Crawls the web, in Cyprus

L. 22(III)/2004, Article 4 (Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, ETS No. 185, Budapest, 23.11.2001) · Read the law's page

• Do not enter the whole or part of a computer system intentionally and without right by violating the security measures, per article 4 of Law 22(III)/2004.

L. 147(I)/2015, arts. 3, 4, 7, 11-12 (transposing Directive 2013/40/EU) · Read the law's page

• Do not access the whole or part of an information system intentionally and without right by violating a security measure.
• Do not intentionally and without right seriously hinder or interrupt an information system's operation, including by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing its data or by blocking access to it.
• Do not, intentionally and without right, produce, sell, procure for use, import, distribute or otherwise make available a computer program designed or adapted primarily to commit an offence under articles 3 to 6, or a password, access code or similar data giving access to an information system, intending it to be used to commit such an offence.
• A crawler operator that is a legal person is liable for an offence a person in a leading position within it commits for its benefit, and faces a fine of up to one hundred thousand euro, to which the court may add further sanctions.

Law 125(I)/2018 of 2018 · Read the law's page

• Establish a GDPR Article 6 lawful basis before processing personal data of a person in Cyprus, including data collected by crawling.

L. 155(I)/2022, art. 15, inserting article 25 into the Intellectual Property Rights and Related Rights Law (L. 59/1976, as amended) · Read the law's page

• Reproduction and extraction of lawfully accessible works and other material for text-and-data mining is permitted, unless the rightholder has expressly reserved that use in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means, for content made available to the public online.
• Do not train on or mine a work whose rightholder has reserved the use through a machine-readable or other appropriate means.

Ο περί της Ευθύνης λόγω Ελαττωματικών Προϊόντων Νόμος του 2026 (Liability for Defective Products Bill) · Read the law's page

• This bill is not law: the consultation draft was posted on 25 February 2026, and it would apply to products made available on the market after 9 December 2026 (draft Articles 3(1) and 18(1)).
• If you develop, make or produce software, have it designed or made, or put your name or trade mark on it, you answer as its manufacturer; free and open-source software developed or supplied outside a commercial activity is outside the draft (draft Articles 2 and 3(2)(a)).
• Keep supplying the software updates and upgrades needed to keep the product safe while it is within your control; a defect from software, an update or upgrade, a missing safety update, a related service or a substantial modification is not excused on the ground that the defect arose after you placed the product on the market (draft Article 10(2)).
• Judge safety against all the circumstances, including cybersecurity requirements, any ability of the product to keep learning or acquire new features after it is placed on the market, and any recall (draft Article 6(2)).
• Keep documents you could produce: when a claimant shows facts and evidence supporting a plausible claim, the court can require you to disclose the documents in your possession or control, and failing to produce the relevant evidence presumes the product defective (draft Articles 8(1) and 9(2)(a)).
• Meet the mandatory safety requirements, national or EU, that protect against the harm suffered: a claimant who shows that a product does not meet them gets a presumption of defect (draft Article 9(2)(b)).
• If you are the importer, the authorized representative or the fulfilment service provider of a manufacturer established outside the EU, you answer in the manufacturer's place; a distributor, or an online platform that lets consumers conclude distance contracts with traders, answers too if it does not name an operator or its own supplier within one month of the request (draft Article 7(1)(c), (3) and (4)).
• If you substantially modify a product outside the manufacturer's control and then make it available on the market or put it into service, you answer as its manufacturer (draft Article 7(2)).
• Do not rely on a contract term or national law to be released from liability to the injured person (draft Article 14).
• Be ready to prove an excuse: that you did not place the product on the market or put it into service, that the defect probably did not exist then or appeared afterwards, that it results from complying with legal requirements, that the objective state of scientific and technical knowledge did not allow it to be discovered, or the component and modification excuses (draft Article 10(1)).
• If you integrate a software component made by someone else into a product, you cannot sue the component's manufacturer where it was a micro or small enterprise when it placed the component on the market or you agreed by contract to waive that right (draft Article 11(2)).
• Keep the claim periods in view: three years from the day the injured person learned or could reasonably have learned of the damage, the defect and the liable operator; ten years from the day the defective product was placed on the market or put into service; 25 years where latent personal injury prevented a claim (draft Articles 15 and 16).