This video guides us through the history of the privileged classes’ love affair with pearls, beginning at 1,000 BCE, and into Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian era and the Jazz Age.
Along the way, we also learn the importance of pearls in Chinese and Indian history, and are brought up to speed on the revolutionary cultured pearls created by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
View the original video here.
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Our Company strives to protect personal data and apply high standards of conduct when it comes to privacy issues. We ensure that we provide our employees and staff with the appropriate training to handle personal data promptly and in accordance with the laws. Furthermore, we endeavour to ensure that any parties with whom we co-operate apply the same high standards when it comes to data protection and privacy as we do.
Cookies
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Our use of cookies
Categories of Cookies:
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Cookie Name | Domain | Category | Purpose | Necessity and Consent | Duration |
| _ga | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 1 month and 4 days |
| _gid | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, to store a unique user ID. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Less than a minute |
| _ga_* | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, to store and count page views. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 1 month and 4 days |
| __gads | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | Google sets this cookie under the DoubleClick domain, tracks the number of times users see an advert, measures the campaign's success, and calculates its revenue. This cookie can only be read from the domain they are currently on and will not track any data while they are browsing other sites. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 24 days |
| advanced_ads_page_impressions | cyprus-mail.com | Analytics | Advanced Ads sets this cookie to measure the number of previous page impressions. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days |
| uid | adform.net | Analytics | This is a Google UserID cookie that tracks users across various website segments. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 2 months |
| CONSENT | youtube.com | Analytics | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 2 years |
| CONSENT | google.com | Analytics | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 2 years |
| __cf_bm | cyprus-mail.com | Functional | Cloudflare set the cookie to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 29 minutes |
| __gpi | cyprus-mail.com | Advertisement | Google Ads Service uses this cookie to collect information about from multiple websites for retargeting ads. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 24 days |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Advertisement | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 14 minutes |
| YSC | youtube.com | Advertisement | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Advertisement | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 5 months, 27 days |
| advanced_ads_browser_width | cyprus-mail.com | Advertisement | This cookie is set by Advanced ads plugin. This cookie is used to measure and store the user browser width for adverts. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 month |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Advertisement | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Advertisement | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Never |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Advertisement | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Never |
| yt.innertube::nextId | youtube.com | Advertisement | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Never |
| yt.innertube::requests | youtube.com | Advertisement | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | Never |
| OAID | adsbydelema.com | Advertisement | Cookie set to record whether the user has opted out of the collection of information by the AdsWizz Service Cookies. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year |
| TPC | adform.net | Other | Used to determine if browser of user accepts third party cookies or not | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 7 days |
| C | adform.net | Other | No description provided. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 month |
| advanced_ads_visitor | cyprus-mail.com | Other | No description provided. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 month |
| _pbjs_userid_consent_data | cyprus-mail.com | Other | No description provided. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 month |
| __jid | disqus.com | Other | Cookies set on website by the third-party commenting platform Disqus. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 30 minutes |
| disqus_unique | disqus.com | Other | These cookies are set by Disqus so that users can comment on website/platform. | Not essential for the functionality of the website - will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie | 1 year |
Third party access to the cookies
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this Cookie Policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
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How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to [email protected], write to us at 195, Arch. Makariou III, Neocleous House, 1st-5th floor, 3030, Limassol, Cyprus, or call us at ++357 22818585.
Changes to this policy
This policy was last updated on 4/7/2023.
We may change this policy from time to time, when we do so we will inform you via notification on our Website.
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