Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

Last updated: 15th September, 2026

Who we are

This Website and the Abode Boutique platform are operated by Abode Boutique, who is the data controller for the personal data described in this Policy. You can contact us at any time atadmin@abodeboutique.com.

This Privacy Policy sets out how Abode Boutique ("us", "we", or "our") deal with your personal data. Abode Boutique respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal data. This Privacy Policy gives you specific information about how we may collect data, with whom we may share it, the use of the data, the amount of information Abode Boutique holds on you and how it uses it. By registering for or using our Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy which should be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use. Should you not be in agreement with our Privacy Policy, kindly refrain from using our Services. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time. Your use of the Website after any modification indicates to us that you agree to the changes.

Information on yourself shall be collected through our website located at www.abodeboutique.com. Kindly be aware that any terms that are not provided within the said Policy shall be found in our Terms of Use. Unless otherwise provided in the said Policy, this Policy only makes reference to the use and disclosure of information collected through our Services. For certain services, we may collect and transfer Personal Data to a service provider, who may collect and use your Personal Data for other purposes which are not within our services.

We will treat your personal data in strict confidence and in accordance with the requirements of the provisions of the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta) and also in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

This Policy does not apply to information collected by third parties, such as when visiting third party websites. Kindly review the Privacy Policies of third-party websites before you disclose your Personal Data to them. We disclaim any responsibility whatsoever for their actions with regards to your Personal Data.

What kind of data is collected and for which purpose it is being collected and processed

In general, as a user of our Website, you may visit the site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personal information, only to usage.

You may however choose to provide us with personal information if you complete and submit any of the forms that may be available sporadically on our website, if you make use of our Services or if you subscribe to email updates. Such data may include but is not limited to your name, surname, phone number, email address, identity card number, etc. We shall store the data that you provide us and further process it as may be necessary in order to provide you with the particular service you might have requested from us as well as responding to any queries who might have posed.

Furthermore, should the users choose to get their licence number verified through us and get a verification badge on their platform, they consent for us to contact the Real Estate Agents Licensing Unit, and to provide them with the details of the user who signed up with us. This allows us to verify the license number.

Personal data usage

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person which shall be known as the data subject. Kindly note that we will process any personal and/or sensitive data supplied to us by yourself, whether orally or in writing, for all or any of the following purposes:

• as necessary to provide you with the information you would have requested from us, including information about our services;
• manage the Services and assess usage;
• enhance or personalise your experience using our Services;
• process or maintain your subscription to a newsletter or mailing list;
• study the use and popularity of various areas of our Services and to improve our Services and to train AI;
• in other ways described in this Privacy Policy or to which you have otherwise consented or requested or to any agreement entered with us;
• in order to prevent, detect and/or prosecute fraud and any other criminal activity which we are bound to report and to meet any other specific legal or contractual obligations including but not limited to protecting and defending our rights and property and that of our clients or users of our website;
• in order to establish, exercise or defend any legal action;
• for internal risk assessment purposes, internal management, research and statistics, systems administration and the development and improvement of our properties, our products and/or services;
• for the protection and promotion of our legitimate interests and the proper conduct of our business; and/or
• as may be allowed or required by or under any law.

Moreover, relevant data may be disclosed or shared with our employees and with our associates if pertinent to any of the purposes listed above. Kindly note that data shall not be disclosed to unauthorised personnel.

When you complete and forward to us an online form which includes the information of another person, you confirm that you are giving your explicit consent, in terms of the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta), on behalf of yourself and all the other persons specified in this form, in order for us to process the said personal information as outlined above and you would confirm that you have brought this Privacy Policy to the attention of these other persons and have obtained their respective consents.

Transfer of personal data

Sharing Your Personal Data with Listing Agents

When you inquire about, bookmark, request a viewing for, or otherwise express interest in a property on our platform, we share your contact details (name, email address, phone number) with the Listing Agent responsible for that property so they can respond to your inquiry, schedule viewings, and provide related services.

• Legal basis: Your explicit consent given when creating an account and interacting with listings, and our legitimate interests in facilitating the services you request.
• Categories of recipients: Independent Listing Agents acting as separate and independent data controllers.
• Responsibility: Once disclosed, Listing Agents determine their own purposes and means of processing and are responsible for compliance with applicable data protection laws. We are not responsible for their processing activities. Please review the Listing Agent’s privacy notice.
• Retention: We keep a record of the disclosure as needed to demonstrate compliance and to facilitate your requests.
• Your choices: If you do not want your details shared with a Listing Agent, do not submit an inquiry or expression of interest for that listing. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at admin@abodeboutique.com. Withdrawal does not affect disclosures already made based on your prior actions.
• Your rights: You may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability under GDPR. To exercise these in relation to data held by Listing Agents, please contact the relevant Listing Agent directly.

