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General Data Protection Policy

The company under the name “Peter’s Gallery” with a registered address at 31, Ioanni Polemi street, 3085 Limassol, is the Data Controller of the stores’ customers’ and visitors’ personal data, that are processed based on the present policy.

Data collection and processing

For the purposes of its physical stores’ operations and its services provision “Peter’s Gallery” controls personal data mainly from the subjects themselves, namely the stores’ customers and visitors. These data may concern our website use and our e-shop services, any special services offered to our clients (such as delivery service, custom framing service, artwork estimation service etc.), our customer service, the systems security management, as well as any electronic, phone or written contact with our company etc.

All these data are collected for purposes that are lawful and are being processed based on the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and of the Cyprus legislation (125(Ι)/2018). Prior to any processing the data subjects are fully and in a transparent way informed on the processing purposes, any third parties that receive these data, their rights as data subjects, the technical and organizational measures for the protection of the data, the means to contact our company etc.

This present Data Protection Framework Policy aims to inform you on the general principles that we comply with concerning the management of your personal data in case any specific data processing notification refers to the present text or in case we receive your data without you being already a client of our products or services.

Lawful basis for processing

The lawful basis for the processing of your data that is necessary for the provision of our services is notified to you prior to the receipt of each service.

In case you contact us to submit a question regarding our products and services prior to the purchase or the receipt of a service, some of your data are necessary in order to reply to you, since it is part of our legitimate interests to facilitate the consumers to proceed with the purchase and to let them enjoy an exceptional buying experience at our stores.

If you contact us after the purchase or the receipt of a service the processing of your data is necessary in order to review our contractual obligations for the purpose of the performance of the specific transaction.

For the purpose of our legitimate interests we also have the right to send you commercial info by phone, mail, email, SMS, or any other appropriate means of communications, using your contact details (obtained in a lawful way), within the framework of a previous transaction with you and as long as you do not exercise your right to opt-out from such communication. This information may consist of information regarding our products, special or general offers, promotional activities organized by our company or in collaboration with other companies (without transferring your data to those companies) and marketing contests. In addition, in the context of marketing communications we may contact you using OTT services such as Viber, WhatsApp etc., for the purposes of better communicating with you and of keeping our communications costs low. For the purpose of our legitimate interests we may also contact you after the sale in order to evaluate your customer service experience regarding our company and our partners.

Finally, some personal data are processed for the purpose of complying with our legal obligations, for example when the tax authorities request the relevant data in order to carry out audits or when there are cases pending before regulatory, administrative or judicial authorities.  

Data information and update

Your personal data have to be updated in order to make sure that they still belong to you while we process them and for this reason we are required to rectify them, upon indication by you, in case they are inaccurate or altered.

Our company, as the Data Controller, puts every effort in order our customers’ data to be accurate and, when necessary, updated, by taking every reasonable measure for the immediate erasure or rectification of personal data that are inaccurate, in relation to the purposes of each processing.

Types and recipients of data

Based on the service(s) you have received you have been informed regarding the personal data collected by our company and who, other than our company, may be the recipients. You are notified regarding the personal data collected when you use our webpage and when you create an e-shop account.

However, we also collect your data in other ways as well. These data may be the following:

– identification and communication data, namely your name (surname and first name), your postal address, your e-mail address, your mobile phone or phone number.

– data that are included in your communication with our company, namely all these data that you share with us when you request information, when you return products, when you make a complaint etc.

We process these data mainly internally, though, sometimes we may use external call center services, commercial communication management and customer requests management providers as third parties, to whom the data necessary for the purposes of the performance of their tasks and your service as customers are transferred under strict conditions and procedures and who are contractually bound to operate under our guidance as processors and to respect the laws concerning the protection of your data.

Data subject rights  

All natural persons, as data subjects, can exercise their rights at any time, as provided by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (particularly by Articles 12 to 23 of the Regulation) and the national legislation, namely:

the right of information and access to their personal data that are being processed by our company

the right to restriction of processing of their personal data that are being processed by our company

the right to rectification or erasure in part or in total (right to be forgotten) of their personal data that are being processed by our company

the right to object to processing of their personal data that are being processed by our company and

the right to their personal data portability, under the condition that they are not being processed by our company for compliance with a legal obligation.

The abovementioned rights can be exercised, under the restrictions provided by the relevant legislation, particularly GDPR and, by submitting a request to the e-address info@petersgallery.com.cy . In case you exercise your right of access to your personal data you may give our company some time in order to compile them. Any copies of your data are being notified to you at no cost, unless our company finds that your requests are repeated and are exercised excessively. 

In case you exercise any of the abovementioned rights, Peter’s Gallery will take all necessary measures in order to comply with your relevant request within one (1) month from the date of valid submission, whereas in case our company needs more time, you will be notified accordingly. It has to be cleared that in order for the abovementioned rights to be validly exercised, you may be asked to properly identify yourself, for the purpose of verifying that the personal data indeed belong to the natural person exercising its rights.

You may also opt-out at any time from all commercial communications by our company to one or all of your contact details (email, SMS or Viber), either as described above, or by calling at 25384804 or by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link that exists in all our marketing emails.

