Section 1 - Introduction
Thank you for visiting CO2.ie and please note that your privacy is important to us.
We encourage you to read this statement before using our website. Your use of the website signifies that you agree with all terms of this Privacy statement.
You have the right to control your personal information. You have full use of CO2.ie without giving us any personal information such as your name and an email address.
Section 2 – Personally Identifiable Information
The only personally identifiable information CO2.ie would hold, should you choose to supply them, would be your name and email address to receive email updates and RSS feeds from our blog. First and foremost, we do not sell or provide your information to anyone else.
Blog Email Updates
Visitors to CO2.ie may subscribe to our Blog updates by email.
CO2.ie uses Feedburner.com for sending out Blog Updates by Email. Users may subscribe to other blogs as well as CO2.ie’s Blog using Feedburner. Please click here for Feedburner’s own Privacy statement.
Blog Email Opt-Out
Our site provides users with the opportunity to opt-out from receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor AND whenever we send information to the user that they've requested.
The Feedburner.com site gives users the following options for removing their information from CO2.ie Email Blog updates (or any other mailing lists they have joined). Users will not receive future communications once they have opted out of a list.
Blog Comments
In order to enhance their use of the CO2.ie web site, users can choose to leave comments on particular articles of interest. To leave a comment, users must submit information including a valid email address. CO2.ie uses this information to screen out users who leave comments prohibited by our terms and conditions of use. We will not pass this information to any other organisation.
Section 3 – Other types of Information Collected
Some information about your visit to CO2.ie is collected. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalise your Internet experience.
Cookies
To enhance your experience on our website, some of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information.
Log Files
We use log files on CO2.ie in the same way as most standard web servers do. This includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyse user movement.
Section 4 – Additional Information
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorised access, maintain data security, and correctly use the personal information we collect online in accordance with the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.
Retention Policy
If you sign up for email updates, CO2.ie will hold your email contact details until you unsubscribe from our email updates. If CO2.ie cease to send out email updates, we will delete your information from our records.
Under Section 4 of the Irish Data Protection Acts, a person has a right to be given a copy of his/her personal data (Right of Access). Under the Acts, a Subject Access Request should be in writing, and we may charge a fee not exceeding €6.35 and must reply to you within 40 calendar days.
We would like you to post any information requests to Derek McCabe with a certified photocopy of your passport and/or driving licence. We will not charge you for this request and deal with it without delay.
Derek McCabe
General Manager
CO2.ie
Roebuck House
Mountnugent
Co. Cavan
Links
CO2.ie contains links to a number of social networks and other websites. Please be aware that CO2.ie is not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by CO2.ie.
Notification of Changes
Whenever CO2.ie changes its privacy statement, we will post the changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate. Our users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
How You Can Correct Information
For instructions on how you can correct the personally identifiable information that CO2.ie has collected about you online, please call us on +087 2102802
