Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy explains how the Municipality of Gortynia protects the information you enter when using the website of the Digital Museum “Gortynia: Places and People of the Greek Revolution of 1821” (“Digital Museum”) https://www.digitalgortynia.gr (“website”).

The management and protection of the personal data of the “website” visitor is subject to the terms of this section as well as the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 and the Law 4624/2019.

In any case, the “website” reserves the right to change the terms of personal data protection after informing the visitors and within the existing or possible legal framework, with respect to the rights of the users. For this reason, it is advisable to refer to this Policy frequently.

The Municipality of Gortynia is responsible for the protection of your personal data. If we ask you to provide us with any information, please be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The Municipality of Gortynia reserves the right to modify this page at any time. For this reason, please visit this page regularly to ensure that you are satisfied with possible changes.

Ways of data collection – Collected data – Public purposes of data processing

Certain information is automatically collected by the Digital Museum when you visit its “website”. The “Digital Museum” utilizes the information only based on the privacy policy and only to the extent that it is necessary to serve its public purposes. In addition, you may be asked for the following information:
name, address, contact information, including email address.

The processing of all the above data serves the following public purposes of the “Digital Museum”:

1. your communication with the “Digital Museum”.
2. drawing statistical conclusions of the “Digital Museum”.
3. the improvement of the cultural services of the “Digital Museum” to its Greek and international audience.
4. the implementation of its cultural and educational programs.
5. the creation of “Digital Museum” products and services.
6. informing the public about activities, programs and other events of the “Digital Museum”.
7. contacting you for market research purposes.

Any information collected or provided by you is used only for the above purposes.

Use of cookies

To facilitate the use of our website, we use cookies. Cookies are small data/text files stored on your computer’s or device’s hard drive by your browser that are necessary for the use of our “website”. We use cookies to better understand how our “website” is used and to offer better navigation. The cookies we use do not store personal data or personal information capable of leading to the identification of the person to whom they relate, and which have been collected in another way. If you do not wish to have information collected through cookies, please set your web browser to delete all existing cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block all cookies in the future, and receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Nevertheless, we draw your attention, as in this case you may not be able to use all the services of our “website” in their full range. More detailed information can be found in the operating manual of your browser.

References to other websites

The “website” contains references to other websites of interest. However, once you have used the other websites and have now left the “website”, please be aware that we have no control over the other website and its respective content. For this reason, we are not responsible for the protection of personal data that you enter on other websites, nor are other websites protected based on this Privacy Policy.

Controller – Data Protection Officer (DPO)

The Digital Museum “Gortynia: Places and people of the Greek revolution of 1821”, email: mpapal@gortynia.gov.gr , tel. (+30) 2795360-309, website: https://www.digitalgortynia.gr informs you that, for the purposes of carrying out its legal activities, it processes the recipients’ personal data of its newsletter in accordance with the applicable national legislation and the European Union Regulation 2016/679 for the protection of natural persons against the processing of personal data and for the free circulation of such data (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”) as it is applied.

For any issue regarding the processing of personal data, contact the person in charge at the email: mpapal@gortynia.gov.gr (Data Protection Officer / DPO : Maria Papalambrou).