Cookies policy

  1. We use cookies and other Automated Means for the Collection of Data on our website to enable the navigation and improve the performance of this website. Specifically, we use:
  2. Cookies: Cookies are short software texts stored in any of your devices through the use of any kind of browser, whenever you visit a website. We may use cookies in order to be informed for example, if you have visited our webpage in the past or if you are a new visitor as well as to help us detect features of our webpage, for which you may be more interested. Cookies may improve your online experience by storing your preferences while visiting a specific webpage. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that time; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org  and www.youronlinechoices.eu .
    Web Beacons: The Web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs) are usually transparent images of graphics uploaded in a webpage. The Web beacons are used in combination with the cookies in order to register the activity of the visitors in the websites.
    IP and URLs Addresses: The IP address is a unique locator used by certain electronic devices in order to be detected and contact each other in the Internet. When you visit our webpage, we can see the IP address of the device you used in order to connect to the Internet. We use this information in order to specify the general geographical location of the device and comprehend from which geographical areas the visitors of our webpage are coming. We can use this information in order to change the presentation method of our webpage so that we can improve your visit. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique locator or address for any media in the internet and, basically, it means the address of the webpage you visit. We shall use this information so that we can find out which webpage are most visited as well as the way you use to surf in our webpage.
  3. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the nature and purposes for which they are used, are presented below:
    Strictly necessary cookies: some cookies are strictly necessary for the proper function of the website as they allow you to surf in the website and use its options move around the website and use its features such as automatic sign in registration forms, use of the basket for purchases and for security reasons. These cookies do not recognize your personal identity. Without these cookies we cannot offer an effective function of our website.

    Name of the cookie Source Expiration
    popup_<id> https://votsalo.net/ 1 month – 10 years
    wpml_current_language https://votsalo.net/ 24 hours

    Cookies of performance and analysis : These cookies collect information about the way the visitors use the website, which pages they visit more frequently and if they receive error messages from the webpages. These cookies collect consolidated, anonymous information, which do not identify any visitor. They are used exclusively for the improvement of the performance results of a webpage and allow us to collect information regarding the rate of using our webpages, including the content you choose during your surf in our webpages, in order to measure the effectiveness and the interaction of the consumers with the webpage as well as to improve our pages in due course. These cookies can be provided to us by third parties-providers of analytical tools but only used for the purposes related to our webpage.

    Name of the cookie Source Expiration
    _ga https://votsalo.net/ 2 years
    _gid https://votsalo.net/ 24 hours
    _gat https://votsalo.net/ 1 minute
    AMP_TOKEN https://votsalo.net/ 30 seconds – 1 years
    _gac_<property-id> https://votsalo.net/ 90 ημέρες

    Targeted or advertising cookies. We do not use targeted or advertising  cookies

  4. Please note that this policy applies on the cookies placed and used directly from the HERMES S.A website. We cannot know or control the use of cookies by third parties, e.g. when you use one of the “like” or “follow” buttons on our websites, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Hermes S.A. does not control the use of any third party cookies and our settings tool will not block cookies from those websites. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
  5. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Privacy’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then click on ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
  6. In addition, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings:
    Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies .
    Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/locales?next=%2Fen-US%2Fkb%2Fenable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences.
    Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
    Safari – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265.
    Microsoft Edge – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy.
  7. Please be advised that blocking or deleting all cookies may have a negative impact upon your use of our website.
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