COOKIES POLICY

The Cookies Policy (“Policy”) of the Cyprus Football Association ("CFA", "we",”us”) uses cookies to make the access to and the use of the website as user-friendly as possible ("you", "user", "visitor"), while at the same time allowing us to improve our services.

We would like to inform you that cookies are small files of letters and numbers which are created when your internet browser loads our website and stored on your browser or the hard drive of your device. Cookies are stored for various periods of time, from as short as the duration of your browsing session to several months.

We use cookies always in accordance with applicable law, ie Cyprus Law L.112(Ι)2004, which incorporated the European ePrivacy Directive into Cyprus law, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Cyprus Data Protection legislation 125(1)2018. In the event that the use of cookies may involve the processing of personal data, we suggest that you read our Privacy Notice for more information.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session".

A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent from a web server to a web browser, which will be stored in the browser and remain valid until its expiration date (unless deleted by the user before the expiration date).

A session cookie will expire at the end of the user's session when the web browser is closed.

Cookies we use: 

The website uses the following categories of cookies:

1. Strictly necessary cookies: 

These are the necessary cookies for the operation of the website. These cookies enable key features such as security, network management and accessibility.

They are usually regulated by actions you take that correspond to a request for services, such as the definition of your privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block or notify you of these cookies, but some parts of the website will not work. These cookies do not store personal data of the user.

On our website these cookies are enabled by default and your consent is not required.

1. Analytical cookies

These cookies are optional and are used to collect information about how visitors use our website, for example which pages they visit most often, if they receive error messages and how they reached our website, with the sole purpose of improving the use of our website by our visitors. These cookies are sometimes placed by third party traffic and analytics service providers (eg Google).

All information collected by these cookies relates to aggregate information and statistics so they do not directly identify visitors.

Therefore, it is not allowed to store complete IP address information. IP address anonymization / masking takes place immediately after receiving data from the Google Analytics Collection Network, before saving or processing. In addition, CFA has configured the Google Analytics tool so that the IP address used by your device to connect to our website can be further anonymized. Therefore, it is not enabled to store the complete IP address information. IP address anonymization / masking takes place immediately after receiving data from the Google Analytics Network, before saving or processing.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law, or when such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. By using our website and choosing to accept such use of analytics cookies, you consent to the processing of the above-mentioned anonymous data by Google in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above. For more information visit this address.

1.  Functional cookies (preferences)

These cookies are optional and are used to remember the choices you have made, for example, the language of your choice and any changes you have made to the text size and other parts of the websites that you can customize to enhance your experience. By choosing to accept the use of functional cookies, you consent to the processing of the above-mentioned options.

1. Social media cookies / Marketing cookies

These cookies are defined by a number of social media services that we have added to our website to allow you to share our content with your friends and peers.

The posts, images and videos you see on our website can be shared via buttons / icons on social media plugins. These social media cookies allow these buttons to work so that they recognize when you want to share a post or a video. Keep in mind that CFA does not affect the way in which social networks may use your personal data. For more information about cookies set by social networks and possible information they collect, please refer to their respective policies.

Clicking on these icons will interact with social networks and other external platforms. The interactions and information obtained by our website are in any case subject to the privacy settings of each user in relation to each of social network or external platform. We have no influence on the amount of data collected by social networks and external platforms through these buttons. By using our website and choosing to accept the use of these cookies, you consent to the processing of the above-mentioned data by the social network or external platform, in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above.

If you want to know more about cookies and other data that may be collected by these social networks and other external platforms, you can read the relevant privacy policies available at the following links:

• Facebook

• Youtube

• Instagram

By disconnecting / logging out from the pages of your social networks and external platforms and deleting the cookies that have been set, you can prevent them from collecting information about you during your visit to our website.

In the cases where we use other types of cookies that do not qualify as strictly necessary (eg analytical, cookies performance etc.), we shall proceed with such use provided that we have obtained your consent. We generally use various types of cookies (including third party cookies) solely for the purpose of providing a user-friendly, efficient and smooth browsing experience.

Consent / Change your preferences

You can block / disable cookies by accepting, denying or deleting cookies from your web browser. Internet browser settings vary depending on who you are using. However, if your settings prevent the necessary cookies, this may affect the operation and consequently your browsing of our website.

You can consent to the use of cookies / exclude cookies / revoke your consent by modifying your preferences in the tool located at the top of our website. However, if you do not agree to the use of certain types of cookies, this may affect your overall browsing experience.

If you want to change your consent, select the option "Change your consent" at the bottom of the page.

Alternatively, follow the links below to change your settings:

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Mozilla Firefox

Apple Safari

Opera

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Consent

We will use "analytical" "functional" cookies and "social media" cookies (social media) provided that you have given your consent to the use of this type of cookie through the tool located at the top of our website.

In the table below we record more details about the use of cookies by our website such as, for example, the type of cookies used on our website and the corresponding legal basis.

In the following table we describe the type of cookies used on our website and the corresponding legal basis.

Contact us:

For any further information on this Policy, please contact us:

Phone: 0035722352341 

Email : [email protected]

Version: 2021