Privacy Policy

Cookies & Privacy Policy

Cookies are small pieces of data transferred from a website or service provider to your computer’s hard drive via your web browser, always with your consent. They enable the website or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser, record, and remember specific information.

We utilize cookies to save your preferences for future visits, track advertisements, and collect data on traffic and interaction with the site. Should you prefer, you can opt

We utilize Google’s advertising and analytics services to enhance your experience on our website while prioritizing your privacy:

1. Personalized Advertising: Our website may display advertisements using Google’s technology, which may involve the use of cookies. These cookies, such as the DART cookie, enable Google to deliver ads tailored to your interests based on your visits to our site. However, if you prefer not to receive personalized ads, you have the option to opt out by consulting Google’s privacy policy.

2. User Interaction Tracking: To better understand how users interact with our website, we employ Google Analytics. This tool anonymously collects data about user behavior, aggregating it into numerical insights that do not reveal individual identities. This ensures your privacy remains protected while allowing us to optimize our content and services for a more tailored user experience.

3. Conversion Tracking: Through Google AdWords, we gain insights into the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns by tracking which ads contribute to user purchases. Rest assured, this data is

Personal Data Protection Policy Scope: 

At F TOPIA VILLAS, we guarantee our commitment to respecting and protecting your privacy, as well as safeguarding your personal data, both online as well as in our premises. Our vision and goal is to provide you products and services that exceed your best expectations. Therefore, F TOPIA VILLAS, with respect to the applicable national and European legal framework about data protection, especially the new European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) provides you hereby a lawful, fair and transparent policy in order to inform you about the personal data we collect, how we use it, and how the use of this information can benefit your experience while visiting our premises and/or our online platform (website).
This privacy policy applies to all premises and/or digital environments owned by F TOPIA VILLAS and related to our activities.

What Information We Collect

The information we collect about you directly or not, may include your full name, postal address, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, ID/Passport information, car plate information, credit card information, date of birth, nationality, gender, as well as consumption data, personal preferences, names and ages of children and any other necessary information to stand up to your personalized requests or about health condition and/or allergies. We may also collect information on the frequency of your web or actual visits to our hotel, your travel habits and preferences, and any other important information to make your visits memorable.

How we collect your Personal Data

F TOPIA VILLAS uses multiple physical and/or digital communication channels in order to collect your personal data. Such communication channels may be hardcopy documents used in our premises and/or via digital forms available online, or documents completed before third parties interrelating with us in order to serve you. Those documents may contain information in relation to your check-in, concierge services, massage treatments and/or fitness activities, and boat/car rental. We may also use surveys and questionnaires in order to collect further demographic data or other dedicated information about you. Another, source of collection is our invitation email for online check-in, through which you provide us personal information in order to speed up your check-in process. However, registration to our online check-in form is optional, but when you register and amend your personal information, you generally provide first name, last name, second last email, nationality, telephone number, email address, birth date, birth place, car registration number, tax identifier, company name, occupation and password and other registration information.
However, you will always be provided with an option to deny any further process of your personal information.
In case you choose to apply online for a job position, F TOPIA VILLAS shall collect only the adequate information which allow us to appreciate your talents and the suitability to our requirements. Due to our business context, F TOPIA VILLAS may also collect information about you from multiple third parties, such as airline companies, travel agents and operators, and other partners involved in activities concerning tourism in general.

Special Categories of Personal Data 

Sensitive Personal Data

When referring to the notions of “special categories of personal data” or “sensitive personal data”, it means that this kind of personal information reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership and genetic data, biometric data which allows to uniquely identify a natural person, health data and/or data regarding sexual orientation. At F TOPIA VILLAS, we do not collect sensitive personal data, unless you provide us them along with an explicit consent for every related purpose of processing. Such a case is when we ask you to provide us information about your health (i.e. allergies), in order to be able to offer you the best gastronomic services in relation with your health status.

Minors Data
At F TOPIA VILLAS, it is not part of our policy to seek or obtain personal data directly from minors (i.e. under the age of 18) without their parental or legal guardian’s consent. However, as it is impossible to always determine the age of persons who access and use our websites, we encourage parents or guardians to contact us if they notice any case of unauthorized data provision by minors in order to exercise accordingly their rights such as deletion of their data.

