Website terms of use - Privacy Policy
This website (http://bluebrown.gr) aims to promote the services of the company “Blue Brown Properties Limited Partnership” (referred to in the remaining text as Blue Brown or the Company), based in Glyfada, at 16 Pandoras St., T.K. 166 74, and to utilize its services. Blue Brown is responsible for the use of personal data on this website.
Every visitor-user of the pages and services of this website (the Website) is invited to read this carefully and in case of non-acceptance of the listed terms must not use it. Otherwise it is presumed that he accepts the terms of the present and agrees unconditionally in their entirety. The legal information and the terms herein govern all the subpages of the Website, unless more specific terms are mentioned on a specific page and especially those that utilize applications of our third party partners with special terms of their own.
The visitors / users of the Website agree that:
(a) they use their actual/real contact details (surname, first name, address, e-mail, company details, addresses) in the contact forms and (b) they use the website in accordance with the law and good morals and will not take any action or omissions that may cause damage to this and any other user or networks connected to this Website.
Reservation notice / Change of our Policy
Blue Brown reserves the right to add and amend the content or services of the Website and its terms of use, whenever it deems necessary and without prior notice, apart from posting them on the Website with the indication of their validity date. For this reason, you are advised to study the terms of use in force every time you visit our site.
Copyright notice
The copyright of the content (including texts, graphics, images, photographs and software) and the services of the Website that have been or will be posted on the site are protected by Greek, EU and international copyright laws and belong exclusively to Blue Brown or they have been licensed to Blue Brown and a license is generally required for any further use by visitors.
The names, images, logos, distinctive indications and trademarks appearing on the Website are trademarks of Blue Brown or third parties whose use has been legally granted to it. Any further use by any visitor or third party must obtain the express/explicit license of the Company. Under no circumstances may any other license or consent for their re-use be granted due to their appearance on the current Website. The whole or any part of the Website may not be reproduced, copied, sold or exploited commercially for any purpose and in any way without the express approval of Blue Brown.
Without prejudice to the specific provisions set out in the Privacy Policy section, only if requested by the Authorities or if the content of the visitor / user messages is found to be harmful to the Website, the contact details and the information granted by visitors may be transferred to the competent authorities in order to: (a) protect against unauthorized, unlawful and generally misuse of the Website, as well as our legal rights and assets; and (b) protect the security, property and legal rights of other visitors / users and the public.
Collection of sailing data
The information systems, the processes and computer techniques that regulate the functioning of our Website select certain personal data, the collection of which is automatically carried out by the mechanisms of access and operation, such as the forms and protocols that are used on the website http/https.
Every time the user is connected to the Bluebrown.gr website, every time he or she seeks content, and every time they proceed to an action, their access information is recorded automatically on our internet site in the form of an archival screen or linear data. This category includes data such as IP or Proxy addresses, the domain names of the users’ computers, which are connected to the Website through the user’s search program in the form of a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), the date and time the request is submitted to the carrier, the method used to submit the request to the carrier, the amount of data, the response code that reveals the state of the carrier, the duration of the visit, the pages that were visited, as well as information about the time and frequency of the use of our services, as well as other parameters regarding the operating system and the user’s computer environment. This data can be used by Blue Brown for the sole purpose of acquiring anonymous statistical information regarding the use of the website and the application used to identify the pages and services that the user prefers. At the same time, the above data can be used to investigate responsibility in the event of offensive behavior and committing of penal offenses to the detriment of the Website or its users.
Categories of users
Regarding the use of the Website, users are distinguished into two main categories: private users and professional users.
The private users are those who are interested in the purchase through our company or the assignment of some financial assets for sale or leasing through our company. Professional users are professionals in the field of purchasing real estate, such as real estate agents, construction companies and other such professionals and businesses in the field.
Most private users can have access to certain services anonymously (such as the search for real estate), whereas for other services they must be registered before use. Professional users have access to the services offered to them always after their enrollment.
