Privacy Statement
General
The Department of Finance 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 will be treated with the highest standards
of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection
Acts, 1988 & 2003. Any information you provide in an e-mail message to one of
the addresses listed throughout our site, it is not shared with outside parties
and is used only in line with with the purpose for which you provide it. For general
web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, nor are details of individual
transactions, though certain statistical and technical information is available
to us via our internet service provider, information that is logged by standard
web servers on the internet.
Technical
The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
- The IP address from which you access our website (an IP address is the number automatically
assigned to your computer when you are surfing the web. IP addresses are used to
analyse trends, administer the site, track users' movements, and gather statistical
information and are not linked to personally identifiable information);
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site (for example, Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Windows, Linux);
- The date and time of visits to our site;
- The pages visited;
- The internet address of the website from which you accessed our site, including
any search terms used.
- This website uses cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which
pages on this website have already been visited.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, to learn
about the number of visitors to our site and the type of technology which our visitors
use. We may compile aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic
patterns and related site information but we do not track or record information
about individuals on their visits and any such statistics will not include any personally
identifying information.
Links
Our website contains links to other sites and the Department of Finance is not responsible
for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be
aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other
websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information.
Notification of changes to Privacy Policy
The Department of Finance reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this
privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement
for any amendments.
Glossary of technical terms used
web browser - The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera. IP address - The identifying details
for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in "internet
protocol" code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web
has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection
is made. cookies - Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed
on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent
visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on
the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember"
you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information
from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to
the web site.
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