Privacy Policy and GDPR Compliance
We treat the protection of your personal data responsibly and believe that your data should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary. That is why the website www.katerinalytra.com has been designed with the appropriate business and internal systems and complies with European data protection legislation (Regulation 679/2016 EU – GDPR).
This Policy has been adopted by the owner of the physical store “KATERINA LYTRA”, with the distinctive title KATERINALYTRA.COM, which is legally represented by Ekaterini Lytra. The headquarters of the store is located at the address: 23 Asklipiou, Larissa, PC 41222 Tax Identification Number 100903308 Larissa Tax Office, which is responsible for processing the personal data you provide us. Our company is responsible for protecting you every time you use www.katerinalytra.com either as an ordinary user, or as a consumer-buyer, or as a Member and to inform you of all the information you need, in accordance with articles 12, 13 and 14 of the new GDPR applicable from 25 May 2018 at European level.
1. What personal data does Katerina Lytra collect and what are its processing purposes?
Personal Data is any information that relates to you, or may be attributed to you. Our Company may collect simple personal data, such as name, surname, postal code, city, country, telephone, mobile, as well as data that has a technical character, such as email, IP, username, e-password. our shop etc., which are processed according to what we analyze below. In the event that we receive your personal data belonging to a special category, we undertake to process it with even greater care and only with your explicit consent, or in a manner permitted by applicable law.
We may collect your data either by telephone (eg telephone order), or online (eg your registration as a member, online ordering, message on our Facebook page), or of course as follows.
In particular, Katerina Lytra collects and processes the following personal data and information about you:
1.1 Browse the Website – Cookies
Like most websites, he, by browsing www.katerinalytra.com, registering you as a Member of our Online Store, subscribing to the Newsletter Service, placing a purchase order in our Online Store, collects and processes personally data and information that concern you, either through cookies or directly from you who provide them to us.
Google Analytics: We also use Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people who use our site, to better understand how they find and use our website and to see their progress within the site.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, your device, your web browser and your operating system, none of this information is made personally known to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not give us access to it. We believe that Google is a third party data processing provider, as mentioned below.
Also, with your explicit consent, we may analyze your usage behavior on our website to provide you with personalized information. The evaluation of the usage behavior includes in particular the areas of the website in which you stayed and the links that you activated (eg shopping cart). With these data we create user profiles that are classified by person and / or e-mail address, in order for the advertising offer, especially in the form of newsletter, advertising messages on the website and print advertising, to better adapt to your personal interests and to improve online our offers.
Cookies: For your navigation on the Website / Online Store, your registration is not required, in which case you also provide us directly with your personal data or other information that concerns you. However, the Company, during your browsing of the Katerina Lytra website and your transaction with us through our services, collects personal data and other information about you through our own Cookies (First Party Cookies) or third parties with whom we cooperate ( Third Party Cookies), which data we may use for advertising and promotion purposes, for statistical purposes, for market research purposes in order to optimize our products and services, profiling, to measure the effectiveness of the website, to improve and upgrade of its content, its adaptation to the demand and needs of the Users, as well as for the measurement of the effectiveness of the presentation and promotion of Katerina Lytra on third party websites.
In addition, they are used by us to memorize the products stored in your cart, to connect you to your Account without the need to open a new account every time you want to make a purchase in our store, to troubleshoot problems on our server etc.
Cookies are small text files that are temporarily installed on your computer or electronic device and transmitted to our server when you visit Katerina Lytra, through the browser you use. None of the Cookies used by the Website collects information and is not aware of any document or file on your computer.
The information that cookies collect for the above purposes may include the type of browser you use, the type of computer, its operating system, the web service providers, the sites you visit and the links to third party websites. that you may select through our Website, the products and ads you see, the IP address of your PC accessing our Website, Username, User ID & Password, operating system and browser settings, demographics for you such as gender, age, place of residence and your other shopping habits and online behaviors.
By browsing the Website and making purchases through our Online Store, you consent to the processing by Katerina Lytra of the information it collects from you using the Cookies.
1.2. Member Registration – Account Opening
During the Member registration process, Katerina Lytra collects the personal data that Users voluntarily declare during their registration as Members of our Online Store, in order to open an Account. In particular, in this case we collect the email and password, first name, last name, address, postal code, city, which are encrypted, as we analyze below. The above personal data is used by our Company in order to open an Account through which you can see the history of your transactions, while at the same time you give your consent by providing this information to the Company to keep the password, in order to allows you to access your Account each time you log in to it with your password.
If you are under 18, you MUST have your parents’ consent before registering at www.katerinalytra.com.
1.3. Subscribe to the Newsletter service
We will not send you any Newsletter, for any purpose of advertising or promoting our products, unless you choose to subscribe to our Newsletter service. If you register, Katerina Lytra will collect your e-mail address and send you information about our Online Store products, any product offers, gift checks and points, product ads, shopping collaborations etc.
If you choose to participate in our email newsletter, the email address you submit to us will be forwarded to MailChimp which provides us with marketing services. We consider MailChimp to be a third party data processing provider, as noted below. The email address you submit will not be stored in the on-site database or on any of our computer systems.
