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.
Irish Life International Ltd 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 will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1988 and the Data Protection (Amendment) Act, 2003.
Collection
and use of personal information:
Irish Life International Ltd does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us or by using our online Information request form). Any personal information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by Irish Life International & Irish Life & Permanent group only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
Collection
and use of Technical information:
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session" cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
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the IP address of the visitor's web server
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the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
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the previous website address from which the visitor reached us,
including any search terms used
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clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web
site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
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the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
Irish Life International Ltd will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Irish Life International Ltd never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by Irish Life International Ltd, and 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 Act, 1988 and the Data Protection (Amendment) Act, 2003.
Cookies
It
is the policy of Irish Life & Permanent Group:
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to comply in full with the requirements of all Data Protection
legislation and codes.
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to develop our Data Protection compliance procedures on a “best
practice” basis.
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to obtain and process information fairly.
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to keep it only for one or more specified, explicit and lawful
purposes.
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to use and disclose it only in ways compatible with these
purposes.
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to keep it safe and secure.
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to keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date.
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to ensure that it is adequate, relevant and not excessive.
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to retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purpose or
purposes.
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to respond to access requests as required by law.
When
you speak to us on the phone, some calls may be monitored or recorded to help
improve our quality of service.