Last updated: 22 July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Greek Edition uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit greekedition.com.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how personal data is collected, used and protected.
1. Who We Are
The website is operated by:
Legal name: ARAPOGLOU MARIA IOA
Trading name: MYCREATIVE
Website: greekedition.com
Business address: Neo Rysio, Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: hello@greekedition.com
For questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on the website, contact:
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognise a device, remember preferences, maintain essential functions, understand how visitors use the website and, where applicable, provide advertising.
Cookies may contain information such as:
- A unique identifier
- The website that placed the cookie
- The date the cookie expires
- Your consent preferences
- Technical information about your browser or device
- Information about your interactions with the website
Cookies do not necessarily identify you directly by name. However, some cookie identifiers and related technical information may constitute personal data when they can be associated with a particular user or device.
3. Similar Technologies
In addition to traditional cookies, the website or its service providers may use similar technologies, including:
- Local storage
- Session storage
- Tracking pixels
- Web beacons
- Tags
- Scripts
- Software development kits
- Device identifiers
In this Cookie Policy, the term cookies also includes these similar technologies where appropriate.
4. Types of Cookies
Cookies can be classified according to who places them, how long they remain active and what they are used for.
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by greekedition.com.
They may be used to operate the website, remember your preferences, manage contact forms, maintain security or record your cookie choices.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are placed by an external service used on the website.
These may include analytics providers, advertising networks, embedded-video platforms, mapping services, social-media services or other external tools.
Third-party providers determine how their cookies operate in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.
Session cookies
Session cookies are temporary and are normally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
5. Cookie Categories Used on the Website
The cookies used on The Greek Edition may fall into the following categories.
5.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to function securely and correctly.
They may be used to:
- Display and operate the website
- Remember your cookie-consent choices
- Protect forms from spam or automated abuse
- Maintain website security
- Balance website traffic
- Support administrative login functions
- Prevent fraudulent or malicious activity
These cookies cannot usually be disabled through the website’s cookie settings because the service could not function properly without them.
Under applicable European rules, cookies that are technically necessary to provide a service requested by the user generally do not require prior consent.
Disabling necessary cookies through your browser may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.
5.2 Preference and Functionality Cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember choices you make.
They may remember:
- Language preferences
- Display settings
- Cookie choices
- Previously selected options
- Accessibility preferences
These cookies are intended to provide a more convenient and personalised browsing experience.
Where such cookies are not strictly necessary, they will only be used after you have provided consent.
5.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may collect information about:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Referral sources
- Approximate geographic region
- Browser and device type
- Clicks and website interactions
- Technical errors
- Website speed and performance
This information may be used to:
- Measure website traffic
- Understand which articles are useful
- Improve website navigation
- Identify technical problems
- Improve content and performance
Analytics cookies will only be activated after you have provided consent through the cookie banner, where consent is legally required. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority also treats audience-measurement cookies as optional and consent-based.
The website may use services such as Google Analytics in the future. Where such a service is enabled, this policy and the cookie table should be updated to identify the service and the specific cookies it uses.
5.4 Advertising and Targeting Cookies
The Greek Edition may display advertising through services such as Google AdSense or other advertising networks.
Advertising cookies may be used to:
- Deliver advertisements
- Measure advertising performance
- Prevent advertising fraud
- Limit how frequently an advertisement is shown
- Create aggregated advertising reports
- Understand whether an advertisement was viewed or selected
- Personalise advertisements, where you have consented
- Select non-personalised advertisements based on limited contextual information
These cookies may track activity across different websites and devices.
Advertising and targeting cookies will not be activated before consent where prior consent is required.
When Google AdSense is used for visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, Google requires publishers to use a certified Consent Management Platform integrated with the applicable consent framework.
5.5 Embedded Content Cookies
Articles may contain embedded content provided by third parties, including:
- YouTube videos
- Google Maps
- Social-media posts
- Travel maps
- Booking widgets
- Review widgets
- Image galleries
- Other interactive services
Embedded content may behave as though you had visited the third party’s website directly.
The third-party provider may collect:
- Your IP address
- Browser and device details
- Information about your interaction with the content
- Cookie identifiers
- Information about whether you are logged in to its service
Where required, embedded content that uses non-essential cookies should remain blocked until you provide consent.
6. Cookies That May Be Used
The exact cookies present on the website depend on the active WordPress theme, plugins, analytics configuration, advertising services, embedded content and consent-management system.
