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Privacy Policy

1. General


We take Your privacy very seriously and We are committed to protecting it. We believe that you should easily know what Personal Data We collect and use, as well as to understand Your rights in respect of Your Personal Data. We recommend that You read this Privacy Policy carefully as it provides important information about Your Personal Data.

 

This Privacy Policy (“Notice”) applies between You, the user of this website (www.alikicollection.com) and Aliki Sakalaridi (hereinafter referred to as the “We”, “Us” or “Our”) - owner and provider of this website - where We are acting as a Data Controller with respect to Our Processing of Your Personal Data. This Notice applies only to Our actions and users with respect to this website and it does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this website including, but not limited to, any links We may provide to social media websites.

 

Any Personal Data We Process is kept in accordance with the relevant data protection and privacy laws to which We are subject including but not limited to the Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) and in accordance with the country specific data protection regulations applicable to Us (collectively, the “Applicable Laws”).

 

References to “Data Controller”, “Data Subject”, “Personal Data”, and “Process”, “Processed”, “Processing” in this Notice have the meanings set out in, and will be interpreted in accordance with the Applicable Laws. “You” and “Your” refers to the Data Subject.


2. Data Controller Details and How to Contact Us


The Data Controller of your Personal Data is Aliki Sakalaridi. We are committed to respecting Your privacy. If You wish to contact Us about Our privacy practices please feel free to do so by email at info@alikicollection.com


3. Personal Data; What information We collect and How?


The term “Personal Data” refers to all personally identifiable information about You and includes all the information You provide to Us or information that is provided to Us by third parties, which can be identified with You personally.

 

For example, the Personal Data that We collect include Your email address, name, surname, telephone number, billing address. We may also collect other types of information such as the IP address (automatically collected) and web browser type and version (automatically collected), payment details (such as credit card information when You place an order with Us), comments, feedbacks and product reviews. Additionally, We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to Our website and page interaction information.

 

We do not collect and/or otherwise Process special categories of Personal Data.

 

We collect your Personal Data from You when: (a) You place an order and/or register with Us and set up an account to receive our products/services; (b) You contact Us through the website, by telephone, post, e-mail or through any other means; (c) You sign up for our marketing communications or browse our website; (d) You provide comments, feedbacks, product reviews through social media channels.

 

We may receive data about You from third parties such as (i) social media platforms, when You log-in or sign-up using Your social media account, We may receive Personal Data from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile personal information); and (ii) advertising and marketing providers in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.

 

To the extent that You access Our website, We will collect certain data automatically to make improvements to website content and navigation; such data includes your IP address or other browsing information. We will collect Your Personal Data automatically via cookies, in line with the cookie settings on your browser. Some cookies are required for the proper functioning of Our website and other are used for analytics purposes which help Us to provide You with more personalized and customized services and a better experience. For more information about cookies, and how We use them on the website, see our "Cookie Policy" 

 

Your Personal Data will be used for the specific reasons stated in this Notice. If You do not provide this information, then it may delay or prevent Us from processing Your request, responding to Your query and providing products or services to You.

 

We hope to ensure that the Personal Data We possess are accurate at all times and therefore We encourage You to update Your information in case any changes have occurred.

 

We recommend that You only provide the data requested or necessary for Your query.

 

4. Purposes of Processing; Why do We collect such personal information and how do We use it?

 

The purposes of Processing for which Your Personal Data are intended are the following:

 

  • Take Your orders, process Your payments and deliver the items You have purchased;

  • To provide You with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  • To provide any additional services You have requested;

  • To be able to contact You with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages and customize our services;

  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our services; 

  • To comply with legal obligations imposed on Us.


From time to time We would also like to contact you about Our products and services, promotional offers or events (“Marketing”). For the delivery of Marketing to You, We will need your consent; that is, You need to take positive and affirmative action when consenting by, for example, checking a tick box that We will provide or subscribing to Our newsletter on Our website. If You are not satisfied about Our approach to Marketing and/or You no longer wish to receive Marketing information, You have the right to withdraw Your consent at any time. To find out how to withdraw Your consent, see the section headed "Your rights" below.

 

When You place an order with Us and/or register with Us and set up an account to receive Our services, the legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between You and Us and/or taking steps to enter into such a contract.

