By using or browsing our website, the web-applications and any online service hosted by AL-MA.NET and its subdomains, you are aggreeing to comply with and be bound by our terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern our relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website, or any other online service provided or hosted at AL-MA.NET
The terms 'AL-MA', 'AL-MA O.E.', 'AL-MA.NET' or 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is located at No. 2, Loudovikou Street, Piraeus 185 31, Greece.
The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website or any other entity that is viewing or consuming any of our online services.
One of our main core values and source of competitevenss lies in our Trustworthiness.
As a major player in the field of customs brokerage and representation for over 60 years, we have become experts in managing sensitive client data and information against official customs offices, port authorities and carriers. We build trust by ensuring that no third parties get access to any customer data that we may be exposed to. In addition, we refrain from out-sourcing to third parties core company processes that hold valuable or sensitive information. All information is treated on a need-to-know basis and it is only transmited to third-parties when neccessary to complete a client order and only after we have receieved the client's written or oral consent.
AL-MA is a company mandated by the Greek Law regarding customs brokerage (4955/22 ex. 718/77) and customs representation. This law, as well the wider EU legislation on customs representation, enforces very strict rules on data accumulation, maintenance, archival, dissemination and exploitation. Thus, we do not make use of any data or customer information for any reason other than executing client orders and subsequently for the invoicing of our services. To make sure we adhere to the strict rules encompassing customs representation, all our information and communication technologies are produced and maintained in house by the AL-MA team. These include, bur are not limited to, our mail servers, our invoicing and auditing system, our document manager, as well as this website and the hosted web applications and online services portal.
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
We take data privacy very seriously. We will not sell your data or share it with anyone unless compelled by a court of law or in the case that is needed in executing our services. In certain cases while executing our service, it is possible that we may ask for personal information. We will only use this personal information for the sole purpose of executing this order / service and according to the Greek Law pertaining to customs brokerage and freight transportation.
As we are not in the business of profiting by exploiting customer data and user information, we do our outmost by design to protect and maintain our customer and user privacy. To help with this, we refrain from using any third party plugins the monitor for example, website traffic or website usage statistics. We do not have advertisements, endorsements or any form of marketing or sales campaigns. The website and any online service hosted by us, is created in-house using the ASP.NET Core 6.0 framework and it is maintained and operated exclusively by us. Our core invoicing system is maintained offline.
We will not at any point withold you from accessing your own data and we can provide copies of the stored data for your review or backup should you request it. However, we do reserve the right to delete or discard your data, should we believe that you have broken our terms of service or on the rare occasion that your account or login credentials have been compromised.
All users and our customers always maintain the right to have their data deleted from our systems. This can be very easily done by sending a request through our communication channels. In some cases, especially those relating to customs office cases, note that we might be obliged to maintain hard copies of the customs documentation for up to 10 years, and as stipulated by the Greek and EU law.
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
A number of our pages use cookies to remember: your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size, your language preference, the username you typically use to login to our services and if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site. Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Contact information for all concerns around the processing and control of Personal Data as stipulated by the GDPR law contact: