Processes personal data, in Cyprus

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Arts. 33-34; Law 125(I)/2018, Art. 12 · Read the law's page

• Notify the ODPC without undue delay, and within 72 hours where feasible, after becoming aware of a personal data breach affecting a person in Cyprus, unless the breach is unlikely to risk their rights and freedoms.
• If you process personal data on behalf of a controller, notify the controller without undue delay after becoming aware of a personal data breach (Article 33(2)).
• Notify affected individuals without undue delay where a breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms, unless Law 125(I)/2018 Article 12 exempts you after an impact assessment and prior consultation with the Commissioner.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Arts. 44-49; Law 125(I)/2018, Arts. 17-18 · Read the law's page

• Rely on a European Commission adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses with a transfer impact assessment, Binding Corporate Rules, or a narrow Article 49 derogation before moving personal data of a person in Cyprus outside the European Economic Area.
• Before transferring special categories of personal data of a person in Cyprus to a third country on Article 46 safeguards or binding corporate rules, inform the Commissioner of your intention, and before relying on an Article 49 derogation for such a transfer, carry out an impact assessment and consult the Commissioner, under Law 125(I)/2018 Articles 17 and 18.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Arts. 82-83 · Read the law's page

• Compensate any person who suffered material or non-material damage from your infringement, as controller or processor, under GDPR Article 82.

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.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Arts. 12-21; Law 125(I)/2018, Art. 11 · Read the law's page

• Honor a person's request to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port, or object to processing of their personal data in Cyprus within one month of receipt.
• Before you restrict, in whole or in part, a person's rights under GDPR Articles 12, 18, 19 or 20 in Cyprus on a ground in GDPR Article 23(1), carry out an impact assessment and consult the Commissioner, and tell the person about the restriction, under Law 125(I)/2018 Article 11.

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).