Privacy Policy

GENERAL INFORMATION

Injuryclaims.com.cy, (hereafter also referred to as “Injury Claims” or “We”) is a website owned and operated by Marinos Shambartas Lawyers, a law firm based in the Republic of Cyprus, a member of the European Union (EU), which shall maintain legal jurisdiction.

This website and our law firm is committed to protecting your privacy. This website, https://www.injuryclaims.com.cy is presented as is seen by the user, and makes no express or implied representations or warranties regarding its legal services.

Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully, as it explains what data may be collected either directly on this website or via third parties, or that you provide voluntarily to our company via this website, and how it may be used/processed, respecting the privacy of all website visitors and any personal data.

By submitting any personal data directly via this website, you agree to its possible use, processing and storing, as explained hereafter in this Privacy Policy.

For more information regarding any legalities, unlawful copyright and misuse of information on this website, please visit and read the Website Disclaimer. If anything is unclear or for further information regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us directly:
39 Dimofontos & John Kennedy
Office 301, 1075, Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: +357 22 27 62 01
Email: info ‘at’ injuryclaims.com.cy

INFORMATION WE COLLECT & PRIVACY OF DATA

Our law firm Marinos Shambartas Lawyers and this website injuryclaims.com.cy (“We”) appreciate your interest and visit to our website and would like to explain what data we collect, how and why, and to emphasise the importance we place on your privacy so you may feel comfortable in using this website and when submitting an enquiry for our legal services. For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are the data controller.

Our law firm is fully committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in the processing of your personal data. We pay special consideration to this matter, both with regards to processing data collected or provided via this website, or rather that you provide voluntarily to our firm, as well as generally in the context of business and legal processes.

Any and all specific personal data collected via this website, or that you provide to our law firm directly, is done so as seen and voluntarily by you as the user, for instance when using our contact form for an enquiry about our legal services in personal injuries or other such enquiry. The type of data collected may then be held by us on paper and electronically.

USES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Any personal data that you provide voluntarily to our law firm directly via this website, such as via the contact form, is processed only by authorised personnel for the very purpose for which you have provided them, legitimately, and according to the legal provisions valid for the jurisdiction in which the website is maintained and/or the nature of the enquiry. The only way we may use such information is to process or provide more information about our legal services in personal injuries, or as per the enquiry made.

TRANSFERRING PERSONAL DATA TO A COUNTRY OUTSIDE THE EU

Since our legal services in personal injuries also covers claims made in Cyprus by foreign nationals, we may be in a position where we must transfer certain personal data that we collect via this website, or that you provide voluntarily to our firm, on European Union (“EU”) and non-EU data subjects to a country outside the EU, as needed for the specific enquiry and related operations, as well as for adhering to local legal requirements.

SECURITY AND SAFETY OF DATA AND ITS STORAGE

This website DOES NOT store any personal data or information as such. Any enquiries sent via the website, are not stored on the website, but sent over email connection.

Further to this, every effort is made to put in place suitable precautions to safeguard security and privacy of any personal data received and handled by our company to prevent it from being altered, corrupted, destroyed or accessed by unauthorised parties.

Please be aware that this website may include links to other external websites or other Internet sources, including social media platforms and third-party websites. Since we cannot control these websites and external sources, our company cannot be held responsible for the provision or display of these websites and external sources, and may not be held liable for the content, advertising, products, services, or any other material available on or from these websites or external sources, nor their collection and processing of any personal data.

LIMITATION ON STORAGE

We will not keep personal data active longer than is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which they were collected. We will take all reasonable actions to destroy, or erase all data from our website and other systems which is no longer required.

COMPULSORY DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We will only disclose any information if we are under a duty to disclose or share in order to comply with any legal obligation and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our law firm and its staff, our customers, or others. This might include exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of criminal investigation, fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Our law firm may be compelled to disclose a certain amount of information in relation to you under local governing law, or court orders or on receipt of legal notices to produce documents/information.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION / YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Under the EU’s GDPR, you have the right to access information/data held about you, and the right to correct, amend, delete, and object to further processing.

Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the GDPR. Any access request will be free of charge, although multiple copies will be subject to a reasonable fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. We will endeavour to provide you with the personal data in the same machine-readable format and will make it capable of porting to a third-party data controller, only if it is technically feasible to do so.

You should also notify us if any of your personal details change or if you are aware of any inaccuracies so that this can be corrected.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small file placed onto Internet enabled device in order to recognise the device at recurring visits, and in turn enable a website’s features and functionalities.

