Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy - Updated June 2014

Introduction

We respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and under the EU e-Privacy Directive. The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.

By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.

Types of Information Collected

We retain two types of information:

“Personal Data”

This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, address and email address in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number, birth date and billing and credit card information. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us. Your IP address is collected in the interest of security and for statistical purposes.

Your name, address, contact details and any relevant information which you submit to us through the My Account section is shared with other members. You can change your privacy settings in the My Account section and choose to whom (if any) you information is shared with. This can be with all members, your final year or nobody. Regardless of what you set here, information about you, including your name and contact information, is not shared with members who are not signed into their account. Likewise, you can only access member's contact information if you are signed in.

Your credit/debit card details are not shared with anyone. Such details are processed by Realex on a secure server. These details are not shared with us and we cannot access your card details.

“Non-Personal Data”

Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.

Purposes for which we hold your Information

Non-Personal Data:

We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

This website uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not available to other websites. Our cookies will record the following: username and (encrypted) password of your user account, your IP gateway address, the point of entry to the site, search terms used, your navigation through the site and other information that helps us make the site more accessible. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.

Opting Out of Cookies

If you have any concerns about our use of cookies, you can take action to prevent them being set, including changing your browser settings to block certain types of cookies.

For detailed information on how to do this, look in your browser’s help information, or for an overview of the most common browsers, you can visit:
http://www.cookiepedia.co.uk/index.php?title=How_to_Manage_Cookies or
http://www.aboutcookies.org/

Change ‘‘Advertising companies also enable you to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising, if you would prefer to do so. This does not stop cookies being set, but it does stop these companies using and collecting some data. For more information and opt-out controls, please go to: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

We use Google Analytics to gather statistics and to help improve this website. Therefore, please also read Google's Privacy Policy.

Personal Data

We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:

(a) to provide you with the goods, tickets or services you have ordered;

(b) to contact you if required in connection with your order or to respond to any communications you might send to us;

(d) to contact you for feedback to help improve our website – You can be taken off this list at any time by contacting us at ;

(e) to verify your account in the case that you may have forgotten your password.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil your order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements). We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.

Data submitted to the Rockwell College Union database through the My Account section is shared with other Past Pupils. You can change your privacy settings in the My Account section and choose to whom (if any) you information is shared with. This can be with all members, your final year or nobody.

Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.

Security

Your Personal Data and our website content is held on secure servers currently managed by BestSoft Consulting. All these servers are located within the European Union (with the exception of our newsletter servers), and so are bound by EU and Irish law. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data. Newsletters may be distributed via Mail Chimp which may have servers outside of the EU. Mail Chimp comply with the US-EU Safe-Harbour Agreement. Such newsletters can be unsubscribed from at any time with immediate effect.

In particular, please take particular care not to send any sensitive information via email as email communications is not a secure method of communication. Please do not email your credit card information under any circumstances, even if requested to do so. We will never ask you to send your credit card information via email.

Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data

You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please email us with a request to . Any such data subject requests may be subject to a fee of €6.35. Please note that there is no charge if you wish to remove your information from our database.

Changes to this Website Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted and dated on this page so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.