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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 schoolnet.gov.mt/ncr 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:
Contact or feedback information;
Web page download information;
Site usage information.
3.1 Contact or Feedback
When you fill the form on the "CONTACT US", 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:
The requested web page or download;
Whether the request was successful or not;
The date and time when you accessed the site;
The Internet address of the web site or the domain name of the computer from which you
accessed the site;
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 schoolnet.gov.mt/ncr and
it is not shared, leased, or sold in any manner to any other organisation.
3.3 Site Usage Information
NCR 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 schoolnet.gov.mt/ncr, 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.
March 2006
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