INTRODUCTION
The website www.artgate-ink.com is owned and operated by its Administrator Eleni Kosmidou, tel: +306940229276, e-mail: info@artgate-ink.com. We have taken the appropriate measures which ensure that processing of your personal data complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). Especially, artgate-ink.com adopts internal policies and implements measures which meet the principles of data protection by design and data protection by default.
We collect your personal data either directly from you, or through affiliated companies. We collect your data through this Website and / or in other ways (social media, cookies, analytics tools,e-mails etc.).
This Privacy Policy applies to theUsers.Therefore, the words "you", "your" and generally the use of the second plural form refers to Users. Throughout the Privacy Policy, the terms “we”, “us” and “our”, refer tothe Administrator.By using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
SCOPE AND AIM
While you are browsing through different webpages of the Website, we may ask you to disclose some personal data in order to provide you with our Services. The present Privacy Policy(hereafter Privacy Policy) describesthe type of your personal data which are subject to the processing, the way and the context in which your personal data are collected, the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data, the lawfulness of processing, the entities to which your personal data may be disclosed, the purpose limitations, the storage period and measures we take to ensure lawful and fair processing and the principles relating to processing of your personal data. It also includes information about your rights and data protection. The Privacy Policy applies only to processing of personal data for purposes of the Website’s Services and operation. We also collect personal data through our pages on social media, cookies, analytics tools etc. In this case data processing may be subject also to another privacy policy (e.g.Meta, Google privacy policy).
DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
(1) ‘personal data’ or ‘data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
(2) ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
(3) ‘datacontroller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the Controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
(4) ‘processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the Controller;
(5) ‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
(6) ‘recipient’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;
(7) ‘third party’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data;
(8) ‘supervisory authority’ means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 51G.D.P.R.
(9) ‘restriction of processing’ means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;
(10) ‘profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements;
(11) ‘special categories of personal data’ means data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.
Website orArtgate-ink.com: The website www.artgate-ink.com.
User: The person who browses the Website and uses the Services.
Administrator: The Website’s administrator Eleni Kosmidou.
Services: The offered options to Users via the Website
OUR PRINCIPLES RELATING TO PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
At this Website we process your personal data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’). We collect your personal data for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes. Your data are not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes (‘purpose limitation’). Furthermore, your personal data that we process are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed (‘data minimisation’). Your personal data are also accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. We take every reasonable step to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’). Your personal data are kept in a form which permits identification of you for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed (‘storage limitation’). Your personal data are processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of them, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’).
DATA CONTROLLER
For any processing of personal data carried out by artgate-ink.com, solely for the following purposes, the Administratoris the DataController(e-mail: info@artgate-ink.com). The Data Controller determines the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data.
DATA - LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING - PURPOSES - STORAGE PERIOD
In this section you can retrieve information about the categories of your Personal Data we process, the Processing of such data in relation to the purpose we pursue on a case-by-case basis, the legal basis for each processing activity and the storage period.
| PROCESS | DATA | PURPOSE | LEGAL BASIS | STORAGE PERIOD |
| Responding to messages / questions / requests | Name, e-mail, phone number, messages, requests etc. | We process your personal data to answer your questions / respond to your requests etc./ provide you with information / support / solve a problem | 1. Legitimate Interests (to communicate with Users) 2. When you seek information about a potential cooperation with us, we process your Data in order to take steps at your request, prior to entering into a contract. | We will store your Personal Data for one year from the last time you have contacted us |
| Social Media Accounts management | Fans’ / Followers’ profile name, comments, reviews, contact details, messages, reactions /likes / shares / comments on Social Media Platforms (Artgate-ink.comaccounts / pages on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter) | 1. Respond to users’ messages / reviews. 2. Communicate with the users. 3. Review comments etc.
| 1. Consent 2. Legitimate Interests (to communicate with fans/followers) 3. When you seek information about a potential cooperation with us, we process your Data in order to take steps at your request, prior to entering into a contract. | Your personal data will be retained for as long as you remain a fan / follower / member / subscriber of our pages / accounts or for as long as your activity (posts, comments, reactions, reviews etc.) remains on our social media accounts / pages |
| Searching for potential collaborations | Name, e-mail, phone number, social media page, working address (portfolios)through the “Submit your Portfolio” form, social media, e-mail etc. | Find and contact potential collaborators /Networking | When you seek information about a potential collaboration with us, we process your Data in order to take steps at your request, prior to entering into a contract | We will store your Personal Data for one year from the last time you have contacted us |
The website www.artgate-ink.com is owned and operated by Eleni Kosmidou, tel: +306940229276, e-mail: info@artgate-ink.com., hereinafter referred to as the Administrator.
