PRIVACY POLICY FOR THE WEBSITE STUDYINGREECE.EDU.GR

We are pleased that you are visiting our website. Data protection and data security when using our website are very important to us. We want to take this opportunity to inform you about the type of personal data we collect in relation to your visit to our site and for what purpose this data are used.

Since legislative changes or changes in our internal company processes may require an adjustment of this privacy policy, we would like to ask you to review this privacy statement on a regular basis.

1. PERSONAL DATA

Personal information is information that can be used to learn personal or factual circumstances about you, such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address.

Information we cannot link to your person are not personal data.

2. PURPOSE OF DATA PROCESSING

In connection with the use of this site, we process your personal data for the following purposes, among others:

• Provision of services via contact forms
• Conducting personal and anonymous analyses
• Statistical analyses
• To prevent misuse

3. DATA COLLECTION AND DATA PROCESSING

You can use a large part of our online offer without disclosing your identity. However, if you register for our newsletter, request publication material or use the contact form to contact us, for example, we will request your first and last name, your e-mail address, your mailing address, among others, and depending on the contact form and requested service, additional personal information.

It is up to you whether to submit this data or not. However, without this information, we cannot or not fully process your request in some cases and thus cannot provide you with the requested service.

4. NEWSLETTER

When you sign up for our newsletter, we will send a confirmation link to the e-mail address specified by you. Only after you have enabled this confirmation link will you receive our newsletter (double opt-in).

We only pass data collected in connection with the newsletter registration to third parties insofar as this is technically necessary for the sending of the newsletter.

If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time. To do this, simply click on the “unsubscribe” link available in each of our newsletters. Afterwards, you will receive no further newsletters from us.

5. COOKIES

Cookies are small text files used to determine the frequency of use and the number of users to our website as well as making visits to our website easier for you.

Our website uses so-called “Session Cookies”. These session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of the session.

We, as Study in Greece, place a great deal of importance on the protection of your personal data!

Cookies are small text files used to determine the frequency of use and the number of users on our website as well as making visits to our website easier for you.

Our website uses so-called “Session Cookies”. These session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of the session.

We use cookies to provide social media features and analyze our traffic. We aim to offer you a tour that matches your preferences as much as possible and is more interesting in your searches, with the best possible suggestions.

For more information, please visit Cookie Policy.

6. TRACKING PIXELS

Usage information for our website is also collected and stored in anonymised form using a process by etracker. These data are stored on your computer with the help of cookies and make it possible to analyse the use of our website in anonymised form. The data obtained as part of this process can never be used to identify the visitor of this website personally.

Our website employs components from etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. Each time our website is accessed, these components collect and store data for marketing and optimization purposes, which can then be used to compile user profiles under a pseudonym through the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the internet browser of the user visiting the site in order to recognize this user’s browser. Data collected in this manner will not be used to determine the personal identity of visitors to our website unless this is agreed to separately by the person visiting the site. In addition, this data will not be merged with personal information or with a user profile compiled under a pseudonym. Consent to the collection and storage of this data can be withdrawn at any time with future effect. To withdraw consent to the storage of your data, please view this site http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb and follow the instructions provided there.

7. LOG FILES

During your visit and use of our website, our web server saves certain log information about this process in a file (log file). Log files contain in particular the following information:

• Opened URLs
• Time
• Status
• Amount of transferred data
• Internet page the user visited first before visiting the requested page (so called “referrer”)
• HTTP status

We analyse these records only for statistical purposes, to improve the website, for system security reasons (e.g. preventing misuse) and for troubleshooting.

8. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer. This allows an analysis of your use of the website. The information that the cookie generates about your use of this website (including your IP-address) is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google-operated server in the USA. This website uses Google Analytics only with the “_anonymizeIp ()” extension for IP anonymization. Your IP address will be previously shortened within Member States of the European Union or in other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area; which prevents it being directly linked to any particular individual. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities for us and to provide additional services connected with the use of the website and the internet. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition, you can prevent the processing of the data generated by the cookie (including your IP address) and your use of the website, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

You can object to Google Analytics’ data collection by clicking on the link below. An opt-out cookie will be set, preventing the future collection of your data when you visit this website:

Deactivate Google Analytics

9. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As a rule, we do not disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties with the exception of the cases presented here. Deviating hereof, however, we may be required in some cases to disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies. This is for example the case if there is suspicion of a crime or misuse of our website.

10. SOCIAL MEDIA LINK / SHARE BUTTONS

The links to social networks featured on our website – including Facebook, Twitter and Google+ – are only image links. These “Share” buttons are deactivated, which means there is no direct contact with the servers of these social networks. When you click on the “Share” button, a new window opens in which you must log in to your chosen social network. You need to log in before the selected page can be recommended or shared. DAAD has no control over the amount of data collected by the social network. Please refer to the data privacy policies of the respective social networks for further information on the purpose and extent to which data is collected, processed and used by the social network, as well as your rights in this respect and the settings options for protecting your privacy.

11. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our website features so-called hyperlinks to websites of other providers. When activating these links, you will be redirected from our website directly to the third-party website. You will recognise this by the URL change, among others.

We are not responsible for how these providers handle your data on these external websites, since we have no control over how these providers deal with your personal data. Please visit the websites of the respective providers directly for additional information.

12. PAGEFLOW

To allow us to present images, videos and audio content on our website in an interactive way, we use Pageflow software and make use of external service providers who process your personal data when this content is accessed. These service providers are bound by our instructions. They have been carefully selected by us and have received written agreement for the services to be performed. Where data processing is carried out by service providers who are based outside the European Economic Area, we have put the appropriate safeguards in place for their use in accordance with Section 4c para. 2 BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act).

13. YOUTUBE

Our website contains embedded video clips from the video portal YouTube. YouTube is a portal of YouTube LLC, a subsidiary of Google Inc. For reasons of data protection, we decided not to integrate the video clips directly into our website but deactivated them by default. Thus, no data will be transmitted to Google when you access our website. For that reason you will only find a preview image of the video clip on our website. You must activate the video clip by clicking the preview image in order to watch the video. Only after this activation is a connection established to Google’s servers and data are transferred to Google. We have no control over the amount of data collected in this process. Please refer to the data privacy policies of Google for further information on the purpose and extent to which data is collected, processed and used by Google, as well as your rights in this respect and the setting options for protecting your privacy. Go to: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

14. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

Within the framework of the technical administration of the website, we have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect your data from intentional or accidental manipulation, access by unauthorised third parties, loss, destruction or modification.

Data transfer in this context is only via an SSL connection. We always update our firewall and allow only password-protected access to our databases and applications. We are constantly optimizing this protection in the context of technical progress.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be associated with security risks. The complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. It is your responsibility as a user to protect the data sent by you through encryption or protect it from misuse by other means. We recommend sending confidential information only by regular post.

15. INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DATA

Upon your request, we gladly provide information about whether and what type of your data we have saved or stored. If our stored data should prove to be incorrect and/or outdated in spite of our efforts, we will correct this at your request and without delay. If you wish to have any of your stored data deleted, this will be done at your request in the context of the statutory provisions. If a deletion is not possible for legal reasons, the data will be blocked/deactivated instead.