Privacy & Data Protection

The Honorary Consulate General of the Republic of Malawi in Mauritius is responsible for this website. The site is hosted and maintained by the web agency on behalf of the Consulate General.

Questions about this notice can be sent to info@malawiconsulategeneral.org.

The site does not ask you to create an account, does not collect personal data through forms, and does not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. Visa and passport applications are not submitted through this website. E-Visas are applied for on the Government of Malawi's own portal.

Fonts are hosted on the site itself. Your browser does not contact Google Fonts or similar services to display the pages.

When you open a page, the web server automatically records technical data: your IP address, the date and time of the request, the page requested and your browser's user agent. This data is processed to keep the site secure and running, and to detect misuse.

Log data is not used to identify visitors personally and is kept only for as long as needed for these purposes.

The interactive document checklist stores the items you tick in your browser's local storage, so that your progress is still there when you return. Dismissing a closure notice sets a short-lived flag in session storage for the same reason.

Both remain on your device. They are not sent to the Consulate General or to anyone else, and you can remove them at any time by clearing your browser's site data.

Once the office address is confirmed, the contact page will show an embedded Google Maps map. When the map loads, Google receives your IP address and other technical data from your browser, and Google's own privacy policy applies. Until then, no map is loaded.

The contact form on the contact page only helps you write an e-mail. When you press its button, your browser places what you have typed into a new message in your own e-mail programme. The website itself does not store, record or transmit any of it. Nothing is sent until you send the e-mail yourself, and you can change or discard it before then.

Messages on consular matters for Malawian nationals are addressed to consular@malawiconsulategeneral.org, all other enquiries to info@malawiconsulategeneral.org. When you send an e-mail, whether prepared with the form or written directly, it is delivered by your own e-mail provider, and the Consulate General receives your e-mail address and whatever information you include, such as your name, telephone number and message. It uses this only to answer your message and to carry out consular functions, and keeps it only as long as needed for that purpose or as required by law.

Please do not send passport numbers, copies of documents or other sensitive data by e-mail unless the Consulate General has asked you to.

Personal data is not sold and is not used for advertising. It is shared only where needed to handle your request, for example with the competent authorities of the Government of Malawi, or where the law requires it. The web agency may have technical access to server data in order to operate the site.

The site links to external official portals, such as the Malawi e-Visa portal. These sites have their own privacy policies, which apply once you leave this website. The Consulate General is not responsible for how they handle your data.

Depending on the applicable law, you may ask for access to the personal data held about you, and for its correction or deletion. Relevant frameworks include the Data Protection Act 2017 of Mauritius, overseen by the Data Protection Office of Mauritius, and the Data Protection Act enacted by Malawi in 2024.

To exercise your rights, write to info@malawiconsulategeneral.org. You may also contact the Data Protection Office of Mauritius if you believe your data has been handled unlawfully.

This notice may be updated, for example when the contact page map is activated. The current version is always the one on this page.