Website Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Death Care Academy of Ireland – www.deathcareacademy.ie

1. Introduction

We at Death Care Academy of Ireland respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002.  The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website.  Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.  By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.

2. Types of Information Collected

We here at Death Care Academy of Ireland retain two types of information:

“Personal Data”
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your e.g. name, address, email address, user IP addresses in circumstanceswhere they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number, birth date and billing and credit card information. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.

“Non-Personal Data”
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basisof all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identifyor contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where theyhave been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the useof our website.

3. Purposes for which we hold your information

Non-Personal Data:
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

Personal Data:
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:
(a) to provide you with the goods or services you have ordered;
(b) to contact you if required in connection with your order or to respond to any communications you might send to us;

4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil your order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements).  We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.

5. Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us.  You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.

6. Security

Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by OSD.  The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet.  No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data.

7. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data

You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002 we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database. Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
Any individual has a right to make an access request, in writing, under Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts for a copy of their personal data held by Death Care Academy of Ireland.  Death Care Academy of Ireland may ask for further identification information before the information  is  released  and  may  charge  a maximum fee of €6.35 for the supply  of  this  information  to  you.  Death Care Academy of Ireland has 40 days to comply with the access request, subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Acts. It should be noted that under section 21 of the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003 there are specific exemptions relating to personal information held for journalistic, artistic and literary purposes.
If members of the public wish to see what personal information Death Care Academy of Ireland may hold on them,
please email info@deathcareacademy.ie or write to:

Vicki McGowan
Death Care Academy of Ireland,
7 Emmet Street
Ballina
Co. Mayo
Ireland

General  information on Data Protection is available from the Office of the Data  Protection Commissioner’s  website.  (www.dataprotection.ie).  As an organisation  which  is  required  to  register with the Office of the Data Protection  Commissioner,  more information on the type of information held by  Death Care Academy of Ireland is available to view on the public register which is also on the Commissioner’s  website.

8.  Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.