Arthritis Ireland website
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with 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.
General statement
Arthritis Ireland 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 to us 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
Arthritis Ireland does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by filling out an online application form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties and is used by Arthritis Ireland only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes. Arthritis Ireland keeps information in order to provide services of the highest standard possible. After a period of 10 years without contact, Arthritis Ireland will automatically delete all of your personal information from its database.
Requests regarding data supplied via this website
On request, Arthritis Ireland will supply copies of your personal data to you. If you wish to obtain such copies, you must write to the Arthritis Ireland at the address below or email info@arthritisireland.ie. You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier via the website (e.g. Name; address; phone number; e-mail address). Your request is free of charge, will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.
If you discover that this office holds inaccurate information about you, you can request that Arthritis Ireland correct that information. Such a request must be in writing or via e-mail. In certain circumstance you may also request that data which you have supplied via the website be deleted.
Complaints about data processed via the website.
If you are concerned about how personal data are processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to the attention of Arthritis Ireland at the contact details below.
Collection and use of technical information, including IP addresses
This website uses cookie technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. Our cookies are not available to other websites. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.
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 are confined to the following items:
The site will record any data you supply to us for the following purposes:
Arthritis Ireland will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Arthritis Ireland 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 Arthritis Ireland, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.