Updated January 20, 2023
Cookie Policy
Introduction
The website scienceagora.eu uses cookies to facilitate its users and to ensure the optimal operation of the website. Although the cookies we use are solely for the smooth functioning of the website and are not used for tracing or marketing, we encourage you to take some time to learn more about them, so that you feel completely secure and safe during your navigation on our website.
Cookies in general
Cookies are small pieces of code generated by a website and stored by the browser. Their purpose is to retain specific information about the user on a case-by-case basis, similar to a preference file created by a software application, allowing websites to operate smoothly and without technical anomalies.
Through cookies, multiple user choices are collected, frequent users can be recognized and user access can be facilitated, while data may be collected to improve the content of the website.
From a functional perspective, cookies allow websites to retain elements and information about each user's interaction with the website, so they do not continually treat them as new users, retaining their preferences to facilitate the quick and comfortable use of websites.
Generally, there are essential cookies, which allow the execution of basic website functions, without which the smooth operation is directly affected and the user's browsing experience is limited, functionality cookies, which remember user preferences during browsing a website, performance cookies, which collect information about how visitors use a website, without collecting information that identifies the visitor and are primarily used to improve the operation of websites and analytics cookies, which are a subset of functionality cookies and allow the evaluation of the effectiveness of the various functions of a website.
Furthermore, cookies are divided into session and persistent, first-party and third-party.
Individuals under the age of 18
If you are under the age of eighteen do not engage in any direct or indirect interaction with us through the website, as we cannot collect and use your personal data.
Who we are
SCIENCE AGORA – Innovation to Society is a consortium of 5 top scientific institutions aiming to create a Central Technology Transfer Hub, one of the largest integrated ecosystems for exploiting scientific research in Europe.
A hub of five institutions (NCSR Democritus Research Center, ACEin - Athens University of Economics and Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, National Technical University of Athens, ATHENA Research Center and Research University Institute of Communication & Computer Systems) with the goal of mutually enhancing technology transfer and business acceleration activities within the individual bodies. Science Agora processes your personal data, owns and manages the website scienceagora.eu and is solely responsible for its correct and secure operation and for taking the necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, as it defines the way of collecting and processing your personal data, as the data controller.
The bodies of Science Agora act as joint Data Controllers, defining the purposes and means of processing your personal data.
* Below you will find more information about the exact reasons why your data is collected and processed each time.
Session cookies are temporary cookie files that are deleted when the browser program is closed. When the user restarts your browser program, the website does not recognize him and creates a new session cookie, which stores browsing information and remains active until the user leaves the website and/or closes the browser program.
Persistent cookies remain in one of the subfolders of your browser until they are deleted manually or the browser deletes them based on the duration period contained in the persistent cookie's file.
First-party cookies originate from or are sent to the website that the user is visiting at that moment and are typically used to store information, such as user preferences during a visit to that website.
Third-party cookies originate from or are sent by a website different from the one the user is currently on, for advertising or other marketing purposes.
You can find more information about cookies at https://www.aboutcookies.org/
Our website's cookies
The website scienceagora.eu is based on WordPress and follows the platform's specifications for necessary cookies, without which the website would not be functional.
Specifically, the first-party, session cookies used by our website are temporarily stored in your computer's memory, do not access any document or file from your computer and are used solely to facilitate your access to the website and to ensure its smooth and uninterrupted operation. They exclusively collect data regarding your interaction with the website and are deleted as soon as you deactivate your browser.
Cookies concerning the language preference you will choose to use the website are functional and allow the website to remember in which language you prefer to navigate the website. If you do not delete them yourself, they will be automatically deleted after a year.
If you use the contact form, an hph id cookie is created for better and easier use of the service. This stores the details you have entered in the contact form (name, contact details, message title). Please note that these details are stored in your own browser.
The website does not use cookies for any other statistical or advertising purpose and does not collect any other information through them. You can delete your cookies at any time. During your next visit to the website, new ones will be created as necessary for the website's operation.
For the data and information collected by the necessary and functional cookies used by our website, the same high levels of security and protection as set by our privacy statement apply.
This Cookies Policy may be modified at any time. For this reason, we consider it advisable to regularly refer to this Policy. It took effect on January 20, 2023. In case of modification, the date on which this took place will be mentioned. The Cookies Policy is always considered valid as formed by the most recent modification.
Cookies on our website
The scienceagora.eu website is based on Word Press, and follows the platform's specifications for necessary cookies, without which the website would not be functional.
Specifically, the first-party, session cookies used by our website are temporarily stored in your computer's memory, do not access any document or file from your computer and are used solely to facilitate your access to the website and to ensure its smooth and uninterrupted operation. They exclusively collect data regarding your interaction with the website and are deleted as soon as you deactivate your browser.
Cookies concerning the language preference you will choose to use the website are functional and allow the website to remember in which language you prefer to navigate the website. If you do not delete them yourself, they will be automatically deleted after a year.
If you use the contact form, an hph id cookie is created for better and easier use of the service. This stores the details you have entered in the contact form (name, contact details, message title). Please note that these details are stored in your own browser.
The website does not use cookies for any other statistical or advertising purpose and does not collect any other information through them. You can delete your cookies at any time. During your next visit to the website, new ones will be created as necessary for the website's operation.
For the data and information collected by the necessary and functional cookies used by our website, the same high levels of security and protection as set by our privacy statement apply.
This Cookies Policy may be modified at any time. For this reason, we consider it advisable to regularly refer to this Policy. It took effect on January 20, 2023. In case of modification, the date on which this took place will be mentioned. The Cookies Policy is always considered valid as formed by the most recent modification.
