Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Leisure Yachts. Leisure Yachts shall process your personal data in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and Greek National Law 4624/2019. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) applies to our website and online services that link to this Policy (our “Site”), and describes how we collect, use and disclose your personal information when you visit our Site or otherwise engage with us. It also provides you information about your privacy rights. 

What data we collect about you 

Personal identification data

We may collect your personal identification data from in a variety of ways in connection with activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site.

We will collect your personal identification information only if you voluntarily submit such information to us in order to satisfy your requests and charter plans, to provide information for products and services and to serve you in the best way. Whenever additional information is requested you will be notified accordingly. 

For example, following the successful booking of a yacht chartering agreement, we keep in our records and process the following data:

Name, Email, Mobile number, Passport, Date of Birth, Gender, Nationality, VAT number and Address.

Non-personal identification data

We may collect your non-personal identification data about Users whenever you interact with our Site. Non-personal identification data may includes the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

Web browser cookies

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance your experience. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

Special categories of personal data (“sensitive data”)

We collect “sensitive” personal data only when you offer voluntarily those data or when these data are required or their collection is allowed by the law. We advise you to abstain from providing sensitive data, except if this is required for the purpose of providing personal data or if you hereby consent with the use of these data from Leisure Yachts for its purposes.

Legal Basis and Purpose of Personal Data Processing:

  • Your Consent given to us to process your personal data for the purpose of contacting you, providing you with quotations, communicating to you company news, promotional offers and other information related to our business.
  • Operational & Contractual Requirements for a)for the purpose of entering into or performing any contractual agreement with you and fulfilling the contractual obligations arising thereof and providing the services you request through the website or direct communication with our personnel, for the receipt of which the use or / and process is required, e.g. online bookings of charter arrangements; (b) for the purpose of  promoting  the services provided from Leisure Yachts and especially through website; and (c) for the purposes of the provision of personalized services and the facilitation of the service execution process, aiming to the facilitation of the client and / or ensuring that the content of the website is presented to the most effective way for you and your devices.
  • Legal Requirements imposed by regulations in force, as for the purposes of notification and registration which we are obliged to perform in compliance with legislative conditions for conducting the activity of yacht chartering and of concluding charter agreements.
  • Other Legitimate Interest, as for the purpose of optimizing our product or service mix to provide you with services best-suited to your preferences, assessing your satisfaction from our services and from the yacht that you chartered, improving our website content, improving our business processes, marketing efforts, products and services.

How we collect personal data:

As we collect information through many sources we have grouped them for your ease of reference by type of interaction and channels of enquiry and communication with us.

Direct interaction

Should you choose to

  • place a request for information
  • place an inquiry for products or services
  • pay for products or services through our website
  • subscribe to our newsletters and publications
  • sign up and participate to a competition, promotion or survey
  • give us feedback on our services and products
  • register to become a member of our club membership program
  • interact with our company for any other purpose

then you may provide us personal data by,

  • filling-in forms through our websites
  • filling-in forms when visiting us at fairs
  • corresponding with us by post, phone, email, in person or otherwise

Indirect Interactions:

We may receive personal data of yours from third parties such as your cooperating yacht sales broker or yacht charter broker or travel agency as when you will be placing an inquiry or order for our products or services through them.

Automated Technology Interactions:

By visiting and browsing our websites, we may automatically collect statistical and technical data that can identify your device and town but not you as a person (such as your location, IP address, usage data, browser data). I n general we do not associate IP addresses with any other data held by third parties and we do not link or seek to link an IP address with the identity of device user. We collect this personal data by using server logs, cookies and data analytics technologies and services provided by third party suppliers. 

When following us on social media, the collection, processing, storage and use of your information is the responsibility of the social media provider, subject to the Privacy Policy of the respective social media platform. We can view information that you share via the social media platforms and platform providers provide us with analytics tools which we use for informational and marketing analysis purposes.

Should you be chartering a yacht, it is also possible that we may automatically collect yacht coordinates tracking information mainly for safety and emergency handling purposes but also so as to enhance the level of charter base service level you receive.

