Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies. At Athenian Brewery S.A., we also use other similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons, and device fingerprints. For the sake of brevity, all these techniques combined will hereinafter be referred to as “cookies”.
We automatically store cookies on your device only if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website (“essential cookies”). For all other types of cookies, we need your consent, which you can give us per the procedure below.
By clicking on the specific category of cookies in the cookie banner, you consent to Athenian Brewery S.A. installing and using cookies.
You can change your preferences at any time in the cookie banner.
Cookies used on the website
Athenian Brewery S.A. uses various types of cookies. Some of these are session cookies, which are temporary and enable us to link your actions during a browser session. Session cookies are erased when you close your internet browser. Other cookies are persistent cookies, which remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie. This website uses cookies for the following purposes:
- ESSENTIAL COOKIES
Essential cookies are required to help you navigate the Website. They make the Website more user-friendly for visitors/users. These cookies ensure that you only have to go through the age-gate once per visit. They do not identify a specific person and support the functionality and security of the Website.
- PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Performance cookies help us understand the behaviour of our visitors and the use of the Website as a whole. For example, we can use them to get an idea of how our visitors use our Website and to improve our services. By using performance cookies, we are able to constantly improve our Website.
We use Google Analytics cookies to get an overall picture of visitor behaviour and volume, and to help us improve the overall experience on our Website. For more information about Google Analytics cookies: Google’s Privacy Policy Google Analytics Help pages.
- COMMUNICATION COOKIES
The Website allows cookies from third-party web service providers (social media platforms, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn). This enables you to share part of the Website’s content on social media. These third parties may use cookies for their own purposes. Athenian Brewery S.A. has no control over the way social media platforms use your data. For more information about cookies set by social media platforms, please refer to their individual Privacy and Cookies policies.
- ADVERTISING COOKIES
Advertising cookies collect information about your product preferences and your actions on the Website. We try to show you advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests on other online platforms, when available, based on your visits and browsing behaviour on our Website and third-party websites. Based on these interests, we develop a segmented profile and then customise the content and advertisements on our Website for different customer groups.
CHECK YOUR COOKIE SETTINGS
Once you have given us your consent to use cookies, we will store cookies on your computer (or other devices with internet access, such as a smartphone or tablet) to remember it for the next time. If you wish to withdraw your consent to cookies, you can do so at any time using the cookie banner.
Cookie Overview
Below is a full list of the cookies used on this website:
Essential Cookies
| NAME | DURATION | DESCRIPTION | SOURCE |
| alfaage | End of session | Created so that the system knows if the user has passed the age gate, and therefore if they are an adult. | |
| _ga | 2 years | Created so that the system can recognise different users. | Google Analytics |
| _gat | 1 minute | Created so that the system can limit the request rate. If Google Analytics (a web analytics is activated via Google Tag Manager, the cookie name will be _dc_gtm_<property-id> | Google Analytics |
| _gid | 24 hours | Created so that the system can recognise different users. | Google Analytics |
| fbm_* | After 1 year. | Created when the user accesses the website using their Facebook account, in order to confirm their age on the website’s age verification page. | |
| fbsr_* | After 1 year. | Created when the user accesses the website using their Facebook account. |
ATHENIAN BREWERY S.A. is committed to making it easy to navigate the website www.alfabeer.gr (hereinafter the “Website”). We use cookies for this purpose, in full compliance with the applicable legislative framework, namely the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679/EU (hereinafter the “GDPR”), as well as Press Release No. Γ/ΕΞ/1525/25.02.2020 of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (“Recommendations for the compliance of data controllers with the specific legislation on electronic communications”).
This Cookie Policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) sets out the terms and conditions complied with by ATHENIAN BREWERY when processing data, in terms of the management of cookies and related technologies.
- Controller
The controller responsible for the collection, storage and general processing of the personal data of users of the Website is ATHENIAN BREWERY SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME, headquartered at 102 Kifissou Avenue, Egaleo 12241, Attica, with VAT number 094000362, registered at the Athens Tax Office for Sociétés Anonymes (hereinafter the “Company”).
- What are cookies and what are they used for?
Cookies are small pieces of text with a small amount of data that is sent to the browser when someone visits a website. They are stored by the website’s central server on the hard drive of the user’s computer or any other electronic device. The Company uses the following categories of cookies on its Websites: a) essential cookies, b) performance cookies, c) communication cookies, d) advertising cookies. You can find out about each individual cookie category we use on our Website, as well as the purpose of use and the retention period for each of them, in the special tool provided via the Website, which is available here.
This Cookie Policy provides information about the cookies we use and the reasons for their use. Our Personal Data Protection Policy (https://www.alfabeer.gr/privacy-policy) sets out in detail the other information we may collect and the ways in which we may use your personal data.
Athenian Brewery S.A. uses cookies to provide you with a better online experience. It is important for you to know what cookies our Website uses and for what purposes. This will help you protect your privacy, while at the same time ensuring that we provide you with a better online experience.
- Managing cookies
With the exception of strictly necessary cookies and those required for user security, cookies are installed only with your consent. Acceptance of one particular type of non-essential cookie in no way entails automatic acceptance of the others.
You can obtain information about cookies and give your consent to their use through a tool on our Website. The tool provides you with specific information for each category of cookies that we collect and process, which you can access regardless of the type of electronic device you use.
You are free not to accept the use of cookies. Failure to provide consent does not lead to exclusion from access to the content of the Website. If you do not agree to the use of cookies or do not accept or reject them and continue your navigation after the relevant pop-up window appears, they will not be used or installed on your device.
- Your rights
Regarding the processing described above, you have the rights provided for in articles 12-22 of the GDPR. You can find out detailed information about your rights and how to exercise them by referring to the Company’s general Personal Data Protection Policy here.