What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the said website. In this way, the website remembers your actions and preferences for a period of time, and as a result you don’t have to insert your preferences every time you visit the website or go through its webpages. Cookies do not collect information on their own, but when read by a server of a web browser they can provide information in order to provide the user with a friendlier service.
What kind of cookies are used on the MoD Website?
Cookies used by the website are either persistent or session temporary.
Session (temporary) cookies are deleted at the end of your navigation and/or after you close your browser.
Persistent (permanent) cookies remain on your computer or device until you delete them or for a predetermined, for the cookie, period of time.
In addition, when you visit our webpage, some of our partners (Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook Pixel Code) place, on our behalf third-party cookies, through which they collect data for advertisement performance and your interaction with our website.
This data may be used by our partners above, in order to reach to statistical conclusions and to improve your advertising experience as a visitor.
Which cookies are used on our website and what kind of information do they collect?
Our website uses cookies for various purposes depending on their operation:
Absolutely necessary/ Basic Cookies. Absolutely necessary cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website, as they allow you to browse and use its functions, such as access to secure areas or use of a shopping basket. These cookies do not recognise your personal identity. Without these cookies, we cannot offer an effective operation of our website.
Functionality Cookies. Functionality cookies help the website remember your choices, such as your username, your language and your region. As a result, we may provide personalised functions. In addition to that, they help provide services you have requested, such as viewing videos or using social media. They do not allow us to monitor your activity on other websites.
Traffic Data Processing Cookies. We use Traffic Data Processing Cookies in order to detect technical problems that may arise during your navigation. Based on the information collected by these cookies, we fix technical errors and problems and we constantly improve our provided services. Thus, we respond better to your personal needs. Our cookies are not used for any other purposes than the ones described in this document.
Performance cookies. Performance cookies collect information about the way you use our website, such as which pages you visit more frequently and whether you receive error messages. The information that these cookies collect is collective and are used solely to improve the performance of our website.
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Analytics |
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Google Analytics Cookie |
30 days |
Targeting and Statistical Usage Cookies
These cookies are used in order to provide content which best fits you and your interests. They can be used for the limitation of advertisements or for the measurement of the effectiveness of a publication.
In addition to that, we use cookies in order to improve our website, to collect information with regards to the time and way that visitors interact with our website and the services provided. For example we collect information on how many times a visitor has seen a service and whether s/he chose to share it on social media.
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Analytics |
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Google Analytics Cookie |
30 days |
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AdWords |
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Google AdWords Remarketing Cookie |
30 to 90 days |
Social Network Cookies
These cookies are necessary to link your social media account with our website. For example, for you to be allowed to share information of our website with your friends on social media, or to state that you want to follow our social media page. Social Network Cookies are not required for navigating our website.
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Facebook Pixel |
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Facebook Remarketing Cookie |
30 days |
How to check cookies?
Cookies are stored on your computer or your device, after you have been informed about your privacy settings and you give your consent for each of their categories, with the exception of Basic Cookies, Function Cookies and Traffic Data Processing Cookies, for which consent is not required. If you do not accept the cookies or some of their categories, it is possible that some of the website’s characteristics will not be fully available, but in any case you will not be denied access to our website.
It is in your discretion to revoke, whenever you choose, your consent or to reject the use of cookies on your computer or your device, to check and/or to delete cookies.
You can delete cookies from your computer, or your device, anytime you wish by following the process below:
For Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
For Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=el
For Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
This way you withdraw your consent to the use of cookies on your computer or your device.
You can also set the browser you are using in such way, so it may notify you about the use of cookies on certain services of webpages, by not allowing the use of cookies under any circumstances.
What are your rights?
You have the right to request for information about the process of your personal data, to have access to them, to correct and add to them at any given time. In addition, you have the right to ask for them to be deleted, to limit their processing or to revoke your consent for the use of some or all of the cookies, as well as for the process of your data.
In order to exercise your rights you may submit your request at defence@mod.gov.cy.
Where can you find more information about the protection of personal data that cookies collect?
Information about the protection of your personal data, as well as your rights on this matter can be found in the Personal Data Protection Policy here.
Changes in the Cookie’s Policy
The current Cookies Policy may be altered at any given time. To this end, we consider it appropriate to regularly refer to the current Policy. The current policy came into effect in January 2019. In the case of alteration the date that it took place will be stated. The most recently altered policy is always considered as the valid one.
