This statement relates to the Combat Poverty Agency's privacy practices in relation to 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

The Combat Poverty Agency fully respects 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 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

The Combat Poverty Agency does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us from this website). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the Agency only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

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 (ISP) 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
• clickstream 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
• searches executed by users on this website.

The Combat Poverty Agency will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of the Agency 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 the Combat Poverty Agency, 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.

Contacting Us

If you have any queries on matters relating to our website and personal data please contact the Webmaster at webmaster@combatpoverty.ie or write to Seán Mistéil, Head of Organisational Management & Development, Combat Poverty Agency, Bridgewater Centre, Conyngham Road, Islandbridge, Dublin 8.

Glossary of Technical Terms

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 ISP’s computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code . Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address written in the format 123.456.78.90, 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.

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