Document Description
This document sets out the Privacy Notice proposal in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 oftheEuropeanParliamentandofthecouncil of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Privacy Notice
The principles described in this Privacy Notice document are handled in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 oftheEuropeanParliamentandoftheCouncil of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation). The aim of these principles is to provide participants with basic information on the processing of personal data, their protection and methods of processing.
Glossary of terms used in this Privacy Notice:
“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;
“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not.
This document is intended to inform you about the ways we handle your personal data as well as to ensure you they are of the utmost importance for us therefore we constantly protect them. Our employees treat your personal datacomplying with the applicable legislation of Greece and the EU.To ensure we always handle your personal datain the best and most secure way possible, our IT systems and processes are being regularly revised by external professionals.Being fully aware of the fact,your personal data do not represent our property, we truly appreciate the trust you have put in usthrough sharing them with us. Whether we obtain them from public sources or you entrust them to us, we always inform you about this fact.In case we wanted to use your information for otherpurposes than those stated here, we would ask for your affirmtve consent with such personal data processing (lacking other lawful basis).
Who are we and who can access your personal data?
We would like to be sufficiently transparent with you, therefore we inform you about who can access and process your personal data, eventually contact you for the purposes described below. The data controller administering your personal data within the territory of Greece is Response S.A.
We also store your personal data at other companies (processors).These processors maintain the utmost secure internal systems and storage for us. This concerns in particular the Microsoft International Corporation while your data are always being stored exclusively in the countries of the European Union. The security of our systems is provided by our suppliers, which may also have the access to your personal data. To prevent any unathorized processing or a processing you could not have expected, the activity of these suppliers is under permanent controlwhile they are bound by the contractual terms and the processing contracts.When transmitting and processing yourpersonal data,we strictly follow the applicable codes (the code of conduct) of our company.
We never proactively disclose your personal information. Your personal information remains completely safe with us. If we need to transfer your personal information to another recipient, we will inform you of this fact.
What happens if you don’t provide us with your personal data? Should such a situation arise, we will not be able to conclude a contract with you and/or provide you with our services.
We keep your data safe and we want to tell you how do we do it!
The personal data entrusted to us,as well as the ones obtained from the public sources remain under constant physical, electronical and procedural control.We ensure maximum possible protection of the processed data by using the frontier control, technical and security mechanisms, efficiently preventing your personal data from any unauthorized access, transfer, as well as their loss, damage or other potential misuse. Every person handling your personal data, whether within their work or contractual obligations, is subject to legal or contractual obligation of secrecy.
Handling your personal data is essential for our work – we want you to know all our processing operations are undertaken in accordance with the law.
In order to be able to offer you our service, we do have to handle your personal data, thereforea majority of processing operations is based on the contractual terms agreed by you and Response S.A.There are other types of personal data, we may useonly based on yourfreely given consent, which does not affect the other services we provide for you. Certain requirements are also set by the legislature – we also process the information required by the laws of Greece.
Should you disagree with processing or should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Your trust in our services is essential for us, and you can contact us at any time. Once we verify your identity, we enable you to withdraw your consent free of charge.
Should you wish to assert your rights, you can contact us via email info@response.gr or via our central telephone number+302108021145.You can also visit us at the above mentioned address,and we will gladly handle all your requests immediately.
We would like to inform you, how do we use your personal data in case you entrust them to us.
As our main focus is Training and Consulting Services, we conduct related activities trying to deliver the service in the highest quality possible. This concerns namely the following types of processing activities:
– Tests and assessments
– Direct marketing (world news, etc. …), the aim of which is to keep you informed
– CV processing
– Public event management, enabling us to be in closer contact with you, and introduce you new approaches and opportunities created by the labour market
– Maintaining our relationship, by conducting professional interviews, planning meetings and updating all the information in our information system; we will include you in the information system, after you contact us through our website
If you share your personal data with us, we will process only the ones we truly need and have to process.
We handle your personal data carefully and responsibly, with special regard to your safety. In order to offer you the best services possible, we have to maintain certain personal information about you. We keep the following types of information in our system:
– Personal identification data, such as the name, surname, address, telephone number, eventually other contact information you share with us
– Personal information, such as the age, gender, nationality
– Current job situation, such as the current employer, key job responsibilities, specialization and the professional experience you have acquired within your current work position
– Pictures, that can not be considered the biometric data and that you have included in your CV, we do not provide photographic services
– Professional experience, expertise, qualifications, certificates and references
You may not share all these kinds of information directly, thoughwe may obtain them during the interviews or during your visit of our website, therefore we want to inform you about their typical nature:
- IP addresses and cookies,which we may obtain based on your visit of our website and which we use solely for the purpose of securing our systems. We do not use these kinds of information for the purpose of behavioral advertising or other kind of profiling of you or your behavior,
- Psychological tests, as our clients may need to know some information about your character and your eligibility for the position.We do not store these psychological tests and we carefully erase them from all our systems once they are processed,
- Salary orinvoiced hourly rate. We keep this information about you, in order to be able to react promptly to the eventual offers that may interest you, and offer you enhanced services.
In case we obtain the information about you from a different source than from yourself, we inform you about it and you can assert your rights. We provide you with the information at the latest one month after we obtain it and before the start of the processing process. We would like to ensure you, we will not process any information of such type prior to informing you.
We do not keep your information forever. For how long will we holdit?
We will not keep your information forever, but for the period necessary to be able to offer you new work opportunities. In accordance with our business purpose, we store your personal data for a period of maximum 5 years since our last contact. However, you can appeal against this time frame by submitting an objection to the processing. In case we have the legal obligation to store the information about you for a longer period of time, we will store it longer, but if you assert your rights, we will inform you about it. You can always request the restriction of processing or erasure of your personal data. You can also withdraw your consent with the personal data processing, which will bereflected immediately. Please take note, that as a result of withdrawal of consent,we will not be able to offer you our services, requiring personal data processing anymore,
Do we always process the most up-to-date information available
We regularly update all the personal information we keep about you.Taking into account your situation, as well as your experience may evolve in course of time, we regularly encourage you to update your personal data and avoid processing incomplete or out-dated information about you. We will highly appreciate, if you help us to maintain our contacts database up to date, through informing us about eventual change in your personal data, for example through email, telephone or personal contact.
Final provisions
All legal relationships following from or relating to the personal data processing shall be governed by the legislation of the Greece, regardless of where were they accessed from. Any potential disputes arising from the privacy protection between you and Response S.A. shallbe referred to and resolved by the Greek courts. We may and will regularly amend the text of this Privacy Notice document. We will notify you in advance of any such change by email or telephone at least 30 days before the change takes effect.
This privacy notice took effect on May 25, 2018.
THOMAS INTERNATIONAL GDPR
FAQs for clients
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is perhaps the most significant piece of European privacy legislation in the last twenty years, which seeks to strengthen the rights that EU individuals have over their data, creating a uniform data protection law across Europe, including the UK.
Thomas International UK (Thomas) currently complies with all applicable data protection regulations and has been committed to GDPR compliance since it came into effect on 25 May 2018. Thomas has a dedicated internal team made up of cross-functional stakeholders to drive our organisation to meet requirements.
An Update on Brexit and Data Protection
When the UK leaves the EU, it is anticipated that data transfers from the UK to the EU will be able to continue to flow freely. However, in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, a different position may apply to data transfers from within the EU to the UK. At Thomas International, the security of our clients’ data is of utmost importance, and we are proactively taking steps to ensure we continue to provide you with the same high level of security and compliance we do today, in any post-Brexit scenario. This includes the migration of candidate data from the UK to an EEA-based cloud region from a global cloud provider, and the implementation of an EU-approved legal mechanism in the form of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) with our European distributors. SCCs allow for the continued transfer of data from the EU to the UK, in the same way we operate today (you can read more about EU model clauses here).
While the political discussion continues to evolve, we will be monitoring this closely and will update the information on this page as the situation develops. Keep an eye on this page for further updates!
Cookies Policyen
Response aims to make your online experience and your interaction with our websites (hereinafter “the websites”) as easy and efficient as possible.
- WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files dropped to the browser when someone visits a website. Their main function is to store information, e.g. preferred language and country, connection information, etc., in order to facilitate the browsing experience of visitors in the websites. The information collected in this manner is not interconnected to your personal data and is used exclusively for security reasons and statistical purposes.
- WHICH CATEGORIES OF COOKIES WE COLLECT?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Performance, analysis and research Cookies
Advertising Cookies
- WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies in the websites, in order to create a more secure and efficient environment for our visitors, for statistical purposes and in order to improve their online experience.
3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are “first party cookies” that are used exclusively by us for the proper function of our websites. They allow you to browse and use their features, e.g. access to secure areas, etc. All your preferences and settings (e.g. language and country, log-in information, browser and plug-in settings) that are stored in these cookies, are reproduced in our websites and cannot determine your personal identity. Without them many applications of our websites cannot function efficiently.
3.2. Performance, analysis and research Cookies
These are cookies that aim to improve the attractiveness, the content and the functionality of the websites. For example, we can determine the frequency of traffic, the information such as the number of persons visiting our websites and individual webpages, as well as the number of persons that go back to such websites , the keywords used in the search field, the location of the user, i.e. the country, the area and, as appropriate, the city or the municipality of access, etc. Furthermore, they track the pages you visit, the time you stay on them as well as the points where you express your interest.
3.3. Advertising Cookies
These are cookies that enable us to receive information regarding the interest that the user has expressed in any of our advertised products or services. These cookies are used to display personalised advertisements, based on the preferences you expressed in one of our products and services. Furthermore, for the customisation of the content and the advertisements of our website, the provision of social network media features and for traffic analysis, we use tools (including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook pixel, etc.). Furthermore, keep in mind that in the context of this purpose we may share information about the manner you use our websites with third party social media, advertising and analytics providers, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or was collected, in the context of the use of their services.
- TECHNOLOGIES SIMILAR TO COOKIES
Our website uses web beacons in combination with cookies for the collection of data that helps us to understand better the manner in which our visitors move from page to page in our website. The web beacons are electronic files that track the display of a webpage, advertisement, video, e-mail or newsletter.
- HOW CAN YOU MANAGE COOKIES?
You may choose and change freely your cookie preferences through the cookies settings page below. Keep in mind that you may delete all cookies being stored at your personal computer or any other mobile device, as well as set up most of your browsers, in order to detere their storage. However, if you do so, it may be required to manually set up some preferences every time you visit our website, whereas some of its functions and features may not work.
- AMENDMENT OF THE POLICY AND NOTIFICATION
We may amend this Policy from time to time, in order to be always compliant with the statutory requirements and the procedures of our business activities. If we decide to replace this Policy or introduce very important changes, we will notify you accordingly. In order to be informed about the most up to date version of this Policy, we advise you to visit this page regularly.
Cookies Panel
| COOKIE | TYPE | DURATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | HTTP | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_136437321_1 | HTTP | 1 minute | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_153086770_1 | HTTP | 1 minute | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| _gid | HTTP | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| GPS | HTTP | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location |
| IDE | HTTP | 2 years | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | HTTP | 1 hour | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | HTTP | 5 months | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
| YSC | HTTP | 30 minutes | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. |
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