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Privacy Statement

Data Protection and Privacy Statement

The National Economic and Social Council and its associated companies respect your right to privacy. Visitors should be aware that each time they visit a website two general levels of information about their visit can be retained. The first level comprises statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site, and the second is information which is personal or particular to a specific visitor who knowingly chooses to provide that information. 

The statistical and analytical information provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who return to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page in the site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the site's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.

This type of non-personal information and data can be collected through the standard operation of our internet servers and logs as well as "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that a website can use in order to recognise visitors who revisit a site so as to facilitate their ongoing access to and use of the site. It enables usage behaviour to be tracked and aggregate data to be compiled that would facilitate more targeted advertising and improved content. Typically, cookies involve the assigning of a unique number to the visitor. Visitors should be aware that The National Economic and Social Council are unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data for The National Economic and Social Council. One simple way to prevent the use of cookies it to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. However, visitors should realise that certain cookies may be necessary in order to provide the visitor with certain features such as the customised delivery of certain information.

Throughout this website you may have an opportunity to send us information relating to you such as through the "contact us" pages or any other area where you may send e-mails, request brochures, enter contests or respond to any promotions. By choosing to participate in these, you will be providing us with some level of personal information relating to you. This information will only be used by The National Economic and Social Council for:

  • the purposes for which it was provided by you 
  • verification purposes and statistical analysis 

The National Economic and Social Council may use personal details received from you to inform you of products and/or services, which may be of interest to you. If you do not want your personal details to be used for this purpose, please contact us at the following address, The National Economic and Social Council, 16 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, stating this clearly.  Under Section 4 of the Data Protection Act, you have the right to access the record which we hold on file relating to your details.  If you wish to access this information please put your request in writing to us at the following address The National Economic and Social Council, 16 Parnell Square, Dublin 1.  If you wish to make a correction to information held within your record, please state your corrections in writing and send to the following address The National Economic and Social Council, 16 Parnell Square, Dublin 1.  

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