What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you visit it. Cookies allow the website to remember information about your visit — such as your preferences and which pages you viewed — making your next visit easier and the site more useful.
Cookies can be set by the website you are visiting (“first-party cookies”) or by third-party services running on that website (“third-party cookies”).

How Malta Salary Calc Uses Cookies

Malta Salary Calc uses cookies for 3 purposes:

Essential functionality — remembering your cookie consent choice so the consent banner does not appear on every page

Analytics — measuring how visitors use the Website so we can improve the calculator and content

Performance — enabling CDN and security services that keep the Website fast and protected

Malta Salary Calc does not use cookies for advertising, retargeting, or any form of user profiling.

Cookies Used on This Website

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the Website to function. They cannot be disabled.

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Duration
`cc_consent`	Malta Salary Calc	Stores your cookie consent preference	12 months
`__cf_bm`	Cloudflare	Bot management and security	30 minutes
`_cfuvid`	Cloudflare	Rate limiting and abuse prevention	Session

Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect anonymised data about how visitors use the Website. No personally identifiable information is collected. These cookies are only set with your consent.

Note on Google Analytics 4: IP anonymisation is enabled. Data sharing with Google advertising products is disabled. GA4 data is retained for 14 months.

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Duration
`_ga`	Google Analytics 4	Distinguishes unique visitors (anonymised)	2 years
`_ga_[ID]`	Google Analytics 4	Stores session state for GA4	2 years
`_gid`	Google Analytics 4	Distinguishes users within a 24-hour period	24 hours

Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner is displayed. The banner gives you 3 options:

Accept all cookies — enables strictly necessary, analytics, and preference cookies

Accept necessary only — enables strictly necessary cookies only; analytics and preference cookies are not set

Manage preferences — select which cookie categories to enable individually

Your consent choice is stored in the cc_consent cookie for 12 months. After 12 months, the consent banner is displayed again.

Withdrawing Consent:

Withdraw or change cookie consent at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of any page on the Website.

How to Control Cookies in Your Browser

All major browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies through browser settings. The 4 most common browsers and their cookie management pages are:

Disabling analytics cookies does not affect your ability to use the Malta Salary Calc calculator. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect consent preferences being remembered between sessions.

Third-Party Cookie Policies

Third-party services used on this Website operate their own cookie policies:

Service	Cookie Policy URL
Google Analytics 4	GA Policies
Cloudflare	Cloudflare Policies

Malta Salary Calc has no control over cookies set by these third parties beyond the consent controls implemented on this Website.

Relationship to Our Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside the Malta Salary Calc Privacy Policy, which provides full details on how personal data collected via cookies is processed, retained, and protected under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Changes to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes in the cookies used on the Website or changes in applicable law. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

If new cookie categories are added, the consent banner will be re-displayed to collect fresh consent.

Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or how Malta Salary Calc uses cookies mail: hello@maltasalarycalc.com