Privacy Policy

TERMS OF PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

1. The website https://pppunit.minfin.gov.gr/ belongs to the Ministry of Economy & Finance. The said website, through technologically advanced online infrastructures and open source software applications, offers to everyone (hereinafter, user/visitor) information services and technological applications about the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance under the following terms of protection of personal data.. The user/visitor of the websites of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance is invited to carefully read the terms of the data protection policy and to use/visit its websites/services only if he/she fully accepts them.

2. When visiting the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance, the user/visitor may be asked to provide (personal) data (name, occupation, e-mail address, date of birth, etc.), in order to activate corresponding services of the website (periodic electronic update, contests, sending information material to mobile and/or fixed electronic means of communication, etc.) and to ensure the possibility of communication with him/her, to which the user/visitor has already expressly consented , so as to be informed about new services and activities of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance. It is clarified that the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance does not have a publicly accessible list of e-mail addresses and/or other personal and/or sensitive data of the users/visitors of its website. Therefore, personal data (e.g. access names, etc.) that appear anywhere on the websites and services of the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance are exclusively intended to ensure the operation of the respective service and may not be used by any third party, without complying with the provisions of Law 2472/1997 and Law 3471/2006, as they apply with their amendments, regarding the protection against the processing of personal data.

3. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance acts in accordance with the current Greek legislation and aims at the best application of good practice regarding the internet. The personal data is kept securely for as long as the user/visitor is registered in a service of the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance and is deleted after the user/visitor gives a written instruction in any way. The personal data declared to the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance are used exclusively by it, for the purpose of supporting, promoting and executing its relationship with citizens (data subjects) or for statistical reasons. Recipients of data files may be third parties of the Government that may mediate for the promotion, support and service of the Government's relationship with the citizens and only for the purpose of providing electronic communications services or any provision of added value services requested by the user/visitor and always under the conditions of articles 4 and 5§5 sec. b' of Law 3471/2006.

4. Regarding personal data disclosed to the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance or information in general that includes personal data or when the user/visitor of the website takes part in ongoing consultations or discussions through the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance and/or when in any way sending such information and/or communicating with the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance by e-mail or other telecommunication means, even if the information containing personal and/or sensitive data was not requested from the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance, the following applies:

4.1. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance does not, to its knowledge, collect personal data from persons under the age of 18.

4.2. For any communication by the user/visitor of the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance by e-mail or other means, it reserves the right to keep a record of this communication and the information exchanged and to use the information provided, in order to respond to any relevant request of the user/visitor or to protect its legal interests.

4.3. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance may send the user/visitor of its website e-mails regarding periodic updates (newsletters, etc.). The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance cooperates with third parties that provide it with technological support services and software systems, and other administrative or non-administrative systems and services. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance reserves the right to disclose to these persons information in the most-as far as possible-anonymous way regarding personal data to the extent that this is related to the purpose of the provision by these third parties of their services to the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance. In addition, the software and application development consultants of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance may use such information for the purpose of modification, evolution and development, improvement and evaluation of its technological infrastructure and development.

4.4. Complying with the Law, the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance reserves every right to use or disclose any information it has collected, in any case in which it believes in good faith that the Law requires it, and/or in any case it believes that illegal activity is taking place or is about to take place, or in order to strengthen or protect its rights, its property, its safety, as well as the safety of the users/visitors of this website or in order to respond to any situation of force majeure.

4.5. In the event that the user/visitor of the website of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance wishes to change or delete personal data from its files, he/she should notify the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance, expressly stating their desired change or deletion. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance may subsequently contact him/her, in order to verify his/her declaration of change or deletion of his/her personal data. In any case, personal data may remain in the files of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance, and it reserves the right to communicate with the subject of personal data from time to time according to its needs.

4.6. The PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance takes security measures in order to prevent the loss, misuse or modification of the personal data of its website users/visitors that are under its control. Because no security system or data transmission and transfer system over the internet can provide 100% security, despite the fact that the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance makes every reasonable effort to protect citizens' personal data and/or the users/visitors of its website, under no circumstances does it guarantee the security of its servers, the means by which information is transferred from the subject's computer to the servers of the PPP Unit of the Ministry of Economy & Finance or any information contained therein, regarding this website.

5. Unless otherwise specified on this website, the above terms of use take immediate effect as a whole.