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We (Malta Humanist Association) obtain personal data about you from various sources to provide, manage, protect and improve our services and the information we provide to you. \u00a0You may be a visitor to one of our websites, a user of our services or someone who has contacted us.<\/span><\/p>\n We actively seek to minimise the amount of personal data we collect, process and\/or retain. \u00a0Where this is unavoidable for technical, legal or protective reasons, we have implemented measures to ensure we explain clearly at the point of collection what information we collect, why we require it and ensure your consent is gained explicitly before we use the provided information.<\/span><\/p>\n Your information is only accessed, used and maintained by authorised staff for the purpose expressed at the time of collection, and is erased where permitted by law and regulation as soon as it is no longer required.<\/span><\/p>\n compliant \u00a0with the EU\/EC 2016\/679 General Data Protection Regulation (\u201cGDPR\u201d)<\/span><\/a> and actively assist our providers and partners in maintaining the same standards.<\/span><\/p>\n We believe in informed choice. \u00a0When we ask for personal information we will always inform you why we require the information, what we will do with it, ask your permission to retain it and offer information about your rights and options in relation to our retention and handling of information.<\/span><\/p>\n Our services use cookies and other technologies to function effectively. These technologies record information about your use of our services, including:<\/span><\/p>\n We use <\/span>Matomo (formerly \u201cPiwik\u201d)<\/span><\/a> for website statistics, which anonymises traffic and respects <\/span>browser \u201cDo Not Track\u201d settings<\/span><\/a> \u2013 when detected, only our separate security facilities will retain information about your visit and activities.<\/span><\/p>\n Malta Humanist Association does not sell personal data and will only share personal information (with your permission) with partners where required or permitted by law.<\/span><\/p>\n We use personal data only as outlined below.<\/span><\/p>\n Information and statistics can be shared in anonymised form with third parties and partners we trust. Under no circumstances will personally identifiable information be shared or used for any other purpose than indicated at the time of collection without permission of the user concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n In order to keep you up to date on services and facilities, we may occasionally write to you via email. We will inform you of service-relevant information such as changes in legislation or maintenance outages.<\/span><\/p>\n Upon registration, you were given the opportunity to opt in to Marketing messages signalling new and\/or improved features. This low volume communication remains optional, and will always contain a link to opt out facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n We share personal data with service providers who assist us in ensuring compliance and protection. Such service providers are only permitted to use your personal data as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We require such service providers to contractually commit to protecting the security and confidentiality of personal data they process on our behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n We also share personal data with business partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors when this is necessary for the performance of any contract we enter into with you or third parties or to provide our services to our users. Examples of third parties to whom we may be required to disclose personal data are banks and payment method providers when we provide services interacting with fiat currency.<\/span><\/p>\n Third Parties may include individuals or organizations outside the EEA, including countries which may not provide legal protection of Personal Data which is equivalent to the protection provided in Malta. In such cases we endeavour to undertake the necessary procedures to safeguard the data being transferred. Details of the individuals, organizations and countries involved will be provided on request.<\/span><\/p>\n In the event that we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that alters the structure of our business such as a reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or change of control of all or a portion of our business, assets or stock, we may migrate personal data to this new structure if we can perform this without materially changing the protection of personal data and its permitted use.<\/span><\/p>\n For reasons of compliance and protection, we must retain records of your transaction data.<\/span><\/p>\n We only share personal data as required:<\/span><\/p>\n Malta Humanist Association strictly adheres to the law, which includes laws explicitly protecting your right to privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal data. To the extent permitted by law, data subjects retain their rights to access, rectify or, in appropriate circumstances, erase any inaccurate, incomplete or immaterial Personal Data which is being processed.<\/span><\/p>\n If you no longer want to receive marketing communication from us, you may opt out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages that are required to provide you with our services and comply with applicable laws.<\/span><\/p>\n If you would like to review, correct, or update personal data that you have previously disclosed to us, you may do so by contacting us.<\/span><\/p>\n The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Assuming we indeed hold information about you, we will comply with your request to the extent required by applicable law but, for your protection, may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.<\/span><\/p>\n For your information, we hereby repeat what rights you have under the GDPR regarding offering personal information to organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n As an EU resident or citizen you have the right to:<\/span><\/p>\n Please note that your request and regulatory and\/or legislative demands may collide.<\/span><\/p>\n We make extensive efforts to protect your personal information. We maintain legal, structural, technical and operational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, destruction, loss, alteration or misuse.<\/span><\/p>\n Please note that regular email is an unsecure medium and we cannot accept responsibility for its privacy or security. To protect your communication, please use our webforms, especially if you request access to your information. If you have a service account with us, we can make our reply accessible to you from within your account.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have reason to believe that your account has been breached, please contact us immediately. Please have alternative means of identification ready as we are otherwise unable to assist.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you are a Malta Humanist Association user, we retain your personal data as long as we are providing the services to you. We retain personal data after we cease providing services to you to the extent necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and for the purpose of fraud monitoring, detection and prevention. We also retain personal data where data retention is mandated by the banking and payment methods that we use. Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with applicable law.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we detect a possible security breach, we will use your personal contact information to notify you as soon as possible. Please note that we are required by law to report security and privacy breaches to regulatory bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n Services and information may provide links to other companies and websites. As these operate independently of us, they will have their own privacy and security policies \u2013 we cannot accept liability or responsibility for their content, any use of these websites or the privacy practices of the operators of those other companies and websites.<\/span><\/p>\n2. Personal data we collect<\/b><\/h3>\n
2.1 Personal data that we collect directly from you<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
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2.2 Information that we collect automatically<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
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3. How and why we use personal data<\/b><\/h3>\n
3.1 Our services<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
3.2 Service related communication and marketing<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
3.3 Third Parties<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
3.4 Corporate reorganisation<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
3.5 Compliance and legal requirements<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
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4. Your rights<\/b><\/h3>\n
4.1 Opting out of receiving electronic communications from us<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
4.2 Seeing and\/or changing personal data<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
4.3 The process for exercising your rights<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
4.4 Your formal rights under EU GDPR<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
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5. Security, retention and breaches<\/b><\/h3>\n
6. Links to other companies and websites<\/b><\/h3>\n
7. Updates to this privacy policy and notifications<\/b><\/h3>\n