Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is handled when you use berkos.co, contact us through the website or speak to our team. It applies to this website only. The Israeli website berkos.co.il has its own policies.
1. Introduction and data controller
The data controller for personal data collected through this website is Berkos Serene Residences Ltd (company registration number HE 433204), registered office Andrea Kalvou 5, Floor 1, Office 101, 3085 Limassol, Cyprus.
Individual property projects shown on this website may be developed or sold by separate legal entities. If you go on to reserve or buy a property, the seller named in your contractual documents may also process your data as a separate controller, and will inform you of this.
2. Information we collect
- Details you give us: name, telephone number, email address and the content of your messages.
- Consent choices: privacy consent, marketing consent and your cookie choice.
- Submission context: the date and time, the page address you submitted from and the language version of the site.
- Usage information, only if you accept analytics cookies: pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser type, and how you reached the site.
3. Website enquiries and contact forms
When you submit the homepage form or the Contact page form, your details are first saved in our lead database and then forwarded through Zapier to our customer relationship management (CRM) system, Zoho CRM, so that our team can reply. Each submission receives a unique reference so that it is not recorded or forwarded twice.
4. Property enquiries and sales communications
We use your details to answer your questions, send information you request about projects, arrange calls or viewings and follow up on your enquiry. If you proceed with a reservation or purchase, further information will be collected under the relevant contractual documents.
5. Kobi digital assistant and WhatsApp communications
The website shows a pop-up inviting you to contact Kobi, our team's digital assistant, on WhatsApp. The website also contains standard WhatsApp links to our team. Clicking these opens WhatsApp, which is operated by WhatsApp (Meta). No message is sent until you choose to send it.
Messages you send are received by BERKOS through WhatsApp and are processed to answer your enquiry. WhatsApp processes your data under its own privacy policy. The pop-up stores small records in your browser to avoid showing it again too often (see the Cookie Policy).
6. Newsletter subscriptions and marketing preferences
If you subscribe through the newsletter form on our blog, your email address and the page and language you subscribed from are saved in our lead database. We only send marketing emails where you have subscribed or given marketing consent, and every marketing message lets you opt out.
7. Website analytics and cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 only if you click Accept in the cookie banner. Full details are in our Cookie Policy.
8. Purposes and legal bases
- Replying to enquiries and taking pre-contract steps at your request: steps prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Newsletter and marketing emails: your consent (Article 6(1)(a)).
- Analytics through Google Analytics 4: your consent (Article 6(1)(a)).
- Keeping records of enquiries and protecting our legal position: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Meeting legal, tax and anti-money-laundering obligations: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
9. Service providers and recipients
We share personal data only with providers that help us run the website and handle enquiries:
- Lovable and its infrastructure providers: website hosting and lead database.
- Zapier: forwarding enquiries to our CRM.
- Zoho: CRM used by our sales team.
- Google: Google Analytics 4 (with consent) and the Google Maps map embedded in the footer.
- WhatsApp (Meta): when you choose to message us on WhatsApp.
We may also share data with professional advisers, or with authorities where required by law.
10. International transfers
Some of these providers may process data outside the European Economic Area, for example in the United States. Where this happens, we rely on the safeguards offered by the provider, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. You can contact us for more information about the safeguards that apply.
11. Data retention
We retain personal information relating to property enquiries and prospective customers for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to enquiries, manage prospective transactions and fulfil applicable legal obligations. Prospect records are subject to review after 12 months of meaningful inactivity. Where continued retention is no longer necessary or legally justified, the information will be deleted or anonymised. Different retention periods may apply to completed transactions, contractual records and information required for legal or regulatory purposes.
Meaningful activity includes substantive customer communication, an active property enquiry, negotiation, transaction progress or documented follow-up requiring continued retention. Automated marketing messages, internal record views and system updates do not reset the inactivity period. The monthly review procedure is pending operational implementation; automated deletion is not active. Requests for erasure or objection are handled independently of this review cycle.
Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe, subject to any applicable legal retention requirements.
Our verified Google Analytics 4 settings are: event data retention of 2 months and user data retention of 14 months. Reset on new user activity is currently enabled, subject to review. Where this setting applies, new activity resets the relevant user's retention period.
These settings apply to the relevant user-level and event-level data controlled by GA4 retention settings. They do not necessarily determine how long aggregated analytics reports or all data held by Google are retained. See our Cookie Policy for cookie durations and consent controls.
12. Information security
The lead database can only be read by staff accounts that we have specifically authorised. Data travels over encrypted connections. No method of storing or sending data is completely secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect it.
13. Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask to access, correct or delete your personal data, restrict or object to its processing, and receive your data in a portable format. You may object at any time to processing based on our legitimate interests and to direct marketing. To make a request, contact us using the details below.
14. Withdrawing consent and marketing opt-outs
You can withdraw consent at any time. For cookies, use the Cookie Settings link in the website footer. For marketing emails, use the unsubscribe link or contact us. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before it.
15. Complaints
You may complain to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus (dataprotection.gov.cy) or to the supervisory authority where you live or work. We would appreciate the chance to address your concern first.
16. External websites and third-party services
This website links to third-party services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok and Google Maps. Their handling of your data is governed by their own policies.
17. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.
18. Contact details
- Berkos Serene Residences Ltd, company registration number HE 433204
- Registered office: Andrea Kalvou 5, Floor 1, Office 101, 3085 Limassol, Cyprus
- Business address: Apostolon Petrou & Pavlou 27, Limassol, Cyprus
- Telephone: +357 77 788 776
- Email: info@berkos.co