Last updated: September 2026
Cities Under the Sun respects the privacy of its readers.
This policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit or contact the site, why it may be collected and what choices you have.
Who is responsible for the site?
Cities Under the Sun is operated from Greece by Konstantinos Kourounis.
For privacy-related questions or requests, please use the Contact page.
Information you provide
If you contact Cities Under the Sun, you may provide information such as your name, email address and the contents of your message.
This information is used only for purposes connected with your enquiry, such as reading your message, replying to it and maintaining any necessary correspondence.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary.
Technical information
Like most websites, the server and hosting infrastructure may automatically process limited technical information when a page is requested.
This can include information such as:
- IP address;
- browser and device type;
- operating system;
- requested page;
- date and time of access;
- referring page;
- technical error or security information.
Some of this information may qualify as personal data.
It may be processed where necessary to operate the website, maintain security, diagnose technical problems and prevent abuse.
Analytics
Cities Under the Sun may use privacy-conscious analytics tools to understand general patterns of readership, such as which articles are visited, how readers reach the site and which devices are commonly used.
Where an analytics service requires consent under applicable law, it will not be activated for that visitor until the required consent has been given.
Analytics are intended to understand the performance of the publication, not to build detailed personal profiles of individual readers.
When analytics services are introduced or changed, this Privacy Policy and the site’s cookie information will be updated where necessary.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on a user’s device.
Some cookies may be technically necessary for the website to operate or remember choices.
Other cookies, including certain analytics, advertising or third-party cookies, may require the user’s consent before they are stored.
Where consent is required, readers should be able to accept or refuse optional cookies.
Refusing optional cookies should not prevent access to the editorial content of Cities Under the Sun.
Embedded content and external services
Articles may occasionally contain or link to material hosted by other organisations, such as maps, videos, academic publications or social media services.
If third-party content is embedded directly in a page, that provider may receive technical information or use cookies according to its own privacy policy.
Where possible, Cities Under the Sun aims to avoid unnecessary third-party tracking.
Links to external websites do not mean that Cities Under the Sun controls their privacy practices.
Contact forms
Information submitted through a contact form is used to process the message and respond where appropriate.
Messages may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for correspondence, record-keeping, security or legal purposes and then deleted when they are no longer required.
Contact information will not be added automatically to a marketing list simply because someone sent a message.
Email newsletters
If Cities Under the Sun introduces an email newsletter, subscription will be voluntary.
Subscribers will be told what they are signing up to receive and will be able to unsubscribe.
Email addresses collected for a newsletter will not be used for unrelated marketing without an appropriate legal basis.
If a newsletter provider processes subscriber information on behalf of the site, relevant information about that provider will be added to this policy.
Sharing personal information
Cities Under the Sun does not sell readers’ personal information.
Personal information may be processed by service providers that are necessary to operate the website, such as hosting, security, email, backup or analytics providers.
Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect the website, its users or legal rights.
Service providers should receive only the information reasonably required for their function.
International data transfers
Some technology providers may process information outside the European Economic Area.
Where this occurs, appropriate safeguards required by applicable data-protection law should be used.
This policy will be updated with more specific information where a service materially affects how readers’ personal information is processed.
How long information is kept
Personal information is not intentionally kept for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legitimate technical, security, accounting or legal requirements.
Different types of information may therefore have different retention periods.
Your rights
Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal data, including the right to:
- ask what personal data are held about you;
- receive a copy of those data;
- correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
- request deletion where the legal conditions are met;
- restrict certain processing;
- object to certain processing;
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
- receive certain data in a portable format where applicable.
You may exercise a relevant right by contacting Cities Under the Sun through the Contact page.
You may also have the right to complain to the competent data-protection authority.
Security
Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect the website and personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or alteration.
No internet-based system can guarantee absolute security.
Children
Cities Under the Sun is a general-interest publication and is not designed to collect personal information specifically from children.
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website introduces new services, changes providers or when legal or technical requirements change.
The date at the top of the page will show when the policy was last materially revised.
Questions
For questions about this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal information, please use the Contact page.
