Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

We take data protection very seriously and endeavour to ensure that all personal data is protected through processes that are by-design targeted to keep personal data private, safe and secure. The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By means of this data protection declaration, we are informing visitors to this website of the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection policy declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

Data Controller

As the data controller, we take all the technical and organisational measures necessary, to ensure that all personal data is processed in the most correct, complete and accurate manner. The Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other provisions related to data protection is:

Barlowes, Mercury Tower,
St. George’s Street Paceville,
St Julian’s, STJ 3202
Tel: (+356) 2121 2121
Email: info@barlowes.com.mt

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

  1. We may collect information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability, and for marketing purposes.
  2. Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our website services and/or email notifications.

USE OF COOKIES

This website uses cookies. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our website, and to personalise our website for you in some ways.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This may, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

USE OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in other relevant parts of the website. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

  1. Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
  2. Send information to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology;
  3. Send you marketing communications material relating to our business (or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties) which we feel may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by emailing us.
  4. Provide other companies with statistical information about our users, but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS

Visitors to our premises and website as well as contacts coming through email or other methods of communication may have the opportunity to opt-in to subscribe to our newsletter. When a user subscribers, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address to have a double opt-in procedure to confirm that the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is desiring to receive the newsletter. During the registration process, our system stores the IP address of the data subject’s computer used at the time of registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and is done for our own legal protection as the data controller.

We will NEVER provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing without your express prior consent.

Personal data is retained for the period when the data subject is considered to be our client or until such time that the data subject chooses to opt-out of the mailing list. Every email post we send out to our subscribers includes options to opt-out very easily or update the user profile with any new information.

YOUR RIGHTS

As the data subject, The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with the following rights:

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

OTHER DISCLOSURES

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you to the extent that we are required to do so by law in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

POLICY AMENDMENTS

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You may want check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

This website may contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies (or content) of third party websites.

Enquiries on personal data processing may be addressed to us on info@barlowes.com.mt

Contact Information:

Barlowes, Mercury Tower,
St. George’s Street Paceville,
St Julian’s, STJ 3202
Tel: (+356) 2121 2121
Email: info@barlowes.com.mt

Last updated 8th November 2023