PRIVACY POLICY

TERMS OF USE

Last updated: October 2024

 

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

https://nafmalta.org/ is a site operated by the Notarial Archives Foundation (“we”; “us”; “our”).

We are registered in Malta under registration number LPF 264 and have our registered office at 217, St. Paul Street, Valletta, VLT 1217, Malta.

To contact us, please email us at ad***@na******.org

What’s in these Terms?

These Terms regulate the use of our website https://nafmalta.org/ (the “Site”).

Click on the links below to go straight to more information on each area:

BY USING OUR SITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS

By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to be legally bound by them. This shall take effect immediately upon your first use of the Site.

We therefore recommend that you take the time to familiarise yourself with the contents of these Terms before using the Site, and that you print a copy for future reference.

If you do not agree to any of the Terms, you must exit and not use our Site.

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may amend these Terms from time to time for any reason, by posting notice of the changes online.

Every time you wish to use the Site, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time and that you are aware of any changes which have been made by us.

WE MAY TRANSFER TO SOMEONE ELSE

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation.

WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR SITE

We may update and change our Site from time to time.

We may do so to reflect changes to our services, website content, our users’ needs or our business priorities or requirement, to ensure compliance with any changes in law or for other legitimate purposes.

WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR SITE

Users may access and view content on the Site solely for their own private and non-commercial use.

We do not guarantee in any way that our Site, or any content published on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may also suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for legal, business, or operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal, but have no obligation to do so.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection (i) are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions and (ii) that they comply with them in full.

HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR SITE

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site (including its domain and any current or future trade marks) and in the content and materials published on it. They are protected by copyright laws and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved in full.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your private and non-commercial use, but you may not modify them (including by removing any trade marks or any other proprietary notices) or adapt or create derivative works from them. You also may not download or print off such extracts or content in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the content or materials on the Site.

Moreover, you may not copy (except as expressly stated above), broadcast, transmit, show, perform, publish, disseminate or communicate to the public any of the content or materials found on the Site for any purpose whatsoever, without our prior written permission. In particular, you must not reproduce or use in any manner any part of the content or materials on our Site for commercial purposes, without first obtaining a licence to do so from us and, as the case may be, from our licensors.

If you wish to make inquiries about a licence to use or reproduce any content or materials from the Site, please email us at ad***@na******.org. In all such cases, our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content/materials taken from the Site must always be acknowledged.

You may not sell or make use of any of the content appearing or published on the Site (except for content that was authored by you and in which you, as agreed with us, retain intellectual property rights) for commercial purposes.

If you print off, copy, download, exploit or use any part of our Site in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the content or materials you have made. We also reserve the right to, in such circumstances, claim and sue for damages and any other relief which may be needed or otherwise appropriate.

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using, permitting, authorising or attempting the use of:

  • Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

 

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model [or for any other purposes not explicitly set out in these Terms.

DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THIS SITE

The content on our Site is provided for and information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of our Site content.

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept responsibility for any statement contained in any of the content appearing on the Site. Nothing in the content appearing on our Site is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the purpose of clarification, we will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the content appearing on the Site.

The Site may contain links to other sites and resources that are provided by third parties.

Where our Site contains such links, they are provided for your convenience and general information only. Such links should not be interpreted as our approval or endorsement of the linked websites or any of the information which you may obtain from them. Those sites and resources are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for their contents.

We have no control whatsoever over such websites and if you use a link to access a third-party website you accept and agree that we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you might provide, make available to or is otherwise collected by such third-party website.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information as set out in these terms and conditions.

Data and information may be collected through our “Contact Us” form on our Site and is only viewed by the administrators of the foundation. This could include your name, company name, e-mail address, your feedback and/or queries. We will use this information to respond to your email and provide you with your requested information. We may further keep a record of this correspondence, including to help us with responding to your further queries. You may change your mind and withdraw your consent to us keeping this information at any time by emailing us at ad***@na******.org.

A cookie is a “small file” of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or on your mobile device, if you agree to let us do so. A cookie enables our Site to remember users that have already visited. Without a cookie, every time you open a new web page, the server where that page is stored will treat you like a completely new visitor.

We have implemented and activated cookies on our Site to help distinguish you from other users. These cookies allow us to analyse trends and administer our Site, to help provide you with a good experience when browsing through our website pages and to also improve them at the same time. Cookies are used for different purposes. They allow you to be recognised as the same user across the pages of a website, between websites or when you use an app. Cookies allow us to remember your custom preferences such as your language preference and allow you to complete tasks without having to re-enter your information when browsing.

The types of information that we collect through cookies include IP address, device ID, viewed pages, browser type, browsing information, operating system, internet service provider, timestamp, whether you have responded to an advertisement, the referring URL and features used or activities engaged in within the Site.

Our Site uses cookies for different purposes.

COOKIES WE USE

Below are the individual cookies we use and the purposes which we use them:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. By way of illustration, they include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site.
  • Analytical Cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the Site when using it and gain insight on how our visitors use it. This means we can find out what works and what doesn’t, optimize and improve our Site, understand the effectiveness of advertisements and communications, and ensure we continue to be interesting and relevant. The data we gather can include which web pages you have viewed, which referring/exit pages you have entered and left from, the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you enter into various fields. This helps us to improve the manner in which our Site works, such as by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking in a seamless and straightforward manner.
  • Functionality Cookies. These are used to recognise you when your return to our Site, to help you to use it efficiently and effectively. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region) and searches. These functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our Site, but they add functionality and enhance your experience as user or visitor.
  • Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site, together with the advertising displayed on them, more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this particular purpose.
  • Technical Cookies. We try to give our visitors an advanced, user-friendly website and app that adapt automatically to their needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our Website, to make it function correctly. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our Website and App to function properly, i.e. a ‘strictly necessary cookie’.
  • Third Party Cookies. These are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie. We sometimes embed content from other third-party sites. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.

In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our Site (including advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services). Those third parties may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our Site and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed. Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. We do not control these cookies and to disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third party’s website. These cookies are likely to be analytical and performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We strive to serve cookies or allow the serving of cookies with a maximum lifespan of one (1) year. Only in exceptional circumstances, such as for security purposes and where absolutely necessary, will a cookie have a longer lifespan than that.

MANAGING COOKIES AND YOUR CHOICES

You do not have to accept cookies to use our Site.

How to delete and block our cookies

You can change your cookie preferences when you visit our Site by going to the Cookie Preference Centre by clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this Policy. You can also control or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

Changing your cookie settings

You can change your cookie settings by going to the Cookie Preference Centre by clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this policy.

Please note that many browsers allow you to browse privately, whereby cookies are automatically erased after you visit a site. In the settings for browsers such as Internet Explorer, Safari or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use. Use the “Help” function in your browser to locate the settings you need. For your guidance, the following is a list of the most common browsers and the way in which you can activate private browsing:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and later versions: In Private
  • Safari 2 and later versions: Private Navigation/Browsing
  • Firefox 3.5 and later versions: Private Navigation/Browsing
  • Google Chrome 10 and later versions: Incognito

Can I withdraw my consent?

If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete your cookies using your internet browser settings or clicking on the Cookie button at the bottom of this policy and change your settings.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
and the help section of your browser.

YOUR CONSENT

Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.

For performance, functionality, targeting and social media cookies, we request your consent before placing them on your device. You can give your consent by continuing to use our Site, or by clicking on the appropriate button on the banner displayed to you, or by going to the Cookie Preference Centre. If you do not wish to give consent or wish to withdraw your consent to any performance, functionality, targeting or social media cookies at any time, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see above for more information on how to do this or by changing your settings in the Cookie Preference Centre. Please note that disabling these cookies will affect the functionality of the website and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on the website.

Therefore, please be aware that if you do block or reject cookies (including technical and/or functional cookies), you would still be able to access and use Site, but your ability to some of their functions or features, together with the services that you connect to through Site, may be limited or may simply not work or function properly.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our Site also uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (“Google”).

Google Analytics employs cookies. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there. In using Google Analytics, our website employs the extension, “gat.anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from Member States of the European Union or signatory states to the Agreement on the EEA.

Google uses this information to analyse your use of our Site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to website and internet use. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly, as discussed earlier on this Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our Site.
Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage. You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

NO WARRANTY

You acknowledge that the Site has not been designed or developed to meet your particular, individual needs. To the maximum permitted under applicable law, you accept that the Site is strictly being made available to you “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, with all faults and without warranty of any kind.

We hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with respect to the Site, whether express, implied or statutory, including, but not limited to, warranties relating to their performance, quality and merchantability or their fitness for a particular purpose or their non-infringement of third party rights.

You also acknowledge that we do not warrant against interference with your enjoyment of the Site, or that the functions contained in, or services performed or provided by, the Site will meet your requirements or achieve the intended results, or that the operation of the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the Site will be compatible or work with any third-party software, applications or third-party services, or that the Site will be corrected. We do not warrant that the contents of the Site are compatible with all computer systems and browsers.

You also acknowledge and accept the risk that the use of the Site may affect the usability of third party software or applications, and that the entire risk as to its quality and performance lies solely with you.

The content found on the Site is for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal, or any other binding advice. No oral or written information or advice that may be furnished by us or any of our authorised representatives shall, under any circumstance, be construed as a waiver of the above disclaimers.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Please note that we only provide our Site for private and non-commercial use and for information purposes. You agree not to use our Site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

We do not guarantee or warrant that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site (including by using any robot, spider, scraper, or any other automated means).

You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. In addition, you must not use the Site to harvest information.

Note that, by breaching this section in any way, you would be committing a criminal offence punishable under Maltese law. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them and any other information which we have. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR SITE

Upon our consent being given, you may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. In doing so you assume full responsibility for any use of the Site by third parties and all consequences that may arise therefrom.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our Site must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page.

You may not systematically forward links to the Site within a business or outside a business for business purposes. You may not copy or extract data from the Site by means of any automatic means or by any manual process that may be used to systematically extract or copy web content.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Site other than that set out above, please contact ad***@na******.org.

WHICH COUNTRY'S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?

These Terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Maltese law. You and we both agree that the courts of Malta shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle and decide any and all disputes (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising from these Terms and/or your use of the Site.

Ad servandum posteritati


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