TERMS OF USE & PRIVACY POLICY

 

This website (hereinafter the “Website”) has been created and is owned by the company “TEXAN Environmental Alternative Management Systems SA” seated at 47, Ethnikis Antistaseos Street, in the Municipality of Daphne, Attica (hereinafter the “Company”). The website’s purpose is to provide information and services for visitors/users of the Website (hereinafter the “Users”). The Company is the Controller of your personal data as collected through the use of the Website, in accordance with L. 2472/1997, L. 3471/2006 and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter the “GDPR”), and generally processes the personal data collected through this website in accordance with the applicable legislation on personal data processing.

 

By browsing this Website, you acknowledge and declare that you unreservedly accept the terms governing its use (see below under 1). This Privacy Policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) explains the type of personal data collected by the Company and how the Company manages such data, including any data from your visit to this Website. The Policy describes your rights with respect to the protection of your personal data and the types of personal data we collect, the way we process such data as well as your rights in relation to this use.

 

  1. TERMS OF USE
  • The User of this Website of the company “TEXAN Alternative Environmental Management Systems SA”, expressly and irrevocably accepts the following Terms of Service in their entirety and agree to be bound by them in any use of the above website. The Company has the right to amend these Terms of Use at any time, announcing any amendments via the website. The continued use of the Website by the User following the announcement of the above changes will imply that the User fully accepts such changes.
  • The content provided by the Company through this Website may be used for informational purposes only and shall not be used for any commercial, investment or other purposes.
  • The information provided on the Website comes from sources that are publicly available and considered credible based on the teachings of common experience; although the Company makes every effort to verify their validity and currency, it bears no responsibility for their correctness, validity, accuracy and origin, which the user explicitly acknowledges and accepts during the use of the Website.
  • The Company has the right at any time and for any reason, with or without notice, to temporarily interrupt, limit or terminate the User’s ability to access the website, and their ability to use the information, without any liability to the User or any third party.
  • The Company may provide the Users with the ability to access and use other websites through links, without bearing any responsibility for the information and services provided on these websites.
  • Failure of the Company to apply any of these terms does not constitute a waiver of the respective right. At the same time, in the event that any of these terms are deemed by any court to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining terms hereof shall not be affected.
  • This document is governed by the Greek Law for any dispute or controversy that may arise and the competent jurisdiction shall be the Courts of Athens.

 

 

  1. INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All intellectual and industrial property rights of the Website and of its contents, including name, trademark and distinctive feature, images, texts, graphics, logos, illustrations, photographs or designs and any other distinctive features that could be used for commercial purposes, are the sole property of the Company.

It is strictly prohibited to reproduce, distribute and publish any of the above features and any contents of the Website, on any kind of device or by any technical means, without the express permission and written consent of the Company.

Users of this Website accept the obligation to fully respect the Company’s intellectual and industrial property rights and must use the Website for personal purposes only. Any other type of use is prohibited and the Users must request prior express written authorisation by the Company.

 

 

  1. DISCLAIMERS AND INTERNET LIABILITY LIMITATIONS

The Company makes every effort to ensure that the content and information displayed on the website is accurate, clear, correct, complete and up-to-date.

However, in no case do we guarantee and consequently bear no responsibility (not even by negligence) for any damage caused to the visitor / user by the use of the website. Content and services are provided “as is”, without any warranties, either express or implied, formulated or supposed, including but not limited to the warranties of satisfactory quality, suitability, inviolability of compatibility, security and accuracy, which we all expressly deny. We are also not responsible for the restoration of any damage (incidental or consequential, which may include loss of profits, loss of data, lost earnings, compensation, etc.) to the visitors to the website or third parties, from a cause related to the operation of the website or lack thereof, the use of the website, any failure to provide services / information made available by the website or by any third-party unauthorised interventions in products / services / information made available through the website. We make every effort to ensure the proper functioning of this website, but in no case do we guarantee that the operation of the website or servers will be uninterrupted or without any kind of error, free of viruses or similar elements, whether with regard to this website, or another site or server through which its content is transmitted.

 

 

  1. TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The personal data that may be collected during your navigation on the Website are:

  1. a) data provided by the user (data subject) through the Website, e.g. name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, when contacting the Company through our contact form on the Website or when subscribing to our newsletter to receive the latest news.
  2. b) data deriving from the user’s computer, recording the visits and use of the Website, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, the date and time of visit to the Website, the User’s web browser and operating system, the source that referred the user to the Website, the duration of their visit, the pages they may have viewed and the general course of their navigation on the Website (see below “COOKIE POLICY”),
  3. c) data contained in or related to any communication with us either direct or through our Website (including the content of the communication and the metadata related to the communication),
  4. d) data derived from the collection of “Cookies” as described below.