Categories of data
The categories of data that we may process are:
Data regarding use, i.e. data that we have selected from visitors and users of our Website, including the IP address of the proxy, the browser that it uses, its publication, its operating system, its origin, the length of the visit and the pages visited, as well as information regarding the time, frequency and motives for the use of our services.
Service data, i.e. data from the use of the Website and its services.
Public Data, i.e. data that has been published using the Website or its services.
Supporting data i.e. data that some user has sent us in support of some request or doubt related to the Website and its services.
Basic data of natural person, i.e. full name, email, phone number, home address and email address that the user has submitted to us.
Family status data: existence of minor children, number of children
Booking and visiting data at our apartments
Business data (in the case of bookings), like company / work organization, business purpose of the trip, financial Data (debit card number, beneficiary details etc), plus preferences and comments, you send as part of your online booking
Data regarding notifications, i.e. data with which users are informed of new information bulletins, and related information that may be of interest to them.
Data collected through cookies that are installed on our Website
We do not collect special categories of personal data (racial or ethnic origin, political beliefs, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership in trade unions, as well as the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of unambiguously identification of a person, data concerning health or data concerning the sexual life of a person or the genetic orientation). Therefore, we strongly recommend you to refrain from sending data of this category and we inform you that in case of dispatch, our Company will immediately delete them.
The Purpose of Processing
The data selected through our website are utilized in an entirely legal way and in accordance always with the principles of proportionality, legality and within the framework set by the relevant provisions of EU Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR) regarding the General Rules for the Protection of Data, and will be used strictly and solely to achieve the best possible supply of our services and to improve the users’ time on our Website. The process of your personal data is made with respect to the basic principles, that are imposed by the Regulation, for the protection of personal data, such as the lawfulness, the objectivity and the transparency, the restriction of the processing purpose, the minimization of the data, the accuracy, the restriction of the storage period, the integrity, the confidentiality and the accountability.
In addition to the automatic collection of piloting data mentioned in the previous paragraph, the user has the right to provide personal information that will be selected by Bluebrown.gr exclusively through the completion of a specific field of access to forms of communication which are proposed for users to introduce their data on the Website. The forms of communication are of a different kind, according to the type of service that the user intends to employ.
For professional users, Bluebrown.gr selects their personal data from the area’s website in the form of enrollment and/or the administrative system for professionals.
In many applications and services of our Website, users have the opportunity to pass on personal information (e.g. his or her electronic postal address, name, telephone number, postal code, and other personal data). These data are sent voluntarily and explicitly and include any data necessary for the purposes of the particular service. The personal data that the user provides will be recorded and stored in protected electronic places, and will be used in conjunction with the safest and most appropriate security measures.
Sending messages through the electronic post office to addresses that presumably exist on the Website requires the sender’s acquisition of the personal data of the holder of the electronic post office address. This electronic post office address, together with other personal data gathered, is necessary in order to respond to the requests sent and to provide the specific services requested.
The data will be submitted for processing, in electronic and/or printed form, mainly through the use of automatic processes, whereas the processing in question must be carried out directly, by either Blu Brown or by an external collaborator on behalf of Blue Brown (Processor), according to the provisions of the EU Regulation 679/2016.
Under no circumstances does Blue Brown sell the personal data of its users, while during their communication with third parties, within the framework of the aforementioned services, this becomes exclusively and solely to fulfill the purposes that are scheduled under the present policy and provision of its website services.
Appropriate safety measures are provided to avoid the unconventional or illegal use of data, their loss or access by unauthorized persons.
More precisely, Blue Brown and those acting under its instructions and on its behalf / processors of the data, process them exclusively for the following purposes:
- to send you information concerning our services or
- to complete the online booking process, if you choose so, or
- to improve the operation of our Website and also your navigation in it, by using cookies.
The data are processed exclusively for the above purposes or in certain occasions for the purpose of the legal/regulatory compliance of our Company or for supporting legal claims.
Legal basis for the process
Regarding your personal data received by the Company when you complete the Booking form, processing is necessary for the performance of the concluded service agreement between as or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a service agreement.
