When you connect to our website, and depending on your consent, we (or our associates) may install various cookie on your device to recognize your device’s browser for as long as the cookie is valid.
Through this page, we would like to help you understand what cookies are, how to use them and your cookie preferences.
Manage your cookies settings.
What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a general term for a text file saved in a dedicated space on the device’s hard drive (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by a media user (internet, applications, etc.) when viewing content or online advertising.
This cookie file allows its issuer to identify the device on which it is stored, to track the media user’s activity and to recall information, such as user preferences or information the user previously entered in forms on the medium, for as long as the cookie is valid or stored. Certain cookies are essential to using the medium, others optimize and customize the content shown, and others show advertising.
Cookies do not identify a user directly, but identify the browser or a device. Information about the content viewed on a medium is directly linked to an identifier in the cookie. When a user browses on a medium, this identifier is linked to the page views and, generally, to the journey and interactions on the medium; therefore, it is possible to track a user’s entire browsing of the medium.
The use of cookies allows browsing data to be linked to the user’s profile, irrespective of the device used, owing to cookie exchange technology implemented by the associates who issue these cookies, – generally communications agencies or digital advertising firms – so that a user’s journey may be tracked whatever the device or medium used.
What cookies are used on the VersionDermaCyprus.com website?
When you connect to our website, we may install four types of cookies on your device:
- Technical cookies allow you to browse the website, ensure its security, and give you access to the various products and services on the website.
- Audience measurement cookies allow us to collect visitor statistics, compare them with other websites and decide on actions (e.g. sending an email).
- Social sharing cookies allow you to share our website contents with other people or to share your viewing or opinion of the website content with others
How are you informed?
When you visit our website for the first time, and VERSIONDERMACYPRUS intends to place cookies other than technical cookies, we inform you that we use cookies on an informational banner at the bottom of the page. By continuing to browse the website when this banner is shown, you consent to us using these cookies. However, you can change the settings for these cookies at any time (see section “Your cookie choices”).
Below you will find further information about cookies and how you can manage their settings.
Duration of storage and consequences of blocking cookies.
| Cookie types | Storage duration | Consequences of blocking |
| Strictly necessary cookies Personalization cookies | Their lifespan is very short, usually for the length of the session. Their lifespan is very short, usually for the length of the session, a few hours, or one day at most. | You may not be able to access the site or its services. The website presentation does not adapt to the display preferences of your device, while your passwords and information about forms completed on the website are not saved. |
| Analysis, performance and audience measurement cookies | The lifespan of audience measurement cookies does not exceed 22 months. | No consequences on the use of the website. |
| Social sharing cookies | The lifespan of these social sharing cookies is determined by each social network, but must not exceed 13 months. | No consequences on the use of the website. However, deactivating these cookies will prevent all interaction with the social networks concerned. |
Your cookie choices
By using our website, you consent to the use of the cookies specified above. You may choose to deactivate some or all of these cookies at any time.
There are various ways to manage your choices concerning cookies:
Cookie management tools
VERSION DERMA CYPRUS’S cookie management tool allows you to see and control how most of the website cookies are used when you browse, and to manage your preferences
You may not be able to manage certain cookies with this tool. The ways to deactivate them are listed below:
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/cookie-full
JCC Payment Systems https://www.jcc.com.cy/privacy-statement-and-cookies/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Pinterest https://policy.pinterest.com/en/cookies
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/legal/cookies/
YouTube https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Your browser choices
Your browser may allow you to choose to disable all or some cookies, either systematically or according to the issuer. You can also configure your browser software to accept or reject cookies (case by case or all).
However, bear in mind that disabling all cookies will prevent you from using our website under normal conditions, except for basic functions.
Internet Explorer:
Click on the Tools button and then on Internet options. On the General tab, Browsing history, click on Settings. Then, click View files and select it or the cookies you want to disable. Then, close the window that contains the list of cookies and click OK twice to return to the internet.
Firefox:
Click on the Firefox menu button, then Tools, then Options. In the pop-up window, choose the Privacy tab and click on Remove cookie. Select the cookies you want to disable and then delete them.
Safari:
Click on the Settings button and then Preferences. In the pop-up window, click on Privacy/Security and then click on Show cookies. Select the cookies you want to disable then click on Remove or Remove all.
Chrome:
Click on the Google Chrome menu button, then Settings. At the bottom of the page, click on Advanced. In the Privacy and security section, click on Site settings. To deactivate cookies: Select Cookies, click on All cookies and site data, then expand the site that created the cookie and click X in the right corner or click on Remove All.
