MY COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

“GEORGE VASILOPOULOS LAW FIRM”, a law firm incorporated under the laws of Greece, with registered seat in Corinth and offices at Orfeos St, Galota Isthmos, P.C. 20100, Corinthia with Corinth Bar Association registration number 585| email: (info@yourlawyeringreece.com) | Website: (www.yourlawyeringreece.com).

I provide legal, as well as advisory-consulting services to both corporate clients and individuals. I am fully committed to protecting the privacy of personal data related to all individuals with whom I interact – including the visitors and users of my website (User/s, you, yours).

In order to achieve this goal, my website (hyperlink to website) fully complies with the provisions of national and European legislation regarding the protection of personal data, including the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”), as applicable.

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) sets out how I collect, process and safeguard the personal data of the individuals with whom I interact. I am responsible as the “data controller” for deciding how I collect, hold and use your personal information. References to “processing” contained within this Policy can mean any operations performed on personal data, for example collection, storage, recording, alteration, retrieval, restriction or erasure.

This Policy is designed to assist you in making informed decisions when using my website or otherwise interacting with me.

Please read carefully and make sure you understand the terms of processing of your personal data set forth in this Policy before disclosing any personal data and/or filling in any electronic contact form made available on this website. By visiting my website or by providing me with your personal data, you acknowledge the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this Policy.

SCOPE OF THIS POLICY

This Policy aims, as already mentioned above, to provide you with detailed information on how I collect and process your personal data (as defined below) while using my website, including any data you may provide me through this website or due to my Website’s interaction with other websites as well as through my general interactions with my clients and customers.

For the purpose of this Policy “Personal 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.  Personal data does not include data which has been anonymized, but does include pseudonymized data.

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

I make all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that personal data I hold about you are:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that I have clearly explained to you, and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;
  3. Relevant to the purposes I have told you about and limited only to those purposes;
  4. Accurate and kept up to date;
  5. Kept only for as long as necessary for the purposes I have told you about; and
  6. Kept securely.

I do everything possible to implement the above data protection principles at all stages of interaction with you and to comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations.

POLICY AND OTHER PRIVACY NOTICES/DOCUMENTATION

This website has been designed with the main function of providing to the public general information in relation to my corporate profile, services and clients and to share news and updates on relevant legal matters. Therefore, the collection of the Users’ personal data will not be required. Please note that I do not collect any personal data of the website’s Users in an automatic way, except or those that the website Users shall provide, using the e-mail hyperlink available on the website. In these cases, the provision of your contact details is optional; if you do not provide your personal information and contact details I will not be able to follow up with you to provide you with the requested information or to handle any enquiry appropriately.

WAYS OF OBTAINING PERSONAL DATA

In most cases, I will collect data directly from you, although sometimes I will obtain data about you from public or third-party data sources, including but not limited to:

  • When I contract with suppliers or service providers for the provision of services to me; and
  • Through third party agencies, or information available in the public domain.

Whilst you are free to decide whether to provide me with your personal data, please note, that if you choose not to provide such data, I may not be able to provide you with any requested legal or advisory services, as this is strictly necessary to provide you with the requested legal or advisory services.

PERSONAL DATA I COLLECT

I may collect and process the following personal data about you, including but not limited to:

Performance of legal services

The types of personal data I collect in the course of and in connection with the provision of legal services may include:

  • Your name, address and contact details, including personal and business email addresses and telephone numbers;
  • Identification documents (which may include information relating to your date and place of birth) and/or other governmental identification numbers for the purposes of complying with regulatory or legislative requirements;
  • Judicial documents needed for your representation and defense before the courts and other authorities, which may also include financial information demonstrating your economic situation and other information known as special categories of personal data, concerning your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, Trade Union membership, genetic or biometric data, health data, or data concerning your sex life or sexual orientation;
  • Details of your current and previous employment, directorships and shareholdings;
  • Details of your bank account for the purposes of billing and collections; and
  • Any other information including personal information strictly necessary to provide the requested services.

Visiting my office

When attending my offices, you may be asked to provide identification documents to satisfy security requirements.

COOKIES USED IN THIS WEBSITE

For cookies used in this website please refer to the cookies policy here.

PURPOSES OF PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA

I will process your personal data only for purposes permitted by applicable laws and on the terms set forth in this Policy. The purposes of the data processing activities may include:

  • Providing advisory and/or legal services to my clients;
  • Representing and defending my clients before the courts and other authorities;
  • Maintaining and developing my relationship with clients and third parties;
  • Facilitating my internal business operations, including accounting, billing, collections, and payments;
  • Complying with my legal, regulatory and professional obligations;

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list and I may use personal data provided to me for further related and/or ancillary purposes, where this is permitted by law or when need to do so to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations.

LEGAL BASIS OF PROCESSING

My legal basis for the processing of personal data is my legitimate business interests, although I will also rely on contract, legal obligations and consent for specific uses of personal data.

