NetRefer Privacy Policy for Facebook

This privacy policy applies to Arnold Media Limited t/a NetRefer’s (“NetRefer”) processing of the personal data which you leave and/or provide when you visit NetRefer’s Facebook page (the “Facebook page”) or social media sites owned by Facebook Ireland Ltd. (“Facebook”). This privacy policy is a supplement to Facebook’s general privacy policy.

Who is the data controller for my personal data?

NetRefer and Facebook are joint data controllers in the processing of your personal data.

NetRefer’s company information is as follows:

Quantum Place,
Triq ix-Xatt, Ta' Xbiex,
Gzira, GZR 1020,
Malta

Facebook’s company information is as follows:

Facebook Ireland Ltd.
4 GRAND CANAL SQUARE, GRAND CANAL HARBOUR
D2 Dublin
IRELAND
Reg no.: 46 29 32

NetRefer complies with the guidelines of the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner concerning joint data control and, using the applicable tools the best way possible, NetRefer attempts to ensure that you will be notified of the processing of your personal data when you visit the Facebook page.

Facebook has in this regard published an addendum on the joint data control for “Facebook Insights” which you may go to by clicking the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

What personal data is collected?

Depending on your conduct on the Facebook page, NetRefer and Facebook may collect the following personal data about you:

  • Whether you “like” or have used other reactions on on the Facebook page
  • Comments left by you on the Facebook page
  • Your visits to the Facebook page

Facebook also uses “Facebook Insights” on the Facebook page to collect statistical data on the conduct of visitors on the page, including age, gender, relationship status, work, lifestyle, interests, and geographical information. For such purposes, Facebook places cookies on your devices when you visit the Facebook page. Each cookie contains a unique identification code which remains active for a period of two years unless it is deleted before the expiration of this period. Facebook receives, stores and processes your personal data through these cookies.

Go to Facebook’s general cookie policy to read more about Facebook’s use of cookies on the Facebook page.

Click here for Facebook’s cookie policy: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

What is the purpose with processing your personal data?

NetRefer also processes your personal data to improve the Facebook page, compile statistics, develop and protect NetRefer’s services and products, including on the basis of your feedback. In that regard, NetRefer uses aggregated data which Facebook makes available through cookies via “Facebook Insights”, such as information on age, gender, relationship status, work, lifestyle, interests, and geographical information.

Facebook processes your personal data to enable Facebook to improve its advertisement system and to provide NetRefer with statistics that Facebook produces based on your visit to the Facebook page, in order to advertise and customise the activities on the page. Through cookies, Facebook and NetRefer gain knowledge of whether you like the Facebook page and use the page’s applications, to the effect that Facebook and NetRefer will be able to customise the content of the Facebook page and develop features which may be of interest to you.

What is the legal basis for the processing?

NetRefer processes your personal data as a consequence of NetRefer’s legitimate interest in improving NetRefer’s products and services (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).

Facebook processes your personal data as a consequence of its legitimate interests, including its interest in providing innovative, customised, secure and profitable services (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).  Facebook also processes your personal data in accordance with your consent which you are entitled to withdraw at any time via the Facebook settings (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR).

For more information on Facebook’s legal basis for processing personal data, please refer to Facebook’s general privacy policy under the section “What is our legal basis for data processing?”.

Click here for Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy#

Who receives my personal data?

At no point in time will NetRefer disclose your personal data to other businesses.

Facebook may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

  • Internally among the Facebook undertakings
  • Externally with Facebook’s partners using analytical services
  • Advertisers
  • Other individuals using the Facebook page
  • Surveying partners
  • Researchers and academics

For more information on the parties with whom Facebook shares your personal data, please refer to Facebook’s general privacy policy under the section “How is such data shared?”.

Facebook can transfer your personal data to Facebook in the US in accordance with the European data protection standards applicable from time to time. You may read in Facebook’s general privacy policy under the section “How do we process and transfer data as part of our global services?”.

Click here for Facebook’s general privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy#

What are my rights?

According to data protection legislation, you have several rights:

  • You have a right of access at any time to the personal data which NetRefer and Facebook process about you subject, however, to certain statutory exceptions
  • You have the right to object to the collection and further processing of your personal data
  • You have the right to have your personal data rectified, deleted or blocked
  • In certain cases, you have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted
  • You have the right to receive personal data which you have provided us with and, in some cases, have such personal data transferred to another data controller (data portability)

If you are a Facebook user, you may change your private settings in order to have an influence on how your personal data will be collected and processed when you visit and use the Facebook page.

Click here to change your settings: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences  and https://www.facebook.com/setting

Links to other websites, etc.

Our Facebook page may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the contents of other websites (third party websites) or for the procedures of such third parties for the collection and processing of personal data. When you visit a third party website, you should therefore read the privacy policy and other relevant policies of the website owner.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve our right to change this privacy policy as a consequence of legislative changes or changes to our processing activities.

Contact

Facebook’s general set-up and the agreements entered into by and between NetRefer and Facebook dictate that you must contact Facebook if you wish to exercise your rights. This is due to the fact that only Facebook is, in pure functional terms, capable of taking the steps necessary to comply with most of your requests.

If, however, you are of the opinion that NetRefer is capable of complying with your request, please do not hesitate to contact us. Go to NetRefer’s website to read NetRefer’s general privacy policy as well as detailed information on how we process personal data.

Click here for NetRefer’s general privacy policy: https://netrefer.com/privacy-policy/

Click here https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy#  to read Facebook’s general privacy policy for more information on how Facebook processes your personal data and for Facebook contact details. If you wish to file a complaint against our processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us. If your complaint is not resolved by us and you wish to proceed with the matter, you may file a complaint with the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner at https://idpc.org.mt/