MIICT is an independent NGO registered under the Laws of Malta with headquarters in 109, Triq is-Sienja, Kalkara KKR 1184, Malta.

Should You need to contact us for any reason in relation to your privacy, we can be contacted by email here: info@miict.org or by postal mail on the following address: Data Protection Representative, 109, Triq is-Sienja, Kalkara KKR 1184, Malta.

You can contact us: (a) by post, using the postal address above; (b) using the website contact form; (c) by telephone, on +356 9980 0001; or (d) by email, on info@miict.org.

To contact Our data protection representative, please send Your email to info@miict.org and we will then log Your email and redirect it internally to our data protection representative and anyone else who might need to provide his/her input to answer your query.

To change your GDPR Privacy Settings for this website after having submitted your choice, please click on the button below.

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The personal data that we collect/process in Your regard is the following:

Accepting this Privacy Notice only means that You have read and understood what this notice is saying and You are NOT giving us permission to process your personal data. Permission for each kind of processing is only given in the popup that shows up when you are first visiting our Website, after any changes are implemented on our end, when you clear your browsing histories including cookies or within one-year intervals of having saved your Privacy preferences. You can change such permissions at any time by clearing your browsing history including cookies and cache.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a series of letters and numbers) that is sent by Our web server to Your web browser and is stored by Your browser for future use. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies usually do not hold any information that could personally identify You, but personal information that we store about You may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We will NOT place any cookies on Your device unless You give us permission to do so through our Privacy Notice popup. Preferences may subsequently be altered either by clearing your browser history including cache and cookies and by accessing these options through the Privacy popup, or by deleting the MIICT Website cookie and refreshing the Website in Your browser. A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or a persistent cookie which remains on the user's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time. As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain or third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain. A script is a set of code loaded within Our website’s HTML code as served to Your browser which specifies how Our website behaves in response to certain behavioural patterns or click requests sent by You while using Our website. Your browser temporarily downloads and processes scripts in order for the intended functionality to be made available. Scripts that need to request additional information in response to user-generated events (like clicks, mouse-overs, etc.) may generate additional requests to Our server. This does away with the need for users of Our website to have to go through a number of complicated steps to achieve an outcome while browsing a website or working on their machines. Scripts are similar in nature and in function to cookies but do not leave text files behind in Your web browser folder like cookies do. Please note that blocking all cookies and scripts, or even some of them, will have a negative impact on the usability and possibly the rendering of many websites, including Ours. If You block cookies and scripts You will not be able to use all the features on the Website and might not be able to view it correctly or in the way it was originally intended to be displayed. We use cookies and scripts:

• To identify Your interaction with the Website when You visit the Website and as You navigate the Website (cookie used for this purpose is: Google Analytics);

• To allow for interaction with social media. Whenever You interact with social media features on this and any other website the social media with which You are interacting might collect data about You (cookies used for this purpose are: Facebook Connect, Twitter Button & Twitter Syndication, Pinterest, Google+ Platform).

At MIICT, we go at great lengths to safeguard the data that we might hold about You. Access to such data is made available on a strict need-to-know basis and no one who should not have access to that data to be able to carry his/her work function shall have such access. Data is not shared with any other organisation, except in case of regulatory compliance or Court Orders.

No one outside of MIICT is provided with access to Your data at the moment, except for social media and Google for which We provide interaction elements and which collect the data themselves rather than receiving it through Us if you accept their cookies and scripts to be loaded. Should the situation change in the future, We will at all times make sure that this is done under tight agreements ensuring the highest quality safeguards for Your personal data and will seek your renewed permission to be able to do so.

At any point in time during Our processing of Your data, You have the following rights. All requests in this regard may be made here. We will also forward Your request to any relevant third Parties if this ever had to become necessary with any future work arrangements.

• Right of access – You can request a copy of the information that We hold about You.

• Right of rectification – You can ask Us to correct data that We hold about You if it’s inaccurate or incomplete.

• Right to be forgotten – in some situations, You may ask Us to delete all the data We hold about You. This right cannot be exercised if We have an overriding legal obligation to retain that data for a period prescribed by the relevant overriding legislation.

• Right to restriction of processing – in some situations, You may ask Us to restrict the processing of Your data.

• Right of portability – You may ask Us to transfer the data We hold about You to another organisation.

• Right to object – You have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

• Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – You also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

• Right to complaint about how your Personal Data is being processed by Us (or third parties), or about how Your complaint has been handled, - You can lodge a complaint directly with Our Data Protection Representative or with the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (https://idpc.org.mt/).

The version of this Privacy & Cookies Policy is currently Version 1.3 and was last updated on May 15 2018. It is valid and applies to You until a new version uploaded on the Website and is accepted by You.