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Cookies policy

Valid as of May 25, 2018

1. Introduction

We use cookies in order to facilitate and improve your access to and browsing the website / , to obtain certain information about it, and to promote personalised advertisements. This policy ("Policy") explains how the site / (hereinafter the "Website") uses cookies, to provide you with clear and detailed information about the choices you have in controlling what happens when access the Website. This Policy is an integral and essential part of the Privacy Policy (/en/data-protection-policy and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 679/2016 ("GDPR”) and the relevant national and European laws and regulations on the protection of personal data. If you have any further questions, please contact us .

2. What is a Cookie?

Cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies (collectively ‘cookies’) are files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to any internet enabled device – such as your computer, smartphone or tablet – when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies do lots of different and useful jobs, such as remembering your preferences, generally improving your online experience, and helping us to offer you the best product and services.
There are many types of cookies. They all work in the same way, but have minor differences. For a detailed list of cookies used on our Website, please refer to the relevant section below.
The use of Cookies and similar technologies have long been common and are especially important for providing many electronic services. The use of such technologies is not prohibited by law, but requires users to be informed and be able to make them a choice about which cookies they consent to accept.

3. What purpose do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to make our Website easier to use, to deliver a personalised experience on our Website and to better tailor our products, services to your interests and needs. Cookies are used to help speed up your future activities and your experience on the Website.

We may also insert cookies in emails and newsletters to improve our content and advertising.
Lastly, we use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our Website and to help us improve their structure and content and also help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Website.
More detailed information about the types of cookies we use and for what purposes, can be found in the below relevant section.

4. Types of cookies

4.1. Duration: In terms of duration, we may use two different types of cookies on our websites:
4.1.1 Persistent Cookies. These cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you manually delete them (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or "lifetime” of the specific cookie, as well as your browser settings, as stated below). Persistent Cookies can be used for a variety of purposes, including saving preferences and user options when using the site. They remain stored in your terminal equipment until they reach their set expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that time;
4.1.2 Session Cookies. These cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our Website; They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as "remembering” what the user has put in the shopping cart during use of the Website.

4.2 First and third party Cookies
Whether a Cookie is "first-party" or "third party" is determined by the site or domain that places the Cookie. The first party Cookies are determined by a website visited by the user-the site displayed in the URL window: e.g. cookies set by Website / . In some cases, we may collaborate with third parties to provide services on our Website. Third party advertisers and other businesses may use their own Cookies to collect information about your activities on the Website and/or the advertisements you have chosen. This information can be used by them to provide advertisements that they believe can probably be of interest to you, based on the content you have visited. Third party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements.

5. Cookie Consent

Some Cookies are absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of the Website and do not require the consent of the user, such as those that ensure that the content of a page is loaded quickly and efficiently distributing the workload in many computers or computers that provide security. Other Cookies are still reasonably necessary or important, but are not absolutely necessary and therefore require the consent of the user. The user's consent is collected through different techniques.

• You can control the installation of cookies on our behalf, and choose which ones to use from the relevant dashboard. However please note that disabling tracking cookies does not necessarily mean that you will receive less advertising. It just means that the advertising you receive will not be tailored to your interests.
• You can set your browser setting to refuse to accept cookies as well as delete cookies already installed on your computer:
a. Internet Explorer - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies .
b. Firefox - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
c. Chrome - - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
d. Safari - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265.

Your consent to the use of the Cookies can be withdrawn at any time, but be advised that such withdrawal may have an impact on the functionality of the Website.

6. Cookies we use

Our Website uses the following types of Cookies:

Α. Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated in our systems. They are usually only determined in response to the actions you have made that are a request for services, such as setting privacy preferences, linking or filling in our forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you to these cookies, but that will result in some parts of the website not functioning. The necessary Cookies that we may use on our website are the following:
Name of Cookie Description Domain
Default status
rc::a This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. gstatic.com Yes
rc::c This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. gstatic.com Yes
rc::d-15# This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. gstatic.com Yes
rc::b This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. gstatic.com Yes
_grecaptcha This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. gstatic.com Yes
_GRECAPTCHA This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. www.google.com Yes
ASPSESSIONID# Preserves users states across page requests. www.optimalhrgroup.com Yes
CookieConsent Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain www.optimalhrgroup.com Yes

Β. Performance Cookies (Analytics).
Performance cookies, which are sometimes called analysis cookies, collect information concerning the use of the Website and allow us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on our website and allow us to see the overall models of use on the site, and to record any difficulties you encounter with the Website.
The performance Cookies that we may use on our website are as follows:
Name of Cookie Description Domain
Default status
_ga_#
Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
optimalhrgroup.com
No
_ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. optimalhrgroup.com No

C. Preference Cookies
We don't use preference Cookies.
 

D. Targeted or advertising Cookies.
We and our providers may use targeted or promotional Cookies to serve ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeted or promotional Cookies, so we limit the frequency you see the same advertisement on the Website and help us measure the effectiveness of advertising actions. These Cookies remember what you have looked on the Website and we may share this information with other organizations such as advertisers.
The targeted or promotional Cookies that we may use On the Website are as follows:
Name of Cookie Description Domain
Default status
rc::f   gstatic.com
No

7. Data Traffic and Storage Data

User’s data is not stored for more than 12 months, except in cases where there is a need to conduct investigation of cybercrimes which may result in damage of the Website. Such information will not be disclosed or distributed to unspecified recipients.

8. Privacy Policy Updates

Company may, at any time, revise this Policy by updating this posting. Please check the Date of Implementation of the Policy at the top of the Policy to see when it was last updated. The updated privacy policy will become effective as soon as it is published at the Website.

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