Introduction
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website can store on your computer or mobile phone. A cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions while browsing the website. Although most browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera, support the use of cookies, you can set your browser to not accept cookies from the start, or to delete them later.
Usefulness of cookies
Cookies can perform many functions. They are mainly used to measure traffic to a website or to individual pages within it. For example, they can record the number of visitors live or by time of day, their geographical origin, the operating system and screen resolution of their computer, the site they arrived from (via a search engine, a link from another page, or direct entry), the keyword used in a search engine, and so on. Other cookies can remember, for your convenience, your language preference or the results of a previous search on a website. Others can record failed login attempts, so that after a certain number of failed attempts a site can require additional verification of your identity — for example, an extra code sent to your mobile phone by SMS.
Use of cookies
Our website (“the website”) stores cookies on visitors’ devices to improve their browsing experience, and to measure the website’s traffic. These cookies do not compromise the privacy or sensitive personal data of users.
CMS cookies
The website is built on a Content Management System (CMS), which by default stores cookies on your device to improve your browsing experience on each page. These are known as session cookies.
Universal Analytics cookies
Google Universal Analytics uses cookies to report on user interactions on websites that use Google Analytics. These cookies store information that does not personally identify you. The Google Analytics cookies stored by this website on your device are:
- The cookie named “_ga”, used to identify unique visitors to our website, which has a lifespan of two years from your last visit
- The cookie named “_gat”, used to anonymously monitor visitor behavior while browsing our website, which has a lifespan of ten minutes from your visit. It records, for example, the page you entered and left the site from, and the time spent on each page
Please note that the lifespan of the cookies above may be changed by Google without prior notice.
CookiesDirective cookie
Once you have given your consent to accept cookies from this website, a cookie named “cookiesdirective” is stored on your device, remembering your consent for one year from when it was given. This avoids the inconvenience of having to give the same consent every time you visit the website.
Consent requirement for storing cookies
The installation and use of cookies is regulated specifically by paragraph 5 of Article 4 of Law 3471/2006 (which transposed Directive 2002/58/EC into Greek law), under which cookies may only be installed and used with the user’s consent. A website may only install a cookie once the user has given their consent, after clear and comprehensive information about the installation, the purpose of processing, the exercise of the right of access, and any recipients of the data. This consent can be given through appropriate browser settings or another application.
Visitor consent
Since Google Universal Analytics cookies are provided by a third party and do not fall under the traffic-analysis exception in paragraph 5 of Article 4 of Law 3471/2006, we obtain visitor consent before storing cookies on their device. You can delete the cookies stored by this website in your browser at any time, through your browser’s settings.
In particular, the website uses a dedicated plugin that prevents cookies from being stored on a visitor’s device unless consent is first given by clicking an acceptance button. Next to the acceptance button is a link to this Cookies Policy, where you can read all the information you need to decide whether or not to consent to cookies.
Controlling and deleting cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies according to your preferences. You can find details at www.aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies already stored on your computer, and set most browsers to prevent cookies from being installed at all. In that case, however, you may need to manually adjust certain preferences each time you visit a website, and some services may not work correctly.