Privacy

What we collect

The application does not build a user profile. A manual location search sends the search text to our server, as explained below. If you choose an interface language, one preference cookie stores that choice. Vercel Web Analytics collects aggregate visit and page-view information as explained below. Vercel may also process standard technical request information needed to deliver and protect the website, such as an IP address, browser or device details, request time, and operational logs.

If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to include so that we can reply or review a correction. Please do not include medical or other sensitive personal information.

What we do not collect

You can use the pharmacy finder without an account. The website does not ask for your name, medical history, prescriptions, symptoms, or other medical records. The current application does not use analytics for advertising and does not build tracking profiles.

Location

If you tap “Use my location”, your browser asks for permission to read your device location. The coordinates are kept in the current browser tab and used there to calculate approximate distance to pharmacies. The application does not send that precise GPS location to its server, Supabase, or a geocoding provider, and it does not save it after the page is closed or refreshed.

Your browser, device, and operating system control the permission prompt and may apply their own location-service settings.

Manual area or address search

If you enter an area, landmark, hotel, street, or address, the search text and selected district are sent to the Cyprus Pharmacy server. The server checks a short shared cache and, when a lookup is needed, sends them to Geoapify to find possible locations in that district. Successful normalized searches and their short result lists may be cached in Vercel's shared runtime cache for up to five minutes. The selected result is then kept only in the current browser tab.

Geoapify and Vercel may process request and network information under their own policies. Do not enter medical details or other sensitive personal information in the location box.

Language preference

When you choose a language, the website stores a strictly necessary cookie named “paphos_locale” so it can use that language on future visits. The cookie contains only one of the supported language codes, is not used for tracking, and remains for up to 12 months unless you change it or clear browser data.

Vercel Web Analytics

The site uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate visits and page views, which pages are used, and how the website can be improved. The current integration records ordinary page views only and does not send custom analytics events. We do not use these analytics for advertising or to track people across unrelated websites.

Vercel Web Analytics is separate from the language-preference cookie described above. According to Vercel, Web Analytics does not use analytics cookies and provides anonymized, aggregate data. Vercel processes this analytics data under its own terms and privacy documentation.

Hosting and service providers

Vercel hosts and serves the website and provides Vercel Web Analytics. Supabase stores the public pharmacy, duty, and trusted location records used by the application. Supabase does not receive your GPS origin or manual search origin through the current application flow. Geoapify receives manual search text only when a provider lookup is needed.

• Vercel hosts and serves the application and processes Web Analytics data.
• Supabase hosts the public pharmacy-data backend.
• Geoapify receives manual location searches when a provider lookup is needed.

The site stores one local browser marker for up to six months so the optional location-information prompt is not shown on every visit. The marker records only when that prompt was shown; it contains no coordinates or location-permission status. Apart from this marker and the necessary language-preference cookie, the current application code does not use other cookies, local storage, session storage, advertising identifiers, or tracking storage. Vercel Web Analytics is described separately above and does not add another application cookie in the current setup. Search origins and filters are held in memory and reset when the page reloads.

Why we process technical data

Technical request information is processed only as needed to deliver, secure, troubleshoot, and protect the service from abuse. Aggregate page-view information is used to understand visits, see which pages are used, and improve the website. Manual search text is processed to return relevant Paphos location suggestions. The language choice is stored to provide the interface you selected. Contact emails are used to reply and to review the issue raised. We do not use this information for advertising or medical profiling.

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, this limited processing is intended to rely on the legitimate interest in operating, securing, understanding, and improving the service, except where another basis is required. The language cookie is necessary to provide your saved interface choice. An email you send is handled so that we can respond to your request.

Retention

Successful normalized manual searches and their short result lists may remain in Vercel's shared runtime cache for up to five minutes. GPS and selected search origins are not saved by the application after the page reloads. The language-preference cookie remains for up to 12 months unless you change it or clear browser data.

We do not state a fixed period for Web Analytics data, hosting logs, provider records, or contact emails because it has not been verified from current provider configuration and operating practice. Those services may keep analytics, security, or operational records under their own settings, agreements, and policies. Contact correspondence should not be kept longer than reasonably needed to respond or address the issue.

Your rights

Depending on the law that applies, you may have rights relating to personal information about you, including access, correction, deletion, restriction, or objection. You may also have the right to complain to the relevant data-protection authority. Contact us using the email below if you want to make a request.

Third-party links

Directions and source links open other websites. Their privacy terms apply once you follow those links. Google Maps is contacted only when you choose a Google Maps Directions link. Other source and attribution links work in the same way.

See the Google Privacy Policy before using Google Maps if you want more information about its processing.

Changes

This page will be updated when the application begins using information in a materially different way. The latest update date appears at the top of the page.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email olvia.cyprus2018@gmail.com.