What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. In this way, the website remembers your actions and preferences for a period, eliminating the need to enter them each time you visit or browse its pages. Cookies do not collect information individually, but when read by a server through a web browser, they can provide information to offer a more user-friendly service.
What types of cookies are used on the website www.cretanmedicare.gr?
The types of cookies used by the website are persistent cookies and session cookies.
– Session cookies used by the website are deleted after your browsing session and/or when you close the browser.
– Persistent cookies remain on your computer or device until you delete them or for a predetermined period specified in the cookie.
Additionally, when you visit our website, some of our partners (Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook Pixel Code) place cookies (third-party cookies) on our behalf. With these cookies they collect data on the performance of advertisements and your interaction with our website.
Our partners may use this data to draw statistical conclusions and enhance your advertising experience as a visitor.
What cookies are used on our website, and what information is collected?
The website www.cretanmedicare.gr uses cookies for various purposes depending on their function:
Necessary / Essential Cookies: Necessary cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website, allowing you to browse and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or using the shopping cart. These cookies do not recognize your identity. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the efficient operation of our website.
Functionality Cookies: Functionality cookies help the website remember your choices, such as username, language, and region. Thus, we provide you with improved and personalized features. Additionally, they assist in providing services you have requested, such as viewing videos or using social media. We will not have the ability to track your activity on other websites.
Traffic Management Cookies: On our website, we use traffic management cookies to detect technical issues that may arise during your browsing. Based on the information collected by these cookies, we address technical errors and problems, continually improving the services we offer through our website. This way, we respond better to your personal needs. These cookies are not used for purposes other than those described in this text.
Performance Cookies: Performance cookies collect information about how you use the website, such as which pages you visit most frequently and whether you receive error messages. The information collected is aggregate. We use them only to improve the performance of our website.
| Name | Who places them? | Description | Lifetime |
| Analytics | Google analytics Cookie | 30 days |
Targeting/Advertising and Usage Statistics Cookies: These cookies are used to provide content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used for delivering targeted advertising/offers, limiting the display of advertising, or measuring the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They can also be used to remember the websites you have visited, helping us determine which digital marketing channels are more effective and allowing us to reward external websites and partners that referred you to us.
Additionally, to improve our website, we use cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our website, advertisements, and the services offered by the website. For example, we collect information about the frequency with which a visitor views a specific product or service and whether they choose to share it on a social media platform. We use this information to enhance our website based on how visitors interact with it.
| Name | Who places them? | Description | Lifetime |
| Analytics | Google analytics Cookie | 30 ημέρες | |
| AdWords | Google AdWords Remarketing Cookie | 30 έως 90 ημέρες |
Social Media Cookies: These cookies are necessary for linking your account to social media networks through our website. For example, they allow you to repost and share information from our website with your friends on social networks or indicate that you want to follow our page on social media. Social media cookies are not required for your navigation on our website.
| Name | Who places them? | Description | Lifetime |
| Facebook Pixel | Facebook remarketing cookie | 30 ημέρες |
How to check cookies?
Cookies are stored on your computer or device after you update your privacy settings and give your consent for each category, except for Basic Cookies, Functionality Cookies, and Traffic Management Cookies, for which explicit consent is not required. If you do not accept cookies or some categories of them, some features of our website may not be fully available, but you will not be denied access to our website under any circumstances.
It is at your discretion to withdraw your consent or object to the use of cookies on your computer or device, to check and/or delete cookies whenever you want.
• You can delete cookies from the computer or device you are using at any time by following the path:
Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=el
Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
In this way, you revoke your consent for the use of cookies on your computer or device.
• You can also configure the browser you are using in such a way that it either warns you about the use of cookies in specific services on websites or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies under any circumstances.
What are your rights?
You have the right to request information about the processing of your personal data, access to it, correct it, and supplement it at any time. Additionally, you have the right to request their deletion, restrict their processing, or withdraw your consent for the use of some or all cookies and, consequently, the processing of your data.
To exercise your rights, you can submit your request to the email address dpo@cretanmedicare.gr.
Where can you find more information about the protection of personal data collected by cookies?
Information about the protection of your personal data, as well as your rights, can be found in the Privacy Policy here.
Changes to the Cookie Policy.
This Cookie Policy may be modified at any time. For this reason, we recommend checking this Cookie Policy regularly. It came into effect in December 2023. In case of modification, the date on which it took place will be indicated. The Cookie Policy, as shaped by the most recent modification, is always considered valid.