Your email address will remain in the MailChimp Database as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s email marketing services or until you explicitly request its removal from the list.
If you do not wish to receive Katerina Lytra Newsletters and promotional material in general, you may request that you be removed from our list of recipients at any time, either in accordance with the instructions provided in the Newsletter or by submitting a request to address info@katerinalytra.com. From the emails sent to you by our Company within the Newsletters service, through cookies, the Company records the percentages of opening messages that you receive from us during the sending service of Newsletters and the number of clicks on specific links.
If you are under 18, you MUST have your parents’ consent before subscribing to our email newsletter.
1.4 Purchase Products from the Katerina Lytra Online Store
In order to complete and execute each online order, whether you choose the market as a regular visitor or as a Member of Katerina Lytra, it is necessary for you to provide your personal information, which mainly concerns the payment preferences, your contact details and the place of delivery. of your products. Our Company uses this data for the execution of the contract between us, ie for the execution of your order with the sale of the products and their delivery to the address you state to us, as well as for the realization of the payment on your behalf. By providing your personal information at the stage of the order and for the execution of the contract between us, we will send to the e-mail that you have given us the notification of receipt and execution of the order by the transport company with which we cooperate. We can also use both your e-mail and your phone to send you a message in case we have a problem in the execution of your order or to be contacted by the employee of the transport company who will deliver the products to you. in case of any problem or for any other communication with you or notification.
1.5. Credit card payment
If you choose the credit / debit card for the payment of the product (s) you are purchasing from Katerina Lytra, you must provide us with the type and number of the card for the purpose of payment, its expiration date, CCV, completing all the necessary fields in the (secure) order form. We accept credit and debit cards. Transactions in our Online Store via card are protected by top online security systems and in particular transactions are completed through the CardLink interbank system, ensuring a secure trading environment. Katerina Lytra processes your card details exclusively for the completion of the transaction, ie for the repayment for the purchase of the products from our online store. We do not store the card number, so for every purchase in our online store that you wish to pay by credit / debit card, you will have to re-declare your card details. In this case, you are redirected to a payment service provider’s website. The details of your credit / debit cards are managed safely and at your own risk by the payment service provider, according to what we inform you below.
1.6. Login via Facebook, Instagram account
You can register on the Website or place an order through your Facebook or Instagram account. In this case, Katerina Lytra will ask you to give us permission to access all the information you have posted on Facebook or Instagram to be public. By choosing to grant this permission, you consent to Katerina Lytra’s access to your Facebook or Instagram Account details which are public, for the purpose of creating a profile for you, for the purposes of targeting your product advertising but also for statistical purposes.
2. Legal basis for processing your data
As can be seen from what we have already described, we never process your data without this processing being necessary and based either on 1) the execution of a sales contract between our company and you as a customer, or 2) on our legitimate interests in maintaining it. our relationship with you as our customers, or 3) in your prior consent to receive updates on the activity and products of our Company.
More specifically, our Company will in no case receive from you more personal data than necessary for each purpose it collects, nor will it disclose your data to third parties, unless this is absolutely necessary for the execution by of a service, the provision of which you have requested and is related to the contract of sale between us, (eg delivery of a product) or processing by a third party is necessary for the purposes of our legal interests (eg carrying out a credit check) or if you have previously given your consent, and / or when required by law (eg to execute a court decision, prosecutor’s order, etc.).
Finally, our Company does not sell, rent or transfer your personal data to third parties, with the exception of the application of relevant legal dictates to the competent authorities only, and does not collect or process personal data of minors.
3. Recipients of your data
Katerina Lytra may transmit the personal data it collects about you in accordance with the terms hereof, to third parties, but always under conditions that fully ensure that your personal data is not subject to any illegal processing, ie other than the purpose of the transfer and always under the prior written agreement of Katerina Lytra with them. These bodies are always carefully selected by us and comply with the relevant legislation. In addition, your data may be transmitted to countries within the European Economic Area where all security requirements are met. In the event that we need to transfer your data outside the EEA, this will only be done in accordance with international security requirements and with a view to maximum protection of your data.
The data kept in our file may be disclosed to the competent judicial, police and other administrative authorities upon their legal request and in accordance with the applicable legal provisions. In addition, in case of legal order, service order or official preliminary examination, the Company has the right to make the relevant data available to the respective service.
In particular, we may transmit your data in accordance with the following:
- At Google, according to what we have already mentioned above, especially for the use of Google Analytics & Google Ads services for the Google Display ad network and the Google Search network.
- At MailChimp, according to what we have already mentioned above, especially for the provision of Newsletter services.
- On Facebook for displaying targeted ads if you are a user of the respective application and accept the corresponding terms.
All of the above entities are headquartered in the US and comply with the transnational agreement known as the EU-U.S Privacy Shield.
- In advertising companies and advertising service providers in general: Katerina Lytra does not disclose personal data without the consent of the subjects. However, Katerina Lytra may share with third party advertising providers statistical information regarding the products purchased, demographics, data regarding the technical characteristics of the mobile devices used to access Users in our Online Store, etc., from which cannot be identified.
