Cookie Policy

This website is operated by Point De Vue,
trading as Point De Vue Guesthouse & Restaurant.

Address: 2/7 Saqqajja square, Rabat, Malta

Telephone: +356 2145 4117

Email: info@pointdevue-mdina.com

Website: https://pointdevue-mdina.com/

For the purposes of applicable data-protection legislation, Point De Vue is the data controller responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They may help a website function correctly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the website, measure advertising performance or provide embedded third-party services.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, tags and scripts, may also be used. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies”.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for essential website features and services. They may support website security, cookie-preference storage, spam protection, the booking process and payment functionality.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot always be disabled through the website because certain services would not function correctly without them.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies support enhanced website features, such as embedded maps, third-party content and certain booking-related functionality.

Where required, these features will only load after you provide consent.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website. They may collect information such as page visits, time spent on a page, navigation activity, browser type, device type and general interaction patterns.

We use analytics data to improve the website experience, identify technical issues and understand which content is most useful to visitors.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies help us measure advertising performance and show more relevant advertisements to visitors who have previously interacted with our website.

These cookies may be used for conversion tracking, remarketing and advertising campaign analysis.

Marketing cookies will only be activated after you provide consent.

The website may use the following services:

Cookie Compliance

We use a cookie-consent tool to record and manage your cookie preferences. This allows you to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies.

WordPress

Our website is built using WordPress. WordPress and related security or performance tools may use strictly necessary cookies to support website functionality, protect the website and improve performance.

Contact Form 7 and Spam Protection

We use Contact Form 7 for general website enquiries. Our forms use Google reCAPTCHA or a related anti-spam service to help protect the website from automated submissions, abuse and spam.

Myallocator Booking Engine

Our direct-booking system is provided through a Myallocator booking iframe. When you open or use the booking system, the booking provider may use cookies or similar technologies to process your selected dates, room choices, reservation details and booking session.

Stripe Payments

Online payments are processed using Stripe. Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies to process payments securely, prevent fraud, authenticate transactions and maintain the security of its services.

Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics may use cookies to distinguish visitors and sessions and to generate website-usage statistics.

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager to manage website scripts, measurement tags and consent settings. Google Tag Manager helps us control when analytics and advertising tools are activated based on your cookie choices.

Google Ads Conversion Tracking

We use Google Ads conversion tracking to understand whether visitors complete actions after interacting with an advertisement. These technologies may store advertising click information and help us evaluate campaign performance.

Meta Pixel

We use the Meta Pixel to measure visitor activity and advertising performance for platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. This may also help us deliver more relevant advertisements to visitors who have previously interacted with our website.

Microsoft Clarity

We use Microsoft Clarity to better understand how visitors use the website. Clarity may provide analytics such as interaction data, heatmaps and session recordings, helping us improve website usability and identify issues.

Google Maps

We use Google Maps on our Contact page to help visitors locate Point De Vue. Google Maps may use cookies or similar technologies when the map is loaded.

Google Fonts

Our website may load fonts from Google Fonts. When fonts are loaded from an external provider, technical information such as your IP address may be transmitted to that provider.

Newsletter Sign-Up

Visitors may choose to subscribe to newsletters, offers or updates. Where a third-party newsletter provider is used, it may process information and place cookies according to its own policies.

Newsletter provider: Noptin

Other Embedded Services

The website may include additional third-party scripts, widgets or embeds where necessary.

The table below lists cookies and similar technologies that may be used by the website. The final cookie list should be updated after a full website cookie scan.

The specific cookies, providers and durations may change when services are updated or configured differently. We periodically review and update this table.

When you first visit our website, you can choose whether to allow non-essential cookies.

You may be given the following options:

• Accept All: allows all cookie categories;
• Reject Non-Essential: allows only cookies required for essential website functionality;
• Manage Preferences: allows you to choose which categories to enable;
• Read Cookie Policy: opens this Cookie Policy.

You can change your preferences at any time by selecting Cookie Settings in the website footer or by reopening the cookie-preferences panel.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your preferences were changed.

Certain features, such as Google Maps and the Myallocator booking iframe, may involve content loaded from third-party websites.

When you interact with these features, the relevant provider may collect technical information and use cookies or similar technologies according to its own privacy and cookie policies.

Where appropriate, non-essential embedded content may remain disabled until you choose to allow the relevant cookie category.

When you open the direct-booking system or proceed with an online payment, certain cookies may be required to complete the service you requested.

These cookies may help:

• remember your selected dates and rooms;
• maintain a booking session;
• process reservation details;
• secure online payments;
• prevent fraud;
• verify transactions.

Some cookies used by the booking and payment providers may be essential to deliver the booking or payment service.

You may choose to subscribe to newsletters, special offers or updates.

Newsletter sign-up is optional. We will only send marketing communications where we have an appropriate lawful basis, such as your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us.

Customer information submitted for a booking should not automatically be used for marketing unless the customer has separately agreed to receive promotional communications.

Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies. You can usually manage cookies through your browser settings.

Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality. For example, some booking, payment, form or map features may not work as expected.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, third-party services or legal obligations.

The latest version will always be published on this page with the date of the most recent revision.

For questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, contact:

Point De Vue Guesthouse & Restaurant
Address: 2/7 Saqqajja Square, Rabat, Malta
Email: info@pointdevue-mdina.com
Telephone: +356 2145 4117