ESBC provides this Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy practices and the choices you can make about how your personal information is collected and used, both on-line and off-line. To make this notice easy to access, it is available on the bottom of every ESBC web page.
We recognize that building a long-term business relationship with you depends a great deal on trust. This trust begins with our commitment to respecting as well as protecting your privacy. Our privacy practices are self-certified as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission Safe Harbor Program. We’ve structured our web site so that you can visit us without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Throughout this Privacy Statement, personal information refers to any information that is unique to an individual, such as name, address, e-mail address, phone number, etc. If you do share your personal information with us, you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with ESBC .
ESBC’s privacy statement covers 9 main areas: Notice, Choice, Access & Accuracy, Onward Transfer, Security, and Oversight/Enforcement, Tailoring Email Communications and Web Experiences, How ESBC Uses Cookies and Additional Information. These areas are described in detail below. Please keep in mind that our privacy practices may vary as required by local laws and policies. Comments or questions about our privacy practices can be sent to: info@esbc.gr
1. Notice
What information we collect
During the course of your relationship with us, we may collect personal information to enable you to order products or services, download software updates, make requests, and register for customized communications programs. We may collect such personal information as your name, contact and billing information, transaction and credit card information. To tailor our subsequent communications to you and improve our products and services, we may ask you to provide information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our products and contact preferences. Personal information may be required to determine access eligibility for certain restricted parts of our site. Data collected on-line may be combined with information provided off-line.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on your visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
How we use the information
ESBC uses your personal information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your personal information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, provide updates on service and benefits, and to personalize our web sites and communications with you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for other purposes. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. We will always give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such contact. If you would like to read more about how to opt-out, please follow the directions given below in the “Choice” section of this document. In addition, we will also follow local requirements where applicable.
- We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our services, content, and advertising.
- From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about information available to purchase and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve ESBC’s services, and customer communications.
Disclosure to Third Parties
ESBC does not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to others. However, ESBC may share your personal information with our affiliated entities and business partners so that they may provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. We will always give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such contact. At times ESBC may make certain information available to strategic partners that work with ESBC to provide products and services, or that help ESBC market its services. Personal information will only be shared by ESBC to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes. We reserve the right to, and generally will, share personal information with the sponsors and contributors to the ESBC webinars.
EU’s Data Protection Directive Compliance
Because ESBC values your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the EU’s Data Protection Directive. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
ESBC is in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
2. Choice
ESBC will not use or share your personal information in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first notifying you and offering a choice. We will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you wish to opt-out at any time of certain or all contact from ESBC, and we will do everything we can to honor such requests. This choice may be offered at the bottom of our on-line or off-line communications to you as well as on many of our web registration pages. If you have any difficulty exercising your choices, please send your request to: info@esbc.gr
Your permission will always be secured first, should we ever decide to share your personal information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy.
3. Onward Transfer
Subject to your permission or as permitted by law, the personal information that you provide to us may be transferred within ESBC across state or country borders. This may be done to consolidate data storage or to simplify the management of customer information.
4. Access and Accuracy
ESBC strives to keep your personal information accurate. We will provide you with access to your personal information, including making every effort to provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may review, update or correct your information at the ESBC site where it was submitted. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections. To access your personal information, return to the web page where you originally entered it and follow the instructions on that web page. If you cannot access your information on the web page, please send your request to info@esbc.gr
5. Security
ESBC is committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of personal information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure it. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
6. Oversight/Enforcement
ESBC privacy practices are self-certified as part of the EU’s Data Protection Directive . For more information please go to the EU’s Data Protection Directive website.
7. Tailoring E-Mail Communications and Web Experiences
On occasion ESBC may employ technologies that enable us to review which recipients have opened our e-mail communications and which links they have accessed in the message. This helps us to tailor our communications in our attempts to send you the most relevant information, as local laws and your preferences and permissions allow. As a registered user, we may also monitor your web browsing session while you are logged-in to esbc.gr. In this way we will try to improve our website through personalization to better meet your needs. Any such monitoring is done in accordance with local laws.
8. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information either stored temporarily in your browser’s memory space (session cookie) or placed on your computer’s hard drive (stored cookie). Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual, but without the need to identify you explicitly. Session cookies are destroyed when you terminate your browsing session by shutting down your browser. Stored cookies often have a predetermined expiration date after which they disappear from your hard drive. Cookies can be removed explicitly through functionality built into most web browsers. You may also set your web browser (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox) to notify you of cookie placement requests, ask for permission to accept them, or decline cookies completely.
Usage of Cookies and Other related Technologies
ESBC may use cookies and other technologies to help us analyze web traffic or to improve your web navigation experience. To facilitate the analysis, an ID is assigned to help us uniquely identify you each time you return to our web site. One of the major concerns about stored cookies is the fear that they contain personal information and information identifying you that could be accessed by other web sites. ESBC only stores a randomly chosen unique ID number and a context, both of which are meaningless to others, but help us uniquely identify you. Cookies and other technologies may also be used to control the number of times you see a given ad or other material, deliver ads and other material that relate to your interests, measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns and otherwise assist us in making your use of the ESBC material more relevant and useful to you.
By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can:
- Tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes
- Provide an automated log-in process as a convenience for previously registered customers. This insures that you will be accurately identified and linked with your registration data.
- Be placed on your computer to ensure you are not surveyed multiple times during your visit(s) to an ESBC web site. This cookie has a limited life span and will not personally identify you.
Cookies help us provide a better web experience by letting us monitor what’s working and what isn’t through site traffic analysis. ESBC wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. While acknowledging the concerns that some visitors have about cookie usage, we believe that the benefit our webpage visitors gain from the use of cookies is worthwhile.
9. Additional Information
Links to Third-Party Web Sites
Links to third-party web sites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the ESBC site. ESBC has not reviewed all of these third-party sites; does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policies. Thus, we do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Changes to the Privacy Statement
ESBC may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about ESBC’s privacy policy please e-mail us info@esbc.gr