Data protection — the searches are Greek data protection law, data protection authority Greece, GDPR compliance in Greece, data privacy law or data protection officer — is the set of duties a business has towards the people whose personal data (προσωπικά δεδομένα) it holds: customers, guests, patients, employees, website visitors. In Greece the rules are the EU GDPR, which Greeks write in Latin letters as well (officially ΓΚΠΔ), together with a national law that fills in details, and the regulator is the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, ΑΠΔΠΧ (Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα), to which anyone can send a complaint (καταγγελία) online. The officer some organisations have to appoint is the υπεύθυνος προστασίας δεδομένων. This page is for businesses; a person who wants their own data removed from a website has a different claim.
Hosts and managers of short-term rentals, who hold passport data of guests and work through booking platforms; hotels, tour, yacht-charter and diving operators with foreign clients; clinics and dental practices serving medical tourists; online shops, language schools and gyms; employers with staff in Greece; and companies based outside the EU that sell to or track people in Greece.
Runs the inventory with you, writes the notices and policies in both languages, prepares the processor terms and reviews the data clauses in your contracts (see contract review), advises on the officer question and on cameras and staff data, and represents the business before the Authority when a complaint or a breach arrives. For a company that is being formed, this is part of business set-up rather than something to retrofit.
Yes, whenever personal data is handled in the course of the business. The size changes how much documentation is expected, not whether the rules apply. For the licence side of a rental, see tourist rental licence application.
Only in the cases the law lists, mainly public bodies and businesses whose core activity is large-scale or sensitive processing. Most small companies do not, but someone still has to be in charge.
Only partly. A non-disclosure agreement protects business information between the parties; personal data follows the GDPR regardless of what the agreement says.
It can, when you offer goods or services to people in Greece or monitor their behaviour; a representative in the EU may then be required.
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