1.0 Processing of Personal Data

Visitors’ privacy shall be at all times safeguarded and personal data will only be processed in accordance with applicable provisions of law, i.e. wherein:

(a) the data subject has unambiguously given his consent; or

(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract; or

(c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject; or

(d) processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject; or

(e) processing is necessary for the performance of an activity that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller or in a third party to whom the data is disclosed; or

(f) processing is necessary for a purpose that concerns a legitimate interest of the controller or of such a third party to whom personal data is provided, except where such interest is overridden by the interest to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject and in particular the right to privacy”

Upon the occurrence of any of the above scenarios, which justify the processing of personal data, processing would take place and in this regard the operator of this website would nonetheless seek to ensure that your personal data is:

(a) processed fairly and lawfully;

(b) processed in accordance with good practice;

(c) is not processed for any purpose that is incompatible with that for which the information is collected;

(d) is adequate and relevant in relation to the purposes of the processing;

(e) is not processed more than is necessary having regard to the purposes of the processing;

(f) shall be processed with all reasonable measures being taken to complete, correct, block or erase data to the extent that such data is incomplete or incorrect, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed;

(g) is not kept for a period longer than is necessary, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed.

2.0 Privacy

The operator of this website is aware of the obligation at law to protect and process in a certain manner personal data provided by website visitors. In this regard, appropriate technical and organisational measures have been implemented in order to protect personal data from unauthorised access, data alteration, disclosure or destruction.

No personal data will be forwarded to third parties in the absence of your consent.

3.0 Data Collection Purposes

Information pertaining to the users of this website is collected in two instances:

1. When they enter their personal details (name, surname and email address) in order to register;
2. When they read or download information from this website.

3.1 User Registration

Visitors of this website are afforded the possibility of registering their personal details so that they may log in when visiting the website as well as receiving newsletters on the email address they indicated. Said information will subsequently be stored in a database, in accordance with the Data Protection Act of Malta, and will constitute a client database aimed at improving services but will be strictly and solely utilised by the operator of this website and it will not be shared, leased or sold in any manner to any other organisation.

3.2 Reading/Downloading Information

Reading or downloading information from this website will automatically result in collection and storage of the following non-personal information:

• date and time when user accessed the site;
• domain name of computer from which site was accessed;
• requested web page or download;
• successfulness or unsuccessfulness of request;
• operating system of machine utilised to access website and the type and version of said machine’s web browser;

Your consent will be asked for if the operator of this website would ever need to utilise your information for a purpose which is different from the above-mentioned. In such a scenario you may always instruct deletion of all personal information related to you which may be in possession of the operator of this website.

4.0 Links to other Web Sites

This website contains a number of links to other websites. Visitors who access such links must be aware that once they do, the terms and conditions and privacy policy of this website will no longer be applicable and those appertaining to the other website will. The operator of this website is not responsible or accountable for the content or any matter related to those websites whose link features on this website.

5.0 Access to your information

Visitors who have registered and entered their personal details may request, at reasonable intervals and by means of a written request, for the operator of this website to provide them with written information as to whether:

• their personal data has been processed;
• details of the actual information which has been processed;
• where this information has been collected, and the purpose of the processing.

Visitors may also request to have the same data permanently deleted, amended or updated accordingly.

6.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. It is in the visitor’s interest to check said policy regularly in order to be aware of any such updates.