Privacy policy

General

The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user, from the website hps-sa.gr owned by “HYDROPNEUMATIC SERVICE S.A.”, hereafter “the company”, presupposes your unreserved agreement with the Privacy Policy regarding the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Consequently, the visitor/user must read carefully the contents of this page, before the use of our website services. If they do not agree, they should abandon it and NOT make any use of the services and content.

This privacy policy may change from time to time according to the legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website about these changes. Instead, we recommend you to check this page occasionally for any changes to this privacy policy. The continued use of the website hps-sa.gr even after any changes in the Privacy Policy means the unconditional acceptance of these terms on your behalf.

Protection of personal data

We collect and process your personal data, only when absolutely necessary. We will never sell, rent, distribute, or disclose your personal data in any way. If you are under 16 years old, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.

Relevant legislation

Along with our internal IT systems, this website is designed to comply with the protection of user personal data with the following laws/regulations:

• EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 (DPD)
• General Data Protection Regulation of 2018 (GDPR)

Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

Website traffic monitoring

Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, your device, your web browser and your operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor who is compliant with European legislation.

Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or will be passed on or processed by any third party data processors defined in the section “Our third party data processors” below. Instead, these data will be sent to us over an email via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by security protocol TLS (sometimes known as SSL), meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

About cookies

What is a cookie?

The term “cookie” refers to a small data file that consists exclusively of a series of information in text form, which the website transfers to the web browser on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily during your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember certain things for you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your experience as a user.

Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain from where the cookie originated, the “lifespan” of the cookie, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

Types of Cookies

The basic types of cookies that websites may use are described below

• Session cookies These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
• Persistent cookies These remain in the cookie file of your browser even after the browser is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact duration depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your preferences for website configuration).
• First-party cookies These are cookies that are installed in your browser and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identification code to you in order to monitor your navigation on the site. Website administrators often use first-party cookies for session management and recognition purposes.
• Third-party cookies These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to various websites where they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.

Cookies on this website and how to manage them

On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of our website visitors. The functionality of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.

Here is some information about third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the impact of disabling on the website’s functionality. If you want more information about how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to check or delete them, please visit the following address: www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics Cookies

The cookies of Google Analytics service are analysis/performance log cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can inform us about how many visitors use the site, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about the navigation of visitors through different points of the site. This information helps us improve the way our website works. They are anonymous information and do not contain personal data.

The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our site is transferred and stored on Google’s servers according to Google’s privacy policy.

For more information regarding Google Analytics, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en=GB
If you disable these cookies, your usage of the site will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics that we collect to improve the services we provide through the site. The operation of the site will not be affected.

Social Network Cookies

Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our website with them by clicking on one of the embedded ‘Share’ buttons. If you disable these cookies, the ‘Share’ functionality will not be available.

About this website’s server

All web traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Our third-party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These entities have been carefully chosen to comply with the legislation referred to in this text.

Breaches

For any of your personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken for their protection. We will report any unlawful violation of this website’s database or the database of any third-party data processor to anyone and all directly interested parties as well as authorities within 72 hours of the violation, if it is apparent that the personal data stored in recognizable form have been stolen.