Latest update: May 20th, 2020
Information regarding the Cookie Policy
This website (growthrocks.com) uses cookies in order to provide you with a better experience.
The use of cookies enhances the functioning of GrowthRocks’s website, facilitates your browsing and your browsing choices. The use of cookies enables us to provide you with personalized content and to analyze the frequency of visits to our website. Moreover, GrowthRocks uses cookies in order to analyze the frequency of visits to its website and to track any webpages that might need to be improved. Our aim is to improve the operation of our website so as to provide you with continuously improved services and experience while using our website.
The primary aim in growthrocks.com is the protection of privacy of the visitors; for that reason, GrowthRocks adopts and applies a strict policy. We suggest that you dedicate some time to read the present policy in order to understand which types of cookies do we use, what information do we collect through the use of cookies and how such information is being used. By using our website, you consent to the use of Cookies pursuant to the provisions of the present policy.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files saved in users’ computers (usually in their browsers, i.e. Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, etc) so that each time users connect to our website, the latter recovers previously inserted information and provides users with services relevant to such saved information. A classic example of such information is users’ preferences on a website, as such preferences are determined depending on users’ choices in such website (i.e. selection of specific “buttons”, searches, etc.).
General information on the types of cookies
There are two general categories of cookies:
- Technical Cookies: Technical cookies are essential for the proper functioning of a website and allow users to browse and to use the features of the website. Without them, effective website performance cannot be achieved since users may not be able to effectively display webpages and/or to use certain features.
- Profiling cookies: Profiling cookies are used for the creation of user profiles in order to provide content and advertisements that best suit the user and its browsing preferences.
Cookies, irrespective of whether they are classified as “technical cookies” or “profiling cookies” may also be classified as:
- Session cookies, which are immediately deleted upon closing the browsing program;
- Permanent cookies, which remain in the browsing program for a certain period of time. Permanent cookies are used, for example, for the identification of the device connected to a website in order to facilitate user’s identification;
- Owned cookies, which are created and controlled directly by the webmaster;
- Third-party cookies, which are created and controlled by parties other than the webmaster.
Our website uses technical cookies of the following type:
- Owned cookies, session cookies or permanent cookies, which are necessary for browsing in our website as well as for purposes of internal security and management of systems.
- Third-party cookies, permanent cookies used by the Website in order to provide statistical information to Google Analytics, through the operation of which GrowthRocks is able to proceed to the statistical analysis of access/visits to its Website. The cookies that are used serve statistical purposes exclusively and collect information in an aggregate form. By using two particular types of cookies, i.e. permanent cookies and session cookies (which expire upon closing the browsing program), Google Analytics stores also a registry including the time that users visited our Website, as well as the time that users exited our Website. You may restrict Google from collecting data through the use of cookies and from processing your personal data, by downloading and installing the browsing extension at the following URL: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
