Last updated: 5 April 2023

Life Clinic (we, us, our) is a leading IVF clinic in Greece offering pioneering treatments in reproductive immunology for patients all around the world. You can read our profile here. This privacy policy explains what types of personal information will be gathered when you visit the Life Clinic website, and how this information will be used. Please note that this policy applies to our main web pages (i.e. those in www.lifeclinic.gr).

Our website, its pages and sub-domains, is owned and operated by us, Life Clinic. Our registered office and principle place of business is Ippokratous 166, Athens 114 71, Greece. We are contactable at this address, as well as by telephone on +30 21 0645 0111 and by email info@lifeclinic.gr. If you follow a link to any other website, please check their policies before you submit any personal information to those websites.

 

Information collected

On some parts of our website, you may be asked to provide some limited personal information in order to enable the provision of certain services (e.g. contact form on our website). We may store this information manually or electronically. By supplying this information you are consenting to Life Clinic holding and using it for the purposes for which it was provided. Information provided will be kept for as long as is necessary to fulfill that purpose.

We may also collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our webmasters. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns which does not identify any individual and allows us to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

How the information collected is used and stored

Personal information provided to Life Clinic by you will only be used for the purposes stated when the information is requested.

• Personal information will not be sold to third parties, or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations.
• We may use your personal data to provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service. Demographical and statistical information about user behaviour may be collected and used to analyse the popularity and effectiveness of our website. Any disclosure of this information will be in aggregate form and will not identify individual users.
• We may use your personal data to contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.

Personal information collected and/or processed by us is held in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 as well as with the Hellenic Data Protection legislation. Information which you provide to us will be stored on our secure servers.

Your rights and your data

• You have the right to request to see the information that we hold about you.
• You have the right to rectification, which means the right to ask us to amend any data we hold about you which is not accurate.
• You have the right to request that we delete your data. In some circumstances this may not be possible if we need to retain some of your data to comply with legal obligations that we have. We will notify you if this is the case.
• You have the right to restrict processing which means to inform us if you only wish us to use your data for certain purposes.
• You have the right to change or withdraw consent that you have given about how your information or data may be used.

How we use “cookies”

Most of our web pages use “cookies”. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website.

If you want to disable cookies you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Please refer at your browser information for disabling cookies.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Policies and analytics

WordPress

WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone.

 

WordPress Multilingual Plugin (WPML)

WPML uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language and the language of users who have logged in. While you use the plugin, WPML will share data regarding the site through Installer. No data from the user itself will be shared.

WPML Translation Management will send the email address and name of each manager and assigned translator as well as the content itself to Advanced Translation Editor and to the translation services which are used.

 

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

Google Analytics

When someone visits our website, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

Website security

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations which we do not control. This policy does not apply to those other websites and apps‚ so we encourage you to read their privacy statements. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites and apps (even if you access them using links that we provide) and we provide links to those websites solely for your information and convenience. We specifically disclaim responsibility for their content, privacy practices and terms of use, and we make no endorsements, representations or promises about their accuracy, content or thoroughness. Your disclosure of personal information to third party websites is at your own risk.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party website, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party website and recommend that you check the policy of that third party website.

 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date of our email or the date on which we post the modified terms on our website, whichever is earlier. We recommend you regularly check for changes and review this policy when you visit our website.

Contact

Any queries or concerns about privacy on this website should be sent by email to info@lifeclinic.gr or addressed to the Data Protection Office,
Life Clinic, Ippokratous 166, Athens 114 71, Greece.