Cookie policy
1. Preliminary statements
The desktop website and/or mobile application Ourmatch (ref: www.ourmatchapp.com) (hereinafter collectively referred to as our “Platform”) has been developed and currently operated by Ourmatch Ltd, a private limited liability company dully incorporated and registered pursuant to the laws of the Republic of Cyprus (EU), with registration number HE 451858 and having its registered address at Evagorou 31, Evagoras Tower, 3rd Floor Office 32, 1065 Nicosia Cyprus (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Company”, ”we”, “us” or “our”).
2. Use of Cookies
Our Company may use technologies such as "cookies" to distinguish you from other users in our Platform. This aims to provide our Platform’s users with a good experience when they use and/or digitally navigating through it and in particular to provide them with tailored information upon each visit. It also allows us to improve our Platform and make it even better.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive. More specifically, cookies are a common part of commercial websites that allow small text files to be sent by a website, accepted by a web browser and then placed on your hard-drive in order to recognise repeat visits to the website/Platform. Every time you visit our Platform, our servers, through cookies, pixels and/or GIF files, collect basic technical information such as your domain name, the address of the last URL visited prior to clicking through to our Platform, and your browser and operating system.
For the avoidance of any doubt cookies do not contain any information that could identify the individual user personally.
We may use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Platform. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Platform. While we do not necessitate your consent to deploy these cookies, you retain the option to block them manually on your device/browser. However, please note that limiting these cookies may result in our site not functioning as expected, and certain features may become unavailable.
- Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Platform when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Platform works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. More specifically, we utilize such cookies to gather visitor statistics, including the number of unique or repeated visitors to our Platform, their method of arrival, the technology they use (eg. via Mac or Windows, aiding in identifying any site performance issues for specific technologies), duration of their digital navigation, and the pages they view. This information enables us to continually enhance and improve our Platform as well as the overall experience of our users.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Platform. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name (if you have submitted the same before in our Platform) and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region, your favourite football team, league and player).
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Platform, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will utilize this data to tailor our Platform and the advertising showcased on it to align more closely with your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- Social media related cookies: We have incorporated sharing buttons on our Platform for certain social media platforms to facilitate easy sharing and liking of our content. These social media related cookies are set by the respective third-party social media sites/applications, including Facebook, and X. Similarly, we may include embedded content from social media sites/applications to our Platform. The privacy implications associated with the interaction with content uploaded on third party social media sites/application differ depending on the platform in question and the privacy settings you have selected on these sites/applications. For further information, please consult the privacy and cookies policies of the respective social media sites/applications.
In addition to the above, please further note that other third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
The validity and expiration periods of cookies and other similar trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by our Platform or the relevant third party provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the user’s browsing or navigation session.
If you like, you can set your browser/device to notify you before you receive a cookie so you have the chance to accept or reject it and you can also set your browser/device to turn off all cookies (via the block of cookies option therein). The website www.allaboutcookies.org (run by the Interactive Marketing Bureau) contains step-by-step guidance on how cookies can be switched off by users. You do not need to enable cookies to visit our Platform - however, some parts of our Platform and some services/features may be more difficult or impossible to use if cookies are disabled (eg. to view embedded videos powered by third party platforms such as Youtube).
3. Changes to our cookie policy
Any modifications to this cookie policy in the future will be published on this page, and we will undertake all necessary measures to communicate these changes to you. Please check this page regularly to stay informed about any updates or revisions to this cookie policy. In general, we will draw your attention to any such changes by updating our cookie banner/pop-up.
4. Queries
If you have any questions and/or concerns regarding this cookie policy please contact our Company’s DPO by sending an email at: support@ourmatchapp.com