- What are cookies?
As most websites do, Groundplan’s website uses cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files, which are installed on your computer or other devices, smartphones and tablets, for example, while you navigate a website. They help our website remember information about your visit when you use a computer or device to access it. Cookies are necessary for our website to function effectively. They are also used to customize products and services we offer you, through our website and other websites or social media.
- What type of information is collected by cookies?
Some cookies collect information on your navigation, options, and preferences, when you access a website from the same computer or device. We do not use cookies to collect or capture data about your name, address, or other contact info.
- Why are they used?
We use cookies for the purpose of improving our website’s functioning, your ease of navigation, facilitating your log in and smoothing navigation to individual webpages.
Cookies are also used to facilitate our analysis of visitor trends in using and navigating our website, and of any difficulties they may face. In this way, we can optimize our website’s operation and address any problems which may arise.
All data collected by such cookies are used solely for improving your user experience, the website’s structure and content, always in the interests of protecting your privacy.
- Which cookies do we use?
| Strictly necessary cookies
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These cookies are required for the website’s proper functioning and cannot be deactivated in our systems. They are usually set only in response to your actions concerning a request for the provision of services, such as when you set your privacy preferences, log in or complete various forms. You can set your browser to block such cookies or notify you accordingly, however, in this case, some website sections may become inoperable. |
| Performance cookies
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These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic origins, so that we may calculate and improve our website’s performance. They are used to help us identify which webpages are more popular or less so and understand the movements of our visitors around the website. All the information collected by such cookies are aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. If you decide to reject such cookies, we will not know when you visit our website. |
| Functional cookies
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These cookies allow the provision of enhanced functions and personalization features, such as video conference and live chatting. They can be set by us or by third-party service providers, the services of which we have added to our webpages. If you decide to reject such cookies, some or all such functions may not work properly. |
| Promotion cookies | Promotion cookies are used to push adverts which are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to send targeted advertisements aimed at limiting mass, spam, and meaningless advertising messages. |
| First-party cookies | They are cookies installed on your device’s browser and/or hard disk by the website which you visit. This includes assignment of a unique identifier code to you for the purposes of monitoring your navigation on the website. First-party cookies are usually used by website administrators for managing visits and identification purposes. |
| Third-party cookies
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They are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, advertising platforms etc. so that they may monitor your visits to the various websites on which they post content or advertisements. This website’s administrator does not have any control on such third-party cookies. |
| Social media cookies
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If you decide to share content from our website on third-party social networks by clicking on one of the integrated “Share” buttons, they can install cookies on your device. If you disable these cookies, the “Share” function will cease to be available.
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| Analytics cookies | We also use Google Analytics (GA) just as many other websites do, to monitor user activity. We use these data to determine the number of visitors reaching our website, so that we may get a better understanding of how they find and use our webpages, and to track their moves while navigating our website. |
- How can you manage or stop using cookies?
Considering the limitations above, if you prefer to avoid using cookies on this website, you must first deactivate the use of cookies in your browser and then delete the cookies related to this website from your browser. You can use this feature to avoid using cookies at any time.
Furthermore, you can change your preferences/settings in the browser you use. In some cases, you can accept cookies from specific websites and block third-party cookies. In other case, you can block cookies from certain advertisers. You must be aware that deleting or blocking of cookies may reduce the functionality of the website which you are browsing. For further information on cookies, you can visit the following webpage www.allaboutcookies.org or open your browser’s Help menu. If you are facing problems while deleting or blocking cookies from your browser, please contact your browser’s service provider.
You can find more information, by visiting the links below, on how you can prevent the use of or delete cookies from major websites.
Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/el/kb/diagrafh-cookies-gia-afairesh-plhroforiwn
GoogleChrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=el
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/el-gr/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Safari: https://support.apple.com/el-gr/HT201265
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/8.51/el/cookies.html
Please note that this option does not constitute a “non-acceptance” solution by itself for all types of cookies.