Welcome to www.sleed.com, a website administered by SLEED A.E., having its registered offices in 25is Martiou 83 & Arkadias, 12132, Peristeri, Athens, Greece (“we”, “us”, “our” “SLEED”). Use of our website is subject to the Terms and Conditions and to the present Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy has been updated to ensure compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Via your use of our website you unconditionally declare that you have reviewed, understood and accepted all terms included in the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of the terms included in the Terms and Conditions and/or the Privacy Policy, you must refrain from browsing and using our website and its services. The Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time without prior notice to you. We encourage you to regularly review the present terms, as your continued use of our website implies that you have accepted such amendments.    

SLEED is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how SLEED, as controller within the meaning of applicable data privacy regulation, collects and processes the personal data and other information of the users of our website and how our website uses cookies.

Types of data collected and how we use it

When you visit or browse our website and when you contact us, we may collect and process certain data in order for you to be able to benefit from the functionalities offered via the website. Our website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal data relating to children. Personal data includes any information about you from which you can be, directly or indirectly, identified.

Data collected directly by you

We may collect some of your personal data for communication purposes, such as in order to answer your requests for information and questions. More specifically, when you use the “Contact Us” section of our website, we may collect and process information about you that you directly provide to us, which may include: your name, email address, phone number and the content of the communication that you address to us. We will use this information to communicate with you and respond to your request or question. We will also collect data about you when you use the “Career” section of our website in order to apply for a job position at SLEED. In this case we will collect certain data about you (name, email, phone number, address, information on your education, experience and other information included in your CV and cover letter, and Information from your LinkedIn profile, if you decide to apply using your LinkedIn profile) in order to determine your suitability for the position you are applying for as part of the application process and, on the basis of your prior consent, in order to provide you with offers for potential other positions that may be of interest for you.

Data collected using cookies and other tracking technologies

We also use cookies and other tracking technologies and we may collect information about how you use our website, technical data (including data and time of access, data volume transmitted, status of transmission, browser type, version and language, browser plug-in types and versions, your internet protocol (IP) address, operating system and interface, time zone setting and location, language and version of browser software) and profile data, including your referral website, pages you visit, actions you take, patterns of page visits and information from forms you fill in. On the basis of your prior consent, we may use your data in order to deliver advertising relevant to you based on the use of cookies. For further details on this and how to opt-out of such processing, please see the ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies‘ section of this Privacy Policy.

Data collected by third parties

We receive some of the above-mentioned technical data and services from analytics providers such as Google.

Aggregated data

We may process aggregated data, such as statistical or demographic data, for any purpose. While aggregated data may be derived from your personal data, these are not considered personal data as such data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity (e.g. we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature); however, if we combine aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we shall treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not knowingly collect any special categories of personal data about you through our website, e.g. information about your health, race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, etc.

How we share your data

Service Providers

SLEED may engage external service providers, who act as a data processors of SLEED, to provide certain services to SLEED, such as website service providers, marketing service providers or IT support service providers. When providing such services, the external service providers may process your personal data.

Workable

In order to support our recruiting processes (“Career” section of our website) SLEED will use the services of Workable (www.workable.com), a third party provider of recruiting software services.

Other recipients

SLEED may transfer, in compliance with applicable data protection laws, personal data to law enforcement agencies, governmental authorities, legal counsels or external consultants. In case of a corporate merger or acquisition, personal data may be transferred to the third parties being involved in the merger or acquisition.

International Transfers of Personal Data

SLEED transfers personal data in accordance with applicable laws. To the extent that, in the context of and for the needs of the above-mentioned purposes, your personal data need to be transferred outside the EU/EEA, such data transfer will take place in accordance with applicable law and SLEED will ensure an adequate level of data protection. By way of entering into appropriate data transfer agreements based on Standard Contractual Clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC), which are accessible upon request at [email protected], or taking other measures to provide an adequate level of data protection, SLEED has established or confirmed that all data recipients will provide an adequate level of protection for your personal data. Any onward transfer will be subject to appropriate onward transfer requirements, as required by applicable law.

How we use cookies and other tracking technologies

Our website uses cookies; therefore when you visit the website, a cookie may be installed in your device. A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (e.g. your computer or smartphone) when you access the website. It allows SLEED to recognise your device, gather information about your usage patterns when you navigate our website, store some information about your preferences or past actions, improve your online experience and enhance your personalized experience. Cookies may also be used in order to provide advertising tailored to your interests on websites you visit and to analyze the effectiveness of such advertising.

You can opt in or out of cookies at any time – except strictly necessary cookies (these are used to help make our website work efficiently) and you can delete cookies installed on your device at any time, prevent new cookies being saved and receive notification before installation of a new cookie by configuring your browser software. 

When certain types of cookies require your prior consent in order to be installed and used, you are asked through a relevant banner displayed on the front page of the website. If you choose not to enable or delete certain cookies, you’ll still be able to browse our website, but it will restrict some of the functionality of our website.

