1. Introduction and General Terms

We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the malta.co.uk websites.
In order to provide you with the full range of services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:

• what information the malta.co.uk may collect about you;
• how the malta.co.uk will use information we collect about you;
• when the malta.co.uk may use your details to contact you;
• whether the malta.co.uk will disclose your details to anyone else;
• your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
• The use of cookies on the malta.co.uk website and how you can reject these cookies.

As set out above, malta.co.uk is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2. What information will the malta.co.uk collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any malta.co.uk website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards or register with the single universal online registration system used across different parts of the malta.co.uk called "Registration Form", we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different WebPages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the malta.co.uk and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular WebPages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these WebPages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
The malta.co.uk also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

3. How will the malta.co.uk use the information they collect about me?

The malta.co.uk will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

• for "service administration purposes", which means that the malta.co.uk may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for,
• to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide
• to personalise the way malta.co.uk content is presented to you
• IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use;
• And to analyse and improve the services offered on malta.co.uk

Where malta.co.uk proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

4. When will malta.co.uk contact me?

The malta.co.uk may contact you:

• in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that malta.co.uk can deliver the services to you;
• where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
• in relation to any contribution you have made to malta.co.uk;
• to invite you to participate in surveys about the malta.co.uk services (participation is always voluntary);

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

The malta.co.uk won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.

6. Will the malta.co.uk share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Generally, we will only use your information within the malta.co.uk. However, sometimes the malta.co.uk uses third parties to process your information. The malta.co.uk will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and malta.co.uk will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
Please note that if you are accessing malta.co.uk from outside the UK and you make a comment or complaint regarding any element of advertising then malta.co.uk may forward your correspondence Bimos.be only for the purposes of responding to you.

7. Offensive or inappropriate content on malta.co.uk website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to bbc.co.uk, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behavior on malta.co.uk, we may use your personal information to stop such behavior.
Where malta.co.uk reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the in place laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), malta.co.uk may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behavior.

8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to malta.co.uk website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. How long will malta.co.uk keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with malta.co.uk or Bimos.be's corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a malta.co.uk member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Malta.co.uk, as a publicly funded organization, also has an obligation to record snapshots of history which may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by users. Therefore, some content submitted to or shared with malta.co.uk may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in our Archive, which is true of News contributions which are published. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives. Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.

10. Can I find out what personal information the malta.co.uk holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information malta.co.uk holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, 2 rue d'Arenberg 1000 Brussels, Belgium

11. Changes to BBC's Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any malta.co.uk website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

12. Cookies Policy -Information malta.co.uk collects from you

a. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the malta.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to malta.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

b. How does malta.co.uk use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyze the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience.