Privacy
Privacy Statement
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. By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of the website privacy policy.
General Statement
The IBTS fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal data about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to the IBTS will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003.
Right of access to personal data
Under Section 4 of the Data Protection Act a person has a right to be given a copy of his/her personal data. In order to access this data you will need to send a written request to David Burbridge, Irish Blood Transfusion Service, James's Street, Dublin 8. This request must be accompanied by a fee (€6.35) and identification. The IBTS will deal with your request within 40 days.
Right of rectification or erasure
Under Section 6 of the Data Protection Act, a person has the right to have his/her personal data corrected, if inaccurate, or erased, if we do not have a legitimate reason for retaining the data. If you wish to have data corrected, you will need to send a written request to David Burbridge, Irish Blood Transfusion Service, James's Street, Dublin 8. The IBTS will deal with your request within 40 days.
Collection and use of personal information
The IBTS does not collect any personal data about you on this website apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us or by using our on line contact forms). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the IBTS only for the purpose for which you provided it.
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 this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged for our statistical purposes. No information is collected by us that could be used to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following terms:
- 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 website (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
- The type of website browser used by the website visitor
The IBTS will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of the IBTS never to disclose which technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by the IBTS and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.
You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual do not constitute 'personal data' for the purpose of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 – 2003.
Changes to Privacy Statement
Any changes to this website privacy policy will be posted on this website so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we collect it, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
September 2005