Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Like most services provided via the internet, Device Recycling may automatically receive and record data when you use the website www.electrocycle.gr. We may use various technological methods, including clear GIFs (also known as “web beacons”) and “cookies”, to collect this data.
This Cookies Policy aims to inform you about the operation of such cookies and clear GIFs, and must be read in conjunction with the Privacy Policy of Recycling Devices S.A.
Cookies and other automated means of data collection
In this policy, cookies and other automated means (e.g. web beacons) will be referred to collectively as “cookies”, unless expressly stated otherwise.
This section provides definitions and information about some of these technologies and how they work.
Cookies
A cookie is an alphanumeric text that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor provides each time they return to the website. The vast majority of websites use cookies. Because the browser provides this information to the website on each visit, cookies serve as a kind of tag that allows a website to “recognize” a browser when it returns.
Cookies store information about your activities on a website or other platform. For example, cookies may store information about your session to easily log into a previously visited website or other platform. They allow to make the use of the website more pleasant and to improve its functionality.
Clear GIFs
Clear GIFs (also known as web beacons) are used in conjunction with cookies to help website operators understand how visitors interact with their websites. A Clear GIF is usually a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) placed on a website. Using a Clear GIF allows the website to measure the visitor’s actions by opening the page that contains it. It makes it easier to track and record a recognized browser’s activities, such as the path of pages visited on a website.
Clear GIFs, which can be embedded in web pages, videos or e-mails, can allow a web server to read certain types of information from the browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or e-mail, and determine, among other things, the date and time the Clear GIF was viewed, your computer’s IP address, and the URL of the web page from which it was viewed.
What information do we passively collect?
The information we collect through the automated methods above may include, for example, your IP address, cookie information, a device or user identifier, browser type, operating system type, the content and pages you visited on the website , the frequency and duration of your visits to that website and the “referring URL” (ie the page from which you were directed to the website). We may also use cookies on the website to store session information on your hard drive.
If we combine any information collected through passive means with personal information, we treat the combined data as personal data in light of this Privacy Policy. In other cases, we use the data collected by passive means in aggregated statements with an anonymized character.
How do we use passively collected data?
On the website we may use passively collected data to: a) remember your information so that you do not have to re-enter it during your browsing or the next time you visit the website, b) track participation you in various parts of the website c) to provide personalized services to you, including providing recommendations, d) to track aggregate website usage metrics, such as total number of visitors and pages, and e) to administer, operate and improve the ne33 Website and of our other services and systems.
What kind of cookies we use and why
Necessary: These cookies are used exclusively (i) either to transmit a communication over an electronic communications network or (ii) to allow the provider of an information society service to perform that service as expressly requested by you.
Performance: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for example which pages visitors visit most often and whether they receive error messages from websites. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. it is only used to improve the way a website works.
Functional: These cookies allow the website to remember the choices you make (such as your username, language or region) in order to provide you with improved, more personalized functionality.
Social Networks: These cookies are used based on social networking functionality or when using plugins provided by social media platforms and integrated into the website (e.g. a “Like” button on a web page)
Advertising: These cookies collect information related to web browsing activity in order to inform advertising networks about website traffic so that they can provide targeted advertising.
Whether a cookie is considered primary or third-party depends on the domain from which the cookie originates. Primary cookies are those cookies set by the website itself that the user is visiting at the given time (in this particular case cookies registered by www.electrocycle.gr). Third-party cookies are cookies set by a domain other than that of the website the user is visiting. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this is a third-party cookie.
Session cookies allow website administrators to log your actions during a browser session. A browsing session starts when you open the browser window and ends when you close the browser window. Session cookies therefore have a temporary lifetime. When you close your browser, all session cookies are automatically deleted. On the contrary, persistent cookies are cookies that remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie. We use both session and persistent cookies.
You can find more information about the specific cookies we register and the specific purposes for which we use them in the preferences window.
How to disable or delete cookies
You can configure your browser by modifying its options to prevent cookies from being accepted altogether or to prompt you before accepting any cookies from a website. If you do not accept the use of cookies, you may not be able to use all parts of the website.
You can also disable cookies on the website by modifying your settings here:
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