Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies.

“Archipelago” abides by a strict policy to protect the privacy of the visitors of archipelago-sifnos.gr website. This notice provides further information on how we use “cookies” and other automated tools to collect specific information about the visitors of our website, such as turnout, through any kind of browser and device used. By collecting this information, we learn how to adjust our website and our advertisements better to the preferences of our visitors.

Cookies and Other Automated Tools to Collect Data

Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored in any of your devices through any kind of server, whenever you visit a website. We may use cookies for example to know whether you have visited our website in the past or whether you are a new visitor, or to help us detect the features of our website you are most interested in. Cookies can improve your navigation experience by saving your preferences when you visit a certain website.

Web Beacons

ΤWeb beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs) are usually clear images of graphics uploaded on a website. The Web beacons are used together with the cookies to keep track of visitors’ activity on the websites.

IP and URLs addresses

The IP address is a unique locator used by certain electronic devices allowing them to be detected and to communicate with other devices on the Internet. When you visit our web pages, we can see the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to track the general geographic location of your device and to know which geographic area our visitors come from. We may use this information to change the layout of our website with a view to improve your experience. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique identifier or an address to locate a resource on the Internet, effectively the web address you visit. We may use this information to see which web pages are most visited, as well as the way you navigate in our website.

What kind of cookies we use?

Our website uses the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the proper function of the website; they allow you to navigate and use its functionalities, such as access secure areas, registration forms, preferences and shopping carts, or are there for security reasons. These cookies do not track your ID. Without these cookies, our website cannot operate efficiently.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about the way visitors use the website, which pages they visit most and if they receive errors messages from the web pages. These cookies collect comprehensive, anonymous information that are not linked to any visitors. They are used exclusively to improve the performance of a website and they allow us to collect information about your use of our website, including the content you choose when you navigate in our webpages, in order to measure the efficiency of the website and users’ interaction therewith, as well as to improve our website over time. These cookies may be provided to us by third parties/providers of analytics tools, but may only be used for purposes that are related to our website.

E.g.: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs.

Targeted/Advertisement Cookies

These cookies are used to provide you with content that is better suited to your interests. They may be used to send targeted advertisements/promotions, limit ads or measure the effectiveness of an ad campaign. These cookies may be used to remember the websites you have visited and thus help us understand which marketing channels are the most effective ones. This will in turn allow us reward outside websites and associates that have forwarded you to us.

How to Deactivate Cookies

If you wish to activate or deactivate the use of cookies in the settings of your browser, please go to the following webpages to learn what you have to do depending on the browser you use.

Internet Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

Firefox http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

Chrome http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042

Safari for iPad and iPhone http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677

Cookie Policy last updated: September 2022