Cookies Policy

The website of MEDITERRANEAN HOSPITAL OF CYPRUS ( MHOC ) LIMITED (“Hospital”, “we”,”us”) uses cookies to make the use of the website as efficient and user-friendly as possible to the website users (“you”, “user”, “visitor”).

We use cookies always in accordance with this Policy and applicable law, i.e. Cyprus Law L.112(Ι)2004, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Cyprus Data Protection legislation 125(1)2018.

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.

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 the user’s consent is not required.

2. 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 or how they reached our website, for the purpose of improving the use of the website. 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 you while browsing our website.

Therefore, we do not allow the storage of 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, we have 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.

3. 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 we do 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 are in any subject to the privacy settings made by each user in relation to each social network or external platform used. We have no influence on 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 cookies, please read the relevant privacy policies available at the following links:

Facebook
Youtube

4. Functional cookies (preferences)
These cookies are optional and are used to remember the choices you have made, for example, the language of your choice, text size selection etc. By choosing to accept the use of functional cookies, you consent to the processing of the above-mentioned options.

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.

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:

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.

Below we record more details about the use of cookies by our website such as, cookie name, domain, purpose and duration. For all non-strictly necessary cookies, the legal basis on which we rely for such processing is consent pursuant to L.112(Ι)2004.

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This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.

3 months

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The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

3 months

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Analytics

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

2 years

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Analytics

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.

1 day

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Necessary