Therefore, the main legitimate basis for processing your data is your explicit consent, under which the Company processes the data of Website users, for the following explicitly stated reasons:

  • To manage the Website
  • To respond to your requests or complaints and to contact you regarding the Website
  • For statistical purposes in order to analyse how our Website is used and understand how we can improve the Website to provide the best possible information services to the Website users,
  • To maintain the Website’s security and smooth operation
  • To meet any requirements of the law, public authorities and compliance regulations or to establish, exercise or defend any legal claims, if required,
  • To protect the rights, property or safety of our Company and our employees.

You have the ability at any time to opt out from our communication, by sending an email to csr2022@recycling-center.gr, and declare that you no longer wish to be contacted by e-mail, or contact us for any other reason related to the management of your personal data.

Where we process personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you are under sixteen (16) years of age, the consent must be given or approved by a person having parental responsibility for you.

 

4.1. TRANSMISSION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The Company may transfer your personal data to third party service providers that perform functions on our behalf relating to the Website and the purposes described in this Policy (e.g. web hosting, social network analysis service providers, email marketing service providers, web designers), or to any partners or other companies with which we cooperate, to the extent necessary to ensure the Website functions properly and to carry out the purpose of the processing. In this case, the Company implements all necessary security measures, so that its partners are specifically authorised for this purpose, are fully bound by confidentiality, discretion and the obligations provided in the legislation about personal data collection and processing and use only the strictly necessary data (minimisation) for the implementation of the processing purpose.

In addition, your data may be transferred to public authorities and other third parties, when required by the applicable law, such as in the case of compliance with court decisions.

Finally, it is possible, in the context of automated personal data recording, that such data (i.e. automatically recorded) may be obtained from advertising companies or advertisers. You can disable this feature in your browser.

 

4.2. YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO PERSONAL DATA

The Company, as Controller, to lawfully maintain and process the personal data collected as per above, in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 and the relevant legislation in force, shall take all necessary technical and organisational measures to secure the processing of such data and to ensure the appropriate level of security against any risks, e.g. destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure/access, unauthorised reading/copying, modification or deletion of personal data, so that the continued confidentiality, integrity, security, availability and credibility of the processing systems and services is ensured.

The Company does not process the personal data collected for purposes other than the purpose for which it is processed, and only processes the personal data that is necessary to fulfil that purpose, which always takes place legally and in accordance with the spirit and the terms of the General Regulation. The personal data processed by the Company is held legally throughout the period necessary for the fulfilment of the processing purpose. Upon expiration of this period (e.g. because you have opted out), the data shall be deleted, unless otherwise specified by the applicable legislative and regulatory framework or to the extent required to defend the Company’s rights before the Court of Justice or any other competent Authority.

More specifically, by sending us a message at csr2022@recycling-center.gr, you can exercise the following rights regarding the use and processing of your personal data:

  • Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of your rights: you have the right to be informed within the prescribed period about how your personal data is used (as detailed in this Privacy Policy).
  • Right to access: you have the right to obtain confirmation from the Company as to whether or not your personal data is being processed, and if so, upon request, you can access the personal data collected from you.
  • Right to rectification: you may request the rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning you or the completion of incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): you may request the deletion of your personal data should the circumstances referred to in the General Regulation occur.
  • Right to restrict processing: you have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data to the cases provided by the Regulation.
  • Right to portability: you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or to transfer them to another Controller.
  • Right of opposition: you may object to the processing of your personal data, including any profiling,
  • Right to withdraw consent: you can withdraw your consent to the processing of your data at any time (for data collected and processed on the basis of consent). The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • Right of termination: if you believe that your rights regarding the processing of your personal data are affected, you can file a complaint to the competent supervisory authority, namely the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1-3 Kifisias Avenue, Athens, P.C. 115 23, +30 210 6475600, contact@dpa.gr ).

To exercise your rights above or if you need any other information, clarification or query regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact us at csr2022@recycling-center.gr.

If you exercise any of the above rights, the Company shall take every possible measure to satisfy your request within thirty (30) days from its receipt, in which case you will be informed of its progress. Note that this deadline may be extended by an additional two (2) months, taking into consideration the complexity of your request, and the number of requests in general. These rights shall be exercised at no cost to you, unless requests are repeated frequently and due to volume bear administrative costs for us, in which case we may charge a reasonable fee.

Furthermore, the Company will inform you as soon as possible of any violation of your personal data, in case such violation may pose a high risk to your rights and freedoms and provided that it does not fall under one of the exceptions expressly provided by law.

 

  1. COOKIE POLICY

The Company may collect Website user identification data, using corresponding technologies, such as cookies and/or Internet Protocol (IP) address tracking.