When registering our Newsletter recipient list or other means of communication, we process your data based on your explicit consent for this specific processing purpose.
As for the data we receive from cookies installed in our website, the processing is based on your expressed consent.
Who has access to your data?
Access to your personal data has exclusively the necessary, in each case, employees of the Company, which have received the required information for the safe process of your personal data.
Moreover, access to your personal data might have the companies and the individuals that cooperate with us (processors), when a specific processing has been assigned to them by the Company. Indicatively your personal data are processed by the IT company that supports our website and the marketing company that is assigned to manage and send our Newsletter. The processing of the personal data by the processors is made under the explicit instructions of the Company and after it is guaranteed that all the necessary technical and organizational measures have been received.
Third parties, who may have access to your data, are official government and supervising bodies (eg law enforcement and prosecuting authorities, supervising authorities, etc.), when we are obliged to comply with the law, when the transfer is deemed necessary for significant public interest reasons, as well as for the foundation, exercise, or support of legal claims.
Third parties
During the use of some of our Website services, the personal data provided by the user (communication information) can be communicated to third parties if necessary, according to the provisions of the EU Regulation 679/2016, but also in accordance with the various provisions of national laws, as every time these provisions are applied to the use of personal data.
Transfer of data outside Greece?
Your personal data which are being processed by Blue Brown itself are only processed and stored inside the EAA.
When booking our apartments via the services of our partners, we kindly request you to check the privacy policy of their services. For the privacy policy of webhotelier please check their website.
Links to / connections with other websites
Any reference or link to another website, is provided for the convenience of visitors-users of our Website and we are not responsible for the content, in general material, products and services provided on these websites or any link contained in an associated website with these websites, or any changes or updates to such websites.
The potential interconnection of the present website with other third parties’ websites through links, hyperlinks, banners, does not entail any liability on behalf of the Company for the content of those websites, the quality of the products and services that might promote, or the policy that might use concerning the protection and the process of the personal data. Every user should pay the necessary attention and be informed concerning the protection and processing of his/her personal data from the above websites by reading their respective data protection policies.
The safety of your data
We commit to safeguard your personal data by taking all the appropriate organizational and technical measures to secure and protect them from any form of accidental or fraudulent processing. It has to be mentioned, that our specifically authorized employees, who process your personal data, have received the appropriate guidance and information. The measures we take are reviewed and amended when deemed necessary.
Data Security
The data that have been collected and submitted to processing are protected, so as to reduce the dangers of unauthorized access and the dissemination, loss and destruction of data, in accordance with the relevant legal provisions. Blue Brown takes all the necessary technical and organizational measures to secure and protect the user’s personal data from loss or destruction, accidental or otherwise, as well as the non-destruction or loss caused by unauthorized amendments, also the revelation or access due to any other illegal processing of personal data that are utilized. However, despite its good faith and every possible effort by our Website to store users’ personal information in a safe functional environment that is not open to the public, it is noted that there is no complete or perfect security, and Blue Brown cannot guarantee that there will be no accidental revelations of the user’s personal data. The user must immediately inform our Website in the event that his or her communication data has been lost, stolen or used without his or her permission. In such a case, we will take all necessary measures and will inform our archives accordingly.
Blue Brown retains the right to proceed – indicatively and not restrictively – to actions such as: a) recording and storing the visitor-user’s every Website communication, including email messages and questions or replies to its staff, customers or other persons, b) investigation of any complaint in the event that some communication does not conform to the terms and conditions required for its use and the decision, during its tactful opportunity to withdraw or to demand the withdrawal of such a communication, c) withdrawal of photographs, objects and information generally that does not conform to the terms and prerequisites for their use on our Website d) the expulsion of registered members, when they do not conform with the terms and conditions of the use of our Website after their relevant warning (notice).
