Ballyhoura Rural Services is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to The Ballyhoura Rural Services Web site https://ballyhouraruralservices.ie/ and governs data collection and usage. By using The Ballyhoura Rural Services website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Ballyhoura Rural Services collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number for the purposes of registering your details as a client of Ballyhoura Rural Services or a contact person for one of our clients, as a participant/registrant for an event organised by Ballyhoura Rural Services or as someone who purchases products from us. Ballyhoura Rural Services does not request any other personal information.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Ballyhoura Rural Services. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Ballyhoura Rural Services for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Ballyhoura Rural Services site.
Ballyhoura Rural Services encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to through Ballyhoura Rural Services so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Ballyhoura Rural Services is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of Ballyhoura Rural Services.
Use of your Personal Information
Ballyhoura Rural Services collects and uses your personal information to operate The Ballyhoura Rural Services site https://ballyhouraruralservices.ie/ and deliver the services you have requested. Ballyhoura Rural Services also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Ballyhoura Rural Services through its main website https://ballyhouraruralservices.ie/ or affiliate websites. Ballyhoura Rural Services may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Ballyhoura Rural Services does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Ballyhoura Rural Services may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Ballyhoura Rural Services may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except in their provision of these services to Ballyhoura Rural Services, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Ballyhoura Rural Services keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within our website in order to determine what services are most frequently used. These results are used to deliver customized content and promotion within Ballyhoura Rural Services to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Ballyhoura Rural Services Web site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Ballyhoura Rural Services or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Ballyhoura Rural Services; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Ballyhoura Rural Services, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Ballyhoura Rural Services Web site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Ballyhoura Rural Services pages, or register with The Ballyhoura Rural Services site or services, a cookie helps Ballyhoura Rural Services to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Ballyhoura Rural Services Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of The Ballyhoura Rural Services services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Ballyhoura Rural Services takes all reasonable steps to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure and secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Removing or updating your information
If you wish to update or remove information previously provided to Ballyhoura Rural Services or wish to no longer be contacted by Ballyhoura Rural Services please contact us at goconnor@ballyhourars.org with details of your specific request or phone us on 063-89442.
Changes to this Statement
Ballyhoura Rural Services will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Ballyhoura Rural Services encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Ballyhoura Rural Services is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Ballyhoura Rural Services welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Ballyhoura Rural Services has not adhered to this Statement, please contact goconnor@ballyhourars.org. We will use every reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.