Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

General Information

We value your privacy and take the security of your personal data very seriously.  For this purpose, we endeavour to be transparent, by providing information on the categories of personal data collected, and the purpose for collecting such personal data.  You can access this information by reading our Privacy Policy

As provided in our Privacy Policy, our website (as do most websites), makes use of Cookies. This Cookies Policy provides you with the following information:

  • What are Cookies?
  • How do we use Cookies?
  • Cookie removal tips
  • How to contact us?
  • Changes to this Cookies Policy

 

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser, that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  This website uses both persistent and session cookies.

How do we use Cookies?

We use Cookies to enrich and personalise your experience. These cookies are used to enable us to improve and develop our website to cater for the needs of our visitors and customers, by noting and keeping track of the pages and advertisements visited and how frequently particular pages are visited to identify the most popular areas of our website.

In general these are the type of Cookies we use:

Functionality cookies

Name of CookieCookie ProviderPurpose of CookieExpiry
NOP.Customer iCentre / NOP CommerceTo keep track of user login / cart

 

Analytical cookies

Name of CookieCookie ProviderPurpose of CookieExpiry
See all details in https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usageGoogle AnalyticsKeep track of site visitors

 

Cookie removal tips

The use of Cookies can be blocked from your respective web browser.  You can also delete Cookies previously installed from your respective web browser. For more information relating to the use of cookies on websites, including how to block or delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

We have also provided you with guidance below on how to block or delete cookies when using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. As explained above, however, blocking or deleting all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of our website.

Blocking cookies

  • If you are using Internet Explorer you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
  • If you are using Google Chrome you can block all cookies by accessing the “Settings” menu within Google Chrome and then select the “Advanced” settings   option. Then switch on the “Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic” option.
  • In Mozilla Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.

Deleting cookies

  • In Internet Explorer, click on the Tools button and then select the “Delete browsing history” option.  Select the “Cookies and website data” option and click on the “Delete” button.
  • In Google Chrome you can delete cookies by accessing the “Settings” menu within Google Chrome and then select the “Advanced” settings option. Select the “Clear browsing history” option.  Select the “Cookies and other site data” tick box and click on the “Clear data” option.
  • In Mozilla Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.

 

How to contact us regarding Cookies

If you have any questions pertaining to this Cookies Policy or any questions with respect to the use of Cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the below contact details:

Email address:  dpo@sgsolutions.com.mt

Postal address:  Data Protection Officer, SG Solutions Limited, Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara By-Pass, Birkirkara.

 

Changes to this Cookies Policy

We aim to meet high standards and our policies and procedures are, therefore, constantly under review. From time to time we may change how we use and place cookies. Accordingly we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review our current policies and practices.

Last modified date: 26/10/2018

For ease of reference we recommend that these are linked to the relevant section of the policy.  So when a user clicks on the link he is directed to the relevant section within the Policy.

To liaise with web site develop what Cookies are being used and list in the tables below.  The contents will depend on the extent of Cookies used each website.  You can ask VJ to provide you with Cookie policies we prepared to have a better indication how to update these tables.