Our website (www.iown.gr) is operated by “iOwn –Nikolaou Ioanna S.M.P.C.” an entity registered and authorized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the 800668481VAT number with registered office at 37 Dimokratias Av. 15451, Psychiko Athens, Greece (the “Company”).
iOwn is a Real Estate Consultancy Services Boutique firm specializing in Investment Advice, Real Estate Consultancy, Valuations and Real Estate Strategic Advisory, which is founded and directed by Ioanna Nikolaou, who is a Chartered Surveyor of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and RICS Registered Valuer.
By accessing any areas of our website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions regarding privacy set forth below. Your use of this site constitutes your agreement to accept and consent to these privacy terms as at times applicable. We reserve the right to revise these privacy terms whenever we deem necessary. Revisions will be effective as soon as the present text is updated for any change or modification, in which case, the users will be consulted again to the extent required by applicable legislation.
Please be notified that while we seek to maximize the protection of your personal data in accordance with applicable law, data transfer over the Internet is not completely secure and any data transfer is at your own risk.
In case of eventual registration to an account, the user consents to displaying the relevant registered name so that it can be used by iOwn or third parties as provided herein. Under no circumstances can the Company ask the user for information on bank accounts and tax information.
When using this website, personal data are collected and processed (e.g. email address, first name, last name, title, address, telephone number listing information and data concerning real estate transactions – hereinafter referred to as “data” or “personal data”). Such information can be collected and processed upon the consent of the user in the framework of a contractual relationship or upon user’s consent. In cases where we ask you to provide any personal data, there is no
obligation to do so, but if you do not, you will not be able to use all functions of our website or to make use of our services in general.
When you visit this website, we collect any information that you submit to us when using the website. We also collect information about the pages that you visit on this website; the date and time of your visit, your IP address, your web browser, the website (URL) that you visited before accessing this website and certain cookies as below.
Purposes of the processing
We process all your personal data in accordance with the applicable legislation. The Company makes use of your information to provide you with the services of our website or of our contractual agreement or otherwise requested, to fulfil your requests, to enable registration on the website, to measure website traffic and user requirements (website usage statistics), to support technical administration of the website and its operational functions, to further improve and further develop the website, to respond to your requests and messages, to send you informative material about new actions, promotions, events, news & announcements regarding its action and any major developments in the real estate market, to send you information and / or newsletters, but also to show interest in your cooperation, based on your preferences, as these have been explicitly stated in the Company, or taken from your navigation options on the website, to analyze your data on a centralized basis for business information purposes, to prevent fraudulent or unlawful activities on the website and to comply with legal requirements.
The legal basis for the processing of your data will be our prevailing legitimate interest (pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”) unless the processing has as a legal basis a contractual relationship (Article 6 (1)(b) GDPR) or your consent (Article 6 (1)(a) GDPR).
Where you will be asked for your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. However, doing so would not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data based on the consent before its withdrawal.
Access to data
The personal data is processed by iOwn, in particular by employees and consultants administering the website or providing the relevant services (including those engaged in marketing, finance, administration and accounting and other relevant departments), by companies and professionals of the real estate business (including advisory, valuation, brokerage for sale or acquisition, use, leasing, financing or other form of real estate, lawyers, notary publics) or by credit/financial institutions (for real estate purposes) or by third-parties to whom we assign from time to time the performance of certain tasks on our behalf (including IT service providers, hosting providers, advertising and marketing agencies, market research companies, database and website administration companies).
Other than the aforementioned access to your personal data, we can share them for the fulfilment of legal obligations and obligations arising from regulations and directives of national or European legislation and for legal defence purposes in a court of law in the case of a legal dispute.
Some of the recipients referred to above may be located in or process personal data outside of your country. The level of data protection in another country may not be equivalent to that in your country. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries where the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take measures to ensure that all recipients provide an adequate level of data protection.
This website may use cookies. A cookie is a small file that may be installed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are generally used to provide site visitors with additional functionality within the site. Cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on your computer. If you want to control the cookies installed on your computer, you can modify your browser settings so that it notifies you when a website wants to install a cookie or you can block cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been installed on your computer. lease note, however, that disabling cookies might affect your online experience and/or prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
This website may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how you use this website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If this website anonymizes IP addresses, your IP address will be truncated by Google within a EU member state or other EEA state before being transmitted to the US. Only in exceptional situations will your full IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent Google from collecting information (including your IP address) via cookies and processing this information by downloading this browser plugin and installing it: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at the Google Analytics Terms of Service or at the Google Analytics Privacy Overview. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics is supplemented by “gat.anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (IP masking).
Our pages may integrate plugins of the social network Facebook operated by Facebook Inc. The Facebook plugins are characterized by the Facebook logo or the “Like-Button” (“Like”) on our website. You can find an overview of Facebook-plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby obtains the information that you have visited our website using your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. Thereby Facebook can correlate your visit of our site with your user account. We point out that we as the provider of this website have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or how Facebook uses it. For more information, please refer to the privacy statement of Facebook under http://facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not wish that Facebook can associate your visit to our website with your Facebook-account, please log out from your Facebook account before visiting our website.
This website may use the functions of the short messaging service Twitter, which is provided by Twitter Inc. By using the Twitter functions, the websites visited by the user will be linked to the user’s Twitter account and made known to other users. During this process, data is also transmitted to Twitter. We do not have any knowledge about the type, content and scope of the data transferred. The users themselves can alter their data protection settings on Twitter in their account settings. For further information, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy.
You may be able to create an account on our website by using your codes in Google, Facebook, LinkedIn. If you choose to create this account, you will be asked for your consent from the data transfer application in our Company. Your data we receive in these cases refers only to your full name, email address and user photo you have selected in each of the said applications.
Retention
We retain and process your data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which they were collected, including any retention period required under the applicable legislation (e.g. retention of accounting documentation).
If you have subscribed to our newsletter, we will retain you email address until you unsubscribe from our newsletter. If you have registered on our website, we will retain your data for as long as your account exists and thereafter only for as long as there are any legal obligations to retain your data.
Data subject rights
Under applicable legislation, you have the rights (i) to check whether and what kind of personal data we hold about you and to access or to request copies of such data, (ii) to request correction, supplementation or deletion of personal data about you that is inaccurate or processed in non-compliance with applicable requirements, (iii) to request that we restrict the collection, processing or use of personal data about you, (iv) in certain circumstances, to object for legitimate reasons to the processing of your personal data, (v) to the extent that your data is processed on the basis of your consent, to request data portability, (vi) to know the identities of third parties to which your personal data are transferred and (vii) to provide instructions on how your data must be handled after your death when relevant.
Please note that your right to deletion is subject to legal restrictions. For example, we are not permitted to delete data that is subject to statutory retention periods. Data we need for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims is also excluded from your right to deletion.
In order to exercise your rights or request relevant information or revoke your consent to the processing of their data or request rectification or deletion of data or if there are questions concerning this privacy policy and data protection, please contact “Iown –Nikolaou Ioanna S.M.P.C.” , 37 Dimokratias Av. 15451, Psychiko Athens, Greece (attn Ioanna Nikolaou) as well as electronically at info@iown.gr.
These privacy terms are governed by Greek law. Any dispute or conflict arising hereof is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Athens, Greece.
