Cookie Policy

GENERAL INFORMATION

VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited and its group undertakings are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data. VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited takes the security of your personal data very seriously, and endeavours to be transparent, by providing information on the categories of personal data collected, and the purpose for collecting such personal data.

 

This Privacy Policy describes how we manage, process and store personal data submitted through the use of our website.

For this purpose, this privacy policy provides you with information on the following:

 

 

WHO IS THE DATA CONTROLLER?

In this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”), VJSCL, “we”, “us” or “our” means VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited, (a company incorporated in Malta with principal offices at VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited,  79, Simpson Street, Marsa MRS 1606, Marsa). Our VAT registration number is MT 1592-3434 while our company registration number is C26986.

 

All personal data obtained by us is held and used in compliance with this Policy, with the Maltese Data Protection Act (as amended by Act No.XX of 2018), and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (hereafter referred to as the “GDPR”). VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited is deemed a “data controller” for the purposes of the GDPR.

 

PURPOSE OF WEBSITE AND TYPE OF DATA COLLECTED

This website is primarily used to provide you with information on the products and services offered by VJ Salomone Consumer Lines Limited and its group undertakings. No personal data is collected or processed when you use our website, such as email addresses, names and other personal data, typically requested in forms. We do however make use of Cookies, as do most websites. This policy provides you with our Cookies policy to explain to you what types of cookies are used and for what purpose.

 

LINKS TO WEBSITES

Our website may include links to websites operated by our group undertakings. These websites have separate privacy policies. When visiting these websites please refer to the respective Privacy Policies provided.

 

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 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.

No personal data is collected through the use of cookies. The information collected through the use of cookies is in anonymous form, including the number of visits to this site, how you arrived at the site, and which pages you visited.

In general these are the type of Cookies we use:

 

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

These are cookies that are essential to make the website function.

 

Name of Cookie

Cookie Provider

Purpose of Cookie

Expiry

ASP.NET_SessionId

Our web server

This cookie is used to identify the users session on the server. The session being an area on the server. Hence, this cookie is used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

At the end of the session

 

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

We make use of Google Analytics cookies to keep track of the number of visitors to our websites, the time spent on our website and what search engine was used to find our website. The following cookies are used on our website:

 

Name of Cookie

Cookie Provider

Purpose of Cookie

Expiry

A_utma

Google Analytics

This cookie is used distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to our site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like days and visits. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

2 years from set/update or when browser data is cleared

_utmb
_utmc

Google Analytics

The _utmb and _utmc cookies, work together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.

30 minutes from set/update or when browser data is cleared. (_utmb)   At the end of the session (_utmc)

_utmz

Google Analytics

Stores the traffic source that explains how the user reached our site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

6 months from set/update or when browser is cleared.

 

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Performance cookies typically enable us to see how much traffic we have and to monitor the uptime of our website.

 

Name of Cookie

Cookie Provider

Purpose of Cookie

Expiry

_utmt

Google Analytics

Used to throttle request rate.

10 minutes or when browser data is cleared

 

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 are also providing you with guidance below, on how to block or delete cookies when using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

 

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.
  • If you would like to block cookies provided by Google Analytics, you can do so by following the instructions provided in the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 

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

If you have any questions pertaining to this Privacy and Cookies Policy please contact our Data Protection Officer using the below contact details:

Email address: consumer@vjsalomone.com

Postal address: Data Protection Officer, V.J. Salomone, Upper Cross Road, Marsa, Malta.

 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY AND 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: 21/12/2021