Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Our website stores a small amount of text in the browser – that text is the cookie.
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Why do we use cookies?
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize our pages, or register with our site or services, a cookie helps us recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.
Cookies are used for personalisation purposes, to remember your preferences, improve your experience on our website, for security purposes, analytics and more.
How do we use cookies?
We collect cookies from our website’s users for plenty of reasons, including without limitation to improve your overall experience on the website, track our own performance and calculate how many visitors we have and how long users approximately stay on the website for.
Sometimes we may include links on our website in relation to goods/services offered by third parties. Cookies can be used to track the user’s visit to third party websites.
Where do we use cookies?
We use cookies on our website for our products and services – for example ads, emails, newsletters, updates and applications. We place cookies in your browser when you visit our website and we also use them on the websites of trusted partners.
What kind of cookies exist?
Cookies are primarily divided according to their duration. Session Cookies stop being active once you close your browser, while persistent Cookies are saved for a certain amount of time. Cookies work in combination with the content of the website so as to receive and recall information.
Some types of cookies are the following:
Performance Cookies
These Cookies collect anonymous data concerning the way the site is used by its visitors and whether or not they receive any error messages. In this way we are able to improve the site’s performance.
Functionality Cookies
These Cookies record information concerning the choices you make in order to help us adapt our website as best as possible to your needs. For example, we place a cookie in order to remember how you reach our website so that we are able to direct you to the same section in future visits. We also use cookies to remember your language of preference. The security of our site is improved using these cookies especially where your personal data protection and monetary transactions are concerned.
Targeting Cookies
These Cookies help determine personalised marketing channels which are formed and used for each individual. They also help reward our collaborators who have recommended us to you
How you can set Cookies?
Web browsers are usually configured to allow Cookies. If you wish to modify specific functions you must adjust your web browser settings.
Third Party Cookies
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Facebook and LinkedIn will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data the hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Google Fonts
Personal Data: Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
Google Fonts (previously called Google Web Fonts) is a library of over 800[1] libre licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS[2] and Android.[3]
The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.
Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.
In order to serve fonts as quickly and efficiently as possible with the fewest requests, we cache all requests made to our servers so that your browser only contacts us when it needs to.
Requests for CSS assets are cached for 1 day. This allows us to update a stylesheet to point to a new version of a font file when it’s updated. This ensures that all visitors to websites using fonts hosted by the Google Fonts API will see the latest fonts within 24 hours of their release.
The font files themselves are cached for one year, which is long enough that the entire web gets substantially faster: When millions of websites all link to the same fonts, they are cached after visiting the first website and appear instantly on all other subsequently visited sites. We do sometimes update font files to reduce their file size, increase coverage of languages, and improve the quality of their design. The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: we only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser.
We do log records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is on a need-to-know basis and kept secure. We keep aggregated usage numbers to track how popular font families are, and we publish these aggregates in the Google Fonts Analytics site. From the Google web crawl, we detect which websites are using Google Fonts, and publish this in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google’s Privacy Policy.
Analytics
Google Analytics
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
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2 years
Used to distinguish users.
Interaction with external social networks and platforms
ShareThis
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
ShareThis provides a customizable social sharing tool, making sharing online content simple.
We collect information via technical cookies placed on your browser, pixel tags, HTTP headers (or other communication protocols), and browser identifiers. We do not use flash cookies or other locally stored objects (LSO) that may be used to circumvent user opt-out choices.
e collect registration information and Usage Data (defined below). Your registration information is not connected to Usage Data. For Usage Data, we use data that does not directly identify an individual. We collect and use technical data relating to a certain amount (not all!) of your browsing navigation to display personalized advertisements, provide analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing, by us or third parties.
We do not process any information which could be used by ShareThis, directly or indirectly, with the help of a third party or otherwise, to determine the identity of a user.
If you do not want to receive advertisements based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis, on your current browser, you can opt out by clicking the button below.
Note:
Each environment is separate. If you do not want to receive ads based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis whatever device or browser used, you must disable our services for each device and each internet web browser.
Furthermore:
Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements, but that the advertisements you do see will not be influenced by the Usage Data collected by ShareThis. It also does not affect your registration information. For canceling or deleting your registration information, see Data Security and Retention.
https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/
Other Websites
This website may contain links to other websites, or tools that facilitate the sharing of the content on this website on your social media networks. Your use of such links or tools is voluntary, and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.
Access to third-party accounts
Facebook account access
Permissions: Share
For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Interaction with external social networks and platforms
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter,Google+ buttons and social widgets
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
We use a button provided by ShareThis to enable this functionality and this button places its own cookies on your machine.The social networks, such as Facebook and Linkedin, may themselves also put cookies on your machine. We have little control over these ‘third party’ cookies, so we suggest that you check the respective privacy policies for these external services to help you understand what data these organisations hold about you and what they do with it. For instance, the Facebook Data Use Policy and the https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy give further information about those services.
SPAM protection
Google reCAPTCHA
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
ReCAPTCHA collects personal information from users to make this determination of whether they’re human and not a bot. Then, an additional reCAPTCHA-specific cookie will be added to the user’s browser, and a complete snapshot of the user’s browser window at that moment in time will be captured, pixel by pixel.
https://policies.google.com/terms
Google Maps widget
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users.
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=el
MailChip Newsletter
MailChimp is owned and operated by The Rocket Science Group LLC (“MailChimp”, “we”, “us”, and “our”). This Cookie Statement explains how we use cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business, including through our websites that link to this Cookie Statement, such as http://www.mailchimp.com, http://www.tinyletter.com, and http://www.mandrill.com, or any website or mobile application owned, operated or controlled by us (collectively, “Websites” or “websites”), and when our users’ subscribers visit websites or e-commerce stores operated by our users or open or interact with emails delivered through our Services. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookie Statement is and will be treated as part of our Terms of Use, and is automatically incorporated therein. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Cookie Statement have the meanings given to those terms in our Privacy Policy.
In some cases we may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Statement to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with other information. For more information about how we process your Personal Information, please consult our Privacy Policy.
Contact forms
Personal Data: Title, company name, subject, email address, name, last name and phone number.
We collect information from you when you contact us to make an inquiry. When making the inquiry from our web site, you may be asked to enter Title, company name, subject, email address, name, last name and phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously without entering data on our contact form.
YouTube
We may post YouTube video links on our site. YouTube sets various cookies depending on the user.
Description
Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a YouTube video. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of YouTube users, including information that links your visits to our website with your Google account if you are signed in to one. Information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account.
Name
SID, LOGIN_INFO, use_hotbox, PREF, SSID, HSID, watched_video_id_list, __utma, __utmz, demographics, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Data stored
Various unique identifiers, as well as login information that may relate to a Google account.
When does it expire?
Most of the cookies expire 10 years after your last visit to a page containing a YouTube video, although some expire sooner.
What are your options?
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies when you visit our website. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the services or websites you visit.
Do you need more details?
For any further information, do not hesitate to contact us via email at [] or by post at [P.O.Box 25576, 1310 Nicosia] or call us at [00357 22 496967].