Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data (memory files) stored on your computer or device via your browser by sites you visit. As is common practice with almost all websites, this site uses cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences and enable other cookie-based features (e.g. analytics), either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).

Some online services couldn’t be provided without the use of cookies, which are therefore in some cases technically necessary for a website to work.

Cookies can be installed by the website you are visiting (so-called first-party cookies) or may be installed by other websites or web servers via elements (such as images, maps, sounds, buttons or external links) that are published on that website (so-called third-party cookies).

Cookies may be stored permanently on your device and have a variable duration (so-called persistent cookies), while others have a limited lifespan or may disappear when the browser is closed (so-called session cookies). 

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org   

What types of cookies do we use on this website?

This website uses:

  • Technical Cookies – i.e. session and functional cookies which are necessary for the website to work and allow for a better browsing experience
  • Analytics Cookies – which allow us to gather anonymous and aggregate data on the number of visitors and the pattern of visits to the website (e.g. number of visitors, page views, time on a page, etc.). These cookies do not collect any personal data or any information on the user’s identity.
  • Third-party Cookies – i.e. cookies set by websites or web servers other than this one and used for such third parties’ purposes. Mainly these are cookies that allow users to use and interact with social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) in order to share our content on said social media.

  • This website does NOT use profiling cookies     (i.e. those cookies that are aimed at creating user profiles and are used to send ads messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during navigation).

Analytics Cookies

As analytics cookies, we use:

Google Analytics Cookies (Universal Analytics)
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). These cookies allow Google Analytics to work and we use them in order to gather information on the use of the website and collect anonymous data about numbers of visitors, page views, time on a page, etc. We collect this data in order to gather insight for improving the website contents and usability. Google uses the collected data in order to track and analyse the use of this website, compile reports and possibly provide us with other Google services.

In order to collect data in anonymous form, on this website we use the so-called IP Anonymization, which truncates the visitor’s IP address.

Visitors who wish to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics can do so by downloading and installing Google Analytics opt out browser add-on (compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera).

 

Managing Cookies

On accessing any page of this website for the first time, a banner which contains a short cookie notice is shown to you. If you continue browsing (by accessing any other section of the website or selecting any of its elements such as images or links), you consent to the use of cookies.
If you click on the “Ok” button within the cookie notice, a “technical cookie” is used to remember your consent regarding cookies so not to display the cookie notice again in your next visit(s).

Nevertheless, visitors maintains their right to:

  • disable/block some or all third-party cookies
  • object to cookies being recorded on their device(s) by setting their browser(s) to disable cookies

For more information on how to set your preferences on cookies via the browser, please refer to the instructions of each browser:

Through the browser settings users can also delete cookies that may have been installed in the past, including the technical cookie used by this site to remember the user’s consent regarding cookies.

Please note that some website features or services may not function properly without cookies and visitors may be required to manually insert some information or preferences each time they visit the site.

General

We may edit this policy from time to time. Please check this policy regularly for any changes. Our site is hosted on Strikingly Inc. They provide us with the free responsive website templates that allows us to creating a website for your business.

Cookies are one way we comply with GDPR guidelines. To learn more about GDPR, the following links may be helpful: YouTube Facebook Twitter SXL