Privacy policy

Last updated 12 November 2026

This policy covers two sites run by the same person: maltasuper.com, which compares the prices Maltese supermarkets publish online, and maltacompare.com, which compares electronics, home, beauty, mobile and internet, takeaway and taxi prices. You can use either site without an account, and we don't ask for your name, email or any other personal details.

Who is responsible

The operator of maltasuper.com and maltacompare.com is the data controller for both sites. Contact: [email protected].

What we process and why

• Server logs. Like every website, our server records technical data for each request: IP address, time, page requested, browser type. We use these logs only to keep the site running and secure, and delete them after at most 30 days. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating a secure website (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Cloudflare. Cloudflare delivers the site and protects it against attacks, so it processes your connection data on our behalf. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Visitor statistics (Cloudflare Web Analytics). To see which pages people use and how fast they load, Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and measures loading speed. It sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and does not follow you across other sites. See Cloudflare Web Analytics. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a fast, useful website (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Advertising (Google AdSense). We show ads through Google AdSense to cover our costs. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show ads and measure them. Visitors in the EU are asked for consent first through Google's consent banner, and personalised ads are shown only if you agree. You can change your choice at any time with the privacy link in the consent banner, or turn off personalised ads in Google's ad settings. See how Google uses data from sites that use its services. Legal basis: your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)).
• Settings stored in your browser. The site keeps your search and filter choices in the page address only. We set no cookies of our own.
• Links to stores. When you follow a link to a store, we add one to that day's total for the store (and whether you came from the product list, a product page or your cart). Nothing about you is recorded: no cookie, no address, not even which product. The link carries "utm_source=maltasuper" (from maltacompare.com: "utm_source=maltacompare"), so the store can see that the visit came from us.
• Your cart. If you add products to the cart, the list (each product's store and product number, the quantity, its name and when you added it) is kept only in your browser's local storage, under "maltasuper:cart" (each of the two sites keeps its own), until you remove it or clear the cart. It is not linked to you and we have no copy of it. To show today's prices, the cart page sends the store and product numbers in your cart to our server; we don't keep these lists in our server logs.

Product data and photos

Prices and product details come from the shops' public websites, and takeaway, phone plan and taxi prices from the public pages of the platforms, operators and companies concerned. Some product photos come from Open Food Facts (CC BY-SA 3.0) and are delivered through our own server, so your browser does not contact Open Food Facts. Other product photos load directly from the store's own website (and Smart's through our server), so your browser contacts that store's image server and it sees your IP address, as when you visit the store's site.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to, correction or deletion of personal data we hold about you, object to processing, and withdraw consent at any time. Email [email protected]. You can also complain to Malta's data protection authority, the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC).

Changes

If we change how we handle data, for example by adding accounts or price alerts, we will update this page first.