Privacy Policy

In order to facilitate and improve your access to and browsing of fyi.news, we use cookies, in accordance with standard internet practices, to obtain certain information about your browsing.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored by the server of the website on the hard drive of the computer or other electronic device with which you visit fyi.news.

Cookies are unique to each web browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) and contain information that is specific to the web pages you visit and the devices you use.

Generally, cookies perform many functions, such as facilitating your browsing from one website to another, storing your preferences and improving your website browsing experience.

Cookies are divided into different categories depending on the purpose they serve and the way they work.
At fyi.news we use cookies placed by us called first-party cookies, and performance (third-party) cookies, which are cookies placed on the website by another organization with our permission, in order to obtain information about traffic and how users browse.

First-party cookies

The role of these cookies is to store information about how you use fyi.news, in order to analyse the traffic on fyi.news, as well as to improve your browsing experience on the website.

Τhird party cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use fyi.news, such as, for example, the pages you visit most often, the page from which your visit originated, the type of browser you use and more. We use these cookies for the sole purpose of analyzing traffic and improving the performance of fyi.news.

Information about the Google Analytics service (with “anonymization” function)

Google Analytics is the most popular traffic measurement service, which is technically based on the use of cookies. Google Analytics is owned by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.

We use Google Analytics in order to improve fyi.news, for example, to decide which pages we should improve and how. The storage time of the collected data is 26 months.

Google cookies are used to store certain information, such as the duration of the visit to fyi.news, the type of browser used, the location from which the visit originated and the frequency of the visit. In order to access this data, we allow Google Analytics to place cookies on the hard drive of the visitor’s computer or other electronic device. Each time you visit a different page within fyi.news, the browser (browser) you use submits, in an automatic, encrypted and pseudonymised manner, data to the Google Analytics platform.

How you can control cookies via your browser

Each user of fyi.news has the possibility to change the settings in the web browser used in relation to cookies and their acceptance.

You can choose, depending on the browser, between automatically accepting all cookies (usually this is set as default), having a warning that cookies are used in certain cases and generally not allowing the use of cookies.

To manage and disable cookies, follow the relevant instructions per browser:

For any information about our use of cookies, please feel free to contact us at the email address [email protected].