Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY

 

At rossirentacar.gr, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use your personal data. For this reason, this cookie policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on our website.

We use cookies to ensure everyone who uses our website has the best possible experience. Cookies also help us keep your data safe. By continuing to visit or use our website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies for the purposes we describe herein.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is sent to and stored on your device (mobile phone, computer or tablet) when you first visit our website or its web pages. Some of the cookies are necessary to enable you to use the site’s full functionality, while others are used in order to improve your user experience and facilitate navigation on the site.

Types of cookies

There are certain types of cookies:

  1. Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

2. Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

  1. Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third party service providers may set their own cookies on your device. Please check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.

What kind of cookies do we use?

First Party Cookies

Name
First Party Typology Description
PHPSESSID rossirentacar.gr session To store the logged in user’s username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a website without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access.

Third Party Cookies

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP Cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website.

Name
Third Parts Typology Description
__utma .google.com 2 years Used to distinguish users and sessions -Google Analytics-Performance cookie
_utmz .google.com 6 months from set/update Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
1P_JAR .google.com 30 days The data are anonymous. Google Analytics.
_ga Google.com 2 years Stores the user’s ID
OTZ .google.com 1 week This is a function cookie. It stores the user’s preferences i.e. language, username, location etc
NID .google.com 6 months This cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language.
OGP .google.com 30 days These cookies are used by Google to track usage of and enable their Google Maps functionality.
AID .google.com 18   months This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. Advertising Cookie
SAPISID .google.com Up to 2 years Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.
HSID .google.com 2 years This cookie contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent s ign-in time.

The cookies are also set by the Google+ tool; they enable integration of the Google+ plug-in within our web site.

 
PAIDCONTENT www.google.com 1 week Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.
ΑPISID .google.com 2 years Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.
CONSENT .google.com 20 years Google Analytics Remarketing Cookie
DV .google.com session Google Analytics Remarketing Cookie
SIDCC .google.com 3 months Security cookie to protect users data from unauthorised access
SID .google.com 2 years This cookie contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time.

The cookies are also set by the Google+ tool; they enable integration of the Google+ plug-in within our web site.

 
CGIC .google.com 6 months Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.
SNID .google.com 6 months Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.
SSID .google.com 2 years Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.

 

You can find more about third-party cookies here

Controlling cookies

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings.

Turning off and deleting cookies

All web browsers allow you to limit cookie behavior or turn off cookies within the settings or options of the browser. The steps to do this are different for each browser, you can find instructions under the Help menu of your browser.

Through your browser you can also view the cookies that are on your computer, and delete individual ones, or purge them all.

Cookies are just text files so you can open them and read the contents. The data within them is often encrypted, or a numerical key corresponding to a web session so they often don’t make sense to anything other than the website that wrote it.

If you use different devices to view and access our Website (e.g. your computer, Smartphone, tablet etc) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

Disabling cookies will also affect the monitoring of your progress through the site, but will not stop the analytics code from recognising your visit.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.

Other helpful resources

Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information.

For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

Our policies and procedures at www.hoteltransfers.com.gr are under continual review. We may, from time to time, update our cookies policy. Any such changes will be posted on this page.

Contact:

If you would like to get in touch with us, please contact:

 

ROSSI RENT A CAR

www.rossirentacar.gr

Address: Nea Marina, Skala, Patmos island, P.C. 85500

Email: info@rossirentacar.gr

Telephone: +30 22470-34343