COOKIES Policy

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer or your mobile phone when you visit a website. This way, the website remembers what you did on the website for a certain period of time, and you do not need to enter your preferences each time you visit it or navigate between its pages. Cookies do not collect information individually, but when they are read by a server through a browser program they can provide information and offer a more user-friendly experience.

What types of cookies www.hygeia.gr uses

It uses persistent cookies and session cookies.

• The session cookies are deleted after you finish browsing and/or close your browser.
• The persistent cookies remain in your computer or your mobile phone until you delete them yourselves or for a specific period.

Moreover, when you visit our website, certain affiliates (Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook Pixel Code) place third-party cookies. They use these cookies to collect information about the effectiveness of adverts and your interaction with our website.

Our affiliates may use this information to draw statistical conclusions and improve your advertising experience as a visitor.

What cookies we use on our website and what information they collect

The www.hygeia.gr website uses cookies for various purposes, depending on their function:

Essential cookies – Essential cookies are absolutely essential for the website to operate properly. They allow you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or using the shopping basket. These cookies do not identify you. Without these cookies, our website cannot operate effectively.

Functionality cookies – Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your user name, language and the region you are in. This means we can provide you with enhanced, personalized features. Moreover, they help us provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or using social media. They do not enable us to track your browsing activity on other websites.

Traffic data processing cookies – We use traffic data processing cookies to track technical issues that might arise while you are browsing our website. Based on the information collected by these cookies, we correct technical issues and problems and we constantly improve the services offered on our website. This enables us to better meet your personal needs. The cookies are not used for any purposes other than the ones described in this document.

Performance cookies – Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website, for instance which pages you visit most often, and whether you get error messages. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated. It is only used to improve our website performance.

Targeting/Advertising and usage statistics cookies – These cookies are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver targeted adverts/offers, to limit advert views and to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They may be used so we can remember the websites you have visited, so as to identify the effectiveness of digital marketing channels and reward other websites and affiliates for redirecting you to our website. To improve our website, we also use cookies to collect information about the time and way in which visitors interact with our website, the adverts and the services it offers. For instance, cookies are used to determine how many times a visitor saw a certain product or service, and whether they chose to share it on a social media platform.

Social media cookies – These cookies are necessary to sign in to your social media account through our website. For example, you may share information from our website on social media or with your friends, or follow our website on social media. The social media cookies are not necessary to browse through our website.

How to control cookies

Cookies are stored on your computer or mobile phone after you have been notified of the privacy settings and have given your consent for each cookie category, with the exception of essential cookies, functionality cookies and traffic data processing cookies, for which explicit consent is not required. Unless you accept cookies or certain cookie categories, some of your website features may not be fully available, but in any case, you will not be denied access to our website.

It is up to you at any time to withdraw your consent, object to the use of cookies on your computer or browser, or control and/or delete the cookies.

• You may delete the cookies from the computer or mobile phone you use at any time as follows:

For Mozilla Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

For Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=el

For Internet Explorer:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

This way you withdraw your consent for the use of cookies on your computer or mobile phone.

• You may also set your browser to warn you on the use of cookies for specific website services or to not allow the use of cookies in any event.

What your rights are

You have the right to ask for information on the processing of your data, have access to it, and rectify and/or supplement it at any time. You also have the right to request erasure of your data, request restriction of its processing or withdraw your consent on the use of some or all the cookies, and by extension on the processing of your data.

To exercise your rights on www.hygeia.gr, you may email your request to gdpr1@hygeia.gr

Where you can find additional information on protection of data collected by cookies