Purposes of Processing

F TOPIA VILLAS collects your personal data in accordance to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, the ePrivacy Directive, and the respective national legislation on data protection, in order to provide you with a high-level hosting experience. We need your personal data for different purposes such as:
• Process a transaction (i.e. completing a reservation, responding to a request for information, collect your credit card details and information through email or telephone calls for reservations and/or to proceed with a payment regarding a reservation, transaction-related information and information you provide us when you contact us for help, send you a confirmation email with regarding your reservation, send you a receipt or an invoice and/or a receipt of accommodation tax and/or a proforma invoice and/or a bill preview or a receipt series A or an invoice series A regarding your booking, etc);
• Comply with legal obligations;
• Improve our services as well as perform researches via surveys and questionnaires in order to provide you personalized offers about our products and services;
• Improve the efficiency of our websites and our various means of communications, facilitate our advertising campaigns, and/or promotional activities
• Offer you personalized information and offers;
• Facilitate administration and marketing purposes including analyzing your travel and accommodation preferences, as well as communication purposes in relation to our products and services our strategic marketing partners, and other trusted third parties;
• Promote our special offers and goods, services, forthcoming events or promotions which may interest you;
We take all the necessary precautions, security measures as well as the relevant technical and organizational measures to ensure the confidentiality of the provided personal data. We always base the processing of your personal data to a valid legal basis such as law, contact your explicit consent etc.

Data Sharing (transfer or access)

The personal information you provide us is being kept secured and safeguarded in our database. We may share your information with public services for the above described purposes. Furthermore, we may disclose your personal data to third parties in Greece and throughout the world which process your personal data under our written order and clarifications (Data Processors). We always guarantee that these third parties imply the same measures for the protection of your personal data and act only under our written orders with respect to your personal data.
In general, F TOPIA VILLAS does not sell, rent, or give physical possession of your personal data to unaffiliated or unknown to us third parties.
More specifically, we may disclose or allow access to your information to others as following:
1. when we have received your consent to do so;
2. when sharing or disclosing your personal information is necessary;
3. when third-parties or service providers acting on behalf of F TOPIA VILLAS need access to your information, including any interaction by your side with social media channels;
4. when compliance with contractual obligations is necessary; when we must comply with legal or regulatory requirements or obligations, in accordance with applicable law or court order;
If information is shared as afore-mentioned, F TOPIA VILLAS limits the scope of information that is being disclosed, to the amount strictly necessary for the performance of the specific purpose. In addition, given that some of our activities are processed by third-parties (i.e. IT administration), F TOPIA VILLAS endeavors to ensure by contractual assurances that personal data processing is secure and fully compatible with this privacy policy.

Online Technologies

At F TOPIA VILLAS’s website, we may use cookies, invisible pixels, and web beacons to obtain information about you while visiting our website. For further information about cookies, please read our Cookies Policy.

Third Party Websites’ Disclaimers

We may provide hyperlinks to third-party websites as a convenience to our users; F TOPIA VILLAS does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for the content of any linked-to third-party websites or any hyperlink in a linked-to website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites.

Your Rights

At F TOPIA VILLAS, we endeavor to protect and respect your rights, as set forth by General Data Protection Regulation, including more specifically:
Furthermore, you are entitled to request:
(i) your right to be informed on the processing of your personal information (i.e. right of access) and to request and obtain further information on the processing applied
(ii) request for correction of their inaccurate personal data;
(iii) request for deletion of personal information provided, unless prohibited by legitimate reasons;
(iv) request for limitation of processing;
(v) request for portability of your personal information; and
(vi) objection/opposition to further processing thereof.
In these cases, F TOPIA VILLAS will respond in writing within 30 days of receipt and identification of the request.
In addition, in the event of exercising one or more of the above-mentioned rights of correction, deletion and restriction of your data, these requests shall also be forwarded to any third-party recipient to whom the personal information may have been disclosed in the scope of pursuance of the aforementioned processing purposes.

Data Protection Contact Person

In order to ensure that your personal information is being efficiently protected, F TOPIA VILLAS has appointed a Data Protection Contact Person to whom data subjects may address their requests and questions in relation to this privacy policy, as follows:
[Contact Person: F TOPIA VILLAS, Matsoukata- Fiscardo, Greece, 280 84 Kefalonia, +306934597611, [email protected]]
In case you consider your personal data are affected in any way, you may contact the Greek national Data Protection Authority as follows: www.dpa.gr, address: 1-3 Kifissias Avenue, PC 115 23, Athens, Call Center: +30 210 6475600,Fax: +30 210 6475628, E-mail: [email protected]

Information Security

Although, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100 percent secure, at F TOPIA VILLAS, we have taken all commercially reasonable measures and precautions in order to maintain your data accuracy and to ensure the appropriate use of information we collect about you, as well as to secure and protect your personal information from unauthorized access, while you enjoy products and services we provide you during your physical presence in our premises or your digital visits in our online environment, respectively.

Retention Period of Personal Data

Your personal data is retained for a predetermined and limited period depending on the purpose of processing, after the end of which, these personal data is being deleted from our files unless another retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

F TOPIA VILLAS may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to meet changes in the regulatory environment, business needs, or to satisfy the needs of our guests, properties, strategic marketing