Privacy Statement
This website is maintained by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The Department is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and employs appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access. The Department will not process your personal data for any purpose other than that for which it is collected. Personal data may be exchanged with other Government Departments, local authorities, agencies under the aegis of the Department, or other public bodies, in certain circumstances where this is provided for by law.
The Department will only retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it is collected and subsequently processed. When the business need to retain this information has expired, it will be examined with a view to destroying the personal data as soon as possible, and in line with Department policy and Data Protection legislation. Further information on Data Protection can be found on our website here.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The Department respects the rights of its users and does not collect any personal data about you on its website.
By contacting us via email, you may be sending us personal data such as your name, address, and email address. We may store your personal data in order to respond to your request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of the email.
Where a user voluntarily provides personal data, this will be used only for the purposes for which it is provided, and will not be passed to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.
Collection and Use of Technical Information
Technical details in connection with visits to the Department’s websites are logged for statistical and other administrative purposes. No information is collected that could be used by the Department to identify website visitors. The details logged are confined to the following items:
The IP address of the visitor’s web client;
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, webpages accessed and documents downloaded);
The type of web browser used by the website visitor.
The Department will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual except in the investigation of any inappropriate or malicious use of the Department’s website itself. It is the policy of the Department never to disclose any technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party, unless legally obliged to make such disclosure.
Use of cookies on our website
The Department will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither the Department nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
The Department will also use a simple cookie to record that a site visitor has acknowledged the use of cookies on this site. This is to prevent the visitor being shown the pop-up advisement each time they visit the site but will not collect or store any other information about the visitor.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as outlined in the links below. However, this can affect your browsing experience and some services on this site and others may not function properly, or at all. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