We do not pass on your details collected from you as a visitor to any third party unless you give us your consent to do so, or in the instances indicated below.

Nevertheless, data sent via the Internet may be transmitted across international borders even where the sender and receiver of information are located in the same country. Consequently, data relating to you may be transmitted via a country having a lower level of data protection than that existing in your country of residence.

Without prejudice to anything contained in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to disclose personal data relating to you to any third party if such disclosures are necessary inter alia for the following purposes:

• for the purpose of preventing, detecting or suppressing fraud;
• to protect and defend our rights and property or that of users of our Website;
• to protect against abuse, misuse or unauthorised use of our Website;
• to protect the personal safety or property of users of our Website (e.g. if you provide false or deceptive information about yourself or attempt to pose as someone else, we shall disclose any information we may have about you in our possession so as to assist any type of investigation into your actions);
• for any purpose that may be necessary for the performance of any agreement you may have entered into with us; or as may be allowed or required by or under any law;
• for any purpose that may be necessary for the management, maintenance, upkeep of our Website, and our Services

We use a Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) which specifically manages our interaction with current and potential customers and users. Through the said CRM, we are able to upload and save clients details as well as keep a record of the exchange of emails along with any attachments included in the correspondence. The data extracted and used for our CRM may be uploaded on a third party server. The use of the CRM enables us to improve our business relationship with clients. This is based on our legitimate interest to oversee our relationship with clients and to ultimately develop business growth. Their policies apply accordingly.

Advertising and Tracking Technologies

Where you accept analytics or marketing cookies, we use third-party tools to understand how our Website is used and to measure and target our advertising. Our Cookie Policy lists the specific cookies involved.

Analytics.We use Google Analytics and PostHog to understand how visitors find and use the platform, so that we can improve it. PostHog data is hosted within the European Union.

Meta advertising tools.We use the Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland), to measure the results of our advertising on Facebook and Instagram and to show relevant ads to people who have visited our Website.

Where you have accepted marketing cookies, the Meta Pixel collects and sends to Meta Ireland: your IP address, information about your browser and device, the pages you view on our Website, and the actions you take on them. This information is linked to identifiers that may allow Meta to recognise you if you also hold a Meta account.

Joint controllership with Meta.For the collection of this information on our Website and its transmission to Meta Ireland, we and Meta Ireland act asjoint controllersunder Article 26 GDPR. This is governed by the Meta Business Tools Terms and the Controller Addendum, available at facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum.

In summary: we are responsible for providing you with this information and for obtaining your consent before the Pixel operates. Meta Ireland is responsible for the security of the data it receives, for handling personal data breaches affecting it, and for enabling you to exercise your rights in respect of the data it holds. Any processing Meta Ireland carries outafterthe information reaches it falls outside this joint arrangement — Meta Ireland acts as an independent controller for that, under its own Privacy Policy at facebook.com/privacy/policy.

Legal basis.Your consent, given through our cookie banner (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). No Meta Pixel data is collected or sent unless you have accepted marketing cookies.

Withdrawing consent.Use the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page. Withdrawal stops further collection but does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand. To exercise your rights over data already held by Meta, contact Meta directly using the details in its Privacy Policy.

International transfers.Meta Ireland may transfer personal data to Meta Platforms, Inc. in the United States. Meta relies on the transfer mechanisms set out in its Data Transfer Addendum.

Exclusions.We do not send Meta any information you enter into our mortgage affordability calculator, and we do not send Meta any special categories of personal data.

Retention.We retain website-traffic audiences derived from this data for no longer than necessary for our advertising purposes. Meta's retention of the data it receives is governed by its own Privacy Policy.

Retention of personal data and rights of the data subject

No personal data that we process will be kept longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. You have the right to review the personal data that Abode Boutique holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Further, you may, where applicable, also have the right to have certain personal data rectified, blocked or erased. Please address any such requests in writing to admin@abodeboutique.com. Kindly note that such requests must be signed by yourself as the data subject to whom the particular data relates.

Privacy compliance

Our Privacy Policy is compliant with the Maltese Data Protection Act and the GDPR as applicable at the time of review. We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Kindly be informed that it is in your sole interest to read our Privacy Policy every time you access our website in order to be aware of any amendments made to the Policy.

Security

We use reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of all personal data that we process relating to you and we follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

Nevertheless, kindly be aware that by its very nature, the Internet is not a secure medium and data sent via this medium can potentially be subject to unauthorised acts by third parties. Indeed, we cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of any information passing over our Website. We shall accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the security of your data while in transit through the Internet.

Links to third-party websites

At times, our website may contain links that direct you to either local or international third-party Websites. This could only be done if we have the third party’s consent. Kindly be aware that we do not endorse any information or services that are portrayed in the said websites. To this end, we are not responsible for the content, use, services and/or privacy policies of these Websites. Kindly note that once you enter such Websites, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Use. Furthermore, no third party shall link any Website to our Website without our prior written consent.

