Cookie Policy
1. What are Cookies?
The website owned by L-Medical Holdings LTD (hereinafter, "the website" or "the site") uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies may serve various purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalizing the way content is displayed.
The user can configure their browser to notify them and to refuse the installation of cookies sent by the website, without affecting the ability to access its content, although the site's performance may deteriorate.
Below, we describe the specific uses we make of these technologies.
2. What Types of Cookies Exist?
The cookies, depending on their persistence, can be divided into:
Session Cookies | These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that only needs to be preserved for providing the requested service. They expire when the user closes the browser. |
Persistent Cookies | These are cookies in which the data remains stored on the device and can be accessed and processed during a defined period that depends on the service's purpose (for example, to keep the user logged in) or until they are manually deleted. |
According to the owner, they can be divided into:
First-Party Cookies | These are sent to the user's device from a server or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the requested service is provided. |
Third-Party Cookies | These are sent to the user's device from a server or domain that is not managed by the publisher but by another entity that processes the data obtained via the cookies. |
Additionally, according to their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:
Technical Cookies | These cookies enable the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and to utilize the different options or services available, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying sessions, accessing restricted areas, remembering the items in an order, processing a purchase, registering or participating in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or audio broadcasting, or sharing content via social networks. |
Personalization or Preference Cookies | These cookies allow the site to remember information so that the user can access the service with certain characteristics that may differentiate their experience from that of other users; for example, language, number of search results, layout or content of the service depending on the browser used, or the region from which they access the service. |
Geolocation Cookies | These cookies are used to determine the country in which the user is located when a service is requested. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help tailor content to the user’s location. |
Registration Cookies |
These cookies are generated once the user has registered or logged in, and are used to identify them in the services for the following purposes:
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Analytics or Measurement Cookies |
Each time a user visits a service, an external provider's tool generates an analytical cookie on the user's computer. This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will be used on subsequent visits to the website's services to anonymously identify the visitor. The main objectives are:
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Behavioral Advertising Cookies | This type of cookie allows enhancing the information of the ads displayed to each anonymous user on the website’s services. Among other data, it stores the duration or frequency of ad impressions, interaction with them, or patterns of navigation and/or user behavior, which help to build an advertising profile. In this way, it allows offering ads that match the user’s interests. |
Third-Party Ad Cookies | In addition to the advertising managed by the site on its services, the website offers advertisers the option to serve ads through third-parties (AdServers). This way, these third-parties can store cookies sent from the website's services via users' browsers as well as access the data stored in them. |
3. Which Cookies Do We Use?
The cookies used on our website are as follows:
First-Party | ||||
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Name | Type | Domain | Expiration | Function | L-Medical Holdings LTD does not directly manage any of the cookies used. |
Third-Party | ||||
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Name | Type | Domain | Expiration | Function |
zaraz-consent, cf_consent_vendors, euconsent-v2 | Consent Management | Cloudflare | 1 year | Keeps user consent preferences for cookies and data processing. |
cfz_google-analytics_v4, cfzs_google-analytics_v4 | Analytics | 1 year | Used to distinguish users and sessions for website usage statistics. |
4. How to Disable Cookies?
Generally, it is possible to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, or to stop accepting cookies from a specific service. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in your browser’s options or preferences menu. You can also configure your browser or email client, and even install free add-ons to prevent web bugs from downloading when you open an email. The website provides guidance on how to access the cookie settings menu and, when applicable, the private browsing mode in each of the main browsers:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
Likewise, the user can modify, configure and, where applicable, revoke the consent given for the installation of cookies using the modal available on all pages of the website and/or by clicking the following link.
5. Data Transfers to Third Countries
The installation of cookies described in section 3 of this Cookie Policy could involve the transfer of data to third countries. In this regard, international data transfers imply a flow of personal data from Cyprus territory to recipients established in countries outside the European Economic Area (EU countries plus Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway).
Therefore, the international data transfers we perform on our website are:
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Name | Type | Entity | Country | GDPR Article | More Information |
_gad, _gid, _ga | Analytics | Google Inc. | USA | Adequacy decision (Article 45.1 of the GDPR) | Access Google Inc's adherence to the Data Privacy Framework: here. |
_cfduid | Security | Cloudflare, Inc. | USA | Adequacy decision (Article 45.1 of the GDPR) | Access Cloudflare's adherence to the Data Privacy Framework: here. |
You can obtain more information about data transfers to third countries, if applicable, from third parties identified in this Cookie Policy by referring to their respective policies (links provided in the “Third-Party Cookies” section).
6. Rights of the Data Subjects
Please note that data protection regulations, in Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, allow data subjects to exercise the rights of access, rectification, deletion ("right to be forgotten"), objection, portability, restriction of processing and the right to object to automated decision-making (including profiling).
You may exercise these rights at our physical address located at Σπύρου Κυπριανού, 84, 4004, Λεμεσός, Κύπρος or by email at [email protected]. For additional information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
7. Retention Periods
In compliance with Article 13.2.a) of the GDPR, please note that cookies will be installed for a specific period of time. If you wish to check the retention periods or obtain further information on this matter, refer to the “Expiration” column in section 3, “Which Cookies Do We Use?”.
8. Can This Cookie Policy Be Changed?
L-Medical Holdings LTD may modify this Cookie Policy in response to legislative or regulatory requirements or to comply with instructions from European and/or national supervisory authorities (in our case, the Cyprus Data Protection Agency). Users are advised to review it periodically.
Finally, you may refer to our Privacy Policy for additional information (Article 13 of the GDPR) regarding the processing of your personal data by L-Medical Holdings LTD.