Information related to the cookies, the search engine and its location
The cookies were designed to speed up the analysis of movement on the web and to facilitate piloting and the users’ access to the services offered by the Website. With the use of cookies, personal data are not communicated or acquired and systems for identifying users are not used. If users do not want their information to be collected in this way (through the use of cookies), they can apply a simple process in the pilot program that permits refusal of the function of cookies (Incognito mode).
The information regarding proposals for real estate that are included on the Website and their application will be visible on requests made through the internal search engine and will be available on the known search engines as well as on the Website that permits access to the list of its contents by third parties. The search results on the Website’s search engines are not run by the Website but the user can refer to the removal of the page and request information from the stored copy directly through the search button.
Duration of processing
Your personal data are kept only for the reasonable time period that is required by the nature of their processing, the fulfillment of our legal obligating concerning the storage of your data and the potential support of our legal claims.
What are your rights?
The legislation protecting personal data provides users with specific rights. In particular, the user has the right to receive confirmation of the existence or not of personal data, even if he or she does not yet have the right and that these facts are made available in an understandable form.
He or she can also ask to be informed of the origin of the data, the identity and communication details of the person responsible, for whom the personal information is intended and the recipients or categories of recipients of its data, and the period during which the data was saved and other issues related to article 13 of the EU Regulation 679/2016.
He or she can also ask for their data to be deleted, or corrected, and that its processing be limited, that they should be informed about the aforementioned, the receipt of these data in a structured, commonly used form and readable by machines for printing facts or the exclusion of data that has been subject to processing in violation of the law, to oppose reworking and automated decision-making.
More precisely, as subject of the data you have the following rights:
1. You have the right to access your Personal Data
This means you have the right to be informed from us about whether we process your data. If we process your data you can request to be informed about the purpose of processing, the type of Information we keep, the recipients, the retention periods, whether we do automated decision making, as well as about your other rights, such as rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and to lodge a complaint with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.
2. You have the right to rectify your inaccurate Personal Data
If you find that your data is incorrect you can request us to correct it (correct a wrong or previous phone number/address etc.).
3. You have the right to erase your Information / right to be forgotten
You can request from us to delete your personal data if it is not necessary for the above-mentioned purposes or if you wish to withdraw your consent in case this is the only lawful basis for processing.
4. You have the right to data portability
You can request form us to receive in a readable format your personal data that you have provided us or request from us to transfer your Information to another data controller.
5. You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data
You can request from us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data for as long as the examination of your objections is pending.
6. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data
You can object to the processing of your data, in case we process them upon the legal basis of our legitimate interest. In that case, we shall no longer process your personal data, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your rights.
7. You have the right to withdraw your consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in those cases that processing is based on that legal basis.
How can you exercise your rights?
If you wish to receive further information or exercise your rights, revoke your provided consent, concerning the process of your personal data, you can communicate with us by email or send a letter, with a description of your Request and we will investigate and respond to it as soon as possible.
We will reply to your request without delay, within (1) one month after receiving it and without any cost for you. The above time-period might be extended for two (2) more months, due to the complexity or the number of the requests. In such a case you will be informed for the time extension and the reasons for it, as soon as possible and in any case within (1) one month since receiving your request.
If your requests are obviously unfounded or excessive particularly because of their recurring nature, the Company may impose a reasonable fee, taking into account the administrative costs for providing information or performing the requested action, or refuse to respond to the request justifying the answer to you.
In case you believe that: a. your request has not been satisfied sufficiently and legally or b. your right in protecting your personal data has been violated by our process, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory Authority (address: Kifissias 1-3, Athens, Greece, Postal Code: 115 23, phone number: 210 6475600 ,email address: contact@dpa.gr)
Regarding doubts about this Policy and/or for the exercise of your rights
If you have any doubt regarding the present Policy or more general questions in relation to the activities of Blue Bown, or if you want to exercise your rights, you can communicate with us at our electronic address info@bluebrown.gr or at our postal address: Pandoras 16, Glyfada, 166 74, or you can reach us by phone at 210-8948048.
Last update
Τhe last change in this policy was made at 11 of October 2024.
