Cookie Policy

1. Scope of this Cookie Notice

The company under the trade name “HOTELS AND TOURISM COMPANIES VARNIKOS S.A.” and distinctive title “VARNIKOS SA”, with registered seat in Athens, at Vasileos Georgiou A’ str., 10564 (tel.: (+30) 210 3352400, email: welcome@njvathensplaza.gr) (hereinafter the “Company”), acting in its capacity as a Data Controller, collects and further processes your personal data to the extent strictly necessary for explicit and lawful purposes in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”), Hellenic Law 4624/2019 and 3471/2006, as applicable and in force. The Company safeguards your privacy while browsing our website. This Cookie Notice provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use, the information we collect with them and how we use them in connection with the website www.njvathensplaza.gr (hereinafter the “Website”).

You can review further details about the processing of your personal data from the Data Protection Notice posted on our Website.

2. Key concepts

Cookie identification files are self-installing text files with short content, that are stored on the computer or other electronic devices (i.e. mobile phones, tablets, etc.) of the user visiting a website. In this way, the website remembers your actions and preferences (e.g. language, font size and other display preferences) for a period of time, so you do not have to enter your preferences each time you visit the website or browse from one page to another. Cookies help you navigate in an environment that is more user-friendly.

3.Types of cookies

There are two main categories of cookies:

A. Temporary cookies (session cookies) which are deleted immediately after the end of the browser and/or after closing the browser,
B. Persistent cookies which remain in your browser for a certain period of time or until you delete them.

For the proper functioning of our Website, the Company uses both temporary (session) and persistent cookies.

4.Use of cookies

Each type of cookie we use serves different purposes. When you visit our Website, we may use the following cookies:

5. types and Use of Cookies from this website

This Website uses the following types of cookies:

5.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These 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. These cookies are necessary for the operation of the website and without them it would not be technically possible to provide services of the Website.

Name	Application	Purpose	Third Party	Lifetime	Description
Platform.Plugins.Core.GeoIP	Website Platform	Required Cookies (System)	No	1 hour	This cookie holds information on the user’s country. This information is used to help with filling forms and enhance the user’s browsing experience.

5.2 Functionality Cookies:

These cookies are used to store settings on the Website (e.g. by remembering your preferences for safe search, or to make it easier for you to browse the website). Through these cookies, user information such as browser type, server, selected language, user preferences, user searches and user’s geographical location can be collected. Installation of these cookies is subject to your consent. Where links are provided to other websites, the Website is not responsible for the terms of use and protection of personal data that they implement.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
No cookies

5.3 Advertising Cookies:

Information obtained through cookie technology is shared with third parties in the context of creating targeted advertising content that may be displayed to the user during their visit to third-party websites. In addition, the relevant cookie technology provides metrics related to user activity on a third-party website that referred the user to our Website. Installation of these cookies is subject to your consent.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
_fbp	Persistent	90 days	Meta Pixel: distinguishes browsers and supports advertising measurement and retargeting.
_fbc	Persistent	90 days	Meta Pixel: stores the Facebook Click ID when a visitor arrives via a URL containing fbclid, for attribution.
fr	Persistent	90 days	Meta/Facebook: supports ad delivery, measurement and retargeting.
checkpoint	Session	Session	Meta/Facebook: supports authentication and security checks when interacting with Meta services.
locale	Persistent	7 days	Meta/Facebook: stores the display language of the last logged-in user.
wd	Session	Session	Meta/Facebook: stores browser-window dimensions to optimise rendering.
datr	Persistent	730 days	Meta/Facebook: identifies the browser for security, integrity and advertising-related services.
_gcl_*	Persistent	90 days	Google Ads/Google Tag Manager: stores ad-click and conversion-attribution information.
IDE	Persistent	730 days	Google DoubleClick: measures actions following an ad impression or click and supports targeted advertising.
DSID	Persistent	14 days	Google DoubleClick: supports retargeting, optimisation, reporting and advertising attribution.
NID	Persistent	180 days	Google: stores preferences and may support personalised advertising on Google services.
AID	Persistent	180 days	Google: supports advertising delivery, retargeting and preference storage.
1P_JAR	Persistent	30 days	Google: stores information concerning interactions with Google services and advertising.
CONSENT	Persistent	up to 7,300 days	Google: stores consent preferences for Google services.
APISID / SAPISID / SSID / SID / HSID	Persistent	up to 730 days	Google: preference, security and advertising cookies that may be used when Google-hosted services are loaded.
SIDCC / __Secure-1PSIDCC / __Secure-3PSIDCC	Persistent	up to 730 days	Google: security and advertising-protection cookies used by Google services.
__Secure-1PAPISID / __Secure-3PAPISID / __Secure-1PSID / __Secure-3PSID	Persistent	up to 730 days	Google: supports fraud prevention and interest-based advertising on Google services.
google_experiment_mod*	Persistent	90 days	Google: stores information used for advertising experiments and cross-site measurement.

