Cookie Policy

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This page explains what cookies vianet.com.mt sets, what each one is for, and how to refuse or delete them. It was last checked against the live site on 28 August 2026.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store, so that it can recognise your browser on a later visit. Cookies cannot run software or carry viruses. Some are needed for a site to work at all; others exist to count visitors or to remember a preference.

Alongside cookies, websites can store small amounts of information in your browser directly — usually called local storage. This site uses one such item, listed below with the cookies.

The cookies this site sets

Strictly necessary

These record the choice you make in the cookie banner, so that you are not asked again on every page. Without them the banner cannot remember anything.

  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-others
  • viewed_cookie_policy — records that the banner has been answered

If you log in to the site as an administrator, WordPress also sets session cookies beginning wordpress_ to keep you logged in. Ordinary visitors never receive these.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit the site and which pages they read. It tells us about traffic patterns, not about individuals.

  • _ga — distinguishes one browser from another. Expires after two years
  • _ga_Z8RJ485PF9 — keeps the state of your visit for Google Analytics 4
  • _gid — distinguishes browsers, expires after 24 hours
  • _gat — limits how often data is sent. Expires after about a minute
  • _gcl_ls — stored in your browser’s local storage by Google to link a visit to an advertising click

Please note: these analytics cookies are currently set when you arrive, before you answer the cookie banner. If you would rather they were not, you can block or delete them using the browser instructions below.

Advertising and social media

This site does not set advertising cookies of its own, and it embeds no social media trackers, comment systems or video players. There are no Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or advertising-network cookies on vianet.com.mt.

Other services this site contacts

Some parts of the page are loaded from other companies’ servers. Those servers see your IP address as a normal part of delivering the file, even where they set no cookie:

  • Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — the typefaces the site is set in
  • BootstrapCDN (maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com) — the icon font
  • Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics — the analytics described above
  • Cloudflare — sits in front of the site and hides email addresses from address-harvesting robots

Refusing or deleting cookies

You do not need cookies to use this website. You can block or delete them in your browser at any time, though doing so may affect how some parts of the site behave. Each browser handles this differently:

You can also opt out of Google Analytics across every website using Google’s own browser add-on.

Questions about this policy

How we handle personal data more generally is set out in our Privacy Policy. If you have a question about either, contact us or call (+356) 27221629.