Privacy Statement Data Protection and Registration.
mylocalnews.ie respects your right to privacy. Visitors should be aware that each time they visit a website two general levels of information about their visit can be retained. The first level comprises statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site, and the second is information that is personal or particular to a specific visitor who knowingly chooses to provide that information. It is the policy of mylocalnews.ie to respect and protect the privacy of our advertising customers, visitors and contributors to the website and will never willfully disclose individually identifiable information about its customers, visitors or contributors to any third party without first receiving their expressed permission.
The statistical and analytical information provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who return to this site; the pages that they visit; the page in the site at which they exited, etc. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the site's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this site are most popular and to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.
This statistical and analytical information and data can be collected through the standard operation of our internet servers and logs as well as "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that a website can use in order to recognise visitors who revisit a site so as to facilitate their ongoing access to and use of the site. It enables usage behaviour to be tracked and aggregate data to be compiled that would facilitate more targeted advertising and improved content. Typically, cookies involve the assigning of a unique number to the visitor. Visitors should be aware that mylocalnews.ie is unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data for mylocalnews.ie. One simple way to prevent the use of cookies it to activate the facility that is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. However, visitors should realise that certain cookies may be necessary in order to provide the visitor with certain features such as the customised delivery of certain information.
Throughout this website you may have an opportunity to send us information relating to you such as through the "Feedback" section or any other area where you may send e-mails, enter competitions or respond to any promotions. By choosing to participate in these, you will be providing us with some level of personal information relating to you. This information will only be used by mylocalnews.ie for the purposes for which it was provided by you, verification purposes and statistical analysis to provide you with details of products, services, contests, competitions or promotions being provided or run by mylocalnews.ie or any of its associated companies or any third party that we may select and which we may think would be of interest to you, unless you have otherwise specifically opted not to receive this information.
You undertake to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself and the organisation you represent as prompted by the Services registration form (the "Registration Data"); and maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
You agree, warrant and undertake not to make use of the site in such a way as to:
a) allow directly or indirectly the use of the site for the purpose of gaining information about any other persons without their consent;
b) place, publish, transmit, transfer or otherwise communicate any information, data, software or programme which contains any virus, worm or other material which is capable of being harmful or damaging to others;
c) be in breach of any legislation governing an individual’s privacy including but not limited to the Data Protections Acts as may be amended from time to time;
d) interfere or obtain any unauthorised access to the web site of other users or customers of the site. |
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