privacy policy

The family business PROMPONA is a dynamic company founded in the distant year 1995 with the main object the production and bottling of the local spirit “KITRO OF NAXOS”. Over the years, in 1978, it founded the WINERY and the production of local spoon sweets, making the unique Naxos crispy cherry, and it also started the production of other traditional local products. With the same philosophy and respect for the authentic recipes, the handicraft business began to produce rakomelo (honey raki), mastic and limoncello liqueur, enriching its product range with spirits that highlight the special aromas and flavours of Naxos. They also created raki with citron aroma, which combines the tradition of raki with the unique freshness of local citron, offering a new and unique product to the market.

The primary concern of our company is to ensure all the parameters for transparency and safe browsing on our website. The Personal Data Protection Policy aims to clarify and inform you in detail about why we collect your personal data and how we use them.

This website has been designed to meet the compliance criteria required by the following European regulations/ directives and the applicable Greek legislation:

• General Data Protection Regulation (DU) 2016/679(GDPR)
• Law 4624/2019, which incorporated the Directive (EU) 2016/680 into the national legislation
• Law 3471/2006 (Government Gazette 133/A/28.6.2006), which incorporates Directive 2002/ 58/ EC (e-Privacy Directive), as amended by Directive 2009/ 136/ EC and constitutes a supplement and specification of the institutional framework for the protection of personal data in the electronic communications sector.
• Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union, Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention 108 of the Council of Europe and its update.
• We therefore ask you to carefully review the following summary of how our website works.

If, after having being informed for this, you disagree, please leave immediately.

1.General information

The controller of the processing of your personal data collected through this website is the company PROMPONA , which has its headquarters in Naxos Town in the Cyclades.

You can contact us for any questions regarding this Policy, as well as any issue related to the processing of your Data and the exercise of your rights at the following address: tpromponas@gmail.com

2.Personal data safety

When you use our website or communicate with us, it is necessary for us to process your personal data required for the proper and secure operation of the website and always within the limits dictated by the applicable legislation, in full compliance with it. Your trust is our priority and we are committed to respecting it in full.

We will never sell, rent, distribute, or in any way disclose your personal data.

THE USE OF THE SERVICES OF OUR WEBSITE BY PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

This Personal Data Privacy Policy provides detailed information about the time and the purpose for which we collect your personal data, how we use and process it, and how long we keep it.

3.Personal data you automatically provide us with

Just by visiting and browsing the website some information may be automatically collected, which can identify you directly or indirectly, such as:

• you IP address
• your browser and operating system,
• the websites you visited before and after our website,
• the connection speed and information about the software programs installed on the computer,
• basic server connection information and
• information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies (see below in the Cookies section).

4.Any personal data collected when completing the contact form

If you wish to contact us, you have the option to automatically submit any queries through the website and specifically through the contact form available on the website.

By completing this form you provide us with the following information:

• your full name
• visitor email.

We inform you that your personal data is kept for as long as our communication lasts, for the sole purpose of responding promptly to your messages, providing personalized services and information, as well as statistical analysis of traffic and use of our website.

5.Social Media Pages

Our company maintains accounts on “Facebook” and “Instagram”

You can also contact us through these accounts to get answers regarding the services we provide. In order to answer your relevant questions, we inevitably collect and process information, such as the username used, as well as other information that is publicly available in your profile. By sending a message to us, you automatically accept the processing of your data, for which you have already given your consent to these applications.

We bear absolutely no responsibility for the processing of your data through the social media platforms. For further information, you need to read their Privacy Policy.

6.Purpose of collecting your personal data

The purpose of collecting, processing, using and storing your personal data, to the extent that it is absolutely necessary and required, is, on the one hand, the proper operation of the website and, on the other

hand, the best possible access to its content and your direct, unimpaired service.

In summary, we collect and use your personal data for the following purposes:

• Promotional activities (newsletter subscription)
• Customer and visitor support of the website
• -Statistical analysis of the traffic and use of our website

7.Who are the recipients of your Data

Access to your Data is restricted to the person responsible for this purpose in our company, for whom we are committed to you to maintain confidentiality and respect for your personal data.

Your Data may be disclosed to our partner companies for technical support & software maintenance, website management, newsletter management software.

None of your personal data, lawfully collected during your visit to our website, is sent outside the European Union.

8.Data retention time

Our company will retain the personal data it collects through the website for the absolutely necessary period of time to fulfill the above processing purposes.

If you withdraw your consent to the collection of your personal data, your data will be deleted from the electronic records of the company, unless their retention becomes necessary to comply with a legal obligation or to exercise, establish or defend rights or legitimate interests before judicial authorities.

9.Data safety

Recognizing the importance of the security of your Personal Data, we have taken all necessary organizational and technical measures to protect it.

These measures shall be reviewed and amended when necessary.

10.What are your rights

According to the GDPR, for the protection of personal data, you have the opportunity to exercise the following rights:

• You have the right to access your Data.

This means that you have the right to be informed by us on how and which of your Data we process. You can request to be informed about the purpose of the processing, the type of your Data we hold, to whom we give them to, how long we store them, whether automated decision making takes place.

• You have the right to correct.

If you find that there is an error in your Data, you can submit a request to us to correct your inaccurate Data and amend incomplete Data so that it is complete and accurate.

• You have the right to delete.

You can ask us to delete your Data if it is no longer necessary for the processing purposes mentioned above.

• You have the right to restrict processing.

You can ask us to restrict the processing of your Data for as long as the review of your objections to the processing is pending.

• You have the right to withdraw/object to the processing of your Data.

You may object at any time to the processing of your Data or withdraw your consent where it has been required and we will stop processing your Data if there are no other compelling and legitimate reasons that override your right or if the Data is no longer necessary for the processing purposes mentioned above.

11.How you can exercise your rights

You can exercise the above rights either by telephone or in writing by submitting an application to the head office of our company. In addition, you can submit your application to the following e-mail address: tpromponas@gmail.com

We are committed to responding to your requests immediately, free of charge and without delay, and in any case within one (1) month of receiving your request.

12.Changes to the privacy and data protection policy

We update this Policy whenever deemed necessary. If there are significant changes to the Policy or the way we use your Data, we hereby declare that the company will not take any specific action to inform each of our website visitors/ users of such changes.

We recommend that you review this Policy regularly in order to know how your Data is protected.

Your continued use of our website, even after any changes made to the Privacy Policy, constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these terms.