The respect of your privacy matters to me, here are some details regarding how your details are handled.

Who I am

I am a private tourist guide in Athens, Greece. My website address is: https://www.elenipremeti.com.

What personal data is collect and why.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We use WPForms for our contact forms. The forms are protecting us against spam by using via Askimet and Google reCAPTCHA.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to monitor our website activity. Google will record your IP address to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give us a sense of where our visitors come from. These data are solely managed by Google.

Who we share your data with

Google is used for analytics. We also use google for our maps. The function allowing you to direct you to the tour meeting points will need to access your device location temporarily.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments and forms are checked through an automated spam detection service : Askimet. We use Mailchimp (GDPR compliant) to keep your contact details.

Your contact information

We will keep your contact details for up to a year after the date of a booking. Each mailout we send has an opt out option that will completely remove you from the Mailchimp database.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We are protecting your data by using an encrypted connection (TLS) and by shielding our site with cloudflare. Cloudflare screens visitors to make certain they are good and not traffic coming from an attack, malicious bots, or other bad things.

Our Mailchimp account is protected via a two factor authentication.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We will do our upmost to contact you in case of a breach. The data we hold are your contact details.

What third parties we receive data from

None.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

I am regulated by the Association of Licensed Tourist Guides (Greek association).