This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection
with this website. We are not responsible for the content or
privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other
websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms
used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
General statement
We fully respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any
personal information about you on this website without your clear
permission. Any personal information, which you volunteer to us,
will be treated with the highest standards of security and
confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection
Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Collection and use of personal information
We use Google Analytics on our site. Any cookie whose name
starts with "_UTM" is a Google Analytics first party cookie.
Collection and use of technical information
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary
"session" cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to remember
which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can
use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are
disabled from the web browser. Technical details in connection with
visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider
for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that
could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical
details logged are confined to the following items:
The IP address of the visitor's web server
The top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org,
.net) The previous website address from which the visitor reached
us, including any search terms used Click stream data which shows
the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages
accessed and documents downloaded)
The type of web browser used by the website visitor
We will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to
associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
It is our policy to never disclose such technical information in
respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart
from our internet service provider, which records such data on our
behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this
regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of
law. The technical information will be used only by us, and only
for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note
that technical details, which we cannot associate with any
identifiable individual, do not constitute "personal data" for the
purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Glossary of technical terms used:
Web browser: The piece of software you use to read web pages.
Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and
Opera.
IP address
The identifying details for your computer (or your internet
company's computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for
example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a
unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every
time a connection is made.
Cookies
Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed
on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site
on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may
relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique
identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on
your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain
personal information from which you can be identified, unless you
have furnished such information to the web site.