Privacy policy

BottleShop follows a strict policy for protecting the privacy of visitors to the website www.thebottleshop.gr. With this notice, we provide you with more information on how we use “cookies” as well as other automated means to collect certain information about visitors to our websites, such as the number of visitors to our websites and our most visited web pages, through any browser and device used. By collecting this information, we learn how to better adapt our websites and advertising to our visitors.

Cookies and Other Automated Means of Data Collection

Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on each of your devices using any browser whenever you visit a website. We may use cookies to inform us, for example, whether you have visited our website before or if you are a new visitor, as well as to help us identify features of our website that may interest you most. Cookies can improve your online experience by storing your preferences when you visit a specific website.

Web Beacons

Web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs) are usually transparent graphic images placed on a webpage. Web beacons are used in combination with cookies to record the actions of visitors on websites.

IP Addresses and URLs

An IP address is a unique identifier used by certain electronic devices to identify and communicate with each other over the Internet. When you visit our websites, we can see the IP address of the device you used to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general geographic location of the device and to understand from which geographic areas our website visitors come. We may use this information to change the way our website is displayed in order to improve your visit.

The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique identifier or address for every resource on the Internet and is essentially the address of the webpage you visit. We will use this information to see which webpages have traffic as well as how you navigate our website.

Which Cookies Do We Use?

On our websites we use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website. They allow you to browse and use its features, such as access to secure areas, registration forms, wish lists, use of the shopping cart, and for security purposes. These cookies do not identify you personally. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the effective operation of our website.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website, which pages they visit most often, and whether they receive error messages from web pages. These cookies collect aggregated, anonymous information that does not identify any visitor. They are used exclusively to improve the performance of a website and allow us to collect information about your use of our websites, including the content you choose when browsing our sites, in order to measure the effectiveness and interaction of consumers with the website and to improve our pages over time. These cookies may be provided by third-party analytics providers but are used only for purposes related to our websites.

Example: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs…

Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver content that better matches you and your interests. They may be used to send targeted advertising/offers, limit ad impressions, or measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These cookies may be used to remember websites you have visited in order to determine which online marketing channels are most effective and allow us to reward external websites and partners that referred you to us.

How Can You Disable the Use of Cookies?

If you wish to enable or disable the use of cookies through your browser settings, depending on your browser, please visit the corresponding page to learn about the necessary steps.

List of Cookies We Use

The table below contains the cookies we collect and the information they store:

Cookie Name Cookie Description
FORM_KEY Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.
PHPSESSID Your session ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW Allows guests to view and edit their orders.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this.
STF Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
MAGE-CACHE-SESSID Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
SECTION-DATA-IDS Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
X-MAGENTO-VARY Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION Facilitates translation of content to other languages.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE Facilitates translation of content to other languages.