006).
Use – disclosure of personal data
We collect certain data in order to contact you and be able to serve your needs.
We collect certain information for purposes related to the detection of online fraud and the security of electronic communications.
We also collect certain data to analyze the usability, quality and marketing of our services in order to improve our individual services.
In order to enable us to provide our services, we inform you that certain of your data may be accessed, under strict conditions, such as encryption, contractual confidentiality clauses, etc., by our contracted partners, e.g., software/network/cloud service companies. We require all of the above recipients to implement enhanced organizational and technical measures to ensure the optimum level of security. In case it is deemed necessary to investigate a security incident, your data may be disclosed to the competent authorities. Our Institute does not transfer your personal data to third countries, i.e., outside the EU. For details on cookies, see the relevant policy.
Retention period of personal data
The retention period of your personal data is determined as follows:
- If you fill in the contact form, your personal data will be kept for a period of 6 months from the end of our last contact.
- The log files shall be kept for a period of 12 months.
- For cookies, you can consult the relevant policy or the cookie banner.
In the event that any legal actions or administrative audits of any kind arise that require the retention of such data, our Institute reserves the right to retain them until the end of the legal or administrative proceedings.
Your rights regarding the processing of personal data
You have the right to obtain information about your personal data that we have stored at any time, in accordance with applicable law and without any charge. We may ask for proof of your identity before providing you with this data. In some cases, we may not be able to allow access to certain personal data. For example, if your personal data is related to personal data of other individuals or if it is held for legal reasons. In these cases, we will explain why you cannot obtain this data.
You have the right to request the correction – update of your data and our Institute will proceed to their immediate correction.
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data and our Institute will proceed to their immediate deletion. However, in some cases where applicable legal and tax obligations require mandatory data retention, deletion of data may be prohibited. In these cases, we will explain why we cannot delete your personal data and for how long.
You have the right to request the cessation of the processing of your personal data by our Institute and the Institute will immediately cease processing them. If this is not possible, we will explain to you why we cannot stop processing your PD.
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data by our Institute and the Institute will immediately restrict the processing of such data. If this is not possible, we will explain to you why we cannot restrict the processing of your PD.
You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to another body/organization and our Institute will proceed with the immediate transfer of such data. However, in some cases, due to documented obligations of the Institute, your request may not be accepted.
You have the right to complain to the competent supervisory authority (the Hellenic Data Protection Authority).
Hellenic Data Protection Authority
1-3 Kifissias Street, P.K. 115 23, Athens
+30 210 6475600
E-mail: contact@dpa.gr
To exercise the above rights or if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or if you need assistance in exercising or understanding your privacy options, please contact us at info@rythmisis.gr.
Our Institute, with full respect for your rights, will endeavor to respond to your request within thirty (30) days of its submission. This time limit may be extended for an additional sixty (60) days if deemed necessary taking into account the complexity of the request and the number of requests. Our Institute will, in any case, contact you regarding the extension of the response deadline within thirty (30) days. The exercise of your rights does not require any cost. However, in the event that your requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive, we have the right to either charge you a reasonable fee or refuse to respond to your requests.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
The Institute may amend this Privacy Policy. Please check the effective date at the beginning of this Policy to see when this Policy was last revised. Any revision will become effective as soon as we post the revised Policy.
If we make material changes to this Policy that expand our rights to use the personal data we have already collected from you, we will notify you and provide you with a choice about the future use of that data.
Your opinion matters to us!
If you would like to send us your feedback on this Privacy Policy, please contact us at our email address!