Privacy & Data Protection Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.

Data Controller

Athens Institute (AMKE), registered in Greece under the Tax Identification Number 997398817. For any inquiries regarding your personal data, please contact us at info@athens.institute.

The Athens Institute website, at athens.institute, is part of the Athens Institute's ecosystem of intellectual properties and projects.

What We Collect and Why

When you write to us through the contact form, we keep your name, your email address and your message, to answer you.

When you sign up to our newsletter, we keep your name and your email address, to send you news, project updates and invitations to participate in our activities. You confirm your sign-up by email before anything is sent to you.

Legal Basis for Processing

The processing of your data is based on your consent, obtained explicitly through your registrations or communication forms for any of our channels, platforms, activities and programs.

Where Your Data Is Kept, and Who Processes It

Messages sent through the contact form are kept in the Athens Institute's own system, in a database in Frankfurt, Germany (Supabase), readable only by the Institute's administrators, and sent on to info@athens.institute through Brevo, our email service, based in France.

Newsletter sign-ups are kept by Brevo, which sends our letters. This website is served from a server in Germany (Hetzner).

We do not sell or distribute your data to third parties.

Cookies and Analytics

This website uses no cookies and no analytics, and loads nothing from other services in your browser.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Newsletter sign-ups are kept until you unsubscribe.

Consent

By using our forms and registering for any of our programs, you are providing your explicit consent for us to process your personal data for the specified purposes. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Every letter we send carries a link to unsubscribe.

Your Rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete, or limit the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object to processing and the right to data portability. Requests to exercise these rights can be directed to the contact details provided above.

International Data Transfers

Your data is stored in the European Union. Supabase is a company based in the United States; where any of your data could be reached from outside the EU, we ensure adequate protections are in place in compliance with GDPR requirements.

Security Measures

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

Complaints

If you have any concerns about how we process your data, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for data protection in your country.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy periodically. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we are protecting your data.

Thank you for your interest in the Athens Institute.