Privacy Statement

General Statement
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.
The Irish Research Council fully respects the rights to privacy of its users and any personal information volunteered by you to the Research Council will be treated with the highest standards of confidentiality and security, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003. The IRCHSS is not responsible for the privacy policies of external websites to which we may link. Should you have any queries regarding this statement they should be directed to us via e-mail at info@irchss.ie.

Collection of personal information
Where a user voluntarily supplies personal information by e-mailing us or by subscribing to a mailing list, this information will not be disclosed to any third party and will only be used in accordance with the purpose for which it is submitted. Requests to have personal data removed from our mailing lists should be sent, again via e-mail, to info@irchss.ie.

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 the website have already been visited. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical information will be used only by the IRCHSS, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.

The following technical details are recorded:

• the IP address of the visitor's web sever
• the top-level domain name used
• 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 website
• the type of web browser used by the website visitor

These technical details will not be used to attempt to identify visitors to the site and will not be disclosed 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.

This website can be viewed with no impairment of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.