Cookies Policy
The Office of the Commissioner of the Presidency maintains a policy to protect the privacy of visitors to the cydiaspora.gov.cy website . With this note, we provide you with more information on how we use cookies and other automated means to collect specific information about visitors to the cydiaspora.gov.cy website. of our websites, such as the number of visitors to our websites as well as our most visited websites, through any browser and device used. By collecting this information, we learn how to better customize our websites.
Cookies and Other Automated Means of Data Collection
Cookies are small text files that are stored on each of your devices using any browser, whenever you visit a website. We may use cookies to tell us, for example, if you have visited our website in the past or if you are a new visitor, and to help us identify features of our website that you may be most interested in. Cookies can improve your online experience by saving your preferences as you visit a particular website.
IP addresses and URLs
The IP address is a unique identifier that some electronic devices use to locate and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our websites, we can see the IP address of the device you used to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general geographic location of the device and to understand which geographic areas visitors to our website come from. We may use this information to change the way our website is presented to improve your visit.
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique locator or address for any medium on the internet and is essentially the address of the web page you are visiting. We will use this information to see which websites have traffic and how you navigate our website.
On our websites we use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website, allow you to browse and use its functions, such as access to secure areas, registration forms and for security reasons. These cookies do not recognize your individual identity. Without these cookies, we cannot offer efficient operation of our website.
Analysis cookies
We use these purely as part of internal research into ways to improve the service we provide to all our users.
Cookies simply evaluate how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data collected does not identify you personally).
Third party cookies
Some of our websites display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
To view third-party content, you must first accept their terms and conditions. These include their cookie policy, which is beyond our control. However, if you do not view the specific content, no third-party cookies are placed on your device.
Third party providers on our website
- Youtube
These third-party services are beyond our control. The providers may at any time change the terms of use, the purpose and use of cookies, etc.
Social media
The Office of the Presidential Commissioner is not responsible for or has any influence over the processing of users' personal data by the networks themselves. The purpose and scope of data collection, the further processing of data by the social network and the related rights of users and the settings options for the protection of the user's private sphere, can be found in the privacy policies of the respective social network network (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, YouTube, Google).
How to manage cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies whenever you want. More details can be found here: aboutcookies.org.
Delete cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies already on your device by clearing your browser's browsing history. This will delete all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Block cookies
Most modern browsers allow you to set them to prevent cookies from being placed on your device. In this case, however, you may need to manually adjust certain preferences each time you visit a website or webpage.