1. Scope of the Cookie Policy
The Organisation for Welfare Benefits and Social Solidarity (OPEKA) guarantees your privacy will be respected while browsing this website for the Food Assistance and Material Deprivation Programme (EBYS). Under this Policy we wish to provide you with information on the cookies used, the data collected with the cookies and the way such data are used by OPEKA in this website www.ebys.gr.
To learn more about how your personal data is managed and how your privacy is protected, please refer to the Privacy Policy on this website.
2. Meaning
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or other device (e.g. a mobile phone or tablet) when you visit a website. They let the website remember certain information for a period of time, such as the fact that you are signed in. The browser's local storage serves a similar purpose; this website uses it only to remember your cookie choice.
3. Types of cookies
There are two main categories of cookies:
A. Temporary cookies (session cookies), which are deleted as soon as you close your browser,
B. Persistent cookies, which remain in your browser for a certain period of time or until you delete them.
4. Cookies used by this website
This website uses only the two categories below: strictly necessary cookies and, only if you give your consent, analytics cookies. No advertising cookies and no cookies for personalised content are used.
4.1. Strictly Necessary
These are required for the website to work and cannot be switched off. They are not used for statistical or advertising purposes.
| Name | Source | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| storefront.Identity | ebys.gr | Persistent | 14 days | Keeps you signed in when you sign in to the website (e.g. to the Supplier Registry or the National Coordination Network). It is created only when you sign in and deleted when you sign out. |
| ebys-consent-v1 | ebys.gr | Local storage | Until you delete it | Stores your cookie choice, so that you are not asked again on every page. |
4.2. Analytics
These help us understand how the website is used (e.g. which pages are visited most often), so that we can improve it. We use Google Analytics, a service of Google Ireland Limited, and we only see the data in aggregate.
These cookies are set only if you accept them. Before you give your consent, the website does not load Google Analytics and sends no request to Google. If you withdraw your consent, these cookies are deleted and no further data is sent.
| Name | Source | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | ebys.gr | Persistent | 2 years | Distinguishes visitors by a random identifier, for the Google Analytics traffic statistics. |
| _ga_<identifier> | ebys.gr | Persistent | 2 years | Keeps the state of the visit for Google Analytics. |
You can find more about the Google Analytics cookies on Google's page Google Analytics cookie usage on websites and in Google's Privacy Policy.
5. How to manage cookies
On your first visit, you can accept or reject the analytics cookies from the message at the bottom of the page. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time from the , which are also at the bottom of every page. The strictly necessary cookies cannot be switched off, because the website does not work properly without them.
You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings. In that case you may not be able to sign in to the website. Instructions for the most common browsers:
To find out more about cookies, please visit allaboutcookies.org.
For links to other websites, this website is not responsible for their personal data management and protection practices.
You can update your cookie preferences using the following link: .
6. Personal data processing
To learn more about how your personal data are processed and about your rights, please visit the Privacy Policy available on this website.
7. Updates of the Cookie Policy
OPEKA may update this Cookie Policy periodically to comply with regulatory changes and to optimise its operations and services. Any updates, amendments will be posted on this website with a date, so you can identify the most recent version.
October 2026