Cookies may transmit information via a device’s browser with a purpose of authentication or identification via the IP address. A cookie cannot collect information from a device and cannot carry any virus or other damaging files.

Essentially there are two types of cookies:

• persistent cookies, and
• session cookies

A persistent cookie helps the website (and third-party applications) recognise you as an existing user, so it’s easier to return and continue your existing user experience. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the website, i.e. lasting only for as long as the session (usually the current visit to the website or a browser session).

WHEN DOES THIS WEBSITE USE COOKIES?

This website utilises persistent cookies when any browser loads the site, essentially for observing website visitor trends/statistics (explained in more detail further below). This helps to better understand user behaviour on the website and assist us with future design and development initiatives in order to improve and enhance the overall user experience. This is applicable to all sorts of Internet enabled devices, including PC, smartphones and tablets.

The other way this website uses cookies is via the third-party plugin AddThis, which allows users to share content on this website via social media. You may opt out of cookies for this further below.

CONTROLLING COOKIES ON YOUR DEVICE

Cookies on an Internet device used on this website are done so to help make the user experience of this website better.

By continuing to use this website, you are consenting to the use of this website’s cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in the cookies section of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the use of cookies in this or any such way, you can set your browser privacy and cookies settings accordingly. This can control cookies, including for how they are used on this website, which is only for general website analytics and sharing articles via social media. You may also manually opt out further below.

Most Internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. You can change the settings to block cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device, as well as delete them.

There are a number of ways to manage cookies. Please refer to your specific browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to adjust or modify your cookie browser settings. Some browsers have introduced an add-on that allows you as the user to opt out from website analytics.

If you use different devices to view and access this website (e.g. PC, smartphone, tablet, Smart TV) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences accordingly.

For further information on Cookies, such as deleting, disabling or blocking cookies, please visit AboutCookies.org

AUTOMATIC COLLECTION OF NON-PERSONAL DATA – WEBSITE USER TRENDS

In order to better understand general user behaviour of this website, so to better enhance the user experience, this website utilises a third party vendor for collecting and observing basic and statistical information on website activity, such as number of users who visit the website, date, time and length of visits, which pages are viewed, general location of the user (if not diverted by other tools such as VPNs), the link of the website in which the user visited from if any, type of Internet browser being used, type of device being used to access the website, among other general website browsing statistical information.

However, such statistics are not always collected accurately, as many Internet technologies can now be used or set to prevent or manipulate information being shared.

Collection of such analytics is standard and commonly practised on websites throughout the Internet. This information does not identify individuals as such, but rather provides general user behaviour. This information is then used solely by authorised personnel and/or the official Web Master to observer and analyse such website trends so to enhance the user experience.

Various data that may be observed through website analytics includes:

• Standard machine identity details (used to access the website), as is normal and necessary when a user interacts with a website and its server; and
• Data on the nature of a user's visit to the website, including location, date and time of the visit, path taken to the website (i.e. through a search engine, social media channel, hyperlink from at another third party website), the various pages accessed on the website, exit pages and exit links, publications downloaded, as well as sometimes searched words or terminology performed to find the website through a search engine (generally these now tend to be encrypted/incognito by search engines).

This can all be amended by the user by controlling the use of cookies on the device being used (see Cookies Policy information below), and/or as per below.

OPT-OUT OF THIS WEBSITE’S ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics to monitor basic analytics in an effort to better understand and in turn enhance the user experience, both in content and design. To learn more about Google Analytics terms of use, click here

In addition to controlling your device’s cookies preference, you have the option to opt out from these analytics. To opt out, please click the link below.

Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics

OPT-OUT OF ADDTHIS COOKIES

If you would like to opt-out of the use and sharing of your personal data for online interest-based facilitated by Oracle Data Cloud (including data collected via the Oracle Data Cloud cookies and the AddThis cookies) and delete all data associated with those cookies, click here and the follow the steps / click the “Opt Out” button.

PRIVACY POLICY REVISION

Marinos Shambartas Lawyers and this website injuryclaims.com.cy reserves the right to modify, alter, or update this website’s Privacy Policy at any time. As the user, you agree to be bound by such changes, and to its current relevancy, as presented on this website at any given time.

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data or more generally about this Privacy Policy, please contact us directly:
39 Dimofontos & John Kennedy
Office 301, 1075, Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel: +357 22 27 62 01
Email: info ‘at’ injuryclaims.com.cy

‘You have a right to complain to the Cyprus Supervisory Authority if you believe that there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.’