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1.0 Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting our visitors' privacy and we will not collect any personal information about you as a visitor unless you provide it voluntarily. Any personal information you communicate to us is kept within ktieb.com itself in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001 of the laws of Malta as well as the EU Data Protection Directive (EU/46/95) .

2.0 The Data Protection Act 2001

The Data Protection Act 2001 was enacted on the 14 December 2001 and came fully into force on the 15 July 2003. We therefore have a legal duty to respect and protect any personal information we collect from you and we will abide by such duty. We take all safeguards necessary to prevent unauthorised access and we do not pass on your details collected from you as a visitor or registered user, to any third party unless you give us your consent to do so.

3.0 Information Collected

When you register, and in any visit subsequent to registration, we collect your information by asking you to complete certain fields, request that you complete other fields and ask you to select a username and password so that we have sufficient minimum information necessary to provide our services to you.

As a visitor, we collect two types of information on you:

3.1 Contact information;
3.2 Web page download information;

3.1 Contact or Feedback

When you fill the form on the "Info Point", we use the personal information submitted in the form only to respond to your message. This personal information will not be kept longer than necessary and will be removed once the feedback requirement is met.

3.2 Download Information

If you read or download information from our site, we automatically collect and store the following non-personal information:

• The requested web page or download;
• Whether the request was successful or not;
• The date and time when you accessed the site;
• The Internet address of the web site or the domain name of the computer from which you accessed the site;
• The operating system of the machine running your web browser and the type and version of your web browser.

Please note that this information is strictly for the sole use of ktieb.com and it is not shared, leased, or sold in any manner to any other organisation.

4.0 Links to other Web Sites

Our site has a number of links to other local and international organisations and agencies. In some cases, for the benefit of the visitor, it may be required that we link to other web sites of other organisations after permission is obtained from them respectively. It is important for you to note that upon linking to another site, you are no longer on our site and you become subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

5.0 Access to your information

You may request us at any time what information is effectively held on you if any, at that particular time. You have the right to have any inaccuracies corrected and where applicable erased, if ithey are not already removed.

To make sure that you can control your personal information Ktieb.com enables registered users to:
• view the personal information we hold about you;
• change any personal information that is inaccurate, irrelevant or out-of-date be amended or removed;
• choose to stop using our services and have your personal information removed, if such deletion is permissible by law and/or will not prejudice ktieb.com's position at law;

Ktieb.com has various security measures to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. For example: we have built our systems with your privacy in mind at the design stage. Ktieb.com employees who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host our services must comply with strict security rules. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we make every effort to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

6.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy

If there are any changes to this privacy policy, we will replace this page with an updated version. It is therefore in your own interest to check the "Privacy Policy" page any time you access our web site so as to be aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.

Date: 15th October 2004