Like any other website, GCS Malta uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimise the users’ experience by customising our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
What are cookies?
“Cookies” – A cookie is a small piece of information which is sent to your browser and stays on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Cookies do not damage your device they are merely used to ‘remember’ you when you visit again. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you.
A cookie will transport information about how you use our website to us. The cookie itself does not keep any of the data it collects.
Apart from cookies we also use local storage and tags to help us enhance your browsing experience.
“Local storage” – Like a cookie, local storage is stored locally on your machine; actually within your browser like cookies, history, saved pages, etc.
Like cookies it contains ‘name/value’ pairs (i.e. postcode, surname) and a web page can only access data stored locally within its domain.
Unlike cookies the information collected by local storage is not sent to an internet server unless there is a specific reason for us to store the data collected (i.e. for analytics purposes).
“Tags” – A tag is a small piece of code which is placed on our website and collects data. This code would only collect data on our website. A tag will not be stored on your browser, however, it may use a cookie which could be placed on your browser.
Third-party links
The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on these links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share your personal data. These third-party websites are not controlled by GCS Malta, and we are not responsible for their privacy policy or notices You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Verify your identity and communicate with you, including for customer service
- Provide you with the requested Services
- Maintain and manage our business relationship
- Send you emails and provide you with updates
- Understand and analyse how you use our website
- Improve, personalise, and expand our website
- Develop new services, features, and functionality
- Find and prevent fraud
If you would like further information on cookies and local storage, please go to: