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The privacy of your personal information is respected. Your personal information is managed in accordance with the Information Privacy Principles in the Information Privacy Act and the Health Privacy Principles in the Health Records Act. Please read the rest of the page for more detail. This statement does not extend to external web sites that have been linked from the Site. In this regard, it is suggested that you refer to the privacy statements of these sites.
This Site’s copyright policy described below is also provided on line together with a list of other disclaimers. A list of contributors is also provided, including the page where information was given (Link)
In particular, please refer to policy and disclaimer regarding children born out of wedlock (natural or illegitimate) where paternity is not accepted or being contested. (Link):
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* Statement regarding Same sex marriages and Unions on Maltagenealogy.com.
* Fraud warning regarding Nobility titles.
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The Site is not directed at minors. If you are legally a minor, please leave the Site.
All the contents of the Site, except for Genealogy and third party publications, constitute the opinion of the Editor, and the Editor alone; they do not represent the views and opinions of the Editor’s partners, associates, friends, employees, family or other dependants, nor do they represent the view of organizations, businesses or institutions the Editor is a part of. This Site is written in English but some other languages are made use of whenever the context requires so.
The content of this Site is not intended to cause harm, but if you have any concerns about the contents of the Site, please contact us via email at tancarville@optusnet.com.au .
Disagreeing with the content of the site does not constitute sufficient ground for you to ask us to remove or modify any parts of this site.
If you are intending to carry out legal action of any kind against us or any one of us, you are required to contact us via email at tancarville@optusnet.com.au seven (7) business days before any legal claim is made.
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you are not authorized to (i) use this Site to advertise for products of any kind (ii) to infringe the Copyright policy of this site, (iii) to attack this Site using malicious software and/or use this Site for data mining (iv) to commit any illegal actions while using the Site, or against this Site, (v) to restrict access to this Site, (vi) to impede the normal functioning of this Site and (vii) to menace us with, or cause physical or financial harm to us.
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Privacy Statement
The Site is not directed at minors. If you are legally a minor, please leave the Site.
We collect both personal information and aggregated information on the Site. We discuss our collection and use of different kinds of information below.
Personal Information
You do not have to provide personal information to use the Site. We use IP addresses to calculate our Site’s usage levels. Whenever you are on the Internet, a number (an IP address) is automatically assigned to your computer. This number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit our Site. Collecting IP addresses is a standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many Web sites.
We may also disclose personal information if we believe that we are permitted to do so (i) by law, (ii) to comply with legal process or governmental requests, (iii) to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Site, its users, or the public.
Aggregated Information
We collect information through the Site relating to traffic levels on the Site – for example, the total number of users visiting particular pages – as well as aggregate demographic information. Such aggregated information is helpful to us in improving the site. We may share aggregated information, which does not personally identify our users, with third-parties.
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Cookies are data sent from a web server to the Internet browser and saved on your hard drive as a text file. This is for record keeping purposes. Cookies, which are an industry standard tool used by most Web sites, can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a Web site. Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files.
Cookies store non-personal information such as your server address, your top level domain name, the date and the time of your visit to the site, the pages you accessed and downloaded, the address of the last site you visited, and the type of browser you are using. We use this information for monitoring our web site use to facilitate web site management, development and planning.
We may, from time to time, use cookies and other technologies to gather non-personally identifiable information to track the popularity of certain pages of the Site; the success of our e-mail notifications, based on click-through rates; and other similar information, all of which assists us in improving our Site.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies you can disable this function in your web browser although doing so may restrict access to some web pages. Most web browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer of a cookie to your computer. You should note, however, that declining or deleting cookies might encumber your ability to access the Site.
Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may contain links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any linked site. We are providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on our Site does not imply our endorsement of the linked site.
Contributed content
We cannot guarantee secure transmission of information over the internet. You should be aware that there are risks in transmitting information over the internet. If you are concerned about conveying your personal information over the internet, then you may wish to contact us by telephone, Fax or mail.
Once you contribute content via email to us, you may not edit or remove such content unless this is done with our permission. All or part of such content that you submit, post or upload may become part of an online archive that other users of the site can see and search. Such content, and content that you contribute via email to us, may also become part of a database that may be reproduced by us in any format, in whole or in part, including without limitation in an electronic storage format, such as CD-ROM or DVD or or any other purpose in general.
By submitting any material to the content, you: are representing that you are fully entitled to do so; grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence right to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from the publicly viewable parts of that material in any form, anywhere; and authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.
If you contribute content to us, and have provided your contact information in connection with such email, and another researcher contacts us with any concern regarding the posting, we may encourage such researcher to address his/her concern about any information on such content directly with you.
If another researcher contacts you with any such concern, you agree to work with such researcher in good faith to resolve the concern. In addition, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to contact you in order to address the concern directly with you. You acknowledge that we neither endorse nor are responsible for any communications from other researchers to you.
By submitting such content, you expressly consent to the foregoing.
