Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22 July 2026

The Greek Edition respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit greekedition.com, how that information is used, the circumstances in which it may be shared and the rights available to you under applicable data-protection legislation.

By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.

1. About The Greek Edition

The Greek Edition is an independent online travel publication providing travel guides, practical information, inspiration and editorial content about Greece.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, the person or business operating The Greek Edition is the data controller responsible for the processing described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Data Controller

The data controller for this website is:

Legal name: ARAPOGLOU MARIA IOA
Trading name: MYCREATIVE
Business address: NEO RYSIO, THESSALONIKI
Email: hello@greekedition.com
Website: greekedition.com

All privacy-related requests may be sent to:

hello@greekedition.com

3. Information We May Collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the website.

Information you provide directly

When you contact The Greek Edition, you may provide:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your company or organisation
  • The reason for contacting us
  • The contents of your message
  • Information connected with an advertising or partnership enquiry
  • Any other information you voluntarily include

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the contact form unless it is strictly necessary.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages visited
  • Approximate geographic location based on your IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Website interactions
  • Error and security logs
  • Cookie and consent preferences

Some of this information may be collected by the website server, security services, analytics tools, advertising providers or cookie-consent system.

4. How We Use Personal Information

Personal information may be used to:

  • Respond to general enquiries
  • Respond to advertising, partnership or media enquiries
  • Review collaboration proposals
  • Correct errors or investigate website feedback
  • Maintain and improve the website
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Measure website traffic and content performance
  • Protect the website against spam, fraud and malicious activity
  • Diagnose technical problems
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims
  • Display and measure advertising, where applicable
  • Record and manage cookie-consent choices

Personal information will not be used for purposes that are incompatible with those described in this Privacy Policy unless permitted or required by law.

Depending on the circumstances, personal information may be processed under one or more of the following legal bases.

Consent may be used where you:

  • Accept optional cookies
  • Agree to analytics or advertising technologies
  • Subscribe to marketing communications
  • Provide consent for another specific purpose

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place lawfully before consent was withdrawn.

Legitimate interests

Information may be processed where necessary for legitimate interests such as:

  • Operating and improving the website
  • Responding to enquiries
  • Protecting the website and its visitors
  • Preventing spam, abuse and security incidents
  • Measuring basic website performance
  • Managing business and advertising enquiries
  • Establishing or defending legal claims

When relying on legitimate interests, those interests are considered against your rights and reasonable expectations.

Steps before entering a contract

When you contact The Greek Edition about an advertising campaign, partnership or other commercial arrangement, your information may be processed to discuss and evaluate the proposed relationship.

Performance of a contract

Information may be processed when necessary to fulfil an agreement entered into with you or your organisation.

Information may be processed or retained when required to comply with tax, accounting, regulatory, court or other legal obligations.

6. Contact Form and Email Enquiries

When you submit the contact form or send an email to hello@greekedition.com, the information you provide is used to review and respond to your enquiry.

Contact-form submissions may be transmitted through the website’s email system and may also be temporarily or permanently stored within the WordPress website, depending on the form configuration.

General enquiries will normally be retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication.

Business, advertising and partnership correspondence may be retained for longer where necessary to:

  • Maintain records of an active relationship
  • Prepare or perform an agreement
  • Meet accounting or legal requirements
  • Resolve disputes
  • Establish or defend legal claims

Messages that are clearly irrelevant, unsolicited or spam may be deleted sooner.

7. Advertising and Partnership Enquiries

When you submit an advertising, sponsorship or partnership enquiry, The Greek Edition may process:

  • Your name and professional contact details
  • Your business or organisation
  • Your role
  • Campaign information
  • Proposed budgets or commercial terms
  • Correspondence and meeting notes
  • Documents or materials you provide

This information is used to evaluate the proposal, communicate with you, prepare an offer and, where applicable, manage the resulting commercial relationship.

Submitting an enquiry does not guarantee that a partnership or advertising proposal will be accepted.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Ensure essential website functions work correctly
  • Protect forms and the website from abuse
  • Remember privacy and cookie preferences
  • Measure website traffic
  • Understand how visitors interact with content
  • Display and measure advertisements
  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown
  • Provide embedded third-party content

Essential cookies may be used without consent where they are strictly necessary for the operation or security of the website.

Optional analytics and advertising cookies should only be activated after the visitor has provided the required consent.

Further information is available in The Greek Edition’s Cookie Policy.

Visitors can review or change their choices through the Cookie Settings link available on the website.

9. Analytics

The Greek Edition may use an analytics service, such as Google Analytics, to understand website traffic and content performance.

Depending on the configuration and consent choices, analytics data may include:

  • Pages viewed
  • Approximate location
  • Device and browser information
  • Referral source
  • Session duration
  • Website interactions
  • Truncated or otherwise processed IP information

Analytics information is used to understand which content is useful, identify technical issues and improve the website.

Where required, analytics will not be activated until consent has been provided through the cookie-consent system.

10. Google AdSense and Advertising

The Greek Edition may use Google AdSense or another advertising service to display advertisements.

Advertising providers may use cookies, device information, IP addresses and similar technologies to:

  • Select and deliver advertisements
  • Measure advertising performance
  • Prevent fraud and abuse
  • Limit advertising frequency
  • Produce aggregated reports
  • Personalise advertisements where the visitor has consented

Google explains that information received from partner websites may be used to provide and improve services, measure advertising, protect against fraud and personalise content and advertisements.

Both personalised and non-personalised advertising may involve cookies or similar local-storage technologies. Where legally required, these technologies will only be used after appropriate consent has been obtained.

