Cookies Policy
Cookies we set today
We set exactly one cookie, and it is there to remember your language.
| Name | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
NEXT_LOCALE |
Remembers whether you chose English or Greek, so the site opens in your language next time. First-party, functional — not analytics. Set by the site's middleware. SameSite=Lax. |
1 year |
For analytics, we set no cookie at all.
Umami analytics — cookieless
We use Umami to understand which pages people find useful. Umami deliberately does not set any cookie. Instead of following an individual visitor over time, it counts visits using a hashed identifier computed on the server from things like the request's IP address and browser — the IP is used only to form that hash and is then discarded, never stored. The salt behind the hash is rotated on a regular cycle — monthly for the visitor count, hourly for the session — so the identifier is deliberately short-lived: no one is followed over time, and nothing is tied back to you personally. The figures we see are aggregated counts, not profiles. You can read how this works in Umami's privacy notice.
The Umami script also reads — but never writes for tracking — a single browser-storage flag named umami.disabled. It exists only so you can switch analytics off for your own browser. It is not a cookie, not an identifier, and it never leaves your device. No other information is stored on or read from your device for analytics.
Why there is no consent banner
A single first-party functional cookie, combined with cookieless analytics that stores no tracking identifier on your device, does not require a consent banner. This follows the "strictly necessary" carve-out in Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, together with current guidance from the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and the European Data Protection Board. The opt-out flag described above is set only at your own initiative, so it falls within the same carve-out.
If we ever introduce a non-essential cookie, a consent banner will appear before it is set — not before.
Managing cookies in your browser
You can clear the NEXT_LOCALE cookie at any time through your browser's site-data settings. If you do, the site will simply ask you to choose a language again. We do not auto-redirect based on your browser's language; the language toggle is the only way your choice is made.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. Material changes are reflected in the version number and effective date shown at the top of this page, on the same basis as our Privacy Policy.