Cookies Policy
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
More information about cookies
alekosnikolaou.gr aims to make your online experience and interaction as informative, and relevant as possible. We use cookies or similar techniques to achieve this. We feel that it is important that you know what cookies our website uses and for what purposes. This will help to protect your privacy while ensuring our website’s user-friendliness as much as possible.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal equipment (computer or mobile device) when you visit certain websites. At alekosnikolaou.gr we may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons, device fingerprints, etc. For the sake of consistency, all these techniques combined will be hereafter referred to as “cookies”.
Why are cookies used?
Cookies may be used for many different purposes:
- Required cookies: In the first place, cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in, or which products you have put in your shopping cart. These are called required cookies.
- Analytics cookies: Cookies can also be used to analyze how a website is used, to count the number of visitors, to learn how the website may be improved. We do not link the website usage statistics and other reports to individual people. These cookies are called analytics cookies.
- Social media cookies: Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable integration of social media into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page or product on your favorite social media service.
How to manage or disable cookies in your browser
You may manage your cookie settings in your browser settings at any time. If you simply disable all cookies or all of our cookies in your browser settings, you may find that certain sections or features of our website will not work, because your browser may prevent us from setting functionally required cookies.
You may find further information on how to disable cookies or manage your cookie settings for the browser that you use from the following list:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Internet Explorer: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari: https://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/#/sfri11471
Required cookies
Cookies that ensure that the website functions properly (required cookies). Our website may use cookies for: remembering products that you add to your shopping basket during online purchasing, remembering information that you fill in on the various pages when paying or ordering so that you don’t have to fill in all your details repeatedly, passing on information from one page to the next, for instance, if a long survey is being filled in or if you need to fill in a large number of details for an online order storing preferences such as language, location, the number of search results to be displayed etc. storing settings for optimal video display, such as buffer size and your screen’s resolution details reading your browser settings so that we can display our website optimally on your screen locating misuse of our website and services, for example by recording several consecutive failed log-in attempts loading the website evenly so that it remains accessible offering the option of storing your login status so that you don’t have to enter login details every time making it possible to place a reaction on our website optimizing our website in real time depending on how you use the website, e.g. by making a field in a formed light up or blink after a period of inactivity.
Analytics cookies
Cookies that enable us to measure website usage (analytics cookies). Our website may use analytics cookies for: keeping track of the number of visitors to our web pages, keeping track of the length of time that each visitor spends on our web pages, determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages on our website assessing which parts of our site need to be improved optimizing the website requesting your feedback on specific parts of our website.
Social media cookies
Cookies for sharing the content of our website via social media (social media cookies).These cookies may make it possible for logged-in users of selected social media to share and like certain content from our website directly
These social media parties may also collect your personal data for their own purposes. alekosnikolaou.gr has no influence over how these social media parties make use of your personal data.
For more information regarding the cookies set by the social media parties and the data that they may collect, please refer to their own privacy and cookies policies. Below we have listed the privacy statements of the Social Media channels that are used the most by alekosnikolaou.gr:
Notes to remember
alekosnikolaou.gr may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example, because our website or the rules relating to cookies change. We reserve the right to amend the content of the Cookie Policy and the cookies included in the lists at any time and without notice. The new Cookie Policy will be effective upon posting. If you do not agree to the revised Policy, you should alter your preferences, or consider stopping using the Alekos Nikolaou website.
By continuing to access or make use of our services after the changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Cookie Policy. You can consult this web page for the latest version.
If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact us here.