E-mail communications

Most e-mail messages sent from Abode Boutique have been automatically scanned for viruses and as such should be free from any virus; malicious code; script or other executable attachment. However, the accuracy of scanning products is not guaranteed. The recipient(s) should therefore carry out any checks that they deem to be appropriate in this respect. We cannot be held responsible for the loss of or damage to data or other damages, resulting from such actions out of our control, howsoever incurred. All e-mail messages from Abode Boutique are sent in good faith. We cannot be held responsible for any modification that happens by any virus, or other third party after they have been sent. All messages are intended for the recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient specifically identified as the addressee on the email then you should delete the message and all its attachments and you are prohibited from using, reading, disclosing to any person or otherwise acting on the information contained in it and/or its contents in any way and should also notify Us as soon as possible of this fact.

Although Abode Boutique takes all the necessary steps to ensure your safety and that of your data, we may not be held liable for any loss of data which may be transmitted from your end through email spoofing or similar malicious techniques utilised by third parties.

With your permission, we may send you emails about us, new products and other updates. You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time. You can do this either by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email or by contacting us accordingly.

Limitation of liability

Kindly be aware that when you provide Us with your Personal Data, you expressly release and hold harmless Abode Boutique and its directors, employees or agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Data. In addition, even though we take reasonable steps to prevent third-party companies from making unauthorised use of your Personal Data, we cannot be held liable for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Data by those third parties.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@abodeboutique.com.

DISCLAIMER

Abode Boutique makes no representations or warranties regarding the condition or functionality of this website, its suitability for use, or that this web service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

By using this website, you assume all risks associated with the use thereof, including any risk to your computer, software or data being damaged by any virus, software, or any other file that might be transmitted or activated via our website or your access to it. Abode Boutique shall not be liable for any damages of any kind (general, special, incidental or consequential damages, including, without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits) resulting from the use or misuse of the information contained in our website.

Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation.

Abode Boutique shall not be responsible for any promotions, offers, or discounts being offered or displayed from our partnered businesses. Furthermore, we are not liable to ensure that offers from Abode Boutique being promoted for such businesses are to be claimed or paid by Us. Any promotional arrangements between Abode Boutique and partnered businesses are subject to separate agreements, and users should verify any offers directly with the business offering them.

Tools, Forms, Calculators and Estimators

Our website may make available forms, calculators, estimators, comparison tools, data displays, and similar interactive or informational features, whether currently offered or introduced at any time in the future (collectively, "Tools"). All Tools are provided as general informational aids only.

Any result, figure, estimate, projection, score, or output produced by a Tool is indicative only. It is generated from simplified assumptions, from data supplied by third parties, and from the information you enter, and it does not take account of your individual circumstances. No output of any Tool constitutes an offer, quote, valuation, appraisal, guarantee, or solicitation, nor may it be relied upon as such.

Where a Tool displays statistics, market data, indicative returns, cost estimates, rental figures, area or lifestyle information, or similar material, that material is drawn from third-party and publicly available sources. Abode Boutique does not verify, audit, or independently confirm such material. It may be incomplete, superseded, or out of date, and it reflects the position at the date the underlying source was last updated.

Nothing produced or displayed by a Tool amounts to financial, investment, credit, legal, tax, valuation, architectural, or other professional advice, and nothing on our website should be treated as a personal recommendation. Abode Boutique is not a lender, credit institution, credit intermediary, financial adviser, or investment adviser, and does not carry on any licensed financial activity.

While we make reasonable efforts to keep our Tools and their underlying data accurate and current, Abode Boutique accepts no responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, or decision arising from the use of, or reliance on, any Tool or its output. Results may vary as a consequence of changes in rates, prices, policy, or legislation, changes in third-party source data, errors in the information entered by the user, or technical fault. You are responsible for verifying any figure that matters to you, and we strongly encourage all users to obtain independent advice from a suitably qualified professional before acting on any output.

Home loan and mortgage affordability calculator

In addition to the above, the following applies to our home loan and mortgage affordability calculator. Abode Boutique does not provide home loans and is not affiliated with, nor acting for, any bank or financial institution. Figures displayed are estimates only and may not reflect the offers, terms, or conditions available from any individual lender. Actual eligibility, loan amounts, interest rates, and repayment terms depend on the applicant’s creditworthiness, income, property valuation, and the lender’s internal policies. Any formal loan application must undergo a full credit analysis by the respective bank, in accordance with Maltese financial regulations and the bank’s lending criteria. We strongly encourage all users to seek advice from qualified home loan advisors or banking institutions to obtain tailored information on specific loan products and eligibility.

Nothing in this section excludes or limits any liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under Maltese law, including under applicable consumer protection legislation.