Privacy policy
Last updated 12 September 2026.
1. Who is responsible
The data controller is Matthew Farrugia, trading as awla.mt, [postal address], Malta. Contact: hello@awla.mt. awla.mt is bound by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (Cap. 586 of the Laws of Malta).
2. Two kinds of personal data
awla.mt handles two different kinds of personal data, for different reasons.
- Data about you, as a reader or subscriber.
- Data about people named in judgments, which the courts have published.
3. Data about you
What we collect. Your email address when you subscribe. Your name if you give it. Which newsletters you choose. Whether you open our emails and which links you click. If you pay, your plan and billing history. Your card details go to Stripe; awla.mt never sees the full card number. When you use the site: your IP address, browser, pages visited, and the searches you run in the tools.
Why, and on what basis. To send you the newsletters you asked for and to run your account (performance of a contract). To improve the service and to see which content is used (legitimate interest). To meet tax and accounting duties (legal obligation). To send you news about awla.mt itself (legitimate interest; you can opt out of every such email).
How long. While you have an account, and for twelve months after it closes. Billing records for ten years, as Maltese tax law requires. Server logs for thirty days.
Who else sees it. Our processors: Hetzner (hosting, Germany), Stripe (payments, Ireland and the United States under standard contractual clauses), the email delivery provider (Mailgun, EU region, or Google for one-off account emails), and Ghost, the publishing software we run ourselves. We do not sell personal data and do not share it with advertisers.
Cookies. awla.mt sets a session cookie so you stay signed in, and a cookie that remembers your newsletter choices. It sets no advertising cookies and uses no third-party analytics scripts.
4. Data about people named in judgments
awla.mt indexes and summarises judgments and decisions that the Maltese courts and tribunals have published on their own websites. Those texts name parties, witnesses, lawyers and judges. awla.mt processes those names because they are part of the public record of the administration of justice, and because reporting and indexing decided cases is in the legitimate interest of legal practitioners and of the public in an open justice system. awla.mt does not add anything about those people beyond what the published judgment says.
awla.mt reports decided cases only. It does not build profiles of individuals, and it does not offer a search by person's name to the public.
If you are named in a judgment and believe the court's published text is wrong, or has been anonymised by the court after awla.mt indexed it, tell us at hello@awla.mt and we will align awla.mt with the court's current version. awla.mt cannot change the court's own record.
5. Your rights
You may ask to see the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to receive a copy in a portable form, to restrict how we use it, or to object to our use of it. Write to hello@awla.mt. We answer within one month. You may complain to the Information and Data Protection Commissioner, Malta (idpc.org.mt).
6. Security
awla.mt runs on a server in the European Union with encrypted connections, a firewall, daily backups and no password storage: sign-in is by emailed link. Only the operator has access to the server.
7. Children
awla.mt is for legal practitioners and is not aimed at anyone under eighteen.
8. Changes
We may change this policy. The date at the top tells you when. Material changes are emailed to subscribers.