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19th March 2024
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Cyprus Property News privacy notice

We respect your privacy

Cyprus Property News guarantees that any personal information you provide to us including your name, e-mail address, telephone number and other contact details WILL NOT be divulged to any third party without your prior consent.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.news.cyprus-property-buyers.com

Security

The security of your data is important to us. We use an SSL certificate on our website to keep your information and communication with you secure at all times.

SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization’s details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser.

We encrypt any data we hold on our systems and maintain regular daily backups.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.



Cookies

Cookies are tiny pieces of information stored on your computer.

The cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and we do not use cookies to collect personal information and we do not use tracking cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site your name, email address and website is saved in a ‘cookie’. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

We use a third-party company to serve push notifications when we publish a news story or article. This company uses a cookie to send a notification to your computer, which contains no personal data. If you unsubscribe from receiving push notifications, the cookie will be removed from your computer.

We ‘Mailpoet’ to send our weekly Cyprus Property Newsletter to those who have signed up to receive it. Mailpoet uses cookie that allows us to track users who clicked on a link of a newsletter, which is removed when they unsubscribe from receiving our newsletter.

We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”).

Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Mailpoet newsletter & emails

If you have signed up to receive our weekly newsletter you will receive that newsletter by email. We send you the emails to the email address you used when you signed up.

We also log the IP address you used when you signed up for the newsletter to prevent abuse of the system.

We send emails through the MailPoet sending service, which enables us to track opens and clicks on our emails. No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Please refer to MailPoet privacy policy for further information.

Who we share your personal data with

We do not share your personal information with anyone.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

You may contact the editor, Nigel Howarth using the Contact Form.


Additional information

Where is your data stored

Information that you submit to Cyprus Property News is stored on hardware located in the United Kingdom. This is necessary in order to process the information and to send you any information you have requested.

Future changes

We may edit or alter our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any substantial changes by a prominent announcement on this website.


Warnings

Credit card and banking details

WE WILL NEVER ask for your Credit Card or banking details and urge that you DO NOT enter them on any of the forms on this website.

External sites

We are not responsible for the content or reliability of websites to which we link, nor should listing be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages. We advise you to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.