Privacy Policy – Privacy Statement

Introduction

The Technology Transfer Office of NTUA (TTO NTUA) is the owner and administrator of this website (https://tto.ntua.gr/). Below is an overview of the purposes for which we collect and process your personal data during your browsing on the website, as well as a detailed presentation of the ways in which we process them and the principles governing their processing. You will also be informed about who has access to your data as well as your rights and how you can exercise them, with regard to your personal data. We consider the security and protection of your personal data and privacy to be very important. For this reason, we invite you to dedicate some time to this statement. Once you register any of your personal data and share it with us through our website or disclose it to us in any other way (e.g., via email), it is implied that you have read and agree with this statement.

TTO NTUA strictly adheres to a specific security policy, including the Data Processing Policy and the Privacy of Communications Protection Policy. The site administrators take all appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the privacy of user communications and to protect Personal Data in accordance with the relevant legislation, ADAE Regulations, and the Privacy of Communications Protection Policy (Security Policy) they follow. TTO NTUA does not guarantee the security of data transmitted through networks, to the extent that the protection of these is not achieved by taking appropriate security measures imposed by the relevant institutional and/or regulatory framework.

If a visitor/user does not agree with the terms of personal data processing provided in this text, they must not use the services of this website. In a different case, it is implied that they agree.

Updating the Privacy Policy

In the future, we may modify this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check the Privacy Policy regularly, which is posted updated on the website https://tto.ntua.gr/, to stay informed of any changes.

Individuals under the age of 18

If you are under the age of eighteen, do not engage in any direct or indirect interaction with us through our website, as we cannot collect and use your personal information.

Who we are

The NTUA Technology Transfer Office was re-established in 2020 with the goal of effectively connecting the research activities of the Institution to the productive sector of the country.

The NTUA TTO processes your personal data, is the owner and manager of the website https://tto.ntua.gr/, and is solely responsible for its correct and safe operation and for taking the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data.

The TTO staff act as joint Data Controllers, determining the purposes and means of processing your personal data.

*Below you will find more information about the specific reasons for which your data is collected and processed each time.

What data we collect and how:

Personal data (name and contact information) are collected and processed through the contact form on our website.

If you choose to contact us by sending a question or comment through the contact form on our website, we will collect and process any personal data you provide in order to communicate with you.

Why do we process your Personal Data?

If you fill in your personal information and send us a question or comment through the contact form on our website, we will collect and process your data to communicate with you and respond to your question or comment.

Your personal data that is collected and processed is limited to the absolutely necessary and its processing is strictly limited to answering your question/request, while it is governed by the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation and current legislation, and is always done with respect for you and your privacy.

With the exception of what is explicitly mentioned in this Statement and the terms of use of the page, we do not process your data in any other way, nor do we use it for any other purpose, and in no case do we share it with third parties, except in cases explicitly mentioned in this document.

You can withdraw your consent for the processing of your data at any time, request the deletion of your data, or ask us to stop processing it.

Who can access your Personal Data and why?

First, access to your data will be granted to the staff members of TTO NTUA who handle the website https://tto.ntua.gr/. Subsequently, your information may be shared with other staff members who are considered responsible for addressing your request/question.

We may share your personal data with competent public services and authorities if we are required to do so by law or in the context of our legitimate interests.

For how long and where do we store your data?

After completing communication with you, and if there is no other serious and legal reason, your personal data will be permanently and securely deleted.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Your rights to your data

Every time we ask you to provide us with any personal data, you will be informed about the reasons why we need them and how they will be used. Your personal data will be processed only for the purposes described in the Privacy Statement or for any other purposes that will be communicated to you before the processing begins.

In case you provide us with your personal data, you have the right: (i) to request access to them (i.e., to learn what kind of data we have about you and to receive a related copy), (ii) to request their modification, or (iii) to request the deletion of your data, in some cases (iv) to revoke your consent. This can be done by contacting us at the email address tto@mail.ntua.gr.

Also, regarding cookies, you can find more information in the Website’s Cookie Policy in Terms of Use.

You also have the right to file a complaint: If you have any concerns about possible interference with your privacy or misuse of your personal data by us, you can contact us to file a complaint. We hope that we can resolve any questions you may have about the way we process your personal data. However, if there are unresolved issues that concern you, you also have the right to file a complaint with the competent data protection authorities. For the jurisdiction of the Authority and the method of submitting a complaint, you can visit their website (www.dpa.gr – My rights – Filing a complaint), where detailed information is available.

Precisely because the collection and retention of your data aim at more direct and better communication with you, we invite you to inform us of any changes in this data, by sending a relevant request by e-mail to the address tto@mail.ntua.gr.

Protection measures

We have taken all appropriate and necessary technical and organizational measures so that your data is secure for the entire time they remain in our database and are protected from theft, unauthorized or malicious access, alteration, leakage, or any other similar malicious or/and illegal action.

Contact us

To submit questions or make comments about this Statement and our data protection practices or to proceed with a complaint regarding our compliance with the current data protection legislation, you can contact us at: tto@mail.ntua.gr.

We will investigate any complaint regarding the way we manage personal data (including complaints about the violation of your rights under the applicable data protection legislation).