5.4 Analytics Cookies and other technologies:

These cookies collect information about the Website user and enable us to improve the way the Website works. This information is used to monitor the Website’s performance, traffic, and modes of access, etc. Installation of these cookies is subject to your consent.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
_ga	Persistent	2 years	Google Analytics 4: distinguishes users and supports aggregated measurement of visits and page views.
_ga_*	Persistent	2 years	Google Analytics 4: persists session state for the relevant GA4 property.
_gid	Persistent	1 day	Google Analytics: distinguishes users and counts page views during a short measurement period.
_gat	Persistent	1 minute	Google Analytics: throttles the request rate.
_gat_*	Persistent	1 minute	Google Analytics: throttles requests for the corresponding analytics property.
AMP_TOKEN	Persistent	about 1 year	Google Analytics: contains a reference used to retrieve an AMP Client ID.
_gac_*	Persistent	90 days	Google Analytics/Google Ads: stores campaign and ad-click information for conversion measurement.

5.5 Other technologies:

Other technologies may be used for the same purposes as cookies and enable us to know when the user has visited the Website. By using such cookies, non-personal data (e.g. your operating system, the user’s browser) or aggregate data may be collected and used to improve Website experience. Installation of features relating to these technologies is subject to your consent.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
Hotelwize.User.TrackingPreferences (localStorage)	Persistent	30 days	Stores cookie-category choices in browser local storage; not an HTTP cookie.
Matomo cookieless analytics	Session	No cookie / not applicable	Analytics is configured with disableCookies; no persistent Matomo cookie is used.
topicsLastReferenceTime (localStorage)	Persistent	Not declared	Meta Pixel item recording the last browser-topics check; not an HTTP cookie.
lastExternalReferrer / lastExternalReferrerTime (localStorage)	Persistent	Not declared	Meta Pixel items recording the last external referrer and time; not HTTP cookies.

5.6 Security cookies:

These cookies may be used for security purposes (e.g. to prevent cyber-attacks and any other malicious activity). Installation of these cookies is subject to your consent.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
None separately identified	—	—	Security-related cookies are already listed under necessary or advertising services.

5.7 Performance cookies:

These cookies collect information about your Website usage, e.g. which pages you visit most often and whether you receive error messages from the website. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you, provided that they collect information in an aggregate manner and are therefore anonymous. These cookies are only used for statistical purposes to help us improve the Website’s performance. Installation of these cookies is subject to your consent.

Cookie	Type	Expiry	Purpose
None separately identified	—	—	See the analytics cookies listed in section 5.4.

6. How to manage cookies

If you wish to disable cookies, depending on their specific type, the Website may not function properly. It should be noted that it is not possible to disable “necessary” cookies, since they are necessary for the proper functioning of the Website. For all other categories of cookies used by the Website, you can freely select whether or not to use them when you first visit the Website, while you always retain the option to modify your choices for the use of cookies through the following hyperlink: Cookie Banner.

In any case, you can always modify the options in your browser to receive notifications about the use of cookies or to reject the use of cookies. In this case, if you do not allow the use of cookies for certain services, you may not have further access to them.

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 can find out more information, according to the browser, using the following links:

Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Safari
Opera
Adobe (flashcookies)
To find out more about the types of cookies, you can visit: http:// www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can modify your choices for the use of cookies via the following hyperlink: Cookie Banner

7. Personal Data Processing

To learn more about the processing of your personal data and your rights, please review the Data Protection Notice which is posted on this Website.