1. Scope of Cookies Policy
Hellenic Development Bank of Investments SA (“HDBI”), located at 3 Merlin Street, 10671, Athens, commits to the protection of your privacy while you navigate to our websites. In this context, under this Policy we wish to inform you about the cookies we use, the information we collect with them and how they are used by HDBI, through the website www.hdbi.gr.
You may be informed in more detail on the handling of your personal data and the protection of your privacy through our Website Privacy Notice, which is available in our website.
2. Notion of cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device (phones, tablets, etc) when you visit a website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies help you navigate in a more user-friendly environment.
3. Cookies’ Types
There are two basic cookies’ categories:
A. Temporary cookies (session cookies), which are erased once the browsing session is completed or/and after closing the browser.
B. Persistent cookies, which remain to the browsing program for a determined period or until you erase them.
HDBI uses both session and persistent cookies in order to ensure the proper function of its websites.
4. Use of cookies
The cookies used in our websites satisfy different purposes. When you visit our websites we may use the following cookies:
5. Types and use of cookies by this website
5.1. Strictly Essential Cookies: Such cookies are essential for the proper functionality of the website, they allow you to navigate and use its functionalities, as accessing safe locations. These cookies do not identify you. These cookies are necessary for the website’s functionality and without them the use of the website would be unavailable.
5.2. Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced features. Through these cookies, information about users can be collected such as the type of browser, the server, the language chosen by the user, his preferences, his searches and the geographical location of the user. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
In case of hyperlinks (links) to other websites, the website is not responsible for the terms of management and protection of personal data that they follow.
5.3. Advertising Cookies (third party): Information deriving through this cookies’ technology and similar technology is shared with third parties in the framework of drafting targeted advertising messages that may be featured to the user during his navigation to third party websites. In addition, the relevant cookies’ technology allows to measure the user’s activity to the website that directed the user to our websites. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
5.4. Analytics Cookies (Third party) and other technologies: These cookies collect details for the website’s user and allow to improve its performance. These details help monitoring the website’s performance, measuring the visitors, observing the means of accessing the website etc. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
5.5. Other technologies: Other technologies may be used for the same purposes as cookies, and allow us to know when the user visited the website. Through them, non-personal data (e.g. your operating system, the user’s browser) or aggregate data may be collected and used to improve the website experience. The installation of mechanisms relating to these technologies is only done if you grant your consent.
5.6 Security (third party) cookies: these cookies may also be used for security purposes (e.g. to prevent cyber attacks and any other malicious activity). These cookies are only installed if you give your consent.
5.7 Performance cookies: These cookies do not collect information that identifies you, as they collect it in an aggregate manner and therefore remain anonymous. They are only used for statistical purposes to help improve the operation of the website. The installation of these cookies is only possible if you grant your consent.
6. How to handle cookies
If you wish to de-activate the cookies, depending on their specific type, the website may not operate properly. It is noted that it is not possible to disable the “necessary” cookies, as they are necessary for the proper operation of the website. For all other categories of cookies used by the website, you are free to choose whether or not to use them when you first enter the site, while always retaining the ability to modify your options for using cookies through the following hyperlink: Cookies Settings.
You can also revoke your consent to the use of cookies on your computer or other device by following the procedure for deleting them from the memory of the browser you use.
You may always modify your choices in the browsing program to receive notifications regarding the use of cookies or reject the use of cookies. In that case, if you do not allow the use of cookies for certain services, you may not have further access to those.
You may learn more information regarding the browsing program through the following links:
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera
• Adobe (flashcookies)
For further information regarding the type of cookies, you may visit our website:: https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can modify your options for the use of cookies via the following hyperlink: Cookies Settings.
Processing of Personal Data
To learn more for the processing of your personal data and for your rights, please visit the Website Privacy Notice of our company.
Updates to the Cookies Policy
HDBI may modify this Cookies Policy from times to times to ensure compliance with regulatory changes or to meet its operating needs and its legal obligations. Updated versions of the present Policy will be uploaded in this website of HDBI with date indication so that the most recently updated version will be made available.
February 2025
