At www.karkon.gr, we strive to uphold the privacy and data security of the information we collect from visitors using our website, acting as a personal data controller in accordance with the rules and regulations for personal data protection. Our website uses cookies, in combination with pixels, local storage objects, and similar devices (hereinafter “cookies”, unless otherwise stated) to distinguish you from other users of the site. This helps us provide you with a good experience, improve our services, and customize advertisements and content while you use the site.

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the types of cookies we use on the website and our purposes for using them.

For a more complete description and a list of the cookies we use on the site, please refer to the Cookie List in Section 5 of this document. For more information about our privacy practices, please refer to our privacy policy: karkon.gr/privacy-policy/.

Please read this cookie notice carefully for details on why we use cookies and the information they collect from and about you.

1. Cookie Definitions

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store in your browser or on your device’s hard drive, which acts like computer memory.

First-party and Third-party Cookies: Whether a cookie is “first-party” or “third-party” refers to the domain that places the cookie.

First-party cookies are those placed by the website being visited by the user at that specific time (e.g., cookies placed by this website).
Third-party cookies are those placed by a domain other than the one being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity/application places a cookie through that website, it is called a third-party cookie.

Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period specified in the cookie itself. They are activated each time the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session Cookies: These cookies allow website administrators to link a user’s actions during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and ends when they close it. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

2. Which Cookies Do We Use and Why?

In general, the website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide you with a good browsing experience and allows us to improve it. The cookies we may use on the website can be categorized as follows:

Strictly Necessary
Performance
Functionality
Targeting

Some cookies may serve more than one of the above purposes.

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These allow you to navigate the website and use its basic features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services. We use them to identify you as logged in, for security reasons, and to ensure you connect to the correct service during updates.

We use Strictly Necessary Cookies to:

Identify you as being logged in to the website and to authenticate you.
Ensure your security and data protection while browsing.
Make sure you connect to the correct service on the website when we make any changes to how the site functions.

If you prevent these cookies, we cannot guarantee how the performance or security of the website will behave during your visit.

‘Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use the website, e.g., which pages you visit and if you encounter any errors. These cookies do not collect information that could identify you and are used solely to help us improve how the website functions, understand our users’ interests, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

We use ‘performance cookies’ to:

Perform web analytics: Analysis provides statistics on how the website is used.
Perform affiliate tracking: Analysis provides information to our partners that one of our visitors also visited their website.
Assist in website improvement: By measuring errors that occur during browsing.
Test different designs: For the website.

Some of the ‘performance cookies’ are managed by third parties.

‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide services or to store settings to improve your browsing experience.

We use functionality cookies for purposes such as:

Storing settings such as website layout, text size, preferences, and colors.
Storing settings for the completion of questionnaires by you.
Saving settings for a specific element or list on the website so that it is not repeated.
Showing if you are logged in to the website.
Providing video content.

Some of the above cookies are managed by third parties.

‘Targeting’ cookies are used to track your visit to the website, as well as other websites, applications, and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, allowing us to display advertisements.

We may use targeting cookies to:
Display targeted advertisements.
Improve the delivery of targeted advertising and content, or to measure the success of an advertising campaign.

3. When Is Your Consent Required?

All cookies require your consent.

We request your consent before cookies are placed on your device. You can provide your consent by clicking the appropriate button on the banner appearing on our website. If you do not wish to provide consent or wish to withdraw your consent for any of the cookies at any time, you must delete and block or disable them through your browser settings. See below for more information on how to do this. Please note that disabling these cookies will affect the website’s functionality and may prevent you from accessing certain features of the site.

4. How to Delete and Block Our Cookies

Most web browsers allow control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary ones), you may not be able to access all or parts of the website. Our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the website, unless you have adjusted your browser settings to reject cookies.

Changing your cookie settings. The browser settings for changing your cookie settings are usually found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your web browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise, you should use the “Help” option in your internet browser for more details.

Ρυθμίσεις Cookie για τον Internet Explorer o Ρυθμίσεις Cookie για τον Firefox o Ρυθμίσεις Cookie για τον Chrome
Ρυθμίσεις Cookie για τον Safari

More Information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www .aboutcookies .org .