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Privacy Policy

Global Urban Development (GUD) Malta is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy across all our platforms and with every interaction. 

 

Primarily, we do this by utilizing appropriate access controls to those data, so that only authorized GUD Malta employees or agents have access. In addition, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to protect your information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorised access or disclosure. Those policies and procedures include educating those working for GUD Malta on information security policies and responsibilities.

 

GUD Malta (“GUD Malta”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects the privacy of all of our website visitors. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information that we receive from website visitors. We endeavour to protect your personal information at all times. 

 

We may collect non-personally identifiable information from website visitors, such as IP address, browser type, referring pages, and the time and date of visits. We use this information to analyze trends and improve the visitors’ experience. 

 

GUD Malta does not collect any personal data unless information is specifically provided by website visitors through contact forms. Any personal data provided to GUD through contact forms will only be used to provide the requested information or for the purpose by which the information had been provided. 

 

GUD Malta does not sell, trade, or rent personal information to any third-party. GUD Malta may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to protect the rights and safety of GUD Malta, its visitors, or the public. 

 

We take reasonable precautions to protect the information of our website visitors. We use industry standard encryption technologies to protect the information that is stored on our servers. 

Where we may collect personal data from

  • Comments – When leaving comments on the GUD Malta website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for enhanced spam detection. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of using a moderator system.

  • Donations – When you make a donation to or purchase from GUD Malta, we request, collect and retain certain information from you (collectively “Transactional Information”). Transactional Information includes your name, email address, billing address, partial encrypted credit card information, phone number, donation and/or purchase amount, and other personally identifiable information you might choose to share with us in this context.

  • GUD Malta website or microsites – Depending on the features of the Site or Microsites you choose to use, we request, collect and retain certain information (collectively “Service Information”). Service Information includes your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and other personally identifiable information you choose to share with us when using our website or microsites. 

  • Advocacy services – GUD Malta’s advocacy service allows you to contact policy and/or decision makers about issues that concern you. If you use our advocacy service, we request, collect, and retain certain information (collectively “Advocacy Information”). Advocacy Information includes your name, email address, contact number and other personally identifiable information you choose to share with us in this context; we also collect and retain: (1) information about the actions in which you participate and (2) the content of the messages you wrote and/or sent.  

  • Website log data – As is the case with other websites, when you visit our GUD Malta website including our microsites, your browser or device creates certain information, which is logged (collectively “Log Data”). Log Data may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser and system type, version and settings, data about your device, which website you came from, search terms used to reach our site, the date and time you used the GUD Malta website. 

  • Cookies – Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow GUD Malta to understand and measure the performance of the website and are also for your convenience to be able to seamlessly navigate our pages. You may delete and block all cookies from this website, but parts of the website may not work. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org for more information. 

Donations

When you use our secure online donation function you will be directed to our specialist payment service provider who will process your financial information to process the transaction. Your personal information will be provided to the payment services provider only to the extent as is necessary for executing your donation. 

What rights do you have under European data protection laws?

If you wish to access a copy of your personal information; or you wish to modify any personal information which we hold about you, you can do so by written request to info@maltaglobalurban.org. You are also entitled to have GUD Malta correct or delete any information that is incorrect or out of date (although we may be entitled to retain a historical record of this information); and in some limited circumstances you may have a right to object to our processing of your personal information. We will deal with any such requests in accordance with applicable law and as a matter of priority.

 

In the case of a request for access to personal information, you may be asked to supply a valid means of identification as a security precaution to minimise unauthorised disclosure. We will process your request within the time provided by applicable law.

 

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on our website. 

 

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@maltaglobalurban.org.

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