The following table should be updated after a full cookie scan of the live website.
| Cookie or service | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie-consent preference | The Greek Edition or the consent provider | Records whether cookies were accepted, rejected or customised | Necessary | Depends on configuration |
| WordPress session or login cookies | WordPress | Supports website administration and secure login functions | Necessary | Session or limited period |
| Form security cookies | The Greek Edition or form provider | Helps prevent spam and automated submissions | Necessary | Session or limited period |
| Analytics cookies | Analytics provider, if enabled | Measures website traffic and visitor interactions | Analytics | Depends on provider |
| Advertising cookies | Google or another advertising provider, if enabled | Delivers and measures advertisements | Advertising | Depends on provider |
| Embedded-content cookies | Relevant third party | Enables videos, maps, social posts or external widgets | Functionality or advertising | Depends on provider |
This table must not be treated as a final technical inventory. The live site should be scanned after all plugins, analytics, advertising tools and embedded services are configured.
7. Consent and Legal Basis
Strictly necessary cookies are used because they are required to provide the website and requested functionality.
For optional cookies, including analytics, advertising and non-essential third-party cookies, the legal basis is normally your consent.
Optional cookies should not be placed when you first open the website. They should only be activated after you make an affirmative choice through the cookie banner.
Consent must be:
- Freely given
- Specific
- Informed
- Unambiguous
- Capable of being withdrawn
You are not required to accept optional cookies in order to access the main editorial content of the website.
8. Cookie Banner and Consent Choices
When you first visit The Greek Edition, you may be shown a cookie banner allowing you to:
- Accept all optional cookies
- Reject all optional cookies
- Choose individual cookie categories
- Review further information
The option to reject optional cookies should be as easy to access as the option to accept them.
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority has stated that accept and reject choices should be available at the same level and should not use design choices that improperly encourage acceptance.
Your choice may be stored in a necessary cookie so the website can remember it.
9. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time.
You can do this by selecting the permanent:
Cookie Settings
link or button available in the website footer or cookie interface.
When you withdraw consent:
- Optional cookies should no longer be activated
- The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn
- Some previously stored cookies may remain on your device until they expire or are deleted
- You may need to remove existing cookies through your browser settings
10. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Allow cookies only for selected websites
- Delete cookies when the browser closes
Browser instructions vary depending on the device and software you use.
Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality. For example, cookie preferences, forms or embedded features may not work correctly.
Deleting your browser history may also remove stored cookie choices and other saved information.
11. Google Analytics
The Greek Edition may use Google Analytics to measure traffic and website performance.
Where enabled, Google Analytics may process information such as:
- IP-related information
- Browser and device characteristics
- Pages viewed
- Referral source
- Session information
- Interaction events
- Approximate location
Google Analytics should remain blocked until you accept analytics cookies, where consent is required.
The cookie table will be updated with the exact Google Analytics cookies and retention periods once the service is active and configured.
12. Google AdSense
The Greek Edition may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Deliver advertisements
- Measure advertisement performance
- Detect fraudulent traffic
- Limit advertisement frequency
- Select personalised advertisements where consent is provided
- Select non-personalised or contextual advertisements
Rejecting advertising cookies does not necessarily mean that no advertisements will be displayed. It may mean that advertisements are less personalised or are selected using more limited contextual information.
Where required, advertising cookies and personalised advertising will remain disabled until valid consent has been provided.
13. Consent Management Platform
The website may use a Consent Management Platform, or CMP, to:
- Display the cookie banner
- Obtain consent
- Record consent preferences
- Communicate choices to third-party services
- Prevent optional scripts from loading before consent
- Allow consent to be changed or withdrawn
If Google AdSense is introduced, the selected CMP should be certified for Google’s advertising requirements in the relevant regions.
14. International Data Transfers
Some third-party providers may process information outside Greece or outside the European Economic Area.
This may apply to providers of:
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Content delivery
- Security
- Videos
- Maps
- Consent management
- Website infrastructure
Where personal data is transferred internationally, the relevant provider should use an appropriate legal transfer mechanism, such as:
- An adequacy decision
- Standard Contractual Clauses
- Supplementary safeguards
- Another legally recognised mechanism
Further information may be available in the privacy policies of the relevant third-party providers.
15. Third-Party Websites
The Greek Edition contains links to external websites, including travel companies, hotels, restaurants, attractions, tourism organisations, booking platforms and public authorities.
External websites may place their own cookies when you visit them.
The Greek Edition does not control cookies placed directly by external websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices.
You should review the cookie and privacy policies of those websites separately.
16. Updates to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated when:
- New plugins or website functions are added
- Analytics tools are introduced or changed
- Advertising services are activated
- Embedded services are added
- The consent-management platform changes
- Legal or regulatory requirements change
- The actual cookies detected on the website change
The most recent version will always be published on this page.
17. Contact
For questions about cookies or privacy on The Greek Edition, contact:
ARAPOGLOU MARIA IOA
Trading as MYCREATIVE
Neo Rysio, Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: hello@greekedition.com
Website: greekedition.com
