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Privacy Policy
1.0 Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting our visitors' privacy and we will not collect any
personal information about you as a visitor unless you provide it voluntarily. Any personal information you
communicate to us is kept within mpo.gov.mt itself in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001.
2.0 The Data Protection Act 2001
The Data Protection Act 2001 was enacted on the 14 December 2001 and came fully
into force on the 15 July 2003. We therefore have a legal duty to respect and
protect any personal information we collect from you and we will abide by such
duty. We take all safeguards necessary to prevent unauthorised access and we do
not pass on your details collected from you as a visitor, to any third party or
Government Department unless you give us your consent to do so.
3.0 Information Collected
As a visitor, we collect three types of information on you:
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Contact or feedback information;
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Web page download information;
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Site usage information.
3.1 Contact or Feedback
When you fill the form on the Contact Us page,
we use the personal information submitted in the form only to respond to your
message. This personal information will not be kept longer than necessary and
will be deleted once the feedback requirement is met.
3.2 Download Information
If you read or download information from our site, we automatically collect and
store the following non-personal information:
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The requested web page or download;
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Whether the request was successful or not;
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The date and time when you accessed the site;
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The Internet address of the web site or the domain name of the computer from
which you accessed the site;
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The operating system of the machine running your web browser and the type and
version of your web browser.
Please note that this information is strictly for the sole use of mpo.gov.mt and it
is not shared, leased, or sold in any manner to any other organisation.
3.3 Site Usage Information
The MPO site creates "cookies" for each session when you visit our web site. These
cookies store information that is sent to your browser - along with a web page -
when you access a web page. Your browser will return the cookie information only
to the domain from where the cookie originated, i.e., mpo.gov.mt and no other web
site can request this information. When you return to www.mpo.gov.mt, the cookie is
sent back to the web server, along with your new request.
4.0 Links to other Web Sites
Our site has a number of links to other local and international organisations
and agencies. In some cases, for the benefit of the visitor, it may be required
that we link to other web sites of other organisations after permission is
obtained from them respectively. It is important for you to note that upon
linking to another site, you are no longer on our site and you become subject to
the privacy policy of the new site.
5.0 Access to your information
You may request us at any time what information is effectively held on you if
any, at that particular time. You have the right to have any inaccuracies
corrected and where applicable erased, if ithey are not already deleted.
6.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy
If there are any changes to this privacy policy, we will replace this page with
an updated version. It is therefore in your own interest to check the Privacy
Policy page any time you access our web site so as to be aware of any changes
which may occur from time to time.
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