Last Updated: 27 February 2023
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Aegean Film Festival (AegeanFF) Greece, contact [email protected]
The Aegean Film Festival, hereby called from now on for this document as AegeanFF, adapted its privacy policy to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and informs you, and any user or visitor through this page about how any collected personal information is stored, processed and disclosed.
The G.D.P.R. ( General Data Protection Regulation) is designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The new regulation came into effect on 25 May 2018.
Access to https://aegeanff.com or any other website or system that belongs to AegeanFF is referred to as “the Website” and implies full and unconditional acceptance by the user of this Privacy Policy.
The User of this website fully acknowledges having read the information below and authorizes AegeanFF to deal, in accordance with what is specified below, with the personal data he/she communicates on/to the Website within the framework of the service proposed by AegeanFF.
The Privacy Policy is valid for all the hosted pages on the Website. It is not valid for the hosted pages by third parties that AegeanFF may redirect to and where their privacy policies may differ. AegeanFF cannot be held responsible for any data processed on these websites or by them.
Data Processing: Access to the Website shall in principle be possible without having to provide any personal data. In some occasions it may be required to provide personal data when accessing private pages in the website, (via a registration or a login page) or when filling specific forms for submitting personal information for specific purposes as described by each form. Such personal data may be for example, a surname, first name, postal address, e-mail address(s), telephone number(s) etc. and technical information that are described as personal such as your IP address. As part of AegeanFF’s Website related service, the User may also be required to transmit certain personal data if those are required for a specific purpose. In any case, the Aegean Film Festival is in charge of controlling and processing all the personal data, which will only be used for the purposes prior described to the User.
If for any reason you have questions or comments on this privacy policy, or if you want to update, delete, or change any personal data we hold, contact us by email at [email protected]
AegeanFF is collecting only:
Data that you (the user) voluntarily provide to us via any input method. When you send us an email, using the contact form, leaving a comment, register a movie or subscribe for one of our email lists, you are voluntarily giving us information. This information may include either:
By giving us this information, you consent to this information being collected, stored and used by us (please see data processing purpose under point 5)
Data that we collect automatically: In all website pages we use session cookies. Those cookies do not carry any personal information. We also use cookies when you navigate our website. Cookies are very small files that are stored on your device, specifically inside the storage of your internet browser. Aegean Film Festival website also collects a series of general data and information when you use it. Those general data and information are stored inside our website’s server log files. Regarding the use of cookies, we can provide you with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookies setting. You can learn more about how we use cookies and how you can manage them in our Cookie Policy.
Registered information on visited servers: When a User accesses the Website, the visited servers automatically save certain data, such as the type of domain with which the User connects to the Internet, the IP address assigned to the User (when logged in), the date and time of access to the Website and other traffic data, location data or other communication data, viewed pages, type of browser used, platform and / or system, the search engine as well as the keywords used to retrieve the Website.
However, no personal data identifying the User is collected through these savings. This information is kept for statistical and improvement purposes only.
Aegean Film Festival uses a third party services (ticketing partner) for selling tickets. Personal data that are transmitted to the ticketing partner, are used exclusively for the purpose of the ticketing service. Ticketing Partner’s privacy policy is applied.
Aegean Film Festival controls and processes data that are collected via the website, offered services and other channels that are used to:
Aegean Film Festival collects data via input methods on the website, or external platforms such as mailing systems, social media channels etc. AegeanFF also may use third-party services for communicating with our audiences, and our websites may contain links to other sites hosted by others. Different rules may apply to their collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data. We encourage you to review other platforms’ privacy policies before using them. We do not control, and are thus not responsible for, the content or privacy practices and policies of such other sites and under no circumstances shall we have any liability whatsoever for the activities conducted by or at any website accessed from or through our website.
Websites: AegeanFF is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website and any other of those of our projects. By using our websites, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy.
In our websites, we integrate Google Analytics, with the anonymizer function. Through Google Analytics, we collect, gather, and analyze data about the behavior of our websites’ visitors. For instance: the website from which a person has come, which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. We use this information for the optimization of our websites. Read our Cookie policy to know more about Google Analytics and how we use cookies on our websites.
Email Marketing: On AegeanFF’s website and other AegeanFF’s websites or applications, you have the opportunity to subscribe to our email lists. We may use a third-party provider to deliver our emails and e-newsletters. Through this application, we gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies, such as tracking pixels embedded in our email, helping us monitor and improve the communication with our audience. For more information about, read their respective privacy notice.
If you are subscribed to one of our email lists and no longer want to be contacted by us, please unsubscribe directly from our newsletter or contact us at [email protected] to update or delete your data.
Social media: We use Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to communicate and interact with our audiences. For more information about their terms of service and privacy policies, check Facebook’s Data Policy, Instagram Privacy and Twitter’s Privacy Policy.
Links: Our websites may include links to websites operated by third parties over which we have no control. Once you leave our websites, our Privacy Policy will not apply.
AegeanFF does not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary for our organizational purposes, any legal requirements or obligations. If you are a user of our services or a partner, we keep your information until you decide to revoke the permission to contact you again. Upon your request, AegeanFF deletes all personal data that are not related to any legal obligations we may have. If you are a volunteer, we keep your personal information up to 5 years and delete it automatically afterwards.
Regarding general dissemination of information about our activities, we retain your personal data for as long as you remain subscribed to our email lists and communication channels or our website. Sometimes, we might also clean-up our databases and remove those users who are not active based on the suggestions of our tracking systems.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) empowers EU citizens with certain rights that we are committed to guarantee:
If you wish to make use of your rights, please send a written request accompanied by proof of your identity to the following address [email protected]. AegeanFF will respond to your request within 1 month after receipt of your request.