1. Who we are
This policy explains how personal information is handled when you visit vickybouzouni.com or contact us through the website.
The controller responsible for your personal information is:
Privacy contact: [email protected]
2. Information we collect
When you submit the contact form, we receive your name, email address, enquiry subject, and message. The form also requires confirmation that your details may be used to respond to your enquiry.
Please do not include sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your request.
Our hosting infrastructure may process technical information such as IP addresses, request times, requested pages, and browser information to deliver and protect the website.
The contact form uses a hidden spam-detection field and a temporary identifier derived from your IP address to limit repeated submissions.
3. How we use your information
We use personal information to:
- Respond to enquiries and communicate about interviews, collaborations, speaking engagements, and other requests.
- Take steps you request before entering into a business relationship.
- Maintain website security and prevent spam or misuse.
- Meet applicable legal obligations.
Depending on the purpose, processing is based on our legitimate interests in handling correspondence and maintaining a secure website, steps requested before entering into a contract, or legal obligations. Where consent is required, we will request it separately.
Read the European Data Protection Board’s explanation of lawful bases.
The contact form’s required information is needed to process your enquiry. You can browse the website without submitting the form.
4. Contact messages and retention
Contact-form submissions are sent to our designated email address. The theme does not create a separate database of enquiry messages, although our email provider or additional website services may retain copies.
Our retention periods are:
- Enquiries and email correspondence: [confirmed period or deletion criteria].
- Hosting and security logs: [confirmed period].
- Backups: [confirmed backup retention period].
- Spam-rate-limit identifier: configured to expire after approximately one minute. Expired records may remain temporarily until the system removes them.
- Cookie-notice preference: one day.
Information may be retained longer when required by law or necessary for a legal claim. Deleting cookies or browser cache does not delete messages already sent to us.
5. Service providers
Personal information may be handled by providers supporting our website, hosting, maintenance, security, and email delivery, where necessary for those services.
Where personal information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we will identify the applicable transfer arrangements and safeguards.
6. YouTube and external websites
Some pages display YouTube videos. The theme’s video cards load the YouTube player when you select a video and use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embedding mode. This does not mean that no information is transmitted to Google or YouTube.
Read YouTube’s explanation of privacy-enhanced embedding.
Where a video thumbnail is loaded directly from YouTube, your browser contacts YouTube’s image servers even before playback.
Social-sharing buttons and external article links connect you to third-party services when you use them. Those services handle information under their own privacy policies.
[If AddToAny or other third-party plugins are enabled, disclose their actual data handling here. They may load resources before a visitor clicks a button.]
7. Cookies
The theme uses the following preference cookie:
- Cookie name:
vb_cookie_notice - Purpose: remembers that you selected Accept on the cookie notice.
- Duration: 24 hours from acceptance.
- Value:
accepted.
This cookie does not contain your name, email address, or contact message.
Selecting Accept dismisses the notice. It does not itself enable or disable third-party services.
8. Managing cookies and clearing cache
You can use your browser settings to remove cookies and stored website data or block future cookies.
To reset this website’s cookie notice, delete the cookies for vickybouzouni.com, then reload the page. Clearing cached images and files alone may not remove the cookie preference.
Browser instructions are available here:
- Google Chrome — delete cookies and cached files.
- Mozilla Firefox — clear cookies, site data, and cache.
- Safari on Mac — remove cookies and website data.
Removing cookies may reset preferences or sign you out of websites. Clearing browser data does not delete information held by us or third-party providers.
9. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. You may also have rights to restrict processing, object to processing, and receive certain information in a portable format. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
Read the European Commission’s guidance on your rights.
To make a request, contact [privacy email]. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
You may also complain to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority or another competent supervisory authority.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our website features, service providers, or information-handling practices change. The latest version will be published on this page with an updated date.