Cookie

Policy

Last update: March 6th, 2019

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website.  This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve the website.

 

By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as set out by this policy.

 

Information about cookies

 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that, if you agree to their use, is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or device.  They contain information that is transferred to your hard drive.

 

The cookies that we could use can be split into the following categories:

 

Necessary cookies: these cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

 

Statistics cookies: these statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

 

Marketing cookies: these are used to third parties (such as Google) to enable their services to work, for example Google Captcha on forms or Google Maps. Some third parties use their cookies for advertising purposes. We have no control over these cookies and provide a link to the third party’s privacy policy, where you may have the option to opt-out of their data collection.

 

 

We use the following cookies:

 

 

Necessary (4)

 

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

 

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type

__cfduid tawk.to Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. 1 year HTTP Cookie

CookieConsent athimos.com Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year HTTP Cookie

PYPF paypalobjects.com This cookie is necessary for the PayPal login-function on the website. 27 days HTTP Cookie

TawkWindowName athimos.com Necessary for the functionality of the website's chat-box function. Session HTML Local Storage

 

 

Statistics (5)

 

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

 

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type

_ga athimos.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years HTTP Cookie

_gat athimos.com Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate 1 day HTTP Cookie

_gid athimos.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 day HTTP Cookie

TawkConnectionTime athimos.com Allows the website to recoqnise the visitor, in order to optimize the chat-box functionality. Session HTTP Cookie

tawkUUID va.tawk.to This cookie is used to collect information about how the visitor interacts with the live chat function on the website. 179 days HTTP Cookie

 

 

Marketing (8)

 

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

 

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type

_fbp athimos.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. 3 months HTTP Cookie

_gcl_au athimos.com Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 3 months HTTP Cookie

fr facebook.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. 3 months HTTP Cookie

IDE doubleclick.net Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. 1 year HTTP Cookie

NID google.com Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. 6 months HTTP Cookie

pagead/1p-user-list/# google.com Unclassified Session Pixel Tracker

test_cookie doubleclick.net Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 day HTTP Cookie

tr facebook.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. Session Pixel Tracker

 

 

 

CATEGORY COOKIE NAME PURPOSE

 

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

 

How you can block cookies

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. However, you have the ability to disable cookies if you wish, generally by changing your internet software browsing settings.

 

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 

Cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. We recommend that, for the highest functionality of our website, you accept the default configuration of your web browser.