GDPR Privacy Policy for https://pkf.com.cy/
Effective Date: 01.06.2023
- Introduction
This GDPR Privacy Policy outlines how PKF Cyprus (referred to as "we," "us," or "our") collects, processes, and protects personal data of visitors and users (referred to as "you" or "your") on our website https://pkf.com.cy/ (referred to as the "Website").
- Data Controller
PKF Cyprus acts as the Data Controller for the personal data you provide or that we collect through our Website. If you have any questions regarding this policy or the processing of your personal data, you can contact us at:
Telephone number: +357 25 868 000
Fax number: +357 25 587 871
E-mail: info@pkf.com.cy
- Information We Collect
We may collect various types of personal data, including but not limited to:
- Contact information (e.g., name, email address)
- Demographic information (e.g., age, gender)
- User preferences and settings
- Device and browser information
- IP address and location data
- Cookies and usage data (please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details)
- Information provided through forms or correspondence
- Purpose of Data Processing
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our services
- To respond to your inquiries and requests
- To send you promotional and marketing materials (with your consent)
- To meet legal and regulatory obligations
- Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
- Your consent
- Our legitimate interests
- Data Sharing and Disclosure
We DO NOT share your personal data.
- Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy.
- Your Data Protection Rights
- You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Object to processing
- Withdraw your consent (if processing is based on consent)
- Security Measures
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure.
- Cookies
We use cookies on our Website. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for details on cookie usage.
- Changes to this Policy
We may update this GDPR Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.
- Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our GDPR Privacy Policy or how we process your personal data, please contact us at :
Telephone number: +357 25 868 000
Fax number: +357 25 587 871
E-mail: info@pkf.com.cy
Cookie Policy
Cookies are tiny data files that some websites place on your computer or other device when you visit. They're used by many website owners, including pkf.com. Cookies are linked to the machine you use to visit our site and not to you as an individual. Unless you provide personal data through your use of this website, no personal information is collected.
Cookies are commonly used by websites to remember some aspect of your current or previous visit. This could include things like the choices you've made or preferences you've chosen during your visit. Websites commonly do this in order to improve or tailor your current and future visits to that site or other related sites.
One example may be when you visit a site that you have been to before, that site may use a cookie to check what information you've looked at previously to get an idea of the topics that may be of interest to you.
The information stored in a cookie can only be read by the website that placed the cookie or other sites that it has agreed to share information with.
New regulations on cookies.
EU regulations that came into force in 2018 affecting the use of cookies and the Information Commissioner's Office has issued guidance on the use of cookies on UK sites. At PKF International, we are committed to protecting your privacy and security and we are currently working towards ensuring that we meet the all regulations in full.
Our policy on cookies
Our policy is to use cookies only to improve the way we do business with you or when they're essential to the way the site works.
The types of activities we may use cookies for are to:
- To find out how people use our sites, such as how often they visit, which pages they go to, and which links they click on, so that we can improve our websites
- To help us to provide relevant information, such as details of services and other information that you may be interested in
- We do not use any cookies to store any personal data or other data that could be used to identify you as an individual.
Whenever possible, we will list the cookies used on our websites. PKF International currently uses a Session ID cookie which is purely for collecting website performance based metrics. PKF International does not collect or store any personal data through our website.
How to turn off cookies
You can turn off cookies in your browser settings. If you do turn them off, it is important to remember that you may not be able to use all of the services on our websites.
You can find out more about turning off cookies at the independent website allaboutcookies.org
Details on how we use cookies
The different types of cookies we use
We use two types of cookies:
- Session cookies - these are cookies that are only stored while you are visiting the site
- Persistent cookies - these are cookies that are stored until an expiry date set by the website or in your browser.
The different owners of cookies on our websites
Some of the cookies on our websites have been set by third parties. These cookies include those where:
- we show third-party content, such as YouTube videos
- a third party is providing a service, such as analysing the pages that visitors to our sites view or
- a third party is measuring the effectiveness of advertising links to or from our sites.
Third parties are responsible for any cookies they set. We cannot control these cookies.
Cookies in Flash files
What is Flash?
Flash is a file format used to show video and animation. We use Flash files to present information on our sites and integrate with third parties, such as YouTube.
Flash cookies
It is possible for third party creators of Flash files to set cookies as part of their files. At the moment, it is not possible to identify all flash files that set cookies and this means we cannot guarantee the status of every flash file.
The Flash platform is distributed by Adobe and they offer a number of tools to monitor, block and remove flash cookies:
Find out more about disabling flash cookies (also known as local shared objects)
Change your settings for storing flash cookies
Cookies used for transactions and forms
We've listed the cookies that we standardly use in our detailed table.
From time to time, we may include short-term surveys, comparisons and other temporary features on our site that could use cookies. If we do this, we'll always try to make sure that we list the cookies that are used, but this may not always be possible given the short-term nature of these features.
Detailed report of the cookies on our websites
At PKF International, we are committed to protecting your privacy and security and we are currently working towards ensuring that we meet the new regulations on cookies in full.
Category: Strictly Necessary Cookies (7)
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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ARRAffinity |
pkf.com |
First-party |
Session |
Description: This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
|
_hjTLDTest |
pkf.com |
First-party |
Session |
Description: When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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_hjFirstSeen |
pkf.com |
First-party |
30 minutes |
Description: The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
www.pkf.com |
First-party |
2 minutes |
Description: This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
|
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
pkf.com |
First-party |
30 minutes |
Description: The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
|
ASP.NET_SessionId |
www.pkf.com |
First-party |
Session |
Description: General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
|
__RequestVerificationToken |
www.pkf.com |
First-party |
Session |
Description: This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.
Category: Performance (4)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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_ga |
pkf.com |
First-party |
2 years |
Description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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_gat |
pkf.com |
First-party |
1 minute |
Description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
|
_gid |
pkf.com |
First-party |
1 day |
Description: This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
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Cookie key |
Domain |
Type |
Expiry |
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_hjid |
pkf.com |
First-party |
1 year |
Description: Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
How to turn off cookies
You can turn off cookies in your browser settings. If you do turn them off, it's important to remember that you may not be able to use all the services on our websites.
You can find out more about turning off cookies at the independent website allaboutcookies.org
Further questions about our use of cookies
If you have any questions about specific cookies or our cookie policy, please email us at privacy@pkf.com