www.eldmalta.com (hereafter ELD) is a website operated and maintained by Karl Callus for Exclusive Leather Design - a business registered in Malta for the leatherwear designer Joseph Callus.

1. This website provides information about our services and products, and is by no means used for the purpose of selling directly or gathering any personally identifiable information about the users.
2. We also do not require any registration including user names and passwords.
3. This website makes use of cookies to provide you with a convenient and feature rich online experience.
   Cookies are text files that contain information to identify returning visitors only during their visit to the site. Cookies are stored on your computer's hard drive and do no damage there.
   Website cookies contain personal data. Cookies spare you from having to enter the same data over and over again, facilitate the delivery of specific content, and help ELD identify particularly popular sections of the website. This enables ELD to tailor the contents of the website to your exact needs.
   Some third party services (Facebook, Google Ads) may also place cookies on this website. ELD does not have access to these cookies and cannot control them.
   You have the option to disable the acceptance of cookies in the web browser. ELD assumes no responsibility for the use of cookies by third parties.
4. Privacy Policy Statement for the use of Facebook plugins (the “Like” button, Facebook Messenger chat)
   
   Social plugins from the Facebook social network, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, are integrated on our website. You can identify the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our web pages. For an overview of Facebook plugins, please visit: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
   
   Whenever you visit our website, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your web browser and the Facebook server. This provides Facebook with the information that you with your IP address visited our website. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link our web content to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to assign your visit to our website to your user account. As the provider of this website, we wish to point out that we do not receive any information on the contents of the transmitted data or their use by Facebook. You will find more information on this in the Facebook Privacy Policy Statement at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
   
   When you use the facebook messenger chat feature, you will be given the option to log in with your facebook account. We have no direct access to any such personal info (log in details, passwords) but the message content will be transmitted via secure and possibly also non-secure methods. All social-media applications and features should be treated with care and no private information, such as credit card or bank details should ever be sent via such means. We are not able to trace or reverse any action performed through social media platforms an it is entirely up to the customer if he/she would like to use such features. For any personal info, please use our "Contact Us" page, call us or send us an e-mail. You will find more information on this in the Facebook Messenger Privacy Policy Statement at https://www.messenger.com/privacy.

5. Privacy Policy Statement for the Use of GOOGLE Analytics
   
   This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses what are referred to as "cookies". Cookies are text files, which are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of this website. The information generated by cookies on your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP masking (IP anonymisation) is activated on this website and if you are in a member state of the European Union or in another state that is party to the European Economic Area Agreement, a portion of your IP address will be removed prior to transmission.

   Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of this website’s operator, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website-activities and provide the website operator with other services connected to the use of the website and the use of the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.

   You can prevent cookies being stored by modifying your browser settings. However, please note that if you do so, you might not be able to make full use of all functions available on this website. You can also opt out, i.e. prevent the capture of cookie-generated data (incl. your IP address) relating to your use of the website to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin, which is available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
   
   We would like to further point out that the Google Analytics on this website has been extended by the "anonymizeIp" code to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).

6. Privacy Policy Statement for the Use of Twitter
   
   Twitter service functions are integrated in our website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. The use of Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function links the websites you visit with your Twitter account and makes this information available to other users. Data is transferred to Twitter in the process.

   We wish to point out that we as the provider of these web pages do not receive any information on the content of the transferred data or of its use by Twitter. For more information on Twitter’s Privacy Policy Statement, see https://twitter.com/privacy

   You can change your data privacy settings at Twitter in the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings

7. Our website allows you to send us requests of information. To do this, you have to supply your email address and name. This information is only used by us to answer your message. We delete all emails periodically to make sure that all information remains private.
8. You have the right to send us an email requesting all the information we have about you and to contact your country’s data protection agency to complain about the way we handle your data.
   
   Registered owner: Joseph Callus
   Tel: +356 21318619
   Contact person: Karl Callus
   Email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Official address: Exclusive Leather Design (ELD), 130 High Street, Sliema SLM1542, Malta