Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 29, 2026
Last updated: September 29, 2026
About this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled when you visit akiskounellis.com.
This website is the personal portfolio of Akis Kounellis. It is designed to present selected design work and provide a way to get in touch directly by email.
Data controller
The data controller for this website is:
Akis Kounellis
Chalki 0
Larissa, Thessaly 41500
Greece
hello@akiskounellis.com
What information is collected
Information you provide directly
If you contact me by email, I may receive information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address and the contents of your message.
This website does not provide user accounts, registration, payment processing, newsletter registration or a contact form.
Website usage and analytics information
With your consent, Google Analytics may collect information about how the website is used. This may include:
pages viewed and interactions with the website
browser and device information
referral and traffic source information
approximate location information, such as country, region or city
Google Analytics uses IP addresses during data collection to derive approximate location information. For users in the European Union, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Google states that IP addresses are discarded before the data is logged.
Consent information
CookieYes is used to manage cookie consent and preferences.
When the cookie banner loads or you make or change a choice, CookieYes processes information needed to manage the banner and record your consent choices, including a consent identifier, consent status and category choices, the website domain, date and time, and a pseudonymised IP address. Records of your cookie choices are kept so that consent can be demonstrated where required.
How and why information is used
Personal information is processed only where there is an appropriate legal basis.
Consent
Optional analytics information is processed through Google Analytics only after you provide consent through the cookie banner. You can withdraw or change this consent at any time through the Consent Preferences control on the website.
Pre contractual or contractual purposes
If you contact me about a potential project, collaboration or professional service, information contained in that communication may be processed where necessary to respond to your request or take steps before entering into an agreement.
Legitimate interests
Limited personal information may also be processed where reasonably necessary to:
respond to general enquiries
maintain the security and proper operation of the website
prevent misuse or unauthorised activity
manage and document cookie consent
Cookies and similar technologies
This website uses necessary cookies to remember and manage your cookie preferences.
Optional analytics cookies are used only with your consent.
You can accept, reject or customise non essential cookies when the cookie banner appears and can change your preferences at any time.
For more information about the cookies used on this website, please see the Cookie Policy.
Refusing or withdrawing consent for analytics cookies does not restrict access to the website or its core functionality. It only prevents Google Analytics tracking.
Service providers
A limited number of third party services are used to operate this website:
Framer
The website is created and hosted using Framer. Framer processes data on behalf of the website owner where required to provide the hosting and website service.
Framer also provides built-in, cookie-free website statistics, including page views, unique visitors, top pages and referral sources. To calculate daily unique visitors, Framer hashes the IP address and user agent using a daily rotating value that resets each day. Framer states that this service does not use cookies or persistent identifiers.
CookieYes
CookieYes provides the cookie consent management system and processes the information required to record and manage your cookie preferences.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is used, with your consent, to understand how visitors use the website and to measure website usage and interactions.
An email service provider may also process information when you contact me directly by email.
These providers process information according to their respective privacy terms and data protection obligations.
International data transfers
Some service providers may process information in countries outside the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred to a country that does not benefit from an applicable European Commission adequacy decision, appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism may be used where required.
Data retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
Email correspondence may be retained for as long as necessary to respond to an enquiry or manage a professional relationship.
Analytics information and consent records are retained according to the applicable settings and retention practices of Google Analytics and CookieYes.
When personal information is no longer required, it will be deleted, anonymised or otherwise no longer actively processed where reasonably possible.
Selling and advertising
Personal information collected through this website is not sold.
The website does not use personal information for targeted or cross context behavioural advertising.
Limited information may be processed by the service providers described above solely for operating the website, managing consent and providing optional analytics.
Automated decision making
This website does not use automated decision making or profiling that produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on visitors.
Technical systems may automatically process limited website usage, security, analytics and consent information as part of their normal operation.
Your rights
Depending on the applicable data protection law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
request access to your personal information
request correction of inaccurate information
request deletion of your information
request restriction of processing
object to certain processing
request data portability where applicable
withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
To exercise these rights, contact:
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority. In Greece, this is the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.
Children’s privacy
This website is not directed at children, and personal information from children is not knowingly collected.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through direct communication, please contact me so that the matter can be reviewed and, where appropriate, the information removed.
External links
This website contains links to third party websites and services, including portfolio, professional and social platforms.
Once you follow an external link, the privacy practices of that third party apply. I am not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.
Security
Reasonable measures are taken to protect personal information processed in connection with this website.
However, no method of transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, its services or applicable privacy requirements change.
The latest version will always be available on this page and the “Last updated” date will be revised when material changes are made.
Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy, the processing of personal information or the exercise of privacy rights, contact:
Akis Kounellis
Chalki 0
Larissa, Thessaly 41500
Greece
hello@akiskounellis.com