Cookie Policy

Last updated: 7 August 2026

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how A.P. Owning Cyprus Ltd, trading as Owning Cyprus, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit owningcyprus.com.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal data.

In this Cookie Policy, references to “Owning Cyprus”, “we”, “us” or “our” mean A.P. Owning Cyprus Ltd.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can perform various functions, including:

  • Enabling essential Website functionality;
  • Maintaining secure user sessions;
  • Remembering preferences;
  • Helping protect forms and accounts;
  • Measuring Website usage and performance;
  • Supporting embedded third-party services; and
  • Providing advertising or marketing functionality, where applicable.

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

3. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by owningcyprus.com.

They may be used, for example, to:

  • Maintain Website functionality;
  • Remember your cookie preferences;
  • Manage login sessions;
  • Protect forms and accounts; and
  • Remember Website settings.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by services provided by organisations other than Owning Cyprus.

These may arise when the Website uses services such as:

  • Google Maps;
  • Analytics services;
  • Video platforms;
  • Social-media services;
  • Anti-spam or security services;
  • Advertising platforms; or
  • Other externally provided Website functionality.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

4. Categories of Cookies We Use

Cookies used on the Website may fall into the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the Website to operate correctly and securely.

They may be required to:

  • Remember your cookie-consent choices;
  • Maintain secure Website sessions;
  • Allow users to log into their accounts;
  • Prevent fraud and malicious activity;
  • Protect Website forms;
  • Maintain security settings; and
  • Provide functionality specifically requested by you.

Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the Website or for a service you have specifically requested, they cannot normally be disabled through our cookie-consent system.

You may still be able to block them through your browser, but doing so may prevent parts of the Website from functioning correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

They may be used to remember:

  • Language preferences;
  • Search settings;
  • Previously selected options;
  • Display preferences; and
  • Other Website customisations.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they will only be activated with your consent where consent is legally required.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website.

They may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited;
  • Time spent on pages;
  • How visitors arrived at the Website;
  • Links or buttons clicked;
  • General device and browser information;
  • Approximate geographic information; and
  • Website errors or performance information.

We may use this information to understand Website traffic and improve the performance, design and usability of owningcyprus.com.

Where consent is required, analytics cookies will not be activated unless you choose to accept them.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Where used, advertising or marketing cookies may help us:

  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising;
  • Understand whether visitors arrived through an advertisement;
  • Prevent the same advertisement from being displayed excessively;
  • Create audiences for advertising campaigns; or
  • Provide advertising that may be more relevant to users.

These cookies may be placed by third-party advertising or social-media providers.

Advertising and marketing cookies are not necessary for the Website to function and will only be activated after you provide consent where required.

5. Similar Technologies

In addition to traditional cookies, the Website or third-party services may use similar technologies, including:

  • Local storage;
  • Session storage;
  • Pixels;
  • Tags;
  • Scripts;
  • Software development technologies;
  • Device identifiers; and
  • Similar tracking or storage mechanisms.

For the purposes of this Policy, references to “cookies” also include similar technologies where appropriate.

6. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit owningcyprus.com, you may be presented with a cookie-consent banner.

Where non-essential cookies are used, you should be given options such as:

Accept All – allows all available cookie categories.

Reject All – rejects cookies that are not strictly necessary.

Manage Preferences – allows you to choose which optional cookie categories you wish to permit.

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for the Website or a service you have requested.

Non-essential cookies requiring consent should not be placed before you make a valid choice. Valid consent requires a genuine affirmative action; pre-selected consent options are not sufficient. (European Data Protection Board)

7. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent

You may change your cookie preferences or withdraw your consent at any time.

You can do this by selecting the Cookie Settings link available on the Website.

Changing your preferences will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

Withdrawing consent should be as easy as providing it. (European Data Protection Board)

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies;
  • Delete existing cookies;
  • Block all cookies;
  • Block third-party cookies;
  • Allow cookies only from selected websites; or
  • Delete cookies automatically when the browser closes.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the Website to stop working correctly.

8. Cookie Consent Records

Where legally necessary, we may maintain a record of your cookie choices.

This may include information such as:

  • The consent preference selected;
  • The date or time of the selection;
  • The version of the consent notice presented; and
  • A technical identifier required to remember your selection.

Such records may be maintained where necessary to demonstrate and manage compliance with applicable data-protection requirements.

9. Cookies Used by Owning Cyprus

The exact cookies used by owningcyprus.com may change as Website functionality and service providers change.

The Website’s cookie-consent system should provide an up-to-date list of cookies currently detected or used.

