This Policy (together with our Terms of Use, the Cookies Policy and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by Christou & Partners (“us”). 

 

Christou & Partners is committed to making sure that your privacy and all the data provided to us are protected.
We provide this Privacy to help you to understand what we may do with any personal information that we obtain from you. By providing your personal information to us, you affirm your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and agree that we may collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Notice, please do not provide your personal details to us.

1) What personal information we collect about you

We collect information of the individual, as defined by applicable law, such as name, e-mail address and telephone number.

2) How we obtain your personal information
 

We collect information provided to us by you in the course of providing legal services to you or when we interact with you for business purposes in case you are or you are working for one of our associates, suppliers, or other professional or colleagues or from other publicly available sources.

3) How we use your personal information

 

Christou & Partners collects and processes personal information about you in order to perform under an agreement with a client or a supplier or in case you are or work for an associate, supplier to provide legal services to you or in order to and act in accordance with this purpose.

4) How long we keep your personal information

Your personal information will be retained for as long as required for the purpose for which the information is collected in accordance with legal and regulatory provisions.

5) Who we share your personal information with

Unless you have given us your consent, we will not disclose your personal information outside Christou & Partners, except for third parties who assist us in providing you legal services, or in order to protect your legal rights, such as notaries, colleagues from other law practices, public services, the Court or other authorities.

6) Which countries we transfer your personal information to
 

In order to provide our services, we may need to transfer your personal information to locations outside of Greece.
We will only transfer your data within the European Economic Area (EEA). If we transfer your data to a location outside the EEA, we will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

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7) How we protect your personal information

We use a variety of technical and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws. All our employees and third parties we engage to process your personal information are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.
However, the transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our website. Any such transmission is at your own risk.

8) Your rights

The General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable data protection legislation provide certain rights for data subjects.
You are entitled to request access to the information we hold about you.  You also have the right in accordance with applicable data protection law to request the rectification or erasure of your personal data, the restriction of our processing of that data, to object to the processing as well, in some circumstances, to ask that your personal information be transmitted to another organization.
If you object to the processing of your personal information, or if you have provided your consent to processing and you later choose to withdraw it, we will respect that choice in accordance with our legal obligations.  Withdrawal of previously given consent will have effect for the future and will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent until the time of its withdrawal.
Your objection (or withdrawal of any previously given consent) could mean that we are unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent we may be able to continue to process your personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with exercising and defending our legal rights or meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.

9) Cookies

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate. For more information on the way We use cookies, please refer to our Cookies Policy.

10) Changes to our privacy policy 

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, without notice, to reflect firm, client and other feedback. Please check periodically our Privacy Policy to be informed of how we are committed to protecting your personal information.

 11) Contact 

To exercise your rights and withdraw your consent, please contact us at:
privacy@christou-partrners.com
Latest version of this Policy: December 2019