Terms of use and Privacy policy

A.    Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors of our website is very important to us and we are dedicated to its protection. Our policy explains how we are going to use your private information.

We do not ask, nor collect information such as your full name, address, email or telephone. You can see the types of information we collect in section C. of this policy.

2.  Your consent to the use of cookies according to the terms and conditions of our policy during your initial visit on our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website. You can see the types of information we collect in section C. of this policy. Also, in section M. of this policy, we have included instructions on how to delete cookies after your initial visit on a website.

3.   We do not guarantee that the pages and contents of this website are free of faults, interruptions or errors, nor do we guarantee that any errors will be corrected within a specific duration of time.

4.   All texts created for psychoeducation.gr are not products of plagiarism and all resources used for their creation are listed in full detail. It is allowed to: 1) copy and share the URL of the website, 2) copy and distribute URLs of a particular article or articles posted on the website, provided that psychoeducation.gr and third party resources are always included.

 B.     Credits

This document was created by using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com). It has been modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com), and was copied by psychoeducation.gr and adjusted in terms of details specific to psychoeducation.gr for use by psychoeducation.gr.

C.    Collection of private data

The following types of private data may be collected, stored and used:

1. Data relevant to your computer, including your IP address, your wider geographical are, the type and version of your browser, the type of your device and the type and version of your operating system.

2. Data relevant to your visits and use of the website, including external source, information relevant to the time of your visit, views of pages of our website and the route of navigation of the website.


D.    Use of your private data

All private data submitted to us are used for the purposes set forth in this policy in the relevant sections of the website. We may use your private data for the purposes set out below: 1. Management of the website, 2. Statistical analysis of page use data by third parties. In any case, the IP addresses of our users are not disclosed to any third parties, 3. Continuity of security of the website and prevention of any fraud, 4. Confirmation of our compliance with the terms and conditions for the provision of our website.

We will not transmit any data collected and mentioned in section C. to any third parties or any commercial division of third parties, except for the following cases:

1. For reasons of statistical data analysis by third parties, who will not be in a position to identify any user through such data, as previously mentioned.

2.  For any reasons required according to law or any future legal proceedings (section E.).

E.     Disclosure of personal data

We may disclose your personal data in the following cases:

1. To the extent required by law in connection with any current or future legal proceedings, in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including the provision of information to third parties for purposes of fraud prevention).

2. To any person and entity which, according to our valid knowledge and belief, is part of a judicial or any other competent authority relevant to the disclosure of information, if we consider that the disclosure of specific personal data will be required by such authority.

F.     International data transfers

We do not transfer, nor store any information in other countries, due to the fact that our office operates exclusively in Greece.

G.    Retention of personal data

Section G. sets forth the procedure and policy for retention of personal data. This section has been designed in order to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.

All personal data collected and described in section C. are not deleted.

H.    Security of your personal data

We take all necessary protection measures at a technical and organizational level in order to prevent any loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data. All personal data you provide are also carefully protected by psychoeducation.gr on a daily basis, via code, valid antivirus and firewall, both as regards the website itself and its administrators.

You accept that the transmission of information through the Internet is by its very nature unsafe, and we cannot guarantee the security of data shared through the Internet.

I.       Amendments

We may update our policy periodically by posting a new version on our website from time to time. You must check the policy page on occasion to make sure that you understand any changes made in our policy. This policy became effective on 3/4/2020.

J.      Your rights

We do not know your identity, therefore you may not ask us to give you any information and data we store.

K.    Third party websites

Our website includes links to and information from third party websites. We cannot control, nor can we be held responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties. We are not liable for any problems that users may come to face during their visits to third party websites presented in this website, and in any case of problems, visitors must address the third party websites directly.

L.     Update of data

As regards this website, there are no reasons whatsoever to inform us about any changes in your details, due to the fact that other than your IP address, we do not collect any personal information such as email, full name or private registration numbers.

M.   Cookies

1.  What are cookies?

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a type of file that contains an identification attribute (a series of letters and numbers) sent through a web server and stored in the browser. This identification attribute is subsequently sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. In general, cookies are divided into two categories, session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are cookies used in order to support navigation and operation of a website, which are deleted upon termination of your visit to a website. On the other hand, persistent cookies support the storing of information after conclusion of a visit or navigation in a website. Persistent cookies remain stored for a duration that is set by each website.

You may delete session cookies each time you conclude your visit on a website. In addition, most browsers give you the ability to refuse cookies. However, if you choose to block or disable all cookies, this may have a negative impact on the functionality of most website. In our case, you may disable cookies but still be able to use all functions of our website.

2.  How to disable cookies:

In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can disable cookies through the cookie settings, which you can find by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”.

In Firefox (version 24), you can disable all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy & Security”, afterwards go to “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and deny the option “Accept cookies from website”.

In Chrome (version 29), you can disableall cookies by opening “Customize and Control”, afterwards click on “Settings”, Show Advanced Settings”, go to “Content Settings” in the “Privacy” menu and under the “Cookie” header, tap “See all cookies and site data” and select “Remove all”.

3.  Deletion of cookies

You have the option of deleting cookies already stored in your computer. For example:

In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).

In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy & Security”, and afterwards select “Use custom settings for history”, tap “See all cookies” and “Remove all Cookies”.

In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the menu “Customize and Control”, tap “Settings”, “See Custom Settings”, select “Clear Browsing Data”, then select “All cookies and site data” and tap “Clear All Browsing Data”.

4. A description of cookies employed in our website and their intended purpose is set out below:

We use Square Space Analytics in our website exclusively for purposes of statistical analysis of the website’s traffic. The cookies we use provide us with the user IP address during visits on the website, and also the user’s wider geographical area during navigation in the website, the type and version of browser during the use of the website, the type / version of the operating system and the type of device that was employed for using our website. These cookies allow us to improve the functionality of the website, analyze its use, manage the website, prevent fraud, improve the website’s protection and create advertisements, taking into account the geographical area of the users of the website and the traffic of the website’s pages.