As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

What Are Cookies

Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed

How We Use Cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. The cookies used on the website include those which are strictly necessary cookies for access and navigation, subscribing, cookies that track usage (performance cookies) and remember your choices (functionality cookies).

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

  • to recognise your computer when you visit the website
  • to track you as you navigate the website for internal reporting purposes only
  • to improve the website’s usability
  • to analyse the use of the website
  • in the administration of the website
  • to personalise the website for you

Blocking cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Be aware that disabling or deleting cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:

  • Internet Explorer:you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
  • Firefox:you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.
  • Google Chrome:you can adjust your cookie permissions by clicking “Options”, “Under the hood”, Content Settings in the “Privacy” section. Click on the Cookies tab in the Content Settings.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites and you may not be able to use certain features on the website (log on, access content, use search functions).

Deleting cookies: You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

  • Internet Explorer:you must manually delete cookie files.
  • Firefox: you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.
  • Google Chrome: you can adjust your cookie permissions by clicking “Options”, “Under the hood”, Content Settings in the “Privacy” section. Click on the Cookies tab in the Content Settings.

Doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

The Cookies We Set

Site preferences cookies: To provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. Further information on Google’s Privacy Policy can be found here.
  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Twitter, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by email: isense-privacy@iccs.gr