What are Cookies and what are they used for?

It's not something edible 🍪 , not even aromatic and you can't consume them in excess, but they have other advantages. In our case cookie we can define it as a small file, consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the device from which the site is accessed. A cookie contains information that makes the connection between the user and the website accessed. If a user accesses that site again, he can read the information already stored and react accordingly. Cookies ensure a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many sites to provide comfortable services to users: for example - online privacy preferences, site language options, shopping carts or relevant advertising.

We use the following types of cookies:
Essential cookies - these cookies allow both the saving of preferences regarding the other types of cookies used, as well as the access to the basic functionalities of our website. They remember your preferences so that there is no need to set them on a subsequent visit to the site

Performance cookies - they include both cookies from traffic analysis services, as well as cookies placed by certain third-party services that offer complementary functionalities to the site.

Traffic analysis cookies allow the identification of traffic sources and provide information on how users interact with the site. The information given is collected in an aggregated and completely anonymous way. These cookies may come from third parties such as Web Analytics services (Ex: Google Analytics).

Social media and advertising cookies - These can be placed through the website by the social media or advertising services we use. This type of cookies can be used by these services to determine a certain profile of visitors and to show you relevant advertising messages on other sites you visit. They can come from third parties such as advertising services (Ex: AdSense, AdWords), social media platforms (Ex: Facebook), etc.

How you can stop Cookies
Disabling cookies may result in inefficient operation of the site for the user. Deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising - but only that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior. However, it is possible to configure the browser so that these cookies are no longer accepted or you can configure the browser to accept cookies only from a specific site.
All browsers offer the possibility to configure cookie storage preferences. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. To understand these settings, you can use the "help" option of the browser for more details.