Personal data retention period

Your personal data are generally being retained and processed by our company for a time period of eleven (11) months unless you have been notified otherwise on a specific service or processing activity. You may always request for the erasure of your data while using your abovementioned right, as well. Our company retains your contact data for the purposes of commercial communications until you exercise your opt-out right for all or a specific marketing communication.

However, some data concerning your transactions with our company that are necessary may be retained as information for the purpose of demonstrating the lawfulness of your data processing and of ensuring our company’s legal claims.

Special categories data

The provision of our services and the communication with you do not entail sharing special categories data or sensitive personal data (such as health data, political beliefs data etc.).

Transparency requirement

For any information regarding your personal data as well as their processing and protection you may address the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of our company at the electronic address info@petersgallery.com.cy or/and by phone at 25384804. In case you consider yourself not satisfied with our response or with how your personal data are being processed you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervising authority (Data Protection Authority, 1 Iasonos str, 1082 Nicosia, commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy ).

Technical and organizational measures

Our company, its data processors and any third person or entity acting under our company’s authority are bound to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures for the best possible protection of your personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, destruction or damage, unlawful or unauthorized disclosure of or access to them and unauthorized or unlawful processing, in general (remote access included), as well as for ensuring the ability to restore the availability and access to them.

The specific measures aim to ensure a level of security towards the risk that your data may be facing, taking always into account the type and severity of the specific data, our company’s technical abilities, the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing, while implementing processes for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of these technical and organizational measures.

In any case, Peter’s Gallery, its processors and any third person or entity acting under our company’s authority are contractually bound to ensure the confidentiality of your personal data, as well as not to disclose them or not to allow access to them by any third party without having informed you in advance, unless provided otherwise by the relevant legislation.

Peter’s Gallery states that your personal data will not be used for any other purpose, except for those mentioned in the present Policy, unless you have been previously duly informed and, if it deems necessary, after having obtained your explicit consent.

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The total purchase price is calculated, in short, as such:

Hammer Price + Buyer’s Premium (12%) + *VAT (5% or 19%)

The Buyer’s Premium is added to the Hammer Price (winning bid) and is included as part of the total Purchase Price payable by the successful Bidder. In an Online Auction conducted by Peter’s Gallery, the Buyer’s Premium rate is as follows: 12% of the Hammer Price of any amount. 

*Value Added Tax (VAT) applies as follows: artworks are taxed at a reduced rate of five percent (5%) (‡ symbol) or nineteen percent (19%) († symbol) on the hammer price, depending on the item. For items marked with the Omega symbol (Ω), the hammer price is exempt from VAT. A nineteen percent (19%) VAT applies to the Buyer’s Premium for all items, regardless of the symbol.

The VAT and Buyer’s Premium will be applied on the checkout page.

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Peter’s Gallery is committed to protecting your personal information and securing our computer systems.

We consider the confidentiality of your personal information to be important and we use SSL, the newest and most recent standard security technology to safeguard your transactions and data from manipulation, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons and to prevent unauthorized disclosure.

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The secondary art market

The term “secondary market” refers to art that has been sold at least once before. In simpler terms, the secondary market deals with resale, typically with artworks by artists who have a substantial reputation. For example, most artworks sold through auction houses form part of the secondary market.

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A Certificate of Authenticity is essential to identify and attest to an artwork's genuineness and provenance. Peter's Gallery issues a Certificate of Authenticity to accompany every piece from our collection.

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Aftersale

Unsold artworks from the latest auction are now available for purchase at their starting price for a limited time. The Aftersale offers a second chance for unclaimed items to find their new collector. They can be viewed on this page under the ‘Aftersale‘ label or by visiting the gallery.

For a direct view of the Aftersale items only, you can browse them here.

Notice

Effective May 2024, Peter’s Gallery has lowered its VAT rates from 19% to 5% for all categories excluding Silkscreen prints & Poster prints. Please refer to our announcement and our Terms and Conditions for more information.

Lot Prices

Please note that Lot prices listed on this page are exclusive of the Buyer’s Premium, of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.

Auction closing times

Lots will close at their scheduled time unless a bid is placed within five minutes of a Lot’s scheduled closing time, in which case we will extend the sale of that Lot by five minutes.

The extension of any Lot’s closing time does not affect any other Lot’s closing time; therefore, it is possible that Lots will close out of the announced auction ending time. Lots may extend for up to two hours to accommodate competitive bidding.

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Symbols Definition

†  The single dagger symbol indicates these items will be sold under the 19% VAT standard rate on the hammer price.

‡ The double dagger symbol indicates these items will be sold under the 5% VAT reduced rate on the hammer price. For more information on the reduction, please see our announcement.

Ω The Omega symbol indicates these items are VAT exempt on hammer price; 19% VAT applies to premium.

#  The hash symbol indicates 19% VAT applies only to buyer’s premium.

The diamond symbol indicates 19% VAT applies to hammer price and buyer’s premium.

△  The triangle symbol indicates there is no reserve price in place.

☐ The square symbol indicates there is a reserve price.


The VAT and Buyer’s Premium will be applied on the checkout page.

This guide explains how the total purchase price is calculated.

• View the glossary of terms to familiarise yourself with the language of auctions.

• Read the auction Terms & Conditions in English and Greek for more.

• Visit the FAQ page for further assistance.

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