Cookie Policy

This policy describes cookies and related browser storage used by kotopoulakaterini.gr. It supplements the Privacy Policy.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small files stored in your browser. Local storage (localStorage) is a separate storage mechanism on the same device. We use these to remember your choices and apply them across open tabs. Optional services are treated separately from this necessary functionality.

2. Necessary first-party storage

• stefanou_cc_consent: a first-party cookie set by kotopoulakaterini.gr. It stores allowed categories, the policy version and the time of your choice. It contains no name or email and is not an advertising identifier. Lifetime: 180 days after a choice is saved. It is created when you save a choice, including rejection of optional services.
• stefanou_cc_sync: a first-party localStorage entry. It contains a timestamp and random change marker so other tabs can detect updated preferences. It is not a browsing-history record. It has no automatic expiry; it is overwritten on the next change or removed when you clear site data.

The page URL determines the language, without a separate language cookie. The consent mechanism does not create a separate visitor database or IP log for your choices. This does not exclude hosting technical logs described in the Privacy Policy.

3. Optional external content: Google Maps

Google Maps load only after you allow “External content” or select the map’s consent button. Allowing a map does not itself enable analytics or advertising services.

When a map loads, Google may read or set its own cookies and receives technical connection data. Specific cookie names and lifetimes depend on the service, browser settings and whether you are signed in to Google. They are not controlled by our business. See Google’s current cookie information and privacy policy.

You can read our address or call us without enabling the map. Following an external directions link takes you directly to the mapping service, where its own terms apply.

4. Analytics and advertising

If the relevant trackers are activated, this website may use cookies and similar technologies from Google and/or Meta. Google Analytics may be used to measure visits and interactions, while Google Ads and Meta Pixel may be used to measure advertising campaigns and contact actions, such as clicks on a telephone link.

Activation by the business alone does not cause these services to load in your browser: your prior consent is required in the “Analytics” category for Google Analytics or the “Marketing” category for Google Ads and Meta Pixel. You can refuse or withdraw that consent through cookie preferences. This notice is not itself consent.

As of this policy’s update date, no Google Analytics, Google Ads or Meta Pixel identifiers are configured, so these services do not load. Accepting a category does not enable an unconfigured service. Before a new tracker is activated, this policy must be updated with its specific cookies, purposes and lifetimes, and fresh consent must be requested for the relevant processing. Further information is available in the cookie policies of Google and Meta.

5. Administrator login and comments

The WordPress administration area uses additional authentication and security cookies, such as wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_logged_in_* and wordpress_sec_*, plus wp-settings-* for administration preferences. These concern visits to the login area or authorised signed-in users, not ordinary browsing of the business pages. Lifetimes vary with the session and the option to remain signed in.

Where a comment form is available, choosing to remember your details may create comment_author_*, comment_author_email_* and comment_author_url_* cookies for one year, only if you select that option. You can withdraw this choice by deleting those cookies through your browser. Map-consent preferences do not control authentication cookies or the separate comment-detail choice.

6. Changing or withdrawing choices

The initial notice lets you accept all optional categories, reject them or save individual choices. To change or withdraw consent, open preferences from the footer or the button below. Rejection retains only necessary preference storage.

Preferences

Withdrawing an optional category stops the website from loading the corresponding services again. External-content withdrawal removes maps; withdrawing analytics or marketing consent disables the corresponding tracking, if configured, and attempts to delete known first-party tracking cookies. It cannot undo data already sent or delete third-party cookies that your browser does not allow our website to manage. Use your browser’s privacy settings and those of the relevant provider, such as Google or Meta, for those.

You can also delete cookies and localStorage in your browser settings. The website will then ask for your choices again. If preference storage is unavailable or JavaScript is disabled, embedded maps remain inactive.

7. Contact and updates

For questions, use the contact details at the beginning of this page. The update date relates to this description of the installation. New services or changed purposes require an updated policy and, where applicable, a new consent choice.