PRIVACY POLICY

Greek Liquid Gold: Authentic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, www.greekliquidgold.com (abbreviated hereafter as Greek Liquid Gold), protects the privacy of your data, following the provisions of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016, which concerns the protection of the personal data of individuals and their unobstructed movement (at the request of the individual).

The greekliquidgold.com website data are securely stored on the hosting provider (www.pair.com), which is GDPR compliant and follows all the instructions provided related to the safe storage of data.

Below, we explain how Greek Liquid Gold uses your information and describe the choices you can make.

Registered Users

If you wish to comment on an article on Greek Liquid Gold, you will need to register on the site. To register, you will be required to provide a name, a username, a password, and your current email address. Your city and country are optional. You will need your username and password to log in to the site as a registered user, and we need your name and your email address to reach you in case of concerns about your account. Your username will identify you if you make comments on Greek Liquid Gold. None of the other information will be shared with third parties unless required by law. If you wish to have this information changed or deleted from Greek Liquid Gold, you may request that by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. (Only comments directly related to the relevant article will be accepted; irrelevant comments and irrelevant or inappropriate advertisements will not, and accounts suspected of being intended for spamming may be relegated to “public” status.)

Ad Personalization

Greek Liquid Gold does not use ad personalization. All ads on Greek Liquid Gold remain the same for all users at any given time and are uploaded directly by the Greek Liquid Gold administrator in cooperation with advertising companies. Impressions and clicks on banner ads are tracked directly by Greek Liquid Gold on the Joomla platform, without third party involvement. We do not collect, share, or use personal data for personalization of ads. Regarding third party involvement in Greek Liquid Gold, see the next section.

Google Products and Data Use

Greek Liquid Gold uses Google products, including Google Analytics, Google Maps, and YouTube videos. These involve the use of such things as cookies and information about your IP address and the URL of the page you visit, as explained here. That page describes how you can control what Google does with your information. For more about Greek Liquid Gold’s use of cookies and ways to block and delete cookies, see also the section on Cookies below.

Greek Liquid Gold uses Google Analytics to gain a general understanding of who is using the website and how they are using it (including such general information as number of users per day, their country, their browser, what leads them to the site, which pages they visit, and how long they stay on the site). This helps Greek Liquid Gold learn more about its audience in order to serve them better and more effectively share news and information about olive oil and the Greek olive oil world.

As they say on their website, “Google Analytics collects first-party cookies, data related to the device/browser, IP address and on-site/app activities to measure and report statistics about user interactions on the websites and/or apps that use Google Analytics.” For more information about what Google does, and about how you can disable cookies and measurement by Google Analytics, see Information for Visitors of Sites and Apps Using Google Analytics.

Sharing Information

We may disclose non-personally identifiable information and statistics about users from Google Analytics, and information such as the number of users who clicked on a banner ad or viewed a certain article, to advertisers and other interested third parties for marketing and promotional purposes and to explain the reach of Greek Liquid Gold. We may use such non-personally identifiable information and statistics in other ways as well, but we will not share personally identifiable information with third parties unless required to do so by law.

Greek Liquid Gold contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these third party websites.

If you have any questions after reading this policy or simply want to contact us, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Any changes to the privacy policy of www.greekliquidgold.com will be indicated on the website and on the associated Facebook page. If required by law, your consent will be sought for any possible changes.

COOKIES

About cookies

Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies consist of small files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies on this website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

How we use cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you.

We may use the information we obtain using cookies for the following purposes:

  • to recognize your computer when you visit our website;
  • to track your website navigation, and to enable the use of some of the features on our website (such as commenting);  
  • to improve the website’s usability;
  • to analyze the use of our website;
  • in the administration of this website

Third party cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. We also use other Google services, such as Google maps and YouTube videos. We do not use ad personalization. Google's privacy policy is available here.

Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:

  • in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector
  • in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites and will disable certain website features.

Deleting cookies

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. The method of doing so will depend upon your web browser. Instructions are available at the following URLs.

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Deleting%20cookies

Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647

Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari (v3): https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US