Website Privacy Policy
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture (hereinafter referred to as “YPPO”), based in Athens, at 20-22 Bouboulinas Street, telephone number 213-1322100, is responsible for the collection, storage, and general processing of the personal data of users of this website, as collected and stored through it.
We collect and process your personal data as follows:
Information about your visit and use of the website of the The Directorate for the Curation of the National Archive of Monuments
We collect certain information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, device category, and browser. Information about your use of our website and services allows us to categorize, i.e., form groups of website visitors with certain common characteristics, such as age group, gender, or region. We use this personal data to promote our services to visitors to our website and to improve the services we provide. We retain personal data for a maximum period of 12 months.
Legal basis: Your consent to the activation of statistical cookies.
Maintenance and optimization of our website
Personal data is also used to maintain and analyze our website, in order to resolve performance issues, improve availability, and enhance the user experience. We log all usage of our website. Our use of your personal data for these purposes is necessary in the context of our legitimate interests, and the information is retained for a maximum period of 12 months.
Legal basis: Processing ensures the smooth operation of our website and is therefore necessary for the exercise of public authority and the responsibilities entrusted to us.
Compliance with our legal obligations
When we receive relevant court orders or requests from public authorities, we may process your personal data collected through our website in order to comply with such requests.
Legal basis for processing: Compliance with our legal obligations.
Legal protection of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
We may process your personal data collected through our website in order to ensure compliance with our website’s terms of use and to protect our legal rights.
Legal basis for processing: Processing is necessary for the exercise of public authority and the responsibilities entrusted to us.
Some of the information referred to in this Privacy Policy is collected through the use of cookies and similar techniques. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded and may be stored on the user’s device, e.g. your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
In summary, the cookies we use as a website are divided into the following categories:
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL:
They help the website to function smoothly and be user-friendly, enabling the use of basic functions such as browsing our website and accessing secure areas of our website. The website cannot function without them. Their use is acceptable by law even without your consent.
STATISTICS/PERFORMANCE:
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website, for example, which pages they visit most often and whether they receive error messages. These cookies collect information, such as IP addresses, that does not directly identify a user. They are used solely to improve performance. They are only activated after you give your consent.
Your personal data is retained solely for the period of time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, in full compliance with applicable law. Once the purpose of processing your personal data has been fulfilled, it is deleted. The specific retention periods for each of the relevant processing purposes are set out in detail above.
We may need to share your personal data with third parties who help us manage our website. These third parties are suppliers of website construction, maintenance, and monitoring services, etc. We require our service providers to take appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and security of personal data.
We may also need to provide personal data to law enforcement agencies in order to comply with a legal obligation or court order.
In cases where the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, as the data controller, transfers your data to third parties performing the processing, on the one hand, the Ministry itself determines the specific details of the processing (method, means, retention period, etc.) and, on the other hand, signs a specific contract with the processors in order to ensure that the processing will be carried out in accordance with the applicable legal framework, that appropriate measures will be taken to protect the confidentiality and security of personal data, and that every natural person will be able to freely and unhindered exercise their rights.
Please note that your anonymized data (e.g., IP address) may be transferred to Google in the US if you consent to the use of statistical cookies.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture assures users that it takes all appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of their personal data, to guarantee the confidentiality of their processing, and to protect them from accidental or unlawful destruction/loss/alteration, prohibited dissemination or access, and any other form of unlawful processing.
Although every effort is made to protect personal data, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to its website, as the transmission of information via the internet can never be completely secure.
Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of other websites, which are not governed by this privacy policy, and we therefore advise you to always carefully review the privacy policies of those websites. Also, if you choose to share information from our website via social media, we advise you to carefully read the privacy policies of the social media sites.
You have the right to request access to your personal data that is processed by us or on our behalf. You have the right to correct, delete, or restrict the processing (where applicable) of your personal data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at dpo@culture.gr and submitting a request.
Please note that requests that do not meet the requirements set out in applicable law or the guidelines of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture they may be requested to be rewritten or rejected, and that certain personal data may be excluded from such requests for access, correction, and deletion, in accordance with applicable data protection laws and/or other laws/regulations.
You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and in certain cases we will transfer your data to another data protection officer at your request if it is technically feasible.
You also have the right, in certain circumstances, to request the processing of your personal data. However, if there are compelling legitimate grounds, we will continue to process your personal data and you will be notified accordingly. In any case, you have the right to object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, and if you do so, we will comply with your request.
If you have given your consent to use your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent without this affecting the lawfulness of our processing of that data prior to the withdrawal of your consent.
Requests from users regarding the exercise of the above rights may be sent to the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture at the following email address: dpo@culture.gr.
Users may also lodge complaints with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority regarding the exercise of their rights (www.dpa.gr). According to the Authority, complainants must first submit their complaint to the data controller.
Any dispute arising from the use of this website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Greek courts.
This Privacy Policy has been drafted in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679/EU. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on our website.
