Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE

ALTER EGO MEDIA S.A. (hereinafter the “Company”), acting as “Data Controller”, is responsible for the processing of your personal data on https://www.alteregomedia.org/ website (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”). In this Policy, the words “we” or “us” refer to the Company. This Policy aims, in accordance with Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2106/679, hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”), to inform you about the use of your personal data, to describe the framework under which we collect, maintain and use the personal data of visitors to the Website (“Personal Data”), to explain our relevant obligations and the rights of visitors to the Website in relation to, what concerns the processing of their data.

If you have questions about this Policy and how we process your personal data, you can contact the Company’s Data Protection Officer (DPO): Controller ALTER EGO MEDIA A.E. Syggrou 340, Kallithea, P.C. 176 73 Telephone: 210 754 7000 Contact details of Data Protection Officer: dpo@alteregomedia.org Definitions

Personal Data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person whose identity can be ascertained directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier, such as, but not limited to, name, telephone, contact email address, identity card number, tax identification number (TIN).

Special Categories of Personal Data: personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership, as well as genetic data, biometric data used for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation

Data Subject: the identified or identifiable natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, search, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available; association or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.

Data Controller: For the purposes of this policy, Data Controllers means the Group Companies that separately or jointly determine the purposes and means of processing Personal Data.

Processor: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.

Consent: any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the Data Subject’s wishes by which the Data Subject signifies his or her agreement, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, to the processing of Personal Data concerning him or her.

Personal Data Breach: a breach of security leading to accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise Processed. Collection and Processing of Personal Data As a general principle, through the Website we process your data only when you provide it yourself in an active way (e.g. when you contact us via email). However, some data is collected either with the help of cookies (for more information on the use of cookies read our relevant policy) or automatically during your visit to the Website. In particular, due to the way the internet works, as soon as you visit the Website, our server records your IP address, which constitutes personal data, even if we cannot identify you ourselves based on this element, as well as some other information, such as the date and time of your visit.

The lawful basis for collecting and storing data in log files is our legitimate interest in ensuring the security of networks, information and services from accidental events or illegal or malicious actions that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted data (e.g. control of “denial of service” attacks); but also to deal effectively with any technical problems. This processing is in accordance with the relevant legal framework, as it does not involve serious risks to your rights and freedoms, while it is allowed, under the GDPR and national law, for such processing to be based on our legitimate interest.

In the table below you can find information about the purposes of processing personal data collected through the Website, the categories of such data, as well as the legal basis for their processing:

1. Contact the Company

2. Newsletter                                        

The accuracy of the data submitted in all cases is the responsibility of the visitors themselves. Find out about the possibility of correcting your information in the section of the policy concerning your rights. The personal data provided by the visitors of the Website are used exclusively for the purpose for which they were submitted, as stated at the respective collection point.

Disclosure to third parties.

The Company may disclose the above personal data to companies providing IT and website support. For more information about the recipients of your data, you can contact the Company’s DPO at dpo@alteregomedia.org email address.

Safety

The Company processes your personal data in a way that ensures their protection. In particular, the processing of your personal data is carried out exclusively by personnel authorized for this purpose or by partners who are bound to the Company with the same obligations to protect your personal data. The Company takes all appropriate organizational and technical measures for data security and protection against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, prohibited disclosure or access and any other form of unlawful processing. Among other things, it adopts internal security policies, trains its staff, and utilizes a range of technologies that ensure the security of your data (e.g. SSL certificate, encryption, and certified hosting providers).

Retention Period

The personal data you submit to the Website is retained only for as long as it is required for the purposes for which it was collected or as required by the relevant legal framework.

Data subjects’ rights

This section presents your rights in relation to your personal data. These rights are subject to certain exceptions, reservations or limitations. Please submit your requests responsibly. The Company will respond as soon as possible and in any case within one month of receipt of the request. If your request will take longer to process, you will be informed.  To exercise your rights, you can contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) at dpo@alteregomedia.org email address.

The Company ensures the unhindered exercise of your following rights:

1. The right to information

You have the right to request and receive clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we process your personal data.

2. The right of access

You have the right to access your personal data free of charge, except in the following cases, where there may be a reasonable charge to cover the Company’s administrative costs, manifestly unfounded or excessive/repeated requests, or additional copies of the same information.

3. The right to rectification

You have the right to request the correction of your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

4. The right to erasure

You have the right to request the deletion or removal of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected or there is no legitimate reason to continue processing it. The right to erasure is not absolute, to the extent that there is a particular legal obligation or other legal reason for the retention of your personal data by the Company.

5. The right to restriction of processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict or remove further processing of your personal data. In cases where processing has been restricted, your personal data remains stored without being further processed.

6. The right to data portability

You have the right to request the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, as well as to transmit such data to another controller.

7. The right to object

You have the right to object at any time and on grounds related to your particular situation to the processing of your personal data, unless the Company demonstrates compelling and legitimate reasons for such processing.

8. Rights related to automated individual decision-making and profiling

The Company does not make automated individual decision-making, including profiling.

9. Withdrawal of consent

We inform you of your right to withdraw your consent at any time, without prejudice to the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Submit a complaint

For further information and advice on your rights or to lodge a complaint, please contact the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, tel: +30-210 6475600, website: http://www.dpa.gr

Social media The Website maintains an official LinkedIn account https://www.linkedin.com/company/alter-ego-media/jobs/ Through the Linkedin platform you have the ability to follow the account of the Website, republish and comment on its publications, providing data to be processed on the platform. LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Plaza
Wilton Place, Dublin 2 Ireland, has its own cookie and data protection policies, over which we have no control and are unable to influence. Access to LinkedIn takes place solely at your own risk and we encourage you to read its data protection policy carefully as you accept it by using its services.

General information about social media

According to decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Company, as the administrator of a page through which it processes personal data of visitors to social media, can be considered a joint controller of the processing with the respective provider. This relationship concerns only the processing operations of the visitor’s data through the page, such as the like of a post. This processing is based on the consent of the visitor, as detailed above. The Company takes all appropriate technical and organizational measures for the security of data processing through social media, such as limiting the number of people who have access to the management of each page. The Company is only responsible for the way and means of processing your data for the purposes it sets (communication, information and promotions) and to the extent that it exercises control over your data.

On the contrary, it bears no responsibility for the way or means that the respective social networking platform processes your data. The terms of use of each social media where your feedback is submitted apply normally. In any case, we urge you to be particularly careful about the content you send to our pages on the media, especially when you provide personal data of yourself or third parties, while you should confirm that the page you are communicating with is indeed the official one.

 Comments on social media and the Website

The Company encourages the submission of comments on behalf of users on its posts and/or social media pages, in the context of an open dialogue with respect to different opinions. The Company has no general obligation to control the content submitted by users of these media, but makes efforts to ensure a safe online environment. Therefore, the administrators of the Website reserve the right to remove any type of content deemed to violate its terms of use, such as abusive, vulgar, pornographic, threatening, advertising or infringing intellectual property rights or containing a false statement as to the person of the user, while retaining the possibility of blocking users who submit it.

If you believe that user content hosted on the Company’s social media pages affects or otherwise violates our terms of use, please contact the administrators immediately.

Changes to this Policy

We aim to constantly review and update this Policy in order to comply with the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements, while providing optimal protection of your personal data. Any updates will be communicated through the Website.

Last Updated: 13/11/2024