For transparency, the cookie information should identify, where applicable:

Information Description
Cookie name The technical name of the cookie
Provider The organisation that places the cookie
Purpose Why the cookie is used
Category Necessary, Functional, Analytics or Marketing
Duration How long the cookie remains on the device
Type First-party or third-party

We periodically review the cookies and similar technologies used on the Website and may update this section accordingly.

10. WordPress Cookies

Owningcyprus.com is built using WordPress.

WordPress and associated Website functionality may use cookies where necessary for purposes such as:

  • User authentication;
  • Login sessions;
  • Website administration;
  • Security;
  • User preferences; and
  • Other essential Website functionality.

The specific cookies used may depend on whether you are logged in and which Website features you use.

Optional WordPress plugins may also place cookies. Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they will be treated according to the relevant cookie category and consent requirements.

11. Google Maps and Embedded Content

Property pages may contain maps, videos or other content provided by external services.

When third-party content is loaded, the relevant provider may receive information such as:

  • Your IP address;
  • Browser information;
  • Device information;
  • The page being viewed; and
  • Information stored through cookies or similar technologies.

Where an embedded service uses non-essential cookies requiring consent, the service should remain blocked until the relevant consent has been provided.

If you interact with an external provider, that provider may process information under its own terms and privacy policy.

12. Social Media and Messaging Services

The Website may include links, buttons or functionality relating to services such as social-media platforms or messaging applications.

Simply displaying a normal link does not necessarily result in tracking. However, embedded plugins, pixels, widgets or other integrated functionality may allow the third-party provider to collect information about your interaction with the Website.

Where such processing requires consent, the relevant functionality will only be activated after consent has been provided.

13. Analytics Services

If Owning Cyprus uses an analytics service, the service may process information about how visitors interact with the Website.

Analytics may help us:

  • Determine how many people visit the Website;
  • Identify frequently visited pages;
  • Understand how users navigate property listings;
  • Detect Website problems;
  • Measure Website performance; and
  • Improve our services.

Analytics cookies requiring consent will remain disabled unless you choose to enable the relevant cookie category.

14. Advertising Technologies

Owning Cyprus may use online advertising to promote properties and real-estate services.

Where advertising technologies such as tracking pixels, conversion tracking or remarketing tools are used, they may allow advertising providers to recognise a browser or device and measure interactions with advertisements.

Where legally required, such technologies will only be activated after you provide consent to the relevant marketing or advertising category.

Refusing advertising cookies should not prevent you from browsing the Website or accessing normal property information.

15. Do We Sell Personal Data?

Owning Cyprus does not sell your personal data to advertisers or other organisations.

Certain third-party services may receive information when you consent to their cookies or interact with their services, as described in this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

16. International Data Transfers

Some third-party providers may process information outside Cyprus or outside the European Economic Area.

Where personal data are transferred internationally, the relevant transfer must be carried out using an appropriate legal mechanism where required under applicable data-protection law.

Further information about international transfers is available in our Privacy Policy.

17. How Long Are Cookies Stored?

The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose.

Cookies may be:

Session Cookies

These are temporary cookies that normally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies

These remain on your device after you close your browser and expire after a specified period or when you delete them manually.

We aim to keep the duration of cookies proportionate to their purpose.

The exact lifetime of individual cookies should be shown in the detailed cookie information available through our cookie settings.

18. Keeping Your Preferences

A strictly necessary cookie or similar storage mechanism may be used to remember whether you:

  • Accepted cookies;
  • Rejected optional cookies; or
  • Selected particular cookie categories.

Without this mechanism, the Website may need to ask you for your cookie choices every time you visit.

For example, the European Data Protection Board itself uses an essential cookie to remember a visitor’s choice regarding non-essential cookies. (European Data Protection Board)

19. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, including when:

  • New Website functionality is introduced;
  • A plugin or service provider is added or removed;
  • The cookies used by the Website change;
  • Our consent-management system changes;
  • Legal or regulatory requirements change; or
  • We need to clarify existing information.

The latest version will always be published on owningcyprus.com.

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when the Policy was most recently revised.

Where a significant change affects your cookie choices, we may ask you to review or provide your preferences again.

20. Privacy Policy

Cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal data.

For more information about:

  • What personal data we collect;
  • Why we process it;
  • The legal bases we rely on;
  • Data retention;
  • Data sharing;
  • International transfers; and
  • Your data-protection rights,

please read our Privacy Policy.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact:

A.P. Owning Cyprus Ltd
Trading as Owning Cyprus
Licensed Real Estate Agency

Website: owningcyprus.com
Email: info@owningcyprus.com