Cookie Policy

EG COLLECTION COOKIE POLICY
Version 0.0.1
12/10/2022

The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to inform you regarding which cookies are used on our Website and their purposes as well as how you can set your cookie preferences on the Website.

What are cookies and why do we use them?

Cookies are small text files that are sent by a website to user’s device (computer or phone or other devices connected to the internet), and which are then stored in the main storage. Cookies allow a website to remember user’s device and store information about their preferences.

Some cookies are strictly necessary cookies for operation of a website. As our Website is an e-commerce website, we are obliged to use certain cookies to ensure its proper functioning and to provide e-commerce service to customers. For example, we must use cookies to ensure that when you choose a product you wish to buy and add to basket or proceed to checkout, the Website remembers what you chose on a previous page.

Apart from those, we also use statistics cookies and marketing cookies on the Website. These cookies are sent only with the user’s consent. Users can allow or block this kind of cookies in the Cookies Preferences. Detailed description of cookies used on the Website and their purposes are shown on the below tables.

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Some cookies are strictly necessary cookies for operation of a website. Without these cookies, a website cannot properly function. These cookies are strictly necessary for the visitors of the Website to benefit from e-commerce service. Visitors cannot shop on the Website without these cookies.  The strictly necessary cookies that we use on the Website are the ones described at https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/.

Preference cookies: Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistics Cookies: Statistic cookies serve to understand how the users are using a website, meaning for example which pages they visit, or which links they click on a website.

We are using Google Universal Analytics in order to understand the behaviors of the Website’s visitors. Google Universal Analytics unanimously collects data regarding behaviors of the visitors and use them to prepare usage statistics of the Website. Google Universal Analytics collects this data with the following cookies.

COOKIE	PURPOSE OF THE COOKIE	COOKIE TYPE
_ga	This cookie is in connection with Google Universal Analytics, and it registers a unique ID that is used to distinguish different users. It is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for analytic reports on the Website.	Third party cookie – Google
_gat	This cookie is in connection with Google Universal Analytics and used to throttle request rate.	Third party cookie – Google
_gid	It stores user analytics for 24 hours.	Third party cookie – Google

Marketing Cookies: Marketing/targeting cookies collect information regarding browser habits of users and determine their points of interest and use the same for ads targeting. Third parties who receive such data present appropriate content and ads to the users.

COOKIE	PURPOSE OF THE COOKIE	COOKIE TYPE
_fbp	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. Cookies used by Facebook are the ones described at   https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.	Third party cookie – Facebook
ads/ga-audiences	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on visitors’ online behavior on the Website.	Third party cookie – Google

Retention Periods of Cookies

Cookies are classified in two categories regarding their retention period, namely session cookies and persistent cookies.

Session Cookies are stored during the browser session. Once the browser window is closed, session cookies are deleted. These cookies are used to remember the goods in the basket.

Persistent Cookies last longer and are stored in your device between the sessions. Persistent cookies are used to remember the preferences of the users while they visit a website. Visitors can manually delete the persistent cookies from their browser settings.

Your Preferences About Cookies

Most of the browsers are designed to accept the cookies; however, visitors can change the cookie settings of their browser. Please see https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-and-delete-cookies for more information on how to delete and control the cookies.

Visitors can also delete the cookies stored in their browser from the cookie settings. Visitors can choose (i) to completely delete the cookies or (ii) to delete only the cookies sent from certain websites or (iii) to delete cookies related with a certain period of time.

You can also choose your preferences regarding the cookies sent by the Website through the Cookie Preferences.

Contact

You can contact us at info@egcollection.ist with respect to your questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, your personal data and your data subject rights.