We are committed to protecting your personal data. Our website complies with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – 2016/679). By completing the website’s contact form, you accept these terms regarding the use of your personal data (name, email and/or telephone number) by our website.
Newsletter
We provide a newsletter service to inform our visitors, after they have filled in the relevant form with their email and/or name. In addition to confirming their registration, they receive an automated email to confirm their subscription to the Newsletter. There is an automatic unsubscribe option at the bottom of each Newsletter. We retain all copyrights for the content of the Newsletters.
Security
To ensure the security of your personal data, we use an SSL security certificate.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data that appears on the comment form and also the visitor’s IP address to help detect spam.
An anonymous string generated from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to Gravatar to see if you use it.The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public within your comment.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit that website. This way, the website remembers your actions and preferences (such as language, font size and other display preferences) for a period of time, so you don’t have to enter these preferences each time you visit the website. To ensure the proper functioning of the site, we place cookies on your computer, called “cookies”, like all organized websites. Our cookies do not store any personal data, nor do they cause any harm to your device.
Types of cookies
The main types of cookies that websites may use are described below.
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies
These remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser even after you close the browser, sometimes for a year or more (the exact retention period depends on the lifetime of each cookie).Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g. to remember your username or your preferences regarding website configuration).
First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed in your browser and/or on the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This involves assigning a unique identifier to you for the purpose of tracking your navigation on the website. Website operators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third party cookies.
Google Analytics
We use the Google Analytics statistics service to collect anonymous information that does not identify the visitor, to better understand the needs of visitors and this helps us to offer a better navigation experience to our visitors. Read more information about the Cookies used by the service.
Cookies Management
You can, through the settings in your web browser, manage the storage of cookies on your computer and the length of time they remain on your computer.
Security files
In order to control malicious activity and protect the site from specific attacks, the IP address of visitors, the user ID of logged-in users and the username of login attempts are conditionally logged. Examples of logging conditions occur between login attempts, logout requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 14 days.
Caching
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. All storage files are temporary. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
