Privacy Policy

Privacy statement for the ThinkIrish Web Site

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement (together with the terms of use of our website and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our treatment and use of Data.

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.

For any queries about the processing of information on the website please contact info@thinkirish.ie

General statement

ThinkIrish respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any detailed personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to ThinkIrish.ie will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. In accordance with normal practice, we record every use of this site. This information is used to improve the operation of the service and to provide statistical information about the use of the site.

Collection and use of personal information

ThinkIrish.ie does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us or by using our online feedback or registration forms). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by ThinkIrish.ie only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Collection and use of tracking information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider. Details logged are confined to the following items:

The date and time of every visit to an individual page
The search terms used (if applicable) that led to our site
Each page visited in the site
The type of web browser used by the website visitor.
The IP address of the computer that you used to visit the site.

ThinkIrish.ie will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of ThinkIrish.ie never to 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 ThinkIrish.ie, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that these 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.

Our Site uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is generated by our Site, sent to a user's browser and stored on the hard drive of the user's computer. The purpose of cookies is to store information relating to users of our Site. Cookies store user information including IP addresses, navigational data and user preferences. Our Site uses persistent cookies that are stored on a user's computer until they expire or until the user deletes the cookie. Persistent cookies collect identifying information about the user, such as internet surfing behaviour or user preferences for our Site. Some browsers do not support cookies and other browsers provide a way to turn off cookie functionality by changing the settings on the browser. Turning off cookie functionality on your browser may affect your ability to access and/or use certain parts of our Site. Our Site will issue cookies unless you adjust your browser setting to refuse cookies.

Links to other sites

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of those websites, please note that those websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those policies. Please check those policies before you submit any personal data to those websites.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time in our sole discretion. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you can see what information we gather, how we might use that information and in what circumstances we may disclose it. By continuing to use our site after we post any such changes, you accept and agree to this Privacy Statement as modified.

Contact us

Questions, comments, requests and complaints regarding this Privacy Statement and the information we hold are welcome.  Please use the contact us facility on the left of this page to send your query to ThinkIrish.ie