Cookie Policy
Last updated: 24/07/2026
Contents
1. What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, and which the browser sends back on later visits. Similar technologies — local storage, session storage, pixels — do much the same job, and everything said here applies to them too.
Cookies are not inherently sinister: one of them is how this site remembers that you told us not to set any others. The distinction that matters is between storage the site cannot work without, and storage that exists for our benefit.
2. The rules we follow
Storing or reading anything on your device is governed in Greece by Article 4(5) of Law 3471/2006, which implements the ePrivacy Directive, read together with the GDPR. In practice that means:
- We may set strictly necessary cookies without asking, because without them the service you asked for cannot be delivered.
- Everything else needs your prior, informed, freely given consent — so nothing non-essential is set when you first arrive, and nothing is set at all if you refuse.
- Refusing must be as easy as agreeing. That is why our banner puts “Reject all” beside “Accept all”, in the same size and the same colours, and why there is no pre-ticked box anywhere in it.
- Continuing to scroll or browse is not consent, and neither is closing the banner. Nothing is set until you actually choose.
- You can withdraw at any time, as easily as you gave it.
3. The categories we use
Strictly necessary — always on
Needed for the site to function: remembering your cookie choice, protecting the enquiry form against automated abuse, and keeping our own staff signed in to the administration area. These cannot be switched off, because switching them off would break the thing you came for.
Analytics — off unless you turn them on
Would tell us which pages and projects people actually look at, so we can improve the site. We do not currently use any. The category exists so that if we ever add measurement, it starts switched off and waits for your permission.
Marketing — off unless you turn them on
Would let us measure advertising or show you relevant content on other sites. We do not currently use any, and have no plans to.
4. Every cookie on this site
This is the complete list as at the date above.
| Name | Category | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
s25_consent |
Strictly necessary | Records which categories you allowed, so we can honour it and stop asking | 6 months |
wordpress_logged_in_* |
Strictly necessary | Keeps a signed-in member of staff signed in. Never set for ordinary visitors | Session, or 14 days if “remember me” is used |
wordpress_sec_* |
Strictly necessary | Authenticates staff inside the administration area over HTTPS | Session, or 14 days |
wp-settings-*, wp-settings-time-* |
Strictly necessary | Remembers a staff member’s administration screen preferences. Never set for ordinary visitors | 1 year |
If you are simply reading the site and have not agreed to anything, exactly one cookie is stored: s25_consent, holding your choice. Refusing does not leave you with a worse website — nothing on it depends on the categories you can turn off.
5. Third parties
No third party sets cookies through this site. There are no advertising networks, no social media buttons that phone home, and no embedded players.
Two choices worth naming, because they are the usual culprits elsewhere:
- Fonts are served from our own server, not from a font network. Loading a webfont from a third party would disclose your IP address to that company on every page view; we avoid that entirely.
- The map on our Contact page is a static image, not an embedded map service, so nothing is requested from a mapping provider when you view it.
If we ever add a third-party service, it will appear in the table above and in the appropriate category, and it will not load until you allow it.
6. Changing your mind
Use Cookie settings — in the footer of every page, and here in this sentence — to review or change what you have allowed. Changes take effect immediately.
We ask again every six months regardless, and whenever this policy changes materially, so that a decision you made long ago is not treated as permanent agreement.
7. Controlling cookies in your browser
Your browser can block or delete cookies independently of anything we offer. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site working — including, ironically, its ability to remember that you do not want cookies.
8. Changes to this policy
When we add, remove or change a cookie, we update this page and the date at the top. If the change affects a category you consented to, the banner reappears and asks again.
For how we handle personal data generally, see our Privacy Policy.