Types of cookies

We may use ‘persistent’ cookies as well as ‘session-based’ cookies. A ‘persistent’ cookie will remain for a period of time set for that cookie. A ‘session-based’ cookie is allocated only for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when you close down your browser.

A	Strictly necessary cookies	Used to help make our website work efficiently and enable you to browse around our website and use its features; used e.g. to keep track of your input when filling online forms over several pages and help us ensure that the content of your page loads quickly and effectively by distributing the workload across numerous computers (load balancing).	These cookies are session cookies that are erased when you close your browser.
B	Analytical/ performance cookies	Used to analyse the way our website works and how we can improve and optimize it; e.g. for statistical audience measuring, to estimate the number of unique visitors, to detect the most preeminent search engine keywords that lead to a webpage or to track down website navigation issues.	We use such cookies only on the basis of your prior consent. These are typically persistent cookies, because they remain on your device for us to use during a next visit to our website. For information on how to delete these cookies, please refer below to ‘How do I change my cookie settings?’ section of this Privacy Policy.
C	Functionality cookies	Help to enhance your experience by doing things like remembering preferences, choices you make while browsing or past actions; e.g. such cookies may remember preferences such as text size, fonts, and other customizable site elements.	We use such cookies only on the basis of your prior consent. These are typically persistent cookies, because they remain on your device for us to use during a next visit to our website. For information on how to delete these cookies, please refer below to ‘How do I change my cookie settings?’ section of this Privacy Policy.
D	Targeting/advertising cookies	Used to share some information with third parties who we advertise with, so we know how you’ve reached our website. These cookies record your visit to our website, the parts of the website you have visited and you are interested in and the links you have followed to recognize you as a previous visitor and to track your activity on our website and other websites you visit. This information is used to show you advertisements we think may be of interest to you, to tailor how we communicate with you, or to tailor the contents of the communications we send to you.	We use such cookies only on the basis of your prior consent. These are typically persistent cookies, because they remain on your device for us to use during a next visit to our website. For information on how to delete these cookies, please refer below to ‘How do I change my cookie settings?’ section of this Privacy Policy.

Third party cookies:

 

Source	Name	Purpose	Retention	Type
Google	SSID	This domain is owned by Google Inc. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear.	2 years	D
Facebook	fr	Used by Facebook to report conversions, see website activity, and build audiences for ad targeting. Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.  For more information please see https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/	3 months	D

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm, or www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

 

Legal basis for the processing

We will only process your personal data when the law allows us to, that is, when we have a legal basis for processing. We may carry out the processing of your personal data on the following legal basis:

• You have provided your consent to the processing of your data for one or more specific purposes (e.g. for the installation and use of certain types of cookies); 
• The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract (e.g. when you establish contact with us via the “Contact” section of our website or when you use the “Career” section of our website in order to apply for a job position at SLEED);
• The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which SLEED is subject to;
• The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by SLEED (or those of a third party), provided that your fundamental rights do not override such interests; such legitimate interests include (a) monitoring in order to ensure the efficient and secure running of the website and fraud and misuse detection and prevention; (b) the improvement of our services and website; (c) monitoring how our website is used, e.g. via data analytics, to help us improve the layout and information available on our website, our services, marketing and customer relationship.  

Not providing your personal data may in certain cases result in disadvantages for you, e.g. we may not be able to respond to your request or question or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.

We do not use automated decision-making without human intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or otherwise significantly affects you.

 

How long do we keep your data?

Your personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, e.g. for as long as necessary to provide you with the functionalities of the website and the services requested. Once the data processing purpose is completed, we will either delete your personal data or anonymize your personal data, unless statutory retention requirements apply. 

Cookies are stored on a per-session basis only, to aid your navigation of our website. Persistent cookies may be set to store display related preferences. For further details on how to control cookies, please see the ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies‘ section of this Privacy Policy.

 

Data security 

Considering the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, SLEED implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing.

 

Your rights

If you have declared your consent regarding certain collecting, processing and use of your personal data, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Pursuant to the applicable data protection law you may have the right (i) to request access to your personal data, (ii) to request rectification of your personal data, (iii) to request erasure of your personal data, (iv) to request restriction of processing of your personal data, (v) to request data portability, (vi) to object to the processing of your personal data (including objection to profiling; also other rights in connection with automated decision-making). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Greek Data Protection Authority. To exercise your rights please contact SLEED by email at [email protected].

 

How to contact us

If you have concerns or questions regarding this Privacy Policy or if you want to exercise any of your rights mentioned in the ‘Your rights’ sections of this Privacy Policy, please contact SLEED by post at 25is Martiou 83 & Arkadias, 12132, Peristeri, Athens, Greece or by email at [email protected]. The contact details of our data protection officer (DPO) are: [email protected].