Privacy
Identity of this site
Important note: Please note that AcropolisofAthens.gr is not an official or governmental site or representative of the Acropolis of Athens or Acropolis Museum.
The web address (URL) of AcropolisofAthens.gr is: www.acropolisofathens.gr
AcropolisofAthens.gr has been created and authored voluntarily by Nikolaos Chatziandreou (except where other content authors/contributors are specified) as a good-will, non-profit initiative to promote culture and education. There is more information about the creator/author on LinkedIn ⧉.
There is more information about the history, mission and purpose of this website in the About section.
What personal data this site collects
and why it collects it
To make this site work properly, small data files called cookies may be placed on the user's device. Upon accessing this site (for the first time or e.g. if the user is using a different browser or an Incognito browser window), the user is informed about cookies (please refer to the "How to control cookies" section below).
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a site saves on the user's computer or mobile device when the user visits the site. It enables the website to remember the user's actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so that the user doesn't have to keep re-entering them every time they come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How does this site use cookies?
Authentication and security:
Generally, this is an openly accessible site, as no logging in is required for the public to access the presented information. However, if the user is an administrator or editor of the website, then cookies will need to be used to allow them to log into the administrator/editor control panel.
To help detect invaders who try to violate website security against hackers and, thus, protect the user's security as well.
For example, these technologies help authenticate access to the administrator/editor panel of this site and prevent unauthorised parties from accessing the administrator/editor accounts.
Preferences:
To remember information about the user's browser and preferences.
For example, cookies can help remember the user's preferred language or country that the user is in. This enables a website to provide content in the preferred language without having to ask the user each time they visit the site. In the case of this site, the language used is English (it is envisaged that, in the future, a version in Greek will be offered as well, to help make the website appeal to a broader audience).
Analytics and research:
To help the site administrator improve and understand how people use the site, including pages, buttons and links.
For example, cookies can help a website administrator test different versions of the pages/content to see which particular features or content users prefer. In an effort to optimise and improve the user's experience on the site, cookies can be used to see how the user interacts with the pages of the site, such as when and how often they visit them and what links they click on. This site uses Google Analytics ⧉ and Statcounter.com ⧉ to assist with this. On their respective sites, there is more information available about their cookies.
Personalised content:
To enable integration with social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, enabling social media interactions, for example, social media buttons embedded in the pages of this site can help the user directly interact with those pages (e.g. ‘Like’, ‘Share’, and/or ‘Tweet’ them). Note: this feature has currently been removed from this site.
Embedded content from other sites
Pages on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos) from other sites. Such embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited those other sites; those sites may collect data about the user, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor the user's interaction with that embedded content, including tracking the user's interaction with the embedded content if the user has an account and are logged into that site.
How to control cookies
On this site:
Upon accessing this site (for the first time or e.g. if the user is using a different browser or an Incognito browser window), the user is informed that:
this site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyse traffic, and that
the information about the use of this site by the user is shared with Google, and that
by using this site, the user agrees to its use of cookies.
The user is also presented with the option to Learn more about how Google uses cookies ⧉.
For more information about cookies, overall, the user find more information at allaboutcookies.org. The user can delete all cookies that are already on their computer and can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If the user opts for this, however, they may have to manually adjust some preferences every time they visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
There is more information about cookies and the law on the European Union cookies legislation webpage ⧉.
Contacting the creator/author of this site
The user can contact the author/administrator/editor of this site through social media. If a user does not have a social media account, they can still send a message by email, by sending it to the AcropolisofAthens.gr Gmail address (Gmail is the electronic mail service by Google). The address comprises the main part of this site’s domain name (without the ‘.gr’ suffix) followed by the usual Gmail address suffix. Messages received on the AcropolisofAthens.gr social media and Gmail accounts are prevented from becoming public, by taking the normal, reasonable measures to protect these accounts by the use of secret security passwords.