Transferring Personal Data Outside the European Union
Please note that since some of our digital advertising associates are located outside the European Union, data collected using cookies may be transferred to non-EU member states, whose personal data protection legislation differs from the legislation in force in Cyprus. We strictly request that our associates use the information collected using cookies on our website solely to manage or provide the services requested and ask them to always act in accordance with applicable data protection laws and to pay particular attention to the confidentiality of the information transmitted. To find out more, please refer to their own personal data protection policies.
To advance further: understand how cookies are used in detail
- Technical cookies
- Audience measurement cookies
- Social sharing cookies
Technical cookies
Technical cookies include cookies required to browse the website (e.g. session IDs) and they allow you to access specific features, such as being able to recognize you, to signal your visit to a page or to improve your browsing experience, including:
– storing information about a form that you have filled in on our website (account registration or access) or products, services, or information that you have chosen on our website (subscriber services, shopping cart content, etc.),
– giving you access to exclusive and personal areas on our website, such as your account using your credentials and the date you may have given us previously,
– implementing security measures, such as when you are asked to sign in again to a piece of content or service after a certain amount of time,
– adjusting the appearance of the website to your device’s display preferences (e.g. language used or screen resolution).
You can refuse the use of this type of cookies and delete them in your browser settings (see section “Your browser choices”). However, you may not be able to access the website or its services.
Audience measurement cookies
Audience measurement cookies measure the audience of various types of content and sections on our website, to evaluate and organize them, and in particular to:
– obtain visitor statistics and volumes and use the various elements that make up our website (sections and content visited, journeys), so as to help us improve the interest in and the user-friendliness of our services,
– adjust the appearance of our website or advertising areas to your device’s display preferences (language used, screen resolution, operating system used, etc.) when you visit our website, according to your equipment and the analysis and software specifications on your device.
Audience measurement cookies are issued by our service providers or us. Other than visitor analysis, they can detect browsing problems to help us improve the user-friendliness of our services.
The visitor analysis services that this website uses only generate and send aggregate statistics and visitor volumes to our technical contractors and exclude all personal information. These statistics are crosschecked against statistics of visitors of other websites as well as against your customer data.
In the same way, we also use measurement tools to measure the effectiveness of our email campaigns, so as to allow us to plan relevant sales actions according to the information collected (e.g. sending a new message or a personalized offer).
You may choose to disable the use of cookies that statistically analyze your browsing data. To do this, see section “Your cookie choices”.
For more details you can refer to Google “Privacy and Terms” on the following address: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en
How is this information collected from advertising cookies?
Advertising cookies are stored on the user’s device by tracking technologies (trackers) provided by our associates, which are inserted into the pages visited or directly inserted by advertisers into the advertisements shown on the website. This tracker will automatically send information about the content of the visited page or the advertisement placed on the visited page to these associates. This information is crosschecked against the ID contained in the cookies stored on your device by the associates.
How is this information crosschecked?
If you have an online account, a loyalty card or when you place an order, the information collected by advertising cookies on the website or on third-party sites is crosschecked and combined with the information from the use of your account or our products and services to create a user profile that is used for targeted advertising and direct marketing.
Your profile is also enriched with information obtained from your interactions with our associates or other issuers who are clients of these associates. Connections are also made with data collected offline and stored in our customer management tools or in those managed by these business associates (such as communications agencies, audience measurement institutions or targeted advertising firms).
What is the benefit of being shown advertising adapted to your browsing?
Our goal is to show you the most relevant advertising possible. To this end, using cookies allows us to identify in real time which advertisement to show on a device, according to its recent journey on one or more websites or apps. Your interest in the advertising content that is shown on your device when you visit a website often determines the advertising resources that allow using services often provided to users for free. This allows us and third parties to show advertisements that match your interests rather than advertisements that will not interest you.
Social sharing cookies
Our website contains cookies in links to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and other similar social media, allowing you to share our website’s contents with other people or to share your viewing of or opinion on the web site’s content with others. These cookies are stored directly by these social networks, as is specifically the case with the “share” and “like” buttons on Facebook and Instagram. The social network that provides such a button may be able to identify you, even if you did not use it while visiting the website. This type of application button may allow the social network in question to track your browsing on our website simply because your account on the social network was active on the device (open session) while you were browsing our website. We have no control over the processes the social networks use to collect information about your browsing of our website and how they are associated with the personal data that they possess.
If you are signed in to the social network while you browse our website, the social sharing buttons allow the content you view to be linked to your user account.
We recommend that you read these social networks’ privacy policies to find out how they use the browsing information that they obtain from these buttons, particularly for advertising purposes.
Last Update: 9/6/2021