What are cookies?

Cookies are text strings created by a server and stored on the hard disk of the computer or device used to access the internet (smartphone, tablet, etc.) and then resent when the same user accesses the internet on subsequent occasions. Cookies enable information to be collected about the user’s browsing of the website. Cookies can have a varying lifespan and be stored permanently on your computer (persistent cookies), or they can have a limited lifespan and be deleted when you close your browser (session cookies). Furthermore, cookies can be installed by the website that you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by other websites (third-party cookies).

Strictly necessary cookies are cookies essential for the operation of the website and for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies are technically necessary for the connection to the website or to provide the internet service requested by the user himself, such as indicatively cookies and related technologies that are necessary for the safety of the user, for the maintenance of the choices of the user regarding the presentation of the website e.g. select language, save search history. For this type of cookies, no prior explicit consent is required.

How does our website use cookies?

Apart from strictly necessary cookies, our website uses first-party and, upon your consent, third-party technical cookies, both session and persistent, to enable you to use and browse the website securely and efficiently, as well as to improve the services provided by the website. In order for our website to work properly while providing our personalized services or any advertising content relevant to your interests and needs, we use cookies, which gather information about your operating system including, but not limited to, browser type and Internet Protocol (IP) address. We use this information to scout the number of visitors/users of our website, to look at the pages’ views and/or the length of time on each page and, to improve the website and to market our services, and generally to understand the interests of the users and measure the effectiveness of the content of the website.

In case you enter to third party sites through our website or to sites connected to social networking sites (twitter, facebook, youtube), you should know that these third-party sites are outside our control and therefore governed by the respective cookie policy of each installer.

We do not intend to use such information to personally identify a visitor/user. This information is held by us through Google Analytics in an aggregated and anonymous form. You may find all the necessary details regarding cookies in the following table: