COOKIES

ABOUT COOKIES

What is a cookie;

The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting exclusively of a set of textual information, which the site transfer to the web browser which is located on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily throughout your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors of the same site to improve your user experience. Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the field where the cookie came from, the “lifespan” of the cookie as well as a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

Types of cookies

The basic types of cookies that websites may use are described below

Session cookies
Persistent cookies
First-party cookies
Third-party cookies

These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your device browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser. These remain in the cookies file of your device’s browser even after the browser is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (eg. toremember your username or your preferences about the customization of the site). These are cookies that are installed in the browser and / or the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning you a unique identifier to track your site navigation. Webmasters often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes. These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to various sites were they are advertised. The webmaster has no control over these third party cookies.

Cookies in this website and how to manage them

On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of the use of the website by its visitors. The operation of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies. The following is information about the third party cookies we use on this website, including how they are disabled and the effect of the deactivation on the operation of the website. If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to check or delete them, please visit: aboutcookies.org .

Cookies of Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are cookies that analyse/register performance and allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can inform us about how many visitors use the website, the time and duration of access, while also providing information on how visitors navigate to different parts of the website. This information helps us to improve the way our website works. They are anonymous information and do not contain personal data. The information collected by the cookies of Google Analytics about our website is transferred and stored on Google servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy. For more information about Google Analytics, please click here. You can turn off tracking from Google Analytics by clicking here. If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be registered, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. The operation of the site will not be affected.

Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion κλπ)

These providers can place cookies on your device, if you watch on our website videos that they provided us as an external service. If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view the embedded videos from our website.

Cookies from social networks

About the server of this site

All web traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred through the protocol HTTPS using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Our third party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data about us. These entities have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this text.