1. Introduction
CyExpats.com helps people plan a move to Cyprus with guides, calculators, and practical resources. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, how it is used, and what choices you have.
By using the Site, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with it, please stop using the Site.
2. Information I Collect
Calculator data
Most calculator inputs are processed in your browser and are not intentionally collected or stored by me. Some calculators may call helper endpoints for market or exchange-rate data, but your manually entered planning figures are generally used on the page to calculate results.
Information you provide
If you contact me or submit a request, I may receive your name, email address, subject, message, and any information you choose to include.
Technical, advertising, and analytics data
Hosting, security, analytics, translation, and advertising systems may process technical data such as IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, pages viewed, approximate location, timestamps, cookies, web beacons, or other identifiers.
3. How I Use Information
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site.
- Respond to requests, questions, bug reports, and suggestions.
- Understand which guides and tools are useful.
- Display advertising, prevent invalid traffic, measure ad performance, and measure site performance where applicable.
- Comply with legal obligations or protect the Site from misuse.
4. Sharing Information
I do not sell your personal information. Information may be shared with limited service providers that help operate the Site, such as hosting, email delivery, security, translation, analytics, advertising, or embedded services.
Information may also be disclosed if required by law, legal process, or to protect rights, safety, security, or the normal operation of the Site.
5. Cookie Categories
The Site may use cookies, web beacons, local storage, IP addresses, or similar technologies. Cookies are used for different purposes, and not every visitor will receive every type of cookie.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies or local storage items are needed for core site functions, security, language or display preferences, form protection, and basic operation. They do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the service you request.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies may be used to understand how visitors use the Site, which pages are useful, and how the Site can be improved. If analytics tools are enabled, they may process technical information such as device type, browser, pages viewed, approximate location, and timestamps.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to show ads, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, prevent invalid traffic, and personalize ads where permitted. Third-party vendors, including Google and other advertising partners where applicable, may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers, as a result of ad serving on this Site.
- Google may use advertising cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and/or other websites.
- Other third-party vendors or ad networks may also use cookies to serve ads on this Site where applicable.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising or manage how Google personalizes ads by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You may also learn about choices for some third-party personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices, where available.
6. Google AdSense
CyExpats.com may use Google AdSense to display ads. Google and other partners, where applicable, may process data to provide, personalize, measure, and improve advertising, including by using cookies or similar technologies.
Ads may be personalized or non-personalized depending on your location, consent choices, browser settings, Google settings, and applicable law. Personalized ads may use information such as visits to this Site or other websites. Non-personalized ads may still use contextual information, approximate location, and basic technical data for delivery, fraud prevention, frequency capping, and measurement.
Where required, Google AdSense or another Google-certified consent management platform may ask for your consent before personalized ads or related advertising cookies are used.
You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services at Google's partner site policy page.
7. Third-Party Partners and Services
The Site may use or link to third-party services. These services have their own privacy practices and may process data independently.
- Google AdSense: advertising delivery, ad personalization where permitted, ad measurement, fraud prevention, and invalid traffic protection.
- Google services: advertising, security, browser, or consent-related processing connected with Google products used on the Site.
- GTranslate or translation services: language translation features and related technical processing where enabled.
- Analytics providers: site usage measurement if analytics tools are enabled in the future.
- Hosting and security providers: website delivery, logs, uptime, abuse prevention, and security monitoring.
Some data may be processed outside the European Economic Area by third-party partners, such as Google, in accordance with their privacy policies and applicable transfer safeguards.
8. Consent Choices and Withdrawal
For visitors in regions where consent is required, non-essential cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, should only be used after the visitor has provided explicit consent through Google AdSense consent messages, Google-certified CMP controls, or another consent management mechanism used on the Site.
Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You may withdraw or change consent through the consent controls shown by Google AdSense or the active CMP where available, by changing your browser settings, by using device-level privacy settings, or by visiting Google Ads Settings.
If you block or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies, some website features, translation features, analytics, or advertising functionality may be limited or may work differently.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and the data involved, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, transfer your personal data, or withdraw consent.
To exercise these rights, please contact me through the contact page. I may need to verify your identity before processing a request.
10. Data Security and Retention
I use reasonable administrative and technical measures to help protect information. No website, email system, or internet transmission is perfectly secure, so please avoid sending passwords, full payment data, or sensitive identity documents through forms.
Contact messages and technical logs may be retained as long as reasonably needed for support, security, legal, advertising compliance, fraud prevention, or operational purposes.
11. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your privacy choices, please use the contact page.