INTRODUCTION 

1. General 

1. The respect of your privacy and the protection of your personal data is a priority for Delphic Maxims NGO. To make sure that your data is treated according to the law and that you are properly informed about the purposes and ways in which we, the non profit organization under the name «Delphic Maxims NGO», with its headquarters in Piraeus, 5 Agiou Konstantinou str, P.C 18531 with GEMI no 171245707000, VAT no 996671830 (“NGO”, “us,”, “our,” “we”), process your personal data, we have adopted the following Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), which is addressed to the users (“Users”, “you”, “your”) of our application under the name DELPHIC MAXIMS  (“Application”) and our services. 

2. Below you will find information on the terms under which your data collected through the Application is processed by the NGO, including:  

1. information about us, the data controller, and the relevant contact details for any issue related to your personal data; 

2. the types of personal data we collect, store, disclose and use; 

3. the purpose and legal basis for the processing; 

4. security measures for the protection and storage of your data and retention policies; 

5. recipients of your personal data;  

6. your rights and the ways to exercise them.  

2. Data Controller & Contact Details  

1. We, the non profit organization under the name «Delphic Maxims NGO», with its headquarters in Piraeus, 5 Agiou Konstantinou str, P.C 18531 with GEMI no 171245707000, VAT no 996671830, are the Data Controller of your personal data.  

2. Contact Details: info@delphicmaxims.org 

3. Questions & inquiries: You may communicate with us using the contact details above and submit any comment, inquiries, observations or any complaints regarding this Privacy Policy and generally the collection and processing of your personal data. For further information on how to handle issues relating to your personal data, please refer to Section III.9.  

4. By downloading the Application, or making use of its services, including providing any of your personal data, you accept this Privacy Policy, under which collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal and non-personal data and information are carried out. If you do not agree with the practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not interact with the Application. 

2.  COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA 

3.  General  

1. We undertake the responsibility to process your personal data fairly, lawfully and in a transparent manner. We will only collect data that are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purpose for which they are processed. Collection of data is for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes; data is not further processed in a manner that is non-compatible to these purposes.  

2. We will not disclose your data to third parties unless this is strictly necessary for the performance of our services; or you have priorly provided such consent; or the processing by a third party serves purposes of our legitimate interest; the law so requires (for example, to execute a court order).  

3. We take all reasonable care to ensure that the data we collect is accurate, and where necessary, kept up to date. We do not knowingly collect or process personal data of persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not use the Application, do not request the provision of a service and do not provide us with any personal data. 

4. The management and protection of your personal data by us is governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy and the relevant provisions of European law relating to the protection of individuals from the processing of personal data. Any possible future change to the above regulatory framework will be incorporated in this Privacy Policy. 

4. WHAT data we collect about you via the Application  

1. Via the Application, We collect different types of personal data, either directly from you or from third parties such us (indicatively): 

1. Identity data (first name, last name). 

2. Account data (your username, password, your preferences based on tags that you choose, photos that are uploaded to our Application under the assumption that you have granted us the corresponding permission to do so etc). 

3. Donation data (data regarding for your donation to NGO). We do not process any payment data though our Application since payments are processed through the payment institution through encrypted and secure payment gateways. 

4. Communication Data (email address, telephone number.) 

5. Demographic Data (e.g sex, age, etc). 

6. Technical data (IP address, browser type and version, operating system and platform etc.). 

4.2 We collect personal data directly from you: 

1. When you request information, wish to speak with Us etc. 

2. When you communicate with us via the Application.  

3. We collect personal data about you from third parties when you voluntarily share your data to or via our social media pages. In case you are invited to register to the Application by a fried, Your friend (that invites You) has declared that he has the consent to proceed to such an action through the Application. 

5. HOW and WHY we use your personal data collected via the Application 

1. Any personal data that you either provide us with, either mandatorily or optionally through the Application or we collect from third parties via the Application, are being processed for the legal purposes referred to below. Indicatively, we collect and process your data for: 

1. Providing Information and Services: 

• To offer users access to information, articles, updates, and other content available on the Application. 

2. User Interaction and Communication: 

• To facilitate user interactions, such as comments, feedback, and inquiries. 

• To respond to user queries or requests submitted through contact forms or email. 

3. Application Analytics and Performance: 

• To analyze application usage and performance to improve content, design, and functionality. 

4. Compliance and Legal Obligations: 

• To comply with legal obligations, including data protection regulations. 

• To ensure the security and integrity of the application. 

5. Marketing and Promotions: 

• To send updates, and push notifications etc (with user consent). 

6. Statistical and business analysis.  

For other purposes, we will notify you about or identify you on a case-by-case basis, at the point where your information is originally collected. 

2. The legal basis for the use of information about you is one of the following: 

1. compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject; 

2. the performance of a contract to which you are a party; 

3. a legitimate interest that is fairly balanced against your interests to the protection of your information; 

4. where none of the above applies, your consent (which we will ask for before we process the information). 

