Privacy Policy

At Lingua Technis we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

The responsible party for the processing of personal data, i.e. Lingua Technis and the beneficiary of the website www.lingua-technis.com, considers that the privacy of visitors and users is a fundamental and non-negotiable right which must be guaranteed in the exercise of its activity.

This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it safe and secure and your rights and choices in relation to your information. This privacy policy does not apply in hyperlinks that might be included in this website, since they are provided by third parties, but they are applied to the privacy policy of each of those parties.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Collection, Processing and Using of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy and according with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to echavalekalaitzoglou@gmail.com or you can call 0030 6943044065.

What kind of information do we collect?

The personal information we collect, store and use might include:

·your name and contact details (including postal address, email address and telephone number);

·information about your activities on our website and about the device used to access it, for instance your IP address and geographical location;

·any other personal information shared with us.

Data protection laws recognize certain categories of personal information as sensitive and therefore requiring greater protection, for example information about your health, ethnicity and religion.

We do not usually collect sensitive data about you unless there is a clear and valid reason for doing so and data protection laws allow us to.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you in the following ways:

Information you give us directly.

We may obtain information about you when you reach Lingua Technis via telephone or email regarding translation/interpretation/proofreading/editing or certification services, send a request for a specific service or send a contact/enquiry form via our official website.

Information you give us indirectly.

Your information might be shared with us by third parties, which might include:

·subcontractors acting on our behalf who provide us with technical services, our business partners, advertising networks analytics providers and search information providers.

You should check any privacy policy provided to you when you give your data to a third party.

*When you show interest in any of our services both via telephone and via online request you provide your consent in order to collect your information and have the first contact with you directly. Following that, during the first contact with you, we owe to ask again for your consent in order to contact you anew. In case you have contacted our Agency on behalf of someone else, we owe to ask his or her consent as well during the first contact in order to contact him/her anew.

Which data are we processing?

We automatically collect the following information:

·technical information, including the type of device you’re using, the IP address, browser and operating system being used to connect your computer to the internet. This information may be used to improve the services we offer.

·information about your visit to this website, for example we collect information about pages you visit and how you navigate the website, i.e. length of visits to certain pages, products and services you viewed and searched for, referral sources (e.g. how you arrived at our website).

We collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our website – more information on cookies can be found under the ‘Use of Cookies’ section below.

Social Media

When you interact with us on social media platforms such as Linkedin we may obtain information about you (for example, when you publicly tag us in a photo or post). The information we receive will depend on the privacy preferences you have set on those types of platforms.

How and why is your information used?

We may use your information for a number of different purposes, which may include:

·providing you with the services or information you asked for.

·carrying out our obligations under any contracts/agreements entered into between you and us;

·keeping a record of your relationship with us;

·conducting analysis and market research so we can understand how we can improve our services or information;

·seeking your views or comments on the services we provide;

·notifying you of changes to our services;

Lawful Processing

Data protection law requires us to rely on one or more lawful grounds to process your personal information. We consider the following grounds to be relevant:

Specific Consent

Where you have provided specific consent to us using your personal information in a certain way, such as to send you email marketing.

Performance of a contract

Where we are entering into a contract with you or performing our obligations under it.

Marketing Communications

We may use your contact details to provide you with information about the news on the services that Lingua Technis provide if we think it may be of interest to you.

Your choices

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. We’re committed to putting you in control of your data so you’re free to change your marketing preferences (including to tell us that you don’t want to be contacted for marketing purposes) at any time by contacting us by email: echavalekalaitzoglou@gmail.com

We will not use your personal information for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted and will retain your details on a suppression list to help ensure that we do not continue to contact you.

How long is your information kept for?

We keep your information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it was collected for. 

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

However, we may disclose your information to third parties in order to achieve the other purposes set out in this policy. These third parties may include:

Third parties working on our behalf:

Besides Lingua Technis, we may transfer the data necessary for the purposes of the relevant processing to the following categories of recipients:

–           to third parties providing services to us,

–           to national or international regulatory, tax or other authorities or public organization or courts, where required pursuant to a law or regulation or upon their order,

–           to clients and/or partners, where it is required for the communication, management of relationships and execution of transactions requested,

–           to third parties conducting audits on us in the framework of our regulatory obligations or obligations arising from the applicable legislation.

Your Rights

Under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, No 679/2016/ΕU, you have the following rights:

Right of access

You have a right to request access to the personal data that we hold about you. You also have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you, and we will provide you with this unless legal exceptions apply.

If you want to access your information, please send a description of the information you want to see and proof of your identity by post to the address referred below.

Right to have your inaccurate personal information corrected

You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you corrected. The accuracy of your information is important to us so we’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or if you believe any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us via email or post (see below). Alternatively, you can telephone 0030 6943044065

Right to restrict use

You have a right to ask us to restrict the processing of some or all of your personal information if there is a disagreement about its accuracy or we’re not lawfully allowed to use it.

Right of erasure (Right to be forgotten)

You may ask us to delete some or all of your personal information and in certain cases, and subject to certain exceptions; we will do so as far as we are required to.

Right to object

You have the right to object to processing where we using your personal information (1) based on legitimate interests, (2) for direct marketing or (3) for statistical/research purposes.

If you want to exercise any of the above rights, please email us at echavalekalaitzoglou@gmail.com or send via post at Alykes Potamou 3rd km, Paleokastritsa National Road, Corfu Greece, 49100. We may be required to ask for further information and/or evidence of identity. We will endeavour to respond fully to all requests within one month of receipt of your request, however if we are unable to do so we will contact you with reasons for the delay.

How we keep your information safe

In any case, we take the appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that your personal information is transferred, stored and processed in accordance with the appropriate security standards and procedures and in accordance with the terms of this Policy and the applicable data protection laws.

Use of ‘cookies’

Like many other websites, this website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organization to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognize you when you visit. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to deliver a better more personalized service when you browse our website and improve our services.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences.  Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

TERMS OF USE – LEGAL NOTES

The Lingua Technis offers its services to visitors – users associated with it under the following detailed terms of use, which the visitor-user of the pages of the website is required to carefully study and visit and use the pages and services of the site only on condition that he/she accepts them fully. In the event of a disagreement with these terms, the user is advised not to use the services of the site, as well as to immediately notify Lingua Technis of any observations he/she might make in order to be taken into account, always within the limits of the law, good faith and honest practices.