Last updated: 26 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which cookies and similar technologies the Aethra Travel website (www.aethratravel.gr) uses, why, and how you can change your choices at any time. It complements our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit it. Similar technologies, such as local storage in your browser, work in a similar way. In this policy we call all of them “cookies”.
Some cookies are set by us (first-party cookies). Others are set by third-party services that we use on the website (third-party cookies).
2. How we ask for your consent
When you first visit the website, our cookie consent tool (ZeroComplexity) asks for your choice. The tool is provided by ZeroComplexity, a sole proprietorship based in Athens 173 43, Greece (VAT no. 154957212), which acts as our processor. Only strictly necessary cookies are used without your consent. All other categories stay off until you accept them, and you can accept or reject each category separately.
We also use Google Consent Mode v2. Before any other tag runs, our consent tool sets every storage type to “denied” (except security storage), and keeps them denied until you accept a category. Until you accept Statistics, Google Analytics does not set or read cookies; it may only send cookieless measurements that store nothing on your device.
Your choice is stored in the zc_consent cookie on your device. A record of it (a random consent ID, your choices, the policy version, the time, the language, the page path, the country and a browser/operating-system summary, without your IP address) is kept by ZeroComplexity on our behalf on Cloudflare infrastructure in the EU for 25 months, as proof of consent.
3. Cookie categories
| Category | What it does | Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Required for the website to work and to stay secure, for example to remember your cookie choices and to protect our forms against spam. | No. These cannot be switched off. |
| Functional | Remember preferences beyond what is strictly necessary. None are in use at present. | Yes |
| Statistics | Help us understand how visitors use the website, for example the number of visitors, the pages they view and how they arrived, so we can improve it. | Yes |
| Advertising | Measure and personalise advertising. We run no advertising tags. Google may set its own cookies only if you choose to load the map on our Contact page. | Yes |
We do not run advertising, remarketing or social-media tracking tags.
4. Cookies we use
4.1 Strictly necessary
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
zc_consent | Aethra Travel (first party), through our cookie consent tool provided by ZeroComplexity, a sole proprietorship based in Athens 173 43, Greece (VAT no. 154957212), as our processor | Stores your cookie choices (a random consent ID, your choices, the policy version and the time) so that they are respected on later visits. | 6 months (182 days) |
cookieyes-consent | Aethra Travel (first party), set by our previous consent tool (CookieYes) | Stored the cookie choices of our previous consent tool. No longer used; it may remain on devices of earlier visitors until it expires. | 1 year |
wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_*, wp-settings-* | Aethra Travel (WordPress) | Set only for our staff when they sign in to manage the website. Not set for visitors. | Session to 1 year |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare, Inc. | Checks that a form is being filled in by a person and not a bot. It runs only on pages with a form (Contact and Brief submission). Cloudflare states that Turnstile does not use cookies to track visitors. It may use browser storage for the check. | Duration of the check |
4.2 Functional
No functional cookies are in use at present.
4.3 Statistics
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Ireland Limited (Google Analytics 4) | Distinguishes visitors with a random identifier, to produce statistics on website use. | 13 months (Google sets up to 2 years; browsers limit cookies to about 13 months) |
_ga_JBVBW8XEH6 | Google Ireland Limited (Google Analytics 4) | Keeps the state of your visit (session) for our Google Analytics 4 property. | 13 months, as _ga |
Google Tag Manager, which loads Google Analytics, does not set cookies itself.
Statistics cookies are set only after you accept the Statistics category.
4.4 Advertising
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
NID (on google.com, third party) | Google Ireland Limited | Google’s own cookie (preferences and advertising), set only if you click to load the map on our Contact page. Google uses it for its own purposes, as described in Google’s privacy policy. | About 6 months |
4.5 Third-party content without cookies
| Service | Provider | Purpose | Cookies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustindex widget | Trustindex Ltd, Hungary | Shows our Google reviews on the homepage. It loads files from cdn.trustindex.io and reviewer profile pictures from googleusercontent.com, so your IP address is sent to them. | None observed |
5. How to change your choices
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time:
- click “Cookie settings” in the footer of any page to reopen our cookie consent tool, change your choices and save them;
- or delete cookies in your browser settings. The next time you visit, we will ask for your choice again.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of the use of cookies before the withdrawal.
You can also block cookies in your browser. Help pages: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. If you block necessary cookies, some parts of the website may not work.
6. Third-party privacy policies
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
- Trustindex (Trustindex Ltd): https://www.trustindex.io/privacy-policy/
- ZeroComplexity: https://zerocomplexity.io/en/privacy-policy/
7. Contact
For questions about this Cookie Policy, email contact@aethratravel.gr or write to AETHRA TRAVEL ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ Ι.Κ.Ε., Persefonis 49, Gazi, 118 54 Athens, Greece. More information about how we process personal data, and about your rights, is in our Privacy Policy.