DESFA (“Company” or “We”) follows a strict privacy policy to protect the privacy of the users of its website https://www.desfa.gr/ (“Website”). Company’s priority is to provide you with more information about the cookie types and how it uses them each time you visit our Website. This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) supplements our Data Protection Policy.
What are electronic cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the device you use through your browser each time you visit our Website. They are widely used for the function of websites, as well as to provide information to the website’s owners. Depending on their expiration dates, cookies are either “session” or “persistent”. In particular, session cookies are automatically erased whenever you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored until their expiration date, unless they are deleted by you prior to that date.
Does our Company use cookies?
Yes, cookies help us to improve the performance of our website according to our users’ needs, make it more user friendly and ensure enhanced user experience.
Cookies do not give access to information beyond what you agree – as described below – to share with us. Our Company does not engage in any sale or trading of your personal data collected in this way.
What kind of cookies do we use?
When you access and start browsing our Website, our Company uses “session cookies” for the following purposes:
- To store technical data that is necessary for “reading” visual or audio content, also known as flash cookies.
- To distribute the processing of server requests among a group of servers.
These cookies are absolutely necessary for the operation and basic function of our Website, and are therefore a necessary condition in order to navigate the website and use its features. With session cookies we can guarantee the efficient operation of the website or predict how our website will behave during your visit. According to applicable law, we can store this kind of cookies at your device without obtaining your prior consent, since they are necessary for the function of the website.
Also, at the point of your first access and during your browsing at our Website our Company — apart from the cookies that are strictly necessary for the website’s operation — also uses the following cookies:
- Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the provision of enhanced functionality and personalization, such as videos and live chat.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies provide us with data regarding website’s performance (such as the calculation of the visits and the source of the visitors. Their sole purpose is to improve our website’s functions.
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies provide us with data in order to create profiles or personalize content which suits your preferences and interests. They can, for example, be used to send targeted advertising or measure an advertising campaign’s effectiveness. These cookies may present privacy risk to the website’s visitors.
More specifically:
| Host | Cookie Name | Details |
| elearning.desfa.gr | MoodleSession | Description: This cookie is used to maintain the login session for the user in Moodle, an open-source learning platform. It ensures continuity and the persistent state of the user session when navigating the site. |
| Retention: Session | ||
| Cookie Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| scd2wsapp.desfa.gr | csrftoken | Description: This cookie is associated with the Django web development platform for Python. It is designed to help protect a site against at particular type of software attack on web forms. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookie Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| desfa.gr | OptanonConsent | Description: This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookie Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| desfa.gr | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Description: This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookie Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| Performance Cookies | ||
| Host | Cookie Name | Details |
| desfa | _gid | Description: This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics to store and measure page views. |
| Retention: a few seconds | ||
| Cookies Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| desfa | _ga | Description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookies Type: First Party – Persistent | ||
| Functional Cookies | ||
| Host | Cookie Name | Details |
| Microsoft | ARRAffinitySameSite | Description: This domain is owned by Microsoft and is associated with Power BI, a suite of business analytics tools for analyzing data and sharing insights. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party – Persistent | ||
| Microsoft | WFESessionId | Description: This domain is owned by Microsoft and is associated with Power BI, a suite of business analytics tools for analyzing data and sharing insights. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party – Persistent | ||
| Microsoft | ARRAffinity | Description: This domain is owned by Microsoft and is associated with Power BI, a suite of business analytics tools for analyzing data and sharing insights. |
| Retention: 1 year | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party – Persistent | ||
| Targeting Cookies | ||
| Host | Όνομα Cookie | Details |
| Youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Description: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| Retention: 5 months | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party | ||
| Youtube.com | __Secure-xxxxxxx | Description: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| Retention: 5 months | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party | ||
| Youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Description: This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
| Retention: 5 months | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party | ||
| Youtube.com | YSC | Description: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| Retention: session | ||
| Cookies Type: Third Party | ||
As regards performance and targeting/advertising cookies, DESFA needs your prior consent (see below).
We do not use the following cookies:
- Statistics Cookies: These cookies allow the provision of statistical data regarding how you use our Website, such as which pages you visited, and which links you clicked on. This information cannot be used to identify you, since it is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized.
- Social Media Cookies: These cookies allow the connection of the website to a third-party social media platform. These cookies retain your details after your sign-in to a social media account from the website.
How do you give your consent to the present Cookie Policy?
By entering our Website, you acknowledge the current notice about our use of cookies, which is easily found at the home page of our Website, and you are presented with your choices via an appropriate cookie banner and cookie settings.
If you do not wish to store the above persistent cookies of our Website, you are given the option to disable them (by clicking “Reject All”). In case you decide to opt for our cookies by either choosing your preferences through the relevant “Cookie Settings” or by clicking “Accept All”, you freely give your explicit and specific consent to their use during your browsing.
You are always free to change your preferences regarding cookies by clicking on Cookie Settings.
How can you deactivate cookies?
You can delete or disable our cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Please note that by deleting or disabling our cookies, your user experience may be affected, and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions and the complete user experience of our Website.
We reserve the right to change this Cookie Policy at any time. DESFA urges you to check it regularly.
For any further detail or request regarding this Cookie Policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) via the following email dpo@desfa.gr