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.
An Taisce’s GreenHome programme 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 GreenHome will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
An Taisce’s GreenHome programme does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by using our online contact, registration, etc forms). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the GreenHome only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.
On request, we supply copies of your personal data which you may have supplied via this website. If you wish to obtain such copies, you must write to the GreenHome at the address found here, or e-mail GreenHome at cleancoasts@eeu.antaisce.org. 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.
If you discover that the programme holds inaccurate information about you, you can request An Taisce’s GreenHome programme to correct that information. Such a request must be in writing or via e-mail.
In certain circumstance you may also request that data which you have supplied via the website be deleted. If you wish to request a deletion, you would generally be expected to identify some contravention of data protection law in the manner in which this programme processes the data concerned.
This website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of this website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from this site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that this site will not work as you would expect.
Cookies used to make this website work including:
Remembering your search settings There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use this site.
This site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
YouTube – Privacy Policy powers the videos on this site Google – Privacy Policy Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
So you can easily like or share GreenHome content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
Facebook – Privacy Policy Twitter – Privacy Policy Other social media networks The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
GreenHome use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited this website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps GreenHome to continuously improve this website. These so called analytics programs also tell GreenHome how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.
GreenHome use: Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of this and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
Glossary of technical terms used
Web browser – The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari, etc..
IP address – The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in “internet protocol” code (for example 123.456.7.8). 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
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