Cookie & Privacy Policy for Kilkenomics
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Email newsletters related cookiesThis site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Site preferences cookiesIn order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
PRIVACY POLICY
Kilkenomics fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission. Any personalinformation which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. Any and all information collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed to third parties. Any information you give to us will be held with the utmost care, and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to.
USER ACCOUNTS
We provide you with the ability to edit the information in your user account information that your provided to us by using your personal page configuration area. You may request deletion of your user account by contacting us. Content or other data that you may have provided to us and that is not contained in your user account, such as a post on a forum, may continue to remain on our site at our discretion even though your user account is deleted.
We only send our e-mail newsletters to persons who ask to receive them. Once you are on the list, you can easily get off. Each e-mail newsletter you receive has simple instructions on how to immediately unsubscribe from our newsletter list. To do this you must use the e-mail addresses you specified at the time of sign-up. If you change or move e-mail addresses please let us know so we can redirect your e-mail to your new address.
This website does not require the use of cookies.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged areconfined 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);and the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
Kilkenomics will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Kilkenomics 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 Kilkenomics, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. Please 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.
Please note this statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website (www.kilkenomics.com). We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such.
Changes to this privacy policy may be made from time to time. We will notify you of any substantial changes to this policy either by posting a prominent announcement on the homepage of the website and/or by sending a message to the email address you have provided within your user settings. Whilst this privacy policy states our standards for maintenance of data and we will make every effort to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in the disclosure of data. As a consquency we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or non disclosure of data.