(i) A “cookie” is a small text file, which contains an identification code (a sequence of numbers and letters) and which has been sent from a server to a browser, where it is stored. Each time the browser requests a web page from the server, the identification code is sent back to the server. Cookies are stored by your browser on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or any other device you use to browse the Website.

Cookies are stored on the user’s hard drive, but cannot read any documents or data off the user’s computer, as they are used exclusively to facilitate User access when it comes to the use of specific services and/or pages of the Website, for statistical purposes, to display advertisements, analyse and extract relevant statistics, for the purpose of ensuring high performance during the website operation (e.g. its proper, continuous and uninterrupted operation). Cookies can be either persistent or related to a single session (login). Persistent cookies are stored by the browser and remain valid either until their expiry date or until they are deleted by the user. Single session cookies expire at the end of the connection, once you close the browser.

The following types of cookies are used on the Website:

  • session cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of the browser for as long as the user is connected to the Website and
  • persistent cookies – these remain in the browser’s cookies file for a longer period of time (depending on each cookie’s lifespan).

Session cookies are used to improve the user’s navigation of the Website and to collect aggregated statistical information. This aggregated statistical information is used by the Company for internal use only and will not be passed on to third parties. Persistent cookies are used on the Website to store information on the user’s computer for various purposes, for example, to retrieve specific information that the user has previously provided (e.g., password details), to determine the sections of the Website that users find most interesting and to configure the Website according to the user’s preferences. This information may also include the user’s browser type, computer type, operating system, internet services provider and other similar information. In addition, the Website’s information system automatically collects information about any sites visited by the user and about any links to third party websites that the user may follow while using the Website. Website users may set their browser to either alert them on the use of cookies on specific services or to block the use of cookies. When the user of any specific services and pages does not wish to allow cookies for identification, they can have no further access to said services.

(ii) As to the tracking of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, every time the User connects to the internet, they are assigned one IP address. Through the IP address, the User’s computer can send and receive data. Generally, every time the User connects to the Internet, the User’s IP address changes. However, under certain conditions (e.g. with certain broadband connections) the User’s IP address becomes static. A static IP address may be associated with a specific User’s computer and may therefore lead to the User’s personal information (web log information is non-personal information collected from the computer hosting the website every time a User visits it). The Company, or any authorised representatives, shall use the User’s IP address or web log information solely to collect and report aggregated information on how the Website is used, in which sections there is more traffic (popularity index) and in general how the Website can be improved in order to offer the best possible experience to the User.

 

5.1. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

We may modify the information contained in this Privacy and Cookie Policy as we deem necessary. In the event that we do so, we will notify you in various ways through the Platform (for example, through a banner, a pop-up window or a push notification) when such changes are significant to your privacy, so that you can review and evaluate the changes, and, if needed, object or opt out of a service or function. In any case, we recommend that you check this Privacy and Cookies Policy from time to time, in case we make small changes or introduce a drastic improvement, taking advantage of the fact that you can always access it as a permanent information point on the Website.

 

 

  1. ADVERTISING ON THE WEBSITE

This Website may contain third-party advertisements as well as display other material with promotional content, purposes and nature.

In the case of third-party advertisements, the Company does not have any control on the content, correctness, appropriateness, accuracy etc. of such advertisements and, therefore, is not liable to users for the content of such advertisements with respect to any illegal acts or omissions, inaccuracies or failure to comply with laws and regulations of any country or the European Union in relation to the content of such advertisements. This responsibility lies solely and exclusively with the advertisers, sponsors and/or creators of the promotional material. These links on our website are not an indication of approval or acceptance of the content of the respective websites and we are in no way responsible for their content and any damage resulting from their use, as visitors access these at own risk.

 

 

  1. REVISION – AMENDMENT OF THE TERMS OF USE – TERMS OF PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION – COOKIE POLICY

This Policy and the Terms of Use, Personal Data Protection Terms and Cookie Policy enclosed may be amended as the Company deems necessary, which means users (data subjects) should visit the website regularly to check for any changes and new/additional information, as the Company has no obligation to inform each User individually about such changes and their rights.

 

 

  1. USEFUL CONTACT DETAILS

 

  1. A) CONTROLLER:

“TEXAN Environmental Alternative Management Systems SA” 

Call Centre: +30 2109719091, +30 2109718442, 801 11 11 600

Fax: +30 2109702971

E-mail: csr2022@recycling-center.gr

 

 

HELLENIC DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY (HDPA):

Offices: 1-3 Kifisias Avenue, P.C. 115 23, Athens

Call Centre: +30-210 6475600

Fax: +30-210 6475628

E-mail: complaints@dpa.gr