Visitors may be able to manage advertising choices through:

  • The website’s Cookie Settings
  • Google advertising settings
  • Browser cookie controls
  • Applicable industry opt-out tools

Google requires publishers using its advertising services to disclose the involvement of third-party advertising providers and how visitors may control personalised advertising.

The website may use a Consent Management Platform, or CMP, to:

  • Present the cookie notice
  • Collect consent
  • Record consent preferences
  • Communicate choices to analytics and advertising providers
  • Allow visitors to withdraw or change consent

Google requires publishers serving advertisements in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom to use a certified CMP integrated with the relevant transparency and consent framework.

Your consent selection may be stored in a necessary cookie so the website can remember your choice.

You can change or withdraw your consent through the permanent Cookie Settings link on the website.

12. Embedded Content and External Services

Articles may include content or functionality provided by third parties, such as:

  • Maps
  • Videos
  • Social-media posts
  • Booking or travel-related widgets
  • Images
  • Advertising
  • Sharing tools
  • External fonts or scripts

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.

The provider may collect information about your device, IP address and interaction with the content. It may also use cookies where permitted by your consent choices.

Where possible and legally required, non-essential embedded services will remain blocked until consent has been provided.

The privacy practices of external providers are governed by their own privacy policies.

13. Spam Prevention and Website Security

The contact form and website may use security measures such as:

  • Honeypot fields
  • Time-based form checks
  • Rate limiting
  • Firewall services
  • Malware scanning
  • Login protection
  • IP blocking
  • Security logs
  • CAPTCHA or similar verification tools

Technical data may be processed to identify automated submissions, malicious activity, attempted unauthorised access and other threats.

Security logs will normally be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to investigate incidents, maintain website security or comply with legal obligations.

14. Web Hosting and Server Logs

The website is hosted using third-party server infrastructure.

The hosting provider may process technical data necessary to make the website available, including:

  • IP addresses
  • Request timestamps
  • Requested pages and files
  • Browser and device information
  • Error records
  • Security events

Server logs are used for website operation, troubleshooting, security and abuse prevention.

Logs will generally be retained for a limited period unless a longer period is necessary to investigate a technical or security incident.

15. Service Providers and Data Recipients

Personal information may be processed by trusted service providers that support the operation of the website, including providers of:

  • Website hosting
  • Domain and DNS services
  • Business email
  • Contact forms
  • Email delivery
  • Security and spam prevention
  • Backups
  • Analytics
  • Cookie-consent management
  • Advertising
  • Technical support
  • Accounting or legal services

These providers may process information only to provide their services, meet legal obligations or protect their legitimate interests.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law, a court, a regulatory authority or a valid legal process.

The Greek Edition does not sell contact-form information to third parties.

16. International Data Transfers

Some technology, analytics, email, security or advertising providers may process information outside Greece or outside the European Economic Area.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards will be used where required, such as:

  • A European Commission adequacy decision
  • Standard Contractual Clauses
  • Supplementary technical or organisational measures
  • Another lawful transfer mechanism

The level of protection and applicable safeguards may depend on the provider, service and destination country.

17. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Indicative retention periods include:

  • General contact enquiries: up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication
  • Unsuccessful advertising proposals: generally up to 24 months
  • Active business correspondence: for the duration of the relationship and any necessary follow-up period
  • Contractual and accounting records: for the period required by applicable law
  • Security logs: normally 30 to 180 days, unless needed for an investigation
  • Cookie-consent records: for the period necessary to demonstrate and manage consent
  • Analytics information: according to the configured retention period of the relevant service
  • Spam submissions: deleted as soon as reasonably practical

Information may be retained for longer where required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

18. Data Security

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information against:

  • Unauthorised access
  • Accidental loss
  • Improper disclosure
  • Alteration
  • Destruction
  • Misuse

Measures may include encrypted connections, access controls, software updates, website backups, security monitoring and restricted administrative access.

No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors should therefore avoid sending unnecessary confidential or sensitive information through the contact form.

19. Your Data-Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of your information
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdraw consent
  • Receive certain information in a portable format
  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
  • Request information about relevant international-transfer safeguards

These rights are not absolute and may be limited where an exception or overriding legal obligation applies. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority identifies access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection among the rights available to individuals under data-protection law.

To exercise a right, email:

hello@greekedition.com

Please include enough information to identify your request and the relevant communication or interaction.

Additional information may be requested where reasonably necessary to verify your identity and protect personal information from unauthorised disclosure.

20. Complaints

You are encouraged to contact The Greek Edition first so that any privacy concern can be reviewed and addressed.

You also have the right to submit a complaint to the competent data-protection authority.

For organisations established in Greece, the relevant supervisory authority is generally:

Hellenic Data Protection Authority

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority supervises the application of the GDPR and Greek data-protection legislation.

The website contains links to hotels, restaurants, attractions, travel providers, public authorities, booking platforms and other external websites.

The Greek Edition does not control these external websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices, security or content.

Visitors should review the privacy policy of each external website before providing personal information.

22. Children’s Privacy

The Greek Edition provides general travel information and is not intentionally directed at children.

The website does not knowingly request personal information from children through the contact form.

A parent or guardian who believes that a child has submitted personal information may contact hello@greekedition.com to request its review or deletion.

23. Automated Decision-Making

The Greek Edition does not use contact-form information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects through solely automated processing.

Advertising and analytics providers may use automated technologies to classify devices, measure activity or select advertisements, subject to the visitor’s consent choices and the provider’s own privacy practices.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when:

  • The website’s services change
  • New analytics or advertising tools are introduced
  • Service providers change
  • Legal or regulatory requirements change
  • Data-processing practices are modified

The latest version will always be published on this page.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or cookie-consent system where appropriate.

25. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal information, contact:

The Greek Edition
Email: hello@greekedition.com