Cookies Policy

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Cookies Policy

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 transfers to the web browser on your computer's hard drive, either temporarily throughout your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of the cookie. Cookies perform various different functions (for example, distinguishing you from the other visitors of the same website or remember certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve user’s experience.

Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the field from which it came from, the "lifetime" of the cookie and also 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

  • Visit cookies (session cookies)

These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your device's browser only during your visit of each website and are deleted when you close the browser.

  • Persistent cookies

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 of stay depends on the lifespan of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the administrator of the site may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g. to remember your username or your site preferences).

  • First-party cookies (First-party cookies)

These are cookies that are installed in the browser and / or on the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This includes the assignment of a unique identifier to track you during your site navigation. The web administrators often use first-party cookies to manage their visits and for identification purposes.

  • Third-party cookies

These are cookies used by third parties, such as e.g., social networks, to track your visits to the various sites on which they are advertised. The  web administrator has no control over these third party cookies.

Cookies on this website and how to manage them

On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of its use by visitors. The operation of the website will be significantly affected in case you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.

The following constitutes information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how they are disabled and the effect of their deactivation on the operation of the website. If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis / logging cookies that 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 their access, while also providing information on how to navigate the visitors to different parts of the website. This information helps us to improve the way that our website functions. They are anonymous information and do not contain any personal data. The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred and stored on Google servers, always in accordance with Google's privacy policy.

For more information about Google Analytics, please click https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

You can disable tracking from Google Analytics by clicking https://tools.go ogle.com/dlpa ge/gaoptout?hl =en=GB

If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be counted, 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, Daily Motion etc.)

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

Cookies from social networks

Third party social networks can place cookies on your device if you choose to share content from our site with them, by clicking on one of the built-in buttons entitled "Share". If you disable these cookies, the "Share" function will not be available.

About the server of this site

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

Our third-party data processors

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

Data violations

Concerning all your personal information that is stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to fully secure it. We will report any unlawful violation of this website or any third party data processing database to anyone and generally to whoever is directly concerned as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the violation , provided that the personal data that is stored in a recognizable form, have been stolen.