The Administrator, as Data Controller,has taken the appropriate measures which ensure that processing of your personal data complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR). Specifically, the Administrator adopts internal policies and implements measures which meet the principles of data protection by design and data protection by default.
For the definitions of the terms used in this Cookies Policy please read the Privacy Policy.
Cookies are text files, with short content, that are stored on your computer (or another device) when you visit the Website. Cookies are sent by the Website to yourcomputer (device) during your first visit and follow a reverse route during your next visits to the Website. Our Website and third parties may store cookies on your device.
Collection of information through Cookies, contributes to the smoothand efficient operation of the Website, to the recording and retention of your preferences while browsing the Websiteand to theimprovement of your experience while using the Website. It also allows statistical analysisof your activity on the Website;improves the way it operatesand helps in personalizing the content of the Website and the ads displayed on the Website / in other places on the internet (remarketing / retargeting, etc.), as well as in measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of the ads. The exact purpose of each cookie is described in the tables bellow.
The storage of Cookies is allowed with your consent, unless they are technical / functional Cookies, which you cannot reject. You may at any time delete all Cookiesfrom your device.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, by deleting the Cookies from your personal computer, without affecting the lawfulness of processing, based on your consent before your withdrawal. Cookies can be deleted manually through your browseror through the Cookies Management. If you do so, you may not be able to use some services of the Website oryou may experience lower level of the Website’s functionality.
Visit your browser's official website (e.g. Google Chrome / Mozilla Firefox / Microsoft Edge / Opera / Safari etc.) to find out how to manage / clear Cookies from your device.
We use functionality Cookies to guarantee smooth and efficient operation of the Website and optimal navigation on it.
| Cookie | Purpose | StoragePeriod | Recipient |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves User session state across page requests. | Session | artgate-ink.com |
| wordpress_{hash} | WordPress uses the wordpress_{hash} cookie to store authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin screen area, /wp-admin/. | Session | artgate-ink.com |
| wordpres_test_cookie | Used to check whether cookies are enabled in the browser to provide an appropriate user experience for Users. | Session | artgate-ink.com |
We use Cookies to collect information about your interaction with the content of the Website. Based on these data, we can improve the Website’s performance.
| Cookie | Purpose | StoragePeriod | Recipient |
| _ga | Used to distinguishusers | 2 years | |
| _gid | Used to distinguishusers | 24 hours | |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate from visitors. If Google Analytics is deployed through the Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be called _dc_gtm_ <property-id>. | 1 min | |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a client identifier from the AMP client identifier service. Other possible values indicate an exception or error when retrieving a client identifier from the AMP client identifier service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
The Website uses Google Analytics. For more information:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
Google Analytics Data Privacy and Security Information:
You can manage your advertising preferences:https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous.
The Administrator and Google Inc. are Joint Controllers for some of the processing activities, while for other processing activities Google and the Administrator are sole Controllers.
Google determines some of the purposes and means of the processing of personal data collected through its technology. For each processing activity for purposes and means determined by Google, Google is the sole Controller. Google may use your personal data for its own purposes, such as profiling and combination with other data from user accounts in other services. The processing of your Personal Data under the Google Analytics service, either by the Administrator or by Google, is carried out on the basis of your prior consent.
iii) Cookies for targeted advertising and preferences - third-party Cookies
We use Cookies to collect information that helps us improve your experience while using the Websiteand to post targeted ads so that you can enjoy personalized advertisement.
| Cookie | Purpose | StoragePeriod | Recipient |
| _gac_<property-id> | Contains information relevant to the campaign for the User. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, the Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt out. | 90 days |
Cookies’ storage time depends on the type of each cookie. Cookies are either temporary or persistent. Cookies can be deleted: 1) automatically at the time of expiration, 2) manually through your browser, 3) through the Cookies Management.
We use technology (Cookies, log files, analytics, etc.) that allows automatic collection of information. For example, we automatically collect information such as yourbrowser andyour device’s Operation System.
For more information about your personal data which are subject to the processing, the way and the context in which your personal data are collected, the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data, your rights and data protection, please read the Privacy Policy.
The Administrator reserves the right to amend this Cookies Policy. Any changes will be postedat this webpage. You should periodically check whether changes have been made. In case you disagree with the Cookies Policy, you must refrain from any action, interaction, access and/or use of this Website.
Last update:20/7/2023.