- To third parties who provide Katerina Lytra services related to the operation of the Online Store such as developers, data analysts, suppliers, providers of data security services and information of the subjects, strictly for the purpose of processing their services to us.
- In service providers for hosting our customer database, technical support and management.
- To data security service providers.
- To credit institutions, to access our platform and complete your order directly from these credit institutions, as we have already described.
- To transport companies, for the delivery of your order.
- To Special Successors: In the event that Katerina Lytra undergoes a business change, such as a merger, Joint Venture, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part of its assets, it may transfer all User information and data, including personal information to the successor body. If significant changes occur in Katerina Lytra’s privacy practices as a result of the business transition, Katerina Lytra will notify you before your personal data is transferred.
Katerina Lytra informs you that the above categories of recipients of your personal data and information are the performers of the processing on our behalf in accordance with the new Regulation and therefore as such do not process your data beyond the above purposes of transmission and always act in accordance with our explicit orders and instructions.
In any case, Katerina Lytra employees who have access to your personal data in accordance with the above, are specific and properly trained, while unauthorized access to your data is prohibited.
4. Conservation Period
Your data will be kept in our database only for as long as we have a contractual or legal right or it is necessary to keep it. Since this cannot be determined in advance, the retention period may vary from User to User. In the event that, for any reason, our contractual relationship is terminated, we may retain some of your data for as long as required (eg if the product you purchased is covered by a warranty) and in any case until the limitation period of any of our relevant claims has passed.
Of course, all data we hold about you will be deleted if you choose to delete your Account from Katerina Lytra or if you ask us to do so, unless we have to keep all or some of it for a longer period of time. by law (eg in relation to sales tax receipts to you) or to safeguard your vital interest.
However, if you simply request the deletion from our newsletter, your data will be deleted directly by the respective email distributors (eg MailChimp). Also, when you visit our Online Store without registering as a member (guest visitor), some of your data (eg IP address) may be stored in our database for up to 6 months (eg for reasons related to with any defect that may be found in a product or any other problem that may arise with your transaction). Although we may retain your information for a period of time necessary for the operation of our company, we will never contact you without your express consent or without it being absolutely necessary for the execution of any of your orders or for the confirmation .
As described below, fully respecting the special features of some of our products that you can buy, your previous orders are given access to our database only to those employees / partners who are necessary for the execution and completion of each order, while we encrypt the data of those customers who bought us online without being registered users, according to the above.
5. Your rights
We are committed to enabling you to exercise all your rights under the GDPR, ie the rights to update, access, correct or delete your data and restrict processing.
In any case you want to exercise any of your rights regarding any personal data held by us that you can contact Katerina Lytra in writing at info@katerinalytra.com. You can make a request to us for free access to your data, however depending on the amount of data that Katerina Lytra holds for you, we may charge you the cost of our Company to provide information about your data or any other information we hold about you.
In case you wish to delete your Account, or the non-receipt of our newsletters or other advertising actions, you should contact us again at 241 053 9893 or email info@katerinalytra.com and we will do the as soon as possible the necessary.
6. Security of your Data
Once Katerina Lytra receives your information, security procedures and measures are activated to prevent unauthorized access to it.
Save Files in Physical Form: Our company can keep files in physical, paper format, which contain your personal data (such as contracts, invoices, consent forms, etc.). We keep these records in locked areas that are accessible only to those employees or associates needed for the purposes described in their employment contract.
Online Storage: Some of your personal information will be stored in the database of the websites we maintain. We have implemented classified access to files containing personal data in our network, which is protected by VPN (Virtual Private Network). Based on this graded access, special passwords are required which are provided only to those employees or associates who are required to access these files. Our network is additionally protected against viruses (antivirus) and firewall.
File transfer: All internet traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the 128-bit SSL protocol. Encryption is essentially a way of encrypting information until it reaches its intended recipient, who will be able to decrypt it using the appropriate key.
Electronic Communication: The data that will be sent to us by email are protected through the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol. Our SMTP servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (sometimes known as SSL), which means that e-mail content is encrypted using 256-bit SHA-2 encryption before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Card Details: In addition, we do not store your card details that you use over the web. Your card details are not visible in Katerina Lytra, as you are automatically transferred to a secure banking environment to complete your order. At the same time, you should take every possible measure to prevent third parties from gaining access to your account, such as not disclosing your password.
We will report any illegal breach of this website or any third party data processing entity database to all those directly concerned, as well as to the authorities, within 72 hours of the breach, provided that the personal data stored is obvious. in recognizable form, have been stolen.
7. Changes to the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time in accordance with legislation or industry developments, without notice. That’s why we invite you to check this page regularly.
8. Contact us
Before you browse the Website or make any transaction with us, such as subscribing to the Newsletter Service, opening a Member Account or purchasing from our Online Store, we invite you to consult this Policy and make sure that you agree to the terms and conditions set forth. we collect and process your personal data.
However, in case you wish any clarification or information regarding the terms of this Policy, or you have any disagreement, reservation or question, you can contact our Company, by phone 241 053 9893, or by sending an e-mail (email) at info@katerinalytra.com.
Last updated: September 16, 2021
