We would like to thank you for visiting the Libraries & Archives
Department web site.
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 http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt itself in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001.
2.0 The Data Protection Act 2001
The Data Protection Act 2001 has been enacted on the 14th December
2001 and came fully into force as from the 15th 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:
a) Contact or feedback information;
b) Web page download information;
c) Site usage information.
3.1 Contact or Feedback
When you fill the
Contact
Form, 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:
a) The requested web page or download
b) Whether the request was successful or not
c) The date and time when you accessed the site
d) The Internet address of the web site or the domain name of the
computer from which you accessed the site;
e) 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
the Libraries & Archives Department and it is not shared, leased, or
sold in any manner to any other organisation.
3.3 Site Usage Information
http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt 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. gov.mt and
no other web site can request this information. When you return to
http://www.libraries-archives.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 they 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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