General

Cookies are small text files that contain browsing information and are stored in your computer’s browser when you use the services of our website. Pixel tags are tiny graphics that load when you visit our website.

On our website, we use these technologies to provide an enhanced experience for our users and better services. The updating of regulations and legislative frameworks for the use of cookies and related mechanisms is an ongoing effort, both at the national (Greek) and European levels.

For these reasons, we feel the need to inform you clearly and transparently about the policy we follow.

Cookies on our website

Necessary

These are first-party cookies that are used exclusively by us for the proper functioning of our websites. They allow you to browse and use their features, such as accessing secure areas, etc. All your preferences and settings (e.g., language and country, login information, browser settings, and plugins), which are stored in the cookies, are reproduced on our websites and cannot recognize your individual identity. Without them, many applications on our websites cannot function effectively.

Security

These are cookies used to protect the user from potential malicious activity.

Performance, Analysis, and Research

These are cookies that aim to improve the attractiveness, content, and functionality of the websites. For example, we can track the frequency of visits by collecting information such as the number of people who visit our websites and individual pages, as well as the number of those who return, the keywords used in the search field, the user’s location (i.e., country, region, and, where applicable, city or municipality from which access is made), etc. Additionally, they record the pages you visit, the time you stay on them, and the areas where you show interest.

Functionality

These are cookies that allow our websites to ‘remember’ the user’s choices, providing them with enhanced and personalized functions. Additionally, they can be used when the user selects certain features of our websites, such as sharing content from our websites on social media or viewing a video.

Advertising

These are cookies that allow us to receive information about the interest the user has shown in any of our advertised products and services. These cookies are used to show you personalized ads based on the preferences you have shown in any of our products and services. Furthermore, to personalize the content and ads on our websites, provide social media features, and analyze traffic, we use tools (such as Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook Pixel, etc.). Additionally, please note that for this purpose, we may share information about how you use our websites with third-party social media, advertising, and analytics service providers, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected in relation to your use of their services.

Social Networking

The posts, images, and videos you see on our websites can be shared via buttons on social media. These cookies enable the functionality of these buttons, so they recognize when you want to share a post or video. For more information about the cookies set by social networks and the potential data they collect, please refer to their respective privacy policies.

Your options

Below you will find more information about your options, and you will be able to choose between them.

What options do you have?

You have two options:

a) Either proceed with accepting the cookies and other mechanisms (“Accept All”), which will result in you accessing all the functionalities we have created for you, offering you a complete and personalized experience on our website.

b) Or proceed by personalizing your cookie choices, which may significantly reduce your experience on our website.

The necessary cookies and security cookies are automatically selected-enabled-placed when you enter our website, as they are essential either from a technical perspective or for us to provide you with the services of our website. Our legislation allows us to select-place them without requiring any action or consent from you. If you do not wish to have them selected-enabled-placed, you must not use our services and manually delete the cookies placed from your browser.

The Performance, Analytics & Research, Functionality, Advertising, and Social Networking cookies are placed if you choose the “Accept All” button, which you will find next to the initial basic notification we provide. We will remember your choice for one year. When this period expires, or if you visit us from a new device or browser, we will ask you again.

By selecting the “Save preferences” button, your choice will be remembered for one year. If you have not selected any box and click “Save preferences,” only the Necessary and Security cookies will be saved, and we will also remember this choice for one year.

Change of Choices – Withdrawal of Consent

You can change the choice you made regarding cookies and related technologies on our website at any time in the future. At the bottom of this Policy, you will find the button that will display the pop-up window again. Regardless of the choice you made the last time we asked you via the pop-up window, if you wish to allow cookies and related technologies, you can decide again through these fields, easily, immediately, and free of charge.

For example, if you chose “Accept All” and changed your mind, you can select any (or none) of the categories you wish to be used from the bottom of this Policy and click “Set Privacy Settings Individually.” This action will serve as a withdrawal of the consent you had already given to us, and it will apply going forward—meaning that from this change onwards, those specific cookies and related technologies will no longer be used on your device by our website.

If you wish to remove the cookies that were already placed on your device before the withdrawal of your consent as described above, you can do so manually by following the instructions found in the “Control via Browser – Removing Cookies” section below.

Control via Browser – Removing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies through the settings of the browser you are using. Among the options you have (depending on the browser) are, for example, accepting all cookies, receiving notifications about cookie placement, or blocking their placement.

Similarly, through your browser’s settings, you can reverse any acceptance of cookie placement and related mechanisms from our Website by deleting the already stored files.

To manage and disable cookies, you can follow the relevant instructions for your browser:

• Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera