Terms of Use – Privacy Policy
Protecting Your Personal Data
Last Updated: 20/08/2025
Welcome to the Athens Photo Research Center (“Research Center”) Web Site (the “Site”), an initiative of the Hellenic Center of Photography – Athens Photo Festival. Please read this User Agreement carefully, including the Research Center Privacy Policy.
The Athens Photo Research Center (“Research Center”), respecting personal data, complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) within the scope of its activities and purpose, and takes all necessary measures to ensure the effective protection of personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how the Research Center protects the information you provide when using the website https://www.hcp.gr(“website”). Your use of this website is governed by these Terms of Use, which you accept unreservedly simply by visiting, even briefly, or by retrieving stored data through search engines, and you undertake to comply with them.
Through its website, the Research Center makes every effort to ensure that the content and information provided are accurate, clear, complete, up-to-date, and available. At the same time, the website and its content are offered to users “as is,” and the Center assumes no obligation or liability, nor does it guarantee:
a) the accuracy, quality, completeness, or validity of the content,
b) content that may originate from third parties or refer to other websites (hyperlinks),
c) that the website is provided through a server free of viruses, malware, or other similar applications.
The content of the website is available to users under copyright law restrictions. The Research Center holds all copyrights related to the website content or has permission from rights holders to use the content as authorized where required.
The website reserves the right to modify the privacy terms after notifying visitors and within the existing or potential legal framework, respecting users’ rights. Therefore, it is recommended that you review this Policy regularly. The Research Center is responsible for protecting your personal data. If we request certain information from you, rest assured that it will only be used according to this Privacy Policy. The Research Center reserves the right to update this page at any time. For this reason, please visit this page regularly to ensure you are satisfied with any changes.
Our online store does not collect your payment details. The payment process is conducted and completed securely through the international payment platform Stripe, ensuring the highest possible transaction security.
DATA COLLECTION
PURPOSES OF PROCESSING
When visitors fill out a form on our site, we collect the information provided. The Research Center uses this information only in accordance with its privacy policy and solely to the extent necessary to fulfill its public purposes.
The processing of the above data serves the following public purposes of the Research Center:
1. Communication with the Research Center
2. Extraction of statistical conclusions for the Research Center
3. Improvement of the Research Center’s cultural services for both the Greek and international audience
4. Informing the public about the Research Center’s activities, programs, and events
5. Registration for the Research Center’s educational programs upon your request
Any information collected or provided by you is used solely for the purposes listed above. The data we collect are processed only for as long as strictly necessary to achieve the purposes outlined in this notice
USE OF COOKIES
To facilitate your navigation on our website, we use cookies. Cookies are small data/text files stored on your computer’s hard drive or your device by your web browser, which are necessary for the use of a website. We use cookies to better understand how our website is used and to provide an improved browsing experience. The cookies we use do not store personal data or any personal information capable of identifying you that has been collected through other means.
If you do not wish to allow information collection through cookies, please configure your web browser to delete all existing cookies from your hard drive, block all future cookies, and receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please note that in such cases, some features of our website may not function fully or as intended. For more detailed information, please refer to your browser’s user manual.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites for your convenience or reference. The Athens Photo Research Center does not control these external websites and is not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or any consequences arising from your use of them. Access to third-party websites through links on our site is at your own risk. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms of use of any external websites you visit.
NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION
If you have given us your explicit consent, we will send you newsletters via email containing information about products, offers, events, exhibitions, workshops, and more. The legal basis for this processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of each newsletter or by sending an email to contact@hcp.gr .
DATA PROCESSING – DATA PROTECTION
The Hellenic Centre for Photography, the initiator of the Athens Photo Research Center, located at Strat. Kontouli 3, Athens, Postal Code 11742, email: contact@hcp.gr, phone: (+30) 210 9211750, website: https://www.hcp.gr/, informs that, for the purposes of carrying out its legally mandated activities, it processes the personal data of recipients of its newsletter in accordance with applicable national legislation and the European Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, as applicable).
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