PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

Byzantine Maritime Corporation respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through its compliance with this website privacy policy (“Policy”).

Safeguarding the integrity of the information entrusted to our care is of the utmost importance to Byzantine Maritime Corporation and it is for this reason that Byzantine Maritime Corporation has taken a series of organizational and technical measures to make sure that all of your data is secure.

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website as well as our practices for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing that information.

This Policy outlines our principles and practices regarding your personal data and how we process it.

The contents of this Policy may be amended from time to time therefore please keep in mind to check the Policy periodically for updates.

Principles of Processing

Byzantine Maritime Corporation processes personal data in accordance with the following principles and in compliance with the requirements of the GDPR:

Lawfulness, Fairness, Transparency: Personal data is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.

Purpose Limitation: Personal data is collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.

Data Minimization: Processing relates to data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.

Accuracy: Personal data is accurate. Every reasonable step is taken to ensure that any personal data that are inaccurate are rectified without delay.

Storage Limitation: Personal data is held for no longer than is necessary for the purposes and scope of processing. However, in some cases Byzantine Maritime Corporation may hold the personal data for longer periods in order to comply with its legal obligations.

Confidentiality and Integrity: Personal data is processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorized and unlawful processing, access, loss etc.

Accountability: Byzantine Maritime Corporation complies with transparent data protection processing and adheres to its legal obligations in relation to data protection and privacy

Data Collection

We collect several types of data from the users of our Website and others, including:
• Contact details such as your name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number ("personal information").
• Details of when we contact you and when you contact us. We keep a record of any e-mail correspondence you send us, so we can track any problems.
We collect this data:
• When you provide it to us.

Use of Information

We use information that you provide to us, including any personal information in order to:
• Provide you with information or services that you request from us.
• For any other purpose where we have your consent.

Disclosure of Information

Personal data collected and processed by Byzantine Maritime Corporation is, generally, not disclosed to third parties unless such disclosure is expressly required by law, regulations, or is necessary for the performance of the processing activities.

In detail, as part of our compliance with the principle of transparency and in order to be able to provide you with our services effectively, we may need to pass on your personal data to certain third parties.

Specifically, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to:
• Third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a regulatory or government authority where required by law.
• Where require to do so.

Cookies

Byzantine Maritime Corporation has No Cookie Policy.

Your personal data rights

Right of Access
You have the right to obtain from Byzantine Maritime Corporation a confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and a receipt of a copy.

Right to Rectification
You have the right to obtain from Byzantine Maritime Corporation the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you.

Right to Erasure
You have the right to obtain from Byzantine Maritime Corporation the erasure of personal data concerning you. Byzantine Maritime Corporation will proceed to delete your personal data, where at least one of the following grounds applies:
- The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected
- You have withdrawn your consent on which the processing is based
- You object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for continuing such processing
- The personal data have to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation

Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to obtain from Byzantine Maritime Corporation the restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
- The accuracy of the data is contested
- The processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data.
- Byzantine Maritime Corporation no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing

Right to Lodge a Complaint Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, the data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Agency (www.dpa.gr) if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes his rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at DataSupportTeam@bmc.gr

If you make a request and are not satisfied with our response, or believe that we are illegally processing your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

Data Retention and Destruction

Byzantine Maritime Corporation will keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary in order to carry out the scope of the data processing. However, there may be times that we are required to store your personal data for longer periods in order to comply with a legal obligation.

Retaining personal data for a period longer than is actually necessary, contravenes the principles of data minimization and proportionality and therefore once the data processing is complete, or the time period set by Law has passed, we will proceed to delete your personal data.

Queries

If you have any queries or concerns about our privacy protection practices or believe we have not adhered to this Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at DataSupportTeam@bmc.gr