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3. When consent is the legal basis for the processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time, so that we cease processing your data for that particular purpose. Please contact us at our contact details mentioned in Section 2 to withdraw your consent at any time.  

4. When our legitimate interest is the basis for the processing, you may oppose to such processing (opt-out) by contacting us. It should be noted, however, that the NGO is entitled to demonstrate legal reasons for the processing for which data processing is fairly balanced against your rights and the protection of your privacy.  

5. To opt-out from receiving commercial communication such as push notifications, you can unsubscribe. 

6. When we process your data for statistical purposes, we take all necessary safeguards to collect and process data in a way that does not identify a particular data subject and does not affect your rights and freedoms, especially your privacy.   

6. WHO do we share your information with and for what purposes? 

1. We may transfer personal data submitted to us through our Application to other providers such as subcontractors we use to perform certain Services (e.g. our hosting service provider, our development team etc.)  

2. Upon request and further notice, you may be redirected to other websites operated by us, or third parties, which will collect your personal data. Once you are transferred to the other website, we do not share any of the data provided to us with the third party.   

3. We may also transfer personal data submitted to our subsidiaries and/or affiliate companies, subject to appropriate contractual, technical and organizational safeguards.  

4. We reserve the right to disclose your personal data to a third party that we choose to transfer all or part of our business. In addition, in the event of a merge or redemption or other change in our business, the new owners, etc. have the right to use your personal data in the same way according to this Privacy Policy. 

5. Your data may be communicated to competent judicial, police and other administrative authorities upon their request and in accordance with the applicable laws. Moreover, in case of a statutory provision, a service order or a formal preliminary examination, our NGO has the right to render all relevant information available to a competent authority. 

6. Transfers: The NGO generally keeps and processes your personal data within the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We do not regularly transfer data outside the EEA. When your data is to be transferred to third countries outside the EEA or International Organizations for which no European Commission adequacy decision has been adopted, all the appropriate safeguards provided for in the applicable data protection legislation on the transfers to third countries.  

3. PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

7. SECURITY of your personal data 

1. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized disclosure, use, conversion or destruction. Where appropriate, we use encryption and other technologies that can help secure any information you provide us. We also ask our service providers to comply with privacy and data protection requirements. 

2. More specifically, your personal data are managed exclusively by specially authorized personnel of the NGO under our control. To conduct the processing, the NGO selects individuals or third parties with corresponding professional qualifications that provide sufficient guarantees in terms of technical knowledge and personal integrity to maintain confidentiality. NGO, through its respective contractual commitments and its partners, takes all necessary security measures to protect and secure confidentiality and integrity of personal data. In any case, the security of your personal data is subject to reasons beyond NGO’s influence, as well as to reasons resulting from technical problems of the network that are not controlled by the NGO or reasons of force majeure events. When extracting reports for statistical analysis, we anonymise the respective data upon which the research is based before creating the reports.  

8. HOW LONG will information about you be kept? 

1. We will retain information about you for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected. After that, we will delete it. Data retention periods may vary depending on the purposes for which the information was collected. Please note that in some circumstances, you have the right to request a deletion of the information. Yet, we are sometimes legally obliged to retain the information, for example, for tax and accounting purposes.  

2. To determine the data retention time of your personal data, we take into account the nature of your data, the quantity, purpose, security, etc. You have the right to request from us to delete your data. To exercise your rights, please visit Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. 

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9. Your Rights and Your Options 

1. How to exercise your rights:  

• True & accurate data: You must always provide specific, accurate and true data and/or facts so that we can answer and/or satisfy accurately your request. Otherwise, NGO shall not be held liable for any faults that are outside of its control. Additionally, we have the right to reject requests that are unfounded, excessive, abusive, made in bad faith or are illegitimate in the framework of the legal provisions. We may also ask for clarifications to understand your concerns and expectations to address your request more effectively. 

• Identity verification: We are entitled to ask you proof of identify to fulfill your rights. 

• Cost: You will not have to pay to exercise your rights in relation to personal data unless otherwise provided by law or in cases where the request is unfounded or excessive. In that case, we may charge a reasonable fee. We will inform you for any possible charge before we carry out your request. 

• Timeframes: NGO aims at answering all valid requests the latest within one (1) month from their receipt, unless the request is extremely complicated or the data subject has submitted multiple requests, in which case we aim at answering them within three (3) months. In case we need more than one month to carry out the request for the reasons mentioned above, we will inform you accordingly.  

10. Amendments 

1. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1/1/2025. We will routinely update this Privacy Policy to clarify our practices and to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new services, products, functionality or features to the Application.  

2. You acknowledge and agree that any use of the Services herein, following any Amendments constitutes a confirmation of your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and review it periodically for the latest information about our privacy practices. 

3. If you wish to be provided with any clarification or information regarding the changes or have any reservation or question about them (changes), you may reach out to us at our contact details listed above. Please note that any information / clarification about changes to this Policy given to you the way described above does not constitute a substitution, or any modification of this Policy.