1. What are cookies
Cookies are small data files that a website you visit, such as ours, can install and store on your computer or mobile device (tablet, smartphone, laptop).Thanks to cookies, the website remembers your actions during navigation. The use of cookies as trackers is supported by various browsers, so-called browsers, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari, Opera. However, if you wish, you can disable them so that they are not accepted or even delete them afterwards.
2. Functions of cookies
Depending on their type, cookies perform functions such as measuring the traffic of the page, recording the number of visitors, language, time of entry, geographical origin, device identifiers (e.g. operating system, screen resolution), keywords used, entry attempts, etc. Some cookies are personal data and some are not. Some cookies are technically necessary while others serve commercial and advertising purposes.
3. Types of Cookies
There are different types of cookies, functional, technical, user identification, advertising, etc. Viewer cookies are installed by the website/page you are visiting and are only readable by the website/page you are visiting.
If the website uses external third-party services, then their own cookies, so-called third-party cookies (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.) are installed on your device. Persistent cookies are those that are stored on your computer and are not automatically deleted once you close your browser. Session or session cookies are those that are automatically deleted once you close your browser. Each time you visit our website, you will be asked to accept or reject cookies; if you consciously choose to accept them, our website will remember your preferences (such as username, language) for a certain period of time. This way you will not have to re-enter them when you browse our site during the same visit.
4. Legal status of the use and storage of cookies
The installation and use of “cookies” is specifically regulated by law (article 4 par. 5 of Law 3471/2006, which incorporated the European Directive 2002/58/EC – ePrivacy Regulation), so there may be changes to this policy.
Each website is allowed to install such a “cookie” only you as the user give us positive action (opt-in) your explicit consent (under the terms of the GDPR 2016/679) and with the instructions of the DPA, after clear and extensive information about this installation, its usefulness, the consequences of refusal for the user experience, the purpose of the processing, the exercise of the right of access and any recipients of the data.
Such consent may be given through appropriate settings in the web browser or through another application. For this purpose, we provide you with the following detailed information.
5. How do we use cookies?
We use the following types of cookies
– viewed_cookie_policy
– CookieLawInfoConsent
– cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics
– cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
– pll_language
The first four
– viewed_cookie_policy,
– CookieLawInfoConsent
– cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics,
– cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
store the visitor’s choices as to which cookies he allows to be installed on his browser and do not contain any personal information.
viewed_cookie_policy
The cookie is defined by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data and has a one-year duration.
CookieLawInfoConsent
Records the status of the predefined button of the corresponding category.
Only works in combination with the main cookie It does not store personal data and has a duration of one year.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics
This cookie is defined by the GDPR cookie consent plugin. The cookies are used to store the user’s consent for cookies in the “Analytics” category. It does not store personal data and has a duration of one year.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary this cookie is set by adding consent for GDPR cookies.
The cookies are used to store the user’s consent for cookies in the “Necessary” category It does not store personal data and has a duration of one year.
The pll_language is used to change the language on the website and does not store any personal information of the visitor and has a duration of one year.
All of the above have an expiration of 1 year in terms of the time they store the information about the visitor’s choices. Our website displays content from external providers such as Google, Analytics, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc.
To view third party content, you must first accept the terms and conditions set by the external partners themselves. These include the third party’s cookie collection policy, which is beyond our control. However, if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
6. Receiving visitor consent
Mandatory acceptance of cookies is not a condition of entry to our website. You can freely navigate by checking and accepting or not cookies, either our own or third party cookies, whose use policy is determined solely by them, without our involvement and legal responsibility.
7. Checking and deleting cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies according to your wishes.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, as well as set most browsers to prevent cookies from being installed. However, in this case, you may need to adjust certain preferences yourself each time you visit. This policy will be reviewed regularly to adapt it to the instructions of the
Supervisory Authorities and the latest legislative and regulatory developments.
Last revised 8/1/2024