MCC Augmented Reality mobile app privacy policy
The Government of Malta built the MCC Augmented Reality mobile app as a Free app. This SERVICE is provided by the Government of Malta at no cost and is intended for use as is.
We are committed to protecting our visitors’ and/or users’ privacy and will not collect any personal information about users unless it is voluntarily provided. Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (Cap 586), we have a legal duty to respect and protect any personal information we collect from users, and we will abide by such duty. We take all safeguards necessary to prevent unauthorised access and do not pass any details collected from visitors and users to any third parties unless consent is given to us to do so or as authorised by law.
How do we process personal data?
- Information We Collect
1.1 Automatically Collected Data: When you use our app, we automatically collect certain information, including:
- Device information such as model, operating system, and version.
- App usage data such as pages visited, actions taken, and time spent.
- Location information, based on IP address or device settings (if granted permission).
1.2 Error and Event Data: Our app utilizes Sentry to collect data about errors and specific events within the app to help us improve its performance and resolve issues.
- How We Use Your Data
2.1 Improving Our App: We use the data we collect to understand how users engage with our app, identify trends, fix issues, and improve overall user experience.
2.2 Analytics: Using Firebase Analytics, we analyze user behavior to optimize our app’s features and offerings.
2.3 Error Tracking: With the help of Sentry, we can quickly identify, track, and fix errors or issues within the app, ensuring a smoother user experience.
- Third-party Services
3.1 Firebase Analytics: Our app uses Firebase Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Firebase Analytics collects, stores, and processes data to provide us with insights about how users interact with our app. Google’s privacy policy can be found here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US#intro.
3.2 Sentry: Sentry helps us identify and diagnose issues within our app. Data sent to Sentry includes error reports and occasionally, general app usage patterns. You can view Sentry’s privacy policy https://sentry.io/privacy/.
- Data Subjects Rights
4.1 Data subjects may exercise their right to access the data held about them. In case of queries in relation to data, if any, held by us, users are requested to kindly contact us by submitting a request to the appropriate data controller through the Contact Us https://mcc.com.mt/contact-us/ within the website.
- Data Retention
5.1 We retain the data collected only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, unless otherwise required by law.
- Security
6.1 We take reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect your data from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
- Liability
7.1 We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your mobile equipment, mobile programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the APP or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or anything linked to it.
