PRIVACY POLICY

The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage is committed to protecting the privacy of the System’s visitors and it will not collect any personal information about you as a visitor unless you provide it voluntarily. Any personal information you communicate to the Superintendence is kept within the Malta Government Network itself.

Any personal information you communicate to the Superintendence is kept within our own records in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001.

The Data Protection Act 2001
The Data Protection Act 2001 was enacted on the 14th December 2001 and the section concerning the appointment of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Data Protection Appeals Tribunal was brought into force as from the 22nd March 2002. The Superintendence therefore considers that it is its legal duty to respect and protect any personal information collected from you and will abide by such duty. The Superintendence takes all safeguards necessary to prevent unauthorised access and does not pass on your details collected from you as a visitor, to any third party or Government Department unless you give the Superintendence your consent to do so.

Information Collected
As a visitor, two types of information on you are collected:
Contact or feedback information;
System download information.

If you read or download information from this System, the Superintendence automatically collects and stores 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 System;
- The Internet address of the website or the domain name of the computer from which you accessed the System;
- 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 not shared, rented, or sold to any other organisation.

You may request the Superintendence 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.

The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage ensures visitors that:
- Personal data is processed fairly and lawfully;
- Personal data is always processed in accordance with good practice;
- Personal data is only collected for specific, explicitly stated and legitimate purposes;
- Personal data is not processed for any purpose that is incompatible with that for which the information is collected;
- Personal data that is processed is adequate and relevant in relation to the purposes of the processing;
- No more personal data is processed than is necessary having regard to the purposes of the processing;
- Personal data that is processed is correct and, if necessary, up to date;
- All reasonable measures are taken to complete, correct, block or erase data to the extent that such data is incomplete or incorrect, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed;
- Personal data is not kept for a period longer than is necessary, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed.

For more information about Superintendence of Cultural Heritage's privacy or information usage policies, please send an e-mail on heritage.superintendence@gov.mt