I will rely on contract if I am negotiating or have entered into a legal contract or an engagement for advisory and/or legal services with you, your organization or an affiliated legal entity.

I will rely on legal obligations if I am legally required to hold information on you to fulfil my legal or regulatory obligations.

In addition to the above, I may use your personal data where you have provided your consent to such use to the extent that the rights and freedoms of individuals do not prevail.

CHANGE OF PURPOSE

I will use your personal data only for the purposes for which I collected it, unless I reasonably consider that I need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If I need to use your personal data for an additional purpose, I will notify you in advance of any processing and I will explain the legal basis which allows me to do so.

SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF DATA

In addition to the above, where I process special categories of data about individuals (information about individuals’ health, ethnicity, religion, etc.) – I only do so for limited purposes (e.g. to comply with labor and social security law obligations) and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. For such processing I rely on the following conditions:

  • Where individuals provide explicit consent;
  • Where required for rights and obligations related to employment;
  • Where required for vital interests of any individual; and
  • Where processing is necessary for the purposes of provision of advisory or legal services, pursuant to a contract.

WITH WHOM I SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

I may share your personal data with:

  • Legal counsels, other law firms, other legal specialists, consultants or experts (including arbitrators/mediators and notaries);
  • Accountants for accounting purposes;
  • Regulators, courts and law enforcement agencies as necessary;
  • Third party service providers, such as IS support and maintenance service providers; and in doing so, I will keep the systems and processes of third-party service providers under review to monitor the confidentiality, integrity and security of your personal data is maintained when being handled by any such service provider; and
  • Other third parties where I have your express consent to do so.

WHICH COUNTRIES I TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO

The personal data that I collect from you shall not be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Although, in order to provide my services, I may need to transfer your personal information to locations outside of Greece. If I transfer your personal data to a location outside the EEA, I will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data are not disseminated to unspecified recipients. I disclose your personal data to third party recipients on a controlled and need to know basis where this is reasonably permitted to pursue its legitimate business aims and as required by applicable law. Your personal data will be disclosed only in accordance with applicable laws, and appropriate safeguards, such as the execution of contractual agreements (EU Standard Contractual Clauses pursuant to art. 46 GDPR), will be established to protect your personal data.

In order to conduct my business, I may also disclose personal data to third parties such as public/regulatory authorities/governmental bodies, third parties that provide services to me (such as but not limited to service providers, conducting audits, providing IT services, hosting service providers, event management agencies, banks, insurance companies and other support and administrative service providers that deliver support services to me), business partners and associates.

SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

I take the security of your personal data seriously. I have internal policies and controls in place to try to ensure that your personal data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed. I will take reasonable steps to ensure that the information that I hold about you is kept confidential and secure.

Where I engage third parties to process personal data on my behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions, are under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of personal data.

I have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where I am legally required to do so.

I will only retain your personal data for as long as it is strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which the data were collected and any other permitted associated purpose. Data may be retained for a longer duration where applicable laws or regulations require, or allow me to do so. When your data is no longer needed it will be securely destroyed.

 AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING

I do not undertake through my website or in general decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, of an individual unless I inform you otherwise.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Under applicable laws and subject to any legal restrictions, you may have the right to request me to:

  • Provide you with further details on the processing of your personal information;
  • Provide you access to your personal data that I hold about you;
  • Update any inaccuracies in the personal information I hold that is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete;
  • Delete any personal information that I no longer have a lawful basis to use (I can refuse to delete your personal data if in my view requires the information for defense of legal claims against it or its group entities);
  • Provide you or a third party, with a copy of your data in a digital format (data portability);
  • Stop a particular processing when you withdraw your consent. Please note that withdrawal of previously given consent will have effect for the future and will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent until the time of such withdrawal. Moreover, even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent, I may be able to continue to process your personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with exercising and defending our legal rights or meeting our legal and regulatory obligations;
  • Object to the processing of your personal data. Your objection could mean that I am unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out in this Policy.; and
  • Restrict certain aspects of the processing of your information.

You can exercise any of the above rights and also submit any data protection related requests or enquiries by contacting me by email at info@yourlawyeringreece.com

Ιf I do not handle your request in a timely manner or if you are not satisfied with my response to any exercise of these rights, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the local supervisory authority (Hellenic Data Protection Authority – HDPA 1-3 Kifissias Str. | P.O. 115 23 | Athens | Greece). 

POLICY UPDATING

I reserve the right to amend this Policy from time to time to reflect technological advancements, legal and regulatory changes, and my business practices, subject to applicable laws. If I change privacy practices, an updated version of this Policy will reflect those changes by posting any revisions on with the respective update of the effective date listed on the bottom of this Policy. I therefore encourage you to periodically visit this page to stay informed of how I am using your personal data.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions in relation to this Policy, or you want to obtain more information about my privacy practices, please contact me by email at info@yourlawyeringreece.com 

Last revised: 18th June 2026