Information Relating to Living Persons
Please note that when you contribute content, including a family tree, to us, we use reasonable efforts to make certain personal information “private”. Please be aware that we do not make private the names of persons identified as living, or their relation to other individuals within the family tree, however this information may be suppressed by using the form below.
You represent and warrant that you have obtained all appropriate permissions to post information relating to any living person on or in connection with the Site, including, where necessary, express consent from such person, to provide such information to us, and to allow us to use such information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
SUPPRESSION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We reserve the right not to suppress any information which is already available in book form, newspapers, public announcements, websites and other matter, printed or otherwise, in the public domain. Subject to the foregoing, upon your reasonable request, we will suppress your name and personal information from our active databases. You can make this request via email at tancarville@optusnet.com.au . Please mark your email “REQUEST TO SUPPRESS PERSONAL INFORMATION” and paste the REQUEST FORM shown below: Fill in the details and send. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records.
Assignment
We reserve the right to transfer any and all information, including your personal information, that we collect from users of each Site to a third party in the event that we sell or otherwise transfer substantially all of our assets related to the Site to such third party.
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Warning against Misuse
The Site is not directed at minors. If you are legally a minor, please leave the Site.
How can the data be misused?
We really don’t know because only criminals do that. We act in good faith.
We are not responsible for other people’s actions. If you have malicious intent, please leave this site immediately.
What you are promising
You are responsible for ensuring that no material you contribute will be capable of (a) infringing the intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, (b) breaching any applicable law, whether criminal, in tort or otherwise, or (c) appearing to be offensive, threatening, obscene, pornographic, false, unreliable or misleading.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from and against any and all third party claims, liability, loss, and expense (including damage awards, settlement amounts, and reasonable legal fees, brought against us, arising out of, related to or which may arise from your use of the site and/or your breach of any term of this Agreement, even if only through a machine on which you access the site.
You are acknowledging that we are entitled to withdraw any material on the site which appears (whether based on information received from others, or our own determination) to be wrong, or to bring our names into disrepute.
You are undertaking not to place material on, or otherwise use, the site for any business or commercial purpose and nor to use the site, or information gathered from it, for the sending of unsolicited bulk email (often referred to as spam).
Finally, you are also acknowledging that we are reliant upon you and all readers to notify us of anything you see here which requires attention, using the notification techniques which are explained above.
Copyright
Copying the contents of this site without maintaining attribution is expressly forbidden.
Don’t forget
We also ask that you:
+ Make non-commercial use of the files We are only showcasing different aspects of the history of the Maltese People, and we request that you use this site for personal, non-commercial purposes.
+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to us.
+ Maintain attribution The site’s logos you see on many files are essential for informing people about this personal initiative and helping them find additional materials. Please do not remove them.
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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If you do not agree with the above, do not use this site.
Disclaimer
The Site is not directed at minors. If you are legally a minor, please leave the Site.
While every attempt has been made to ensure that the information provided is accurate, errors may still occur.
We are constantly evolving with regard to its functionality and the quality of the contents of the site. We will sometimes make enhancements to our articles and tables so as to improve the better understanding of Maltese history.
We disclaim any responsibility for or liability to the information provided by this site. All information is provided “as is”.
In addition, we will investigate and attempt to resolve any problems with our existing contents when they are brought to our attention. However, we cannot guarantee that every problem brought to our attention will be resolved to your satisfaction.
In addition, we do not guarantee that the Site will be accessible at all times or during any down time, however caused but not limited to (i) outages to any public Internet backbones, networks or servers, (ii) failures of your equipment, systems or local access services, (iii) previously scheduled maintenance or (iv) events beyond our control such as strikes, riots, fires, floods, explosions, war, terrorism, governmental action, labour conditions, natural and/or man-made disasters, or interruptions in Internet services to an area where our or your servers are located.
We will not be liable to you or any third party for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, howsoever caused (whether arising out of any negligence or breach of the above or otherwise). We will also not be liable for any failure to perform of its obligations explained above caused by matters beyond its reasonable control.
Our liability to you under this agreement for any claim is limited to the lower of the actual damage or the average gross amount for one (1) day paid by us for hosting this site during the one (1) month period immediately following the date of the claim.
We have no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any material available on the site, whether provided by you or others.
If any third party sites are linked to from the site, this does not mean that we endorse or have any responsibility for the site in question or anything which appears on it.
You should exercise no lesser degree of caution in appraising what you see on the site than you do offline.
You agree to use the site at your own risk, and that you will not consider the Site’s content to be a suitable substitute for professional advice.
Even though people are prohibited from doing so, some may provide information, or otherwise behave, in a way that is unreliable, misleading or even illegal. Further, you should note that people (readers or non-readers of our site) may not necessarily be who or what they say they are.
We make no warranty of any kind. If you choose to access the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. To the extent links and external content are based on or displayed in connection with the site, we shall not have any liability in connection with the display of such links and search results, whether this external content is breaking the law in this or other jurisdictions.
Accordingly, to the extent that the law permits, you are releasing us from all liability arising out of or in connection with the site and the materials included here.
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REQUEST TO SUPPRESS INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS PERSONAL
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