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IP Address and Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 30th October 2018

1. Introduction

Welcome to Timberland Invest Limited’s IP Address and Cookie Policy (the “Policy”). 

We, Timberland Invest Limited (C 60291) of 171 Old Bakery Street Valletta, VLT 1455 (“we”; “us”; “our”) collect aggregate information about the users of our website https://www.timberland-malta.com/ (the “Site”) through the use of ‘cookies’ and Internet Protocol Addresses (“IP Addresses”) and our related practices.

The practices that we apply for the generation of such aggregate information are described in this Policy. 

Please read the following carefully to understand how and why the Site uses your IP Address and cookies. If you do not accept or agree to the practices described in this Policy, you must exit the Site immediately. Continued use will be deemed to amount to your full acceptance and consent.

2. IP Address

2.1 What happens when you visit the Site

Every time you connect to the internet or, if you use an always-on connection, such as broadband or ADSL, when you boot up or restart your computer, you are automatically assigned a unique identifying number known as an IP Address. This IP Address, which contains information regarding the location of your computer on the internet (your country of origin) and the name of your internet service provider (“ISP”), is automatically logged by the Site.

2.2 What is an IP Address?

When you first started your internet session (i.e. your computer connected to the internet), your computer was automatically assigned a unique number (normally in the region of 9 or 10 decimal numbers), known as an IP Address. This is your computer’s unique address on the internet. Without an IP Address, websites would not be able to deliver their content to you given that they would not be able find your computer on the internet. Since each time you disconnect and reconnect to the internet a new IP Address is automatically assigned to your computer, IP Addresses are not inherently capable of identifying you as an individual (at least, by themselves and not combined with other identifiers). An IP Address does, however, contain information regarding the location of your computer on the internet (your country) and the name of your ISP, and which when combined with other available information may lead to your identification. For these reasons, EU data protection law treats IP Addresses as personal data with the resulting protections.

2.3 How do we collect your IP Address

Each time you visit a page on the Site, your computer sends out a message asking for the requested content to be delivered. This message sent by your computer also encloses your IP Address as a form of “return address”, so that the Site may find your computer in order to send it that requested content. Our web-server automatically logs all these messages.

2.4 What do we do with your IP Address?

When we log your IP Address, the data collected is grouped up with the other logged IP Addresses in order to provide us with the statistics on the geographic location of visitors to the Site, how long they stay on the Site, which are the most viewed pages and for other statistical reasons that may be relevant to us.

We gather your IP address automatically and store it in log files. These files also contain information relating to your browser type, ISP, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data and the files viewed on Site. Collecting this type of information allows us to generate aggregate information for the purposes of developing the Site, including in terms of overall user trends and activities online (such as the number of unique visitors, pages accessed and viewed most frequently or the search terms entered). It also allows us to administer the Site, diagnose any potential server problems, analyse visitor trends and statistics, and generally helps us to provide you with a better internet experience.

IP Addresses are not stored for longer than necessary for the above stated purposes.

Cookies

3.1 Information about our use of Cookies

The Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. They allow us to analyse trends and administer the Site, to help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site, and to develop and improve it at the same time.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. A cookie enables the website 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. 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.We may use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site. Namely, by way of illustration, they include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site.
  • Analytical and Performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the Site when using it. This helps us to improve the way and manner in which the 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 the Site. 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).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Site, together with the advertising displayed on it, more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • Third party cookies. These cookies allow the Site to interact with different websites.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes which we use them in the table below:

4. Other Information Stored

4.1 Web server Logs

For security and troubleshooting purposes our web server stores logs of activity on the website. The information stored includes: date, time, IP, page visited, result, amount of data sent and browser used.

5. Updates to this Policy

We will occasionally update this Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Policy or any of our other policies.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, or privacy matters generally, please contact us via email at info@timberland-malta.com