Cookies Policy

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COOKIES (trackers)

A. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This way the website remembers your actions and preferences over a period of time, in order to provide to you a more user-friendly service.

In this unit we use the general term “cookies” as a cumulative term to describe technologies such as cookies, Flash cookies and web beacons.

Cookies are unique to each web browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) and user device and contain anonymous information related to the webpages you visit and the devices you use.

Generally, cookies serve many functions, such as facilitating your browsing from one webpage to the other, saving your preferences and in general improving the experience of your browsing on the webpage.

Cookies fall under different categories depending on the purpose they serve and the way in which they work (technically necessary or functional, performance cookies, advertising cookies).

B. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

In selene-cc.eu we use cookies in order to make the web a much better experience for you. Using Cookies helps us improve the site features, make the browser easier and the site more useful for you. Furthermore, we are using cookies to count the number of visitors on the site and identify errors. 

Our mission is to improve our site in order to offer you better services and a useful web experience, during your visit to our site.

In selene-cc.eu our first goal is to protect the data of the users and that’ s why the organization uses a very strict policy.

We recommend spending a little time to read this policy in order to understand the types of cookies that we use, the information we collect using cookies and how we use that information. By using our site, you agree to our use of cookies, according to this policy.

C. WHAT ARE THE COOKIES CATEGORIES THAT WE USE?

1. Necessary cookies 

They allow the basic features of the site, such as navigating and accessing secure sites on the site. The necessary Cookies are essential for the site to work properly and serve the purpose of the user's visit.

2. Functionality cookies

They allow the right and smooth performance of the webpage and enable a website to remember the visitor’s choices, in order to provide improved and customized functions in accordance with the latter’s needs and interests. In this category cookies with information on safe browsing are included. 

3. Performance cookies

Performance cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

4. Marketing / Advertising cookies 

These cookies are used to provide content that best suits users and their interests. They can be used to send targeted advertising or personalized offers for the user. They also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns.

D. INFORMATION ABOUT THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS SERVICE (WITH ANONYMIZATION FEATURE)

We use the Google Analytics service to record and analyze traffic data.

Google analytics is the most popular traffic measurement service, which is technically supported by the use of cookies.

We use the Google Analytics service to process anonymous data with the goal of improving our website, such as deciding what page we should improve and how, and to evaluate the display of ads. Important note: We do not use third providers to place ads.

The data collected are stored for 24 months.

Google’s cookies are used to store certain information, such as the length of your visit, the type of browser used, the location from your visit came and the frequency of your visits. In order to have access to these data, we allow Google Analytics to place cookies on the hard drive of the computer or other electronic device of the visitor. Every time you visit a different page within our site, the browser that you use submits, in an automatic, encrypted and anonymized method, data to the Google Analytics platform.

Within the Google Analytics service we use the “Anonymize IP” feature. With this feature, your IP address is limited by Google and anonymized when accessing the website.

For more information about Google’s data processing policy, you can find here Google’s privacy policy and the use of cookies within Analytics here.

Technical information about the Google Analytics cookies is available here.

You can totally block your data collection through Google Analytics by installing in your browser the add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

E. INFORMATION ABOUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS SERVICE (WITH ENHANCED PRIVACY MODE) AND SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING SERVICE

SEleNe website videos are implemented as embedded (uploaded) files on YouTube, where YouTube is a Google subsidiary. YouTube videos is a third party service, provided by YouTube, which may store third-party cookies on the user’s device. These cookies register anonymous statistical data on, for example, how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No personal data is collected unless you log in to your Google account. YouTube has its own privacy policy and cookie policy which can be found here (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and here (https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies), and over in which SEleNe has no control. 

For the YouTube embedded videos the “privacy-enhanced mode” option has been used, for  embedding videos on our website preventing the use of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer's browsing experience on YouTube without cookies that track viewing behavior (for more information see YouTube’s embedding videos information page ).

SEleNe website offers the capability to share the content of our website to the Social media, LinkedIn and Facebook. When the users select the content they wish to share on Social media, the Social media platforms may install their own cookies on the users’  device (third-party cookies). SEleNe is not in any way linked to the installation and use of these cookies, and does not collect relevant data. More information on the cookies policy of LinkedIn is available here (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy) and on the cookies policy of  Facebook is available here (https://www.facebook.com/policy.php). 

F. LOG FILES

Due to the nature and way in which the internet works, once you visit our website, our server records your IP address in a special log file, which is personal data, even if we are not in a position of identifying you based on this information.

Beyond that, our log files also help us record information about the type of the browser program and the operating system that you use and other information related to your electronic visit, such as the URL address from which you visited our site, the date and time of your visit.

These data are stored exclusively for the strictly necessary period in order for us to ensure the security of networks, information and services from random events or illegal or malicious acts that put at risk the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the stored or forwarded data (e.g. control of “denial of service” attacks).

​​​​​​G. HOW YOU CAN MANAGE COOKIES THROUGH THE BANNER

Each user of our website has the option of changing their browsing settings initially the first time they access our company's website each time and after that through the following link. The web page initially has only the strictly necessary cookies activated. When you visit the website for the first time, a cookies banner is displayed which informs you about the use of cookies by the website. This banner gives you the following options:

• To accept the installation of the strictly necessary cookies used by our website on your device.
• To accept the installation of all cookies, including those not necessary.
• To visit and read this Cookies Policy.

H. HOW YOU CAN MANAGE COOKIES THROUGH THE BROWSER

Users of our site have the option of changing the settings on the web browser they use as regards cookies and their acceptance.

You can choose, depending on the browser, between automatically accepting all the cookies (this is usually selected by default), to getting a warning on how cookies are used in certain cases and to generally not permitting the use of cookies.

To manage and deactivate cookies, follow the following instructions per browser:

• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera

For other browsers, please consult the browser vendor information.

You can find more information about the general use of cookies, as well as methods for their disabling or restricting, at webpage http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

The Privacy Policy regarding the installation of the PingDom Cookie is described at https://www.pingdom.com/security.

Our Cookie Policy is revised when deemed necessary. For any information about the use of cookies on our side, do not hesitate to contact website@admie.gr. 

For detailed information on the processing of personal data, click here.

DETAILED COOKIES TABLE