On this page we provide details about what cookies, web beacons and similar technologies are, what information we collect through them and how we use them to improve your experience.

This page is designed to help you understand more about these technologies and our use of them as well as to review your prior consent or not in relation to the placing of cookies by our site (opt-in, opt-out).

1. ΅WHAT ARE COOKIES

Like most sites, our eshop uses cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. These are small data files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other devices and allow us to collect specific pieces of information when you visit or interact with our site or services.

The names and types of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies we use to collect information (such as about the pages you visit, the Links you click or other actions you take on our services or in our advertisements and emails) may sometimes change.

To help you better understand this policy and our use of such technologies we provide you with the following definitions:

Cookies: They are small text files (usually consisting of letters and numbers) that are placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a site or see a message. There are different types of cookies such as:

Session cookies: which are necessary for the smooth operation of the site and expire when you close your browser. They allow us to link your actions when you go from link to link within our site.
Persistent cookies: They are stored on your device for a certain period of time.
First-party cookies: They are placed by the site you are visiting.
Third-party cookies: They are placed through the site you are visiting on behalf of another site.

You can generally manage or disable cookies through tools available in all major browsers. For each browser you use, you should set the options you have for cookies separately for each one. Each browser may have different tools available to handle them.

Web beacons: They are small graphic photos (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFS”) that may be included on our site, or in some of our emails or in general in our services and which work in collaboration with cookies to identify the user or some of his behavior.

Similar technologies: These are technologies that store information on your browser or device such as Flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and others provided by the various web application programming methods. These technologies may work independently and across all Browsers you use and may need to be configured directly through your installed applications or your device. We do not use such technologies to store data.

We use the term cookies or similar technologies in our policies to refer to all the technologies we use to store data on your browser or device or to collect data that helps us identify you in the way described above.

2. SERVICE PROVIDERS

In addition to the cookies placed by us (first party), we also cooperate with Service Providers which are companies that help us in various aspects of our business such as services, applications or advertising tools. Regarding advertisements, we use certified service providers that help us provide you with advertisements of our products relevant to your interests in various parts of the internet. These service providers may also place cookies on your device (third party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device such as your IP address or other unique characteristics.

3. WHAT CHOICES YOU HAVE

We provide various services on our site that are only available through the use of these technologies. You can always generally block, delete or disable these technologies in your browser if it allows it. However, in this case, you will not be able to benefit from some functions of our site. You may also need to enter your username and password more frequently if you are a registered user. For more information please see your browser or device settings.

For any personal information that is collected and stored by our site through these technologies, we have first obtained the user’s express consent and after first having informed the user in detail as much as possible about its use by us as well as giving the user the ability to disable these technologies through the window that appears at the bottom of all pages when entering the site for the first time or at any time at the end of this page.

Our use of these technologies falls into the following general categories:

Functionality Cookies (necessary). We use cookies that are necessary for the operation of our site. These include technologies that allow you to access pages of our site which must necessarily identify which user you are such as the shopping cart page, the order page or similar functions as well as functions such as saving the language in which you have chosen to view our site , saving the currency which by default is the euro for use in case of payment by credit card, saving your choice about whether or not to have cookies on your browser or device and cookies or similar technologies that provide security against improper use of site or attempted fraud. These cookies are not deactivated if you choose not to use cookies when entering the site or at the end of this page. However, they can be disabled from the settings of your browser or device, but disabling them may cause the site to malfunction.

Analytics (Performance-Related). We use first party and third party cookies, web beacons and other technologies to store statistics about the user’s behavior on the site or our services (such as where he found our site, which pages he visited) so that we can improve the services us to the visitor either by correcting functional problems on our pages, or by making our pages better in terms of their use by offering a better navigation (user experience) or even by adjusting our commercial strategy based on your preferences so that we provide you as much as the possible the products you want.

Advertising and remarketing cookies. We use third party cookies (such as Facebook and Google cookies) to provide you with advertisements, offers and opportunities related to the content you saw on our site regarding our products on the above and other platforms and their partners.

We offer you the possibility when you first log in to our site to activate or not all the cookies used on it except the functional cookies. You can also at any time at the end of this page change the activation or not setting of the cookies you had previously selected. In the event that you choose to disable cookies when you previously chose to enable them, the third party cookies will stop recording information about you, however you may continue to see our advertisements but they will not be as relevant to you due to the fact that we can only disable further logging once you have opted out. To manage or permanently disable third party cookies see below.

4. USE OF COOKIES BY AUTHORIZED THIRD PARTIES

We work with third parties, known as “Service Providers” who are authorized by us to place third party cookies, web beacons and other technologies on our website.

These providers help us improve our services either through the statistics they collect or through targeted advertising based on the interests of our website users.

These providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us as well as other legal obligations for their collection or use of personal data.

Since you have accepted the use of cookies, third party cookies and similar technologies have probably been placed by the following service providers

  • Facebook: To provide you with advertisements through Facebook’s advertising and marketing platforms (such as Audience Network, Website Custom Audiences) and other Facebook plugins or marketing tools.
  • Google: For statistical purposes through the Google Analytics platform but also for advertising and marketing purposes through its tools (such as DoubleClick for Publishers, Google DoubleClick AdX Service, Adwords).

The above providers may use the personal data collected through their cookies located on our site in accordance with their own personal data terms

Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/).

Please note that cookies are placed on each browser or device. If you enter our site from various devices and on some of them you choose the use of cookies, then you may even if you choose not to use them on others, you may see our advertisements on the platforms of some of our partners above on any of your devices.

With the exception of authorized service providers, we do not allow any third-party services to place cookies or similar technologies on our site for purposes of tracking or collecting personal data.

You can accept or not the placement of cookies from our site by pressing the corresponding button.