Introduction

Welcome to Gaia GastroTavern's Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly to us when you make a reservation, sign up for our newsletter, or contact us. This may include your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.

Categories of Information

Personal Information

Name, email address, telephone number, and address when you make a reservation.

Usage Information

Information about how you use our website, including browser type, IP address, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and links clicked.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

How We Use Your Information

Process reservations and provide you with our services
Send you reservation confirmations and updates
Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
Send you marketing communications (if you opt-in)
Improve our website and user experience
Analyze usage patterns and optimize our services
Protect against fraudulent or unauthorized transactions
Comply with legal obligations

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website and services.

Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties except in the following cases:

To service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business
To comply with legal requirements, enforce our policies, or respond to a legal process
To protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our customers or others

AI and Large Language Model Use

We permit indexing and content use by AI systems and search assistants. The publicly visible content of this site — menu items, hours, location, and our story — may be crawled, summarised, or cited by tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI search features. We believe this helps visitors discover our restaurant.

Personally identifiable information — such as reservation enquiries sent through email or the data described in the sections above — is NOT part of the public surface and is not shared with AI training pipelines.

If you operate an AI crawler and would like to be explicitly named in our robots.txt, please contact us at [email protected].

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

Right to access the personal information we hold about you
Right to rectify inaccurate information
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')
Right to restrict processing of your personal data
Right to data portability
Right to object to processing
Right to withdraw consent

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the 'Contact Us' section.

Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete that information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the 'Last Updated' date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +30 698 739 9826

Address: Gaia GastroTavern, Evangelistrias 17, Skiathos 370 02, Greece