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files sent by the web server to your web browser and stored by your browser on your device so they allow our website to recognize your device (but not you personally) and remember if you have been to our website before. Cookies are an industry standard used by most major web sites; when you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

Access to personal data and rights

If you wish, you may request at any time to get informed about your personal data that are maintained byLeisure Yachts, their recipients, the purpose of their maintenance and processing, as well as their modification, correction or deletion, by sending an email to the address from the email address you have declared. You also have the right to review your personal data we maintain and, in general, to exercise any right foreseen by the law for the protection of the personal data.

The personal data you disclose to Leisure Yachts through our website or email, either during your booking form submission or at a later stage, are collected, used and processed in accordance with the applicable personal data protection provisions. In particular, according to the provisions of the Law 2472/1997 and the Law 3471/2006, as in force, as well as the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, related to the protection of personal data.

In detail, you retain the following rights:

  • Right to know about your personal data: upon your request, we will provide you information about the personal data we maintain about you.
  • Right to correct and complete your personal data: If you notify us, we shall correct any inaccurate personal data that relate to you. If you notify us, we shall fill in incomplete data, provided that these data are necessary for the purposes of processing your data.
  • Right to delete your personal data: upon your request, we will delete the personal data we maintain about you. However, some particular data will be deleted only after a specified retention  period, for example because in some cases we are legally obliged to maintain your data, or because these data are required to fulfill our contractual obligations towards you.
  • Your right to object to the processing of your data: at any time in the future, you may object to the processing of your personal data, if we process your data on the basis of legitimate interests. If you object, we shall stop processing your data, provided that there are no overridden legitimate reasons for further processing. You can object to marketing activities for any reason whatsoever.
  • Your right to withdraw consent: you can withdraw your consent at any time in respect of any processing of Information which is based upon consent. 

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details at the end of this Policy.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. 

Unsubscribe

If you want particular services or communications, such as an electronic newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe from the relevant recipients list at any time following the guidelines included to each communication. If you decide to unsubscribe from a service or communication, we shall try to delete your data as soon as possible, although we may need some time or / and information before we will be able to process your request.

To unsubscribe from our newsletters and other mailings, please send us an email at info@leisureyachts.gr  with “unsubscribe” as the subject.

Who we share data with 

Leisure Yachts does not share or transmit personal data to third parties, unless this is required for legitimate professional purposes and business needs, in order to meet your requests or / and if this is required or permitted by law. In any case, the access to your personal data is allowed only to authorized persons that are required to have access on a need to know basis in order to be able to complete the purposes of the collection, the use and the processing of them, as this disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

In some cases, Leisure Yachts may share your personal data with various companies or service providers who collaborate with us, in order to respond to your requests, or to natural or legal persons that are assigned with the process implementation, such as service providers (e.g. IT provider, analytics companies, and E-Newsletters services), operational partners (e.g. fleet operators, charter brokers, yacht owners, yacht crews, charter-base operators), other suppliers (for as long as they are required to provide you services or goods ordered through us) and competent authorities but the amount of your information shared will at all times be limited to the minimum required for the purpose it is intended to serve, always taking under consideration the nature and sensitivity of personal data. People who have access to the data are committed to maintain the confidentiality of the data.

Where we store your data

Your information is stored on our servers and protected physical storage locations as well as servers owned by third parties as further explained below. 

Just like almost any business worldwide we obtain business essential services such as e-mailing and data storage from external suppliers. We take great care in selecting only reputable trustworthy suppliers because they process and store your data on servers of their own that are dispersed in many countries and so possibly located outside the country where you live or the European Economic Area (EEA).

However, whenever we transfer your Information outside of the European Economic Area, we will make sure that we take steps necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements. Therefore, where required, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place by using appropriate contractual mechanisms, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

How we protect your information

Leisure Yachts adopts appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site. Our partners who support us in the operation of this website also comply with these provisions.

Despite all reasonable measures being taken, it is well understood that no business can fully eliminate security risks associated with information.

How long we retain your data

Your personal data is retained for as long as it is required to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, or as mandated by applicable legislation and regulations (including tax and accounting requirements as well as purposes of an investigation or dispute).

You may at any time unsubscribe from our marketing activities (i.e. Newsletters and Publications) and we will immediately update your marketing preferences so you will no longer be receiving marketing activities from us. However, your personal data previously collected (including any e-mails exchanged) can and will be retained for legal and legitimate purposes (as when such information is pertinent to a previous product or service order of yours).

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at info@leisureyachts.gr