|
Privacy statement Website of Byrne-Mech
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. Some technical
terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
General statement
Byrne-Mech 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
Byrne-Mech 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
Byrne-Mech does not collect any personal data about you on this
website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example
by e-mailing us or by using our online feedback form). Any information
which you provide in this way is not made available to any third
parties, and is used by Byrne-Mech only in line with 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 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
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)
- the
type of web browser used by the website visitor.
Byrne-Mech
will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate
the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the
policy of Byrne-Mech 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 Byrne-Mech, 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 purposes of
the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. 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.
|
