GDPR – Privacy Policy & Cookies

This site is designed to comply with the following national and international laws on data protection and privacy of users:

• EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
• General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
• United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)

Since its inception, The Yoga Way has established procedures with a commitment to legality and transparency in order to manage with full respect the submitted personal data. Personal data should be collected and processed only when absolutely necessary.

We keep your data completely safe. We never sell, rent, distribute or disclose your personal information in any way and for any reason to third parties unless required by law.

If you choose to add a comment to any posts we published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be stored in this site’s database along with your computer’s IP address and time and date you submitted the comment.

This information is only used to identify you as contributors to the comment section of the corresponding blog post and is not transferred to any of the editors who process it. Only your name will appear on the site that the audience sees.

Your comment and associated personal data will remain on this site until

1. Remove the comment.
2. Remove our blog post.

If you want to delete your comment and associated personal data, please contact us here using the email address you commented on.

NOTE: If you are under 16, you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personal information in the comments field you publish on this site.

An anonymous “Sequence” created by your e-mail address (called Hash) may be provided to Gravatar if you use it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here. Once your comment has been approved, your profile picture is visible to the public as part of your comment.

If you choose to contact us using the contact form on the “Contact us” page or an email link like this, none of the data you provide will be saved on this site. will be transferred and processed by SiteGround. SiteGround complies with the EU Privacy Policy and you can find more information here.

The data will be stored in an email and sent to us via the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol. SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL), meaning that email is encrypted using 256-bit SHA-2 cryptography before being sent over the Internet. E-mail content is decrypted by local computers and devices.

The data we collect from our contact form is Name Surname and E-mail Address, we keep them for a period of 12 months for customer service purposes. We do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes. You can request a deletion whenever you want it within 48 hours to be deleted

If you choose to participate in our Newsletter, the email address you submit will be promoted to MailChimp that provides us with e-mail marketing services.

We consider MailChimp to be processing. The email you submit will not be stored in the site’s own database or in any of the internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain in the MailChimp database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp for e-mail marketing or until you explicitly request removal from the list. You can do this by using the deletion links contained in any email newsletters we send to you, as well as any informational emails you receive from us.

While your email address remains in the MailChimp database, you will receive periodically (about once a month) email newsletters from us.

Whenever you are asked to fill out a form on the site, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anyone for direct marketing purposes

If you have previously agreed to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by informing us using our contact information

NOTE: If you are under the age of 16, you MUST obtain parental consent before signing in to our email newsletter.

As with most websites on the Internet, www.theyogaway.gr may also use cookies to access certain information whenever a user browses www.theyogaway.gr. The user acknowledges that without the use of cookies it would be impossible for the Company to provide important services such as: Personal Settings etc

Cookies are alphanumeric files that are transmitted to users’ computer hard drives over the Internet. The user can configure their personal browser to prevent them from accepting new cookies or asking each time a new cookie is to be installed on the hard disk.

Personal data is not only generated by a user’s interactions with our site. Personal data is also generated by technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party incorporations. By default, our platform (WP) does not collect personal data about visitors, it collects only the data displayed on the User Profile screen by registered users.

If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, e-mail address and your site to cookies. These are for you convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if the browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal information and is rejected when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also create a number of cookies to save your login information and screen options. Entry cookies last for two days and display screen cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember”, your connection will stay for two weeks. If you sign out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal information and simply indicates the mail ID of the article you just edited. Expires after 1 day.

• Google Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Mozilla/Firefox

NOTE: If the user chooses to prevent cookies from being stored on his hard disk, he will not be able to use certain services on the Site. Set your browser to accept cookies so you can buy items, store items, and receive personalized suggestions.

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

These sites may collect data for you, use cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and track your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in site.

Like most sites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track the user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site to better understand how we find and use our web pages and to see their route on the site.

Although GA records data such as geographic location, device, web browser, and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used for your personal identification, but Google does not provide access to it. We assume that Google is processing it. GA uses cookies, details of which you can find in Google’s developer guides. Our site uses GA’s analytics.js application.

Disabling Cookies in your web browser will prevent GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages on this site.

If you upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with built-in location data (EXIF GPS). Site visitors can download and export any site data from images to the site.

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully selected and all comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. Both of these third parties are established in the US and comply with the EU-US Privacy Policy.

1. Google (Privacy Policy)
2. MailChimp (Privacy Policy)

If you are NOT a registered customer on our site, there is no personal information that we have or can see about you.

If you are a registered customer with an account, access to your personal information has:

• You
• Our System Administrators
• Our Technicians when they need (to provide support) information about customer accounts and access.

If you leave a comment, its comment and metadata are kept indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve the follow-up comments instead of keeping them in a queue of coordination.

For users who sign up on our site, we also store the personal information they provide on their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except if they can change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request that you receive an export file of personal data we hold for you, including any data you have provided us with.

You may also ask to delete the personal data we hold for you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security reasons.

If you believe that any information we hold is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us or email us as soon as possible at the address above. We will immediately correct any information found to be incorrect.

Our platform is hosted by SiteGround. SiteGround is our Data Processor and complies with the EU Privacy Policy and you can find more information about it here. Visitors’ comments can be controlled through an automated spam detection service.

Website Editor: Erasmia Kritikou

Data Protection Officer: Our site is under no obligation to appoint a Data Protection Officer, according to the Rules.