{"id":2079,"date":"2026-06-13T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/?page_id=2079"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:09:41","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last updated: 28\/05\/2026<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>1. Data Controller<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sole Proprietorship \u2014 Panagiotis Kousidis (KOUSIDIS PANAGIOTIS TOU ANTONIOU)<\/strong><br \/>\nVAT No.: <strong>176210115<\/strong> \u00b7 G.E.MI.: <strong>193229503000<\/strong><br \/>\nAddress: <strong>92 Argous Street<\/strong>, Athens, 10441<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:info@kousidisgallery.com\">info@kousidisgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2. Data we collect<\/h2>\n<p>We collect the following personal data (Art. 13 GDPR):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When you place an order:<\/strong> first name, surname, email, phone, shipping and billing address.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When you pay:<\/strong> card details are not stored by us. They are passed directly to Viva.com.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When you submit a custom order:<\/strong> the reference photo you upload and any comments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When you contact us:<\/strong> whatever you include in the contact form.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatically:<\/strong> IP, browser, language, pages you visited (via cookies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>3. Purposes and Legal Basis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Order fulfilment<\/strong> \u2014 Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of a contract).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communication and customer service<\/strong> \u2014 Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing and newsletter<\/strong> \u2014 Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent), only if you subscribe voluntarily.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal obligations<\/strong> (invoicing, duties) \u2014 Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>4. Retention Period<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Order data: <strong>10 years<\/strong> (tax obligation).<\/li>\n<li>Communication threads: 2 years from the last interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Newsletter subscription: until consent is withdrawn.<\/li>\n<li>Reference photos (custom orders): 1 year after delivery of the work, unless you request earlier deletion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>5. Recipients of the Data<\/h2>\n<p>Your data is shared with the following processors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Viva.com<\/strong> (card payment processing)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ELTA Courier, DHL Express<\/strong> (parcel shipping)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brevo<\/strong> (sending transactional emails and the newsletter)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Analytics<\/strong> (anonymised visit statistics)<\/li>\n<li>Other recipients where required by law (e.g. accountant, tax authorities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>6. Your Rights (Art. 15-22 GDPR)<\/h2>\n<p>You have the right to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access (to know what data we store)<\/li>\n<li>Rectification<\/li>\n<li>Erasure (&#8220;right to be forgotten&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Restriction of processing<\/li>\n<li>Portability<\/li>\n<li>Objection to processing<\/li>\n<li>Withdrawal of consent at any time<\/li>\n<li>Lodging a complaint with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpa.gr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.dpa.gr<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To exercise your rights, contact <a href=\"mailto:info@kousidisgallery.com\">info@kousidisgallery.com<\/a> \u2014 we respond within one month.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Security<\/h2>\n<p>We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures: SSL encryption, controlled access to data, regular backups, up-to-date passwords.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Changes to this policy<\/h2>\n<p>We reserve the right to update this policy. The date at the top shows the last revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated: 28\/05\/2026 1. Data Controller Sole Proprietorship \u2014 Panagiotis Kousidis (KOUSIDIS PANAGIOTIS TOU ANTONIOU) VAT No.: 176210115 \u00b7 G.E.MI.: 193229503000 Address: 92 Argous Street, Athens, 10441 Email: info@kousidisgallery.com 2. Data we collect We collect the following personal data (Art. 13 GDPR): When you place an order: first name, surname, email, phone, shipping and billing&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/privacy-policy\/\">Continue Reading<span> Privacy Policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kousidisgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}