Privacy Statement

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:57

Written by World and Media

Website of worldandmedia.com

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 to which we link.

General statement

World and Media 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 on worldandmedia.com 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

World and Media does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by registering, e-mailing us or by completing an online form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by World and Media only in line with the purpose for which you provided it, and consistent with the registration policy. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.

World and Media may contact you periodically to ensure that the information we hold is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

Your rights regarding data supplied via this website

You have a right to be given a copy of your personal data which you may have supplied via this website. To exercise this right, you must contact World and Media in writing or via e-mail. You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier via the website (e.g. Name; address; phone number; e-mail address). Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.

You also have a right to have inaccurate information corrected. If you discover that we hold inaccurate information about you, you have a right to instruct World and Media to correct that information. Such an instruction must be in writing or via e-mail. A request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process. Section 6 of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003 covers the rights a person has to have his/her personal data corrected, if inaccurate, or erased.

If you are concerned about how personal data are processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention.

Collection and use of technical information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. This technical information, so gathered, will not be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged may include:

• 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.

World and Media will make no attempt to identify individual visitors from – or to associate any individual with – the technical details listed above, so gathered. It is the policy of World and Media never to disclose such 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 by World and Media 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.

This website is protected by security software which records and occasionally blocks the IP address of users when they register or post a comment. This information is not examined by World and Media except for security purposes, such as unblocking a blocked IP address.

Some non-personal information and data may be collected through "cookies". One simple way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables you to deny or accept cookies. However, cookies may be necessary in order to provide logged-in users with certain automated features.

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. This website does not use cookies.

Occasionally, we may decide to change this Privacy Notice; you may wish to review it periodically so you are aware of any changes.