 

Additionally, We process Personal Data relating to Your interaction (site visits, usage) with Our website to enable Us to personalize Your experience. We process Your Personal Data in this way as it is in Our legitimate interest to offer You a personalized experience on Our website and to provide you with personalized advertising and marketing.

 

Sometimes We also need the processing of Your Personal Data to comply with legal obligations.


5. Recipients; How do We store and share your data

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We may share Your Personal Data with the following groups of people:


a)  Our employees that need to have access to Your Personal Data and are authorized to process them in order to achieve the aforementioned purposes and who are committed to confidentiality;
b)  Our agents and third parties that provide services to Us which require the processing of Personal Data; and
c)  Third parties to whom disclosure may be required (such us relevant authorities).

 

In each case, in accordance with this Notice.

 

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard Your data, for instance access to Your account is controlled by a password and a user name that is unique to You.

 

All your Personal Data is strictly confidential and will only be accessible, on a need-to-know basis. Regardless, however, of the measures and efforts taken by Us and Our third-party providers, We cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of Your personal information transmitted by You to Us. We encourage You to set strong passwords for Your account and avoid providing Us or anyone with any sensitive personal information of which You believe its disclosure could cause You substantial or irreparable harm.

 

Any transmission of information is at Your own risk and You acknowledge and agree that We shall not be responsible for any unauthorized use, distribution, damage or destruction of Your Information, except to the extent we are required to accept such responsibility under the law.


Your data may be stored through Our service providers’ data storage and databases. They store Your data on secure servers in data centres located in the EU or a third country territory which ensures an adequate level of protection (transfer on the basis of an adequacy decision). 

 

6. Data Retention Period


We will only hold Your Personal Data on Our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Notice or until you request that the Personal Data be deleted. Thereafter, it shall be immediately and irrevocably erased unless We need to keep your Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, or to exercise or defend any legal claim.


Where a legal requirement obliges the retention of Personal Data for a specific minimum period, We will retain data for at least that period.

 

7. Your Rights


For as long as We retain your Personal Data, You have certain rights in relation to Your Personal Data including:

 

  • Right of access – You have the right to ascertain the Personal Data We hold about you and to receive a copy of such Personal Data;

  • Right to complain – You have the right to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of Your Personal Data with the supervisory authority for data protection matters. In Malta this is the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (contact details provided below);

  • Right to Erasure – in certain circumstances You may request that We delete the Personal Data that we hold about you;

  • Right to Object – You have a right to object and request that We cease the processing of your Personal Data where We rely on Our, or a third party’s legitimate interest for processing your Personal Data;

  • Right to Portability – You may request that We provide you with certain Personal Data which You have provided to Us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (except where such Personal Data is provided to Us in hand-written format, in which case such Personal Data will be provided to you, upon your request, in such hand-written form). Where technically feasible, You may also request that we transmit such Personal Data to a third party controller indicated by you;

  • Right to Rectification – You have the right to update or correct any inaccurate Personal Data which We hold about you;

  • Right to Restriction – You have the right to request that We stop using your Personal Data in certain circumstances, including if you believe that We are unlawfully processing your Personal Data or the Personal Data that We hold about you is inaccurate;

  • Right to withdraw your consent – where Our processing is based on Your consent. Withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent prior to the withdrawal of your consent; and,

  • Right to be informed of the source – where the Personal Data We hold about you was not provided to Us directly by you, you may also have the right to be informed of the source from which your Personal Data originates.


Please note that Your rights in relation to Your Personal Data are not absolute and we may not be able to entertain such a request if we are prevented from doing so in term of an applicable law.


You may exercise the rights indicated in this section by contacting Us at the details indicated above.

 

8. Complaints


If you have any complaints regarding Our processing of your Personal Data, we kindly ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues you may have with Us first by contacting Us via email at info@alikicollection.com. However, please note that you always have a right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner in Malta (www.idpc.gov.mt).

 

9. Processing of Personal Data relating to Minors


We remind you that We do not provide our services or products directly to, nor collect Personal Data of, persons below the age of 18. Therefore, we ask you not to provide Us with Personal Data of persons under 18 years of age.


10. Changes to this Privacy Policy


We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of the website following the alterations.   

 

By navigating to this website you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

 

Last updated: 2 January 2025

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