COOKIE POLICY
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are a small part of text that is sent to the browser when someone visits a website. Their main function is to remember information such as preferred language and country, login information etc., in order to facilitate each visitor’s browsing to their selected websites. Information collected in this way is not interconnected to your personal data and is used solely for security and statistical purposes. Cookies do not contain personal information that could allow anyone to contact the visitor of the website, such as e-mail etc.
2. Types of Cookies
In order to ensure the safer and more efficient service of users browsing our website, as well as the personalisation of each browser’s information and preferences, we may use cookies of the following types:
1. Required cookies
Required or strictly necessary cookies are essential to the proper operation of our website. They enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas etc. These cookies do not recognise your personal identity. Our website cannot function effectively without these cookies.
- Performance Cookies:
These are cookies designed to improve the attractiveness, content and functionality of websites. For example, we can determine the frequency of traffic by collecting information such as the number of people who visit our website and individual pages in it, but also the number of people who return to our website, the keywords used in the search field, the user’s location, i.e. country, region and, if applicable, city or municipality from which access is made, etc. They also record the pages you visit, the time you spend on them, as well as the points that attract your interest.
3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember the user’s choices, such as their user name, language or the region they are in, as well as their settings, so as to provide more enhanced and personal features. They may also be used to provide services a user has asked for, such as watching a video or using social media. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track a user’s browsing activity on other websites. Rejection of these cookies may affect the performance and function of the website and limit your access to its content.
4. Targeted/Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to provide content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They can also be used to send targeted advertisements/offers, limit the number of times users see an advertisement or measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They can also be used to remember the websites you have visited so as to determine which online marketing channels are more effective and allow us to reward external websites and associates for directing you to us.
5. Security Cookies
These are cookies used to protect the user from malicious activity.
When you browse our website, third-party organisations and companies may generate their own cookies to control the operation of their applications and personalise them for you. Due to the nature of cookies, our company has no control of or access to these third-party cookies, and no other organisation can access the data stored in them. These third-party companies and organisations have their own Policies regarding Cookies and Privacy.
6. Third-party Cookies
When you browse our website, third-party organisations and companies may generate their own cookies to control the operation of their applications and personalise them for you. Due to the nature of cookies, our company has no control of or access to these third-party cookies, and no other organisation can access the data stored in them. These third-party companies and organisations have their own Policies regarding Cookies and Privacy.
7. Social Media Cookies
The posts, images and videos you see on our website can be shared via social media buttons. These cookies enable these buttons to function, so that they recognise when you wish to share a post or video. Please note that our company has no influence over the way social networks use your personal data.
3. Cookie-related technologies
Our website uses web beacons in combination with cookies in order to collect data to help us better understand how visitors move from page to page within our website. Web beacons are electronic files that signal the viewing of a web page, advertisement, video, other content, e-mail or newsletter.
4. Control and acceptance of Cookies
You can freely select and change your Cookie preferences by following the “Cookie Settings” link at the bottom of this page. Please note that you can delete all cookies stored on your computer or any other mobile device you own, as well as configure most browsers to prevent cookies from being stored. However, if you do this, you may need to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit our website, while some of its features and functionality may not work. The first time that visitors enter our company’s website, they are informed by means of a relevant reference on the web page that they accept and understand that the use of cookies is necessary for the proper operation of the website.
5. Policy Amendments and Updates
This Policy may be amended from time to time so that it is always in accordance with legal requirements and with the way in which we conduct our business. If we decide to replace this Policy or make major changes to it, we will notify you through a notice posted on this website. Please check this page regularly in order to keep up to date with the latest version of the Policy.