Cookies policy

The BNP Paribas Group is committed to delivering the best possible service to you while maintaining the confidence that you place in us.
As part of this, we have adopted strong principles across the Group to ensure the protection of your data.

As such, we would like to provide you with transparent information about how we place, use and store cookies on your device when you use our website www.bnpparibas.gr (the “Website”) and you present the option to manage and to delete cookies.

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text, image or software files that are placed on your device when you access our Website and/or use our Application. The word “device”, when used in this Cookies Policy, refers notably to computers, smartphones, tablets and all other devices used for accessing the internet.
Cookies may be either: (i) session specific, meaning that they are deleted from your device once the session and browser are closed; or (ii) persistent meaning that they will remain on your device until they are removed.

Cookies perform a number of useful functions, such as to:

• Authenticate and identify you on our Website and/or Application in order to provide you with services that you have requested;
• Enhance the security of the Website and/or Application, including to prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from access by unauthorised parties;
• Send you personalised advertising notably based on your browsing history and your preferences on line ;
• Monitor your use of our Website and/or Application in order to improve them;
• Enhance your user experience by adapting and tailoring the content on the Website and/or Application to your interest and providing more relevant BNP Paribas ads and content to you on non-BNP Paribas websites and non-BNP Paribas applications.
• Remember information that you provided to us (e.g. to automatically populate forms with information that you have previously provided to us so that you can log on more quickly);
• Keep track of your preferences and settings in your use of our Website and/or Application (e.g. time zone etc.);

2. What kind of information can be stored in a cookie?

• the information stored by the cookies on your device may relate to the following, subject to its retention period:
• the webpages you have visited on that device;
• the advertisements you have clicked on;
• the type of browser you use;
• your IP address;
• and any other information that you have provided on our Website and/or Application.

Cookies may contain personal data. Where we use cookies which collect your personal data, such collection is covered by our Data Protection Notice.

3. What kinds of cookies do we use and for what purpose?

4. In this context, who places the cookies on your device (for example the companies of BNP Paribas Group or a partner)?

When you select which types of cookies you allow on your device, the cookies may be deposited directly by us or by one of our partners.

From a practical point of view, this means that when you authorize the installation of certain so-called “third-party” cookies on your device, our partners will also be able to access the information they contain (such as, for example, your browsing statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies) within the respect of our data protection Notice and those of our partners.

Cookie source	Purpose	Find out more	List of partner cookies used on the Site	Retention period of the cookies by our partner
bnpparibas.com				Session
www.bnpparibas.gr				365 days
cdnjs.cloudflare.com				365 days

Strictly Necessary Matomo Cookies:

Description	Cookie	Purpose	Validity
Matomo cookie used to store the attribution information, the referrer ID used to visit the website.	_pk_ref	Cookie to store referrer ID’s for anonymous statistics.	6 months.
Matomo short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	_pk_ses	Cookie to store a unique session ID for anonymous statistics.	Duration of session.
Matomo short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	_pk_hsr	Cookie for anonymous statistics (heatmap or session recording)	Duration of session.
Matomo short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	_pk_cvar	Cookies which holds custom variables that were set during the previous page view.	Duration of session.
Matomo cookie used to store analytics opt-out.	_removed	This cookie contains the information that tracking has not been agreed to.	30 years.
Matomo cookie used to store analytics opt-out.	mtm_consent	This cookie contains the information that the user has agreed to tracking.	30 years.

Preference cookie (under consent):

Description	Cookie	Purpose	Validity
Matomo cookie used to store details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.	pk_id	Matomo cookie used to store visitor ID for anonymous statistics.	11 m

How can you manage cookies?

To see the different categories of cookies that we use on the Site and/or Application and configure your choices, you can consult the cookie management module accessible at the bottom of the page. You can modify at any time your preferences, withdraw or give again your consent at any time.

Please note that the use of strictly necessary cookies for the proper functioning of the Site and/or Application does not require your consent. This is why the option “strictly necessary cookies” is pre-checked in our cookie management tool and is not optional.

By refusing certain types of cookies (preference cookies for example), we will not be able to optimize your user experience on our Site and some parts may not function properly.

By default, we save your cookie choices on a device for a maximum of 6 months. If you change your mind about the preferences you have expressed regarding cookies, you can update your choices at any time, by following this link : Cookie Preferences. We will ask you to make a choice again every 6 months

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