Irish Countrywomen’s Association Central Office
Privacy Policy
24th October 2017
Privacy Policy
This statement discloses the privacy policy for www.ica.ie the official website of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association.
The Irish Countrywomen’s Association (hereinafter referred to as ICA) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a secure online experience. In general, you can view this site and all the latest news and results without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Sometimes, however, the ICA needs to monitor website usage to help it to develop the website and our services.
Collection of Personal Information
The ICA may offer certain functions and services which, if you choose to use them, will require information from you in order to work, such as your name, email, address and mobile telephone number. The ICA will endeavour to let you know before your personal information is collected from you on the internet.
Use of Personal Information
Primary Purposes We use personal information for these primary purposes:
- To make the site easier for you to use by not making you enter your personal information more than once
- To help us create and deliver content most relevant to you
The ICA is very much aware that some people will not want their information used other than for the purposes for which it was supplied; some will want to receive information from the ICA on Association issues only and others will want to receive more information.
The ICA will give you the choice as to what information, if any, you wish to receive by email.
Providing you with information
The ICA may also use your personal information for general statistical purposes. We also keep track of the domains from which users visit and analyse this data:
- For trends and statistics and to evaluate the efficiency of our website and our internet infrastructure
- To ensure that services offered (such as, but not limited to, chat and forums) are not abused We may also use your information for detection of fraud and market research purposes.
Business relationships
The ICA website contains links to other websites. The ICA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites.
Cookies
Information may be sent to your computer in the form of an Internet “cookie” to allow the ICA servers to monitor your requirements. The cookie is stored on your computer. The ICA Irish Countrywomen’s Association Central Office Privacy Policy 24th October 2017 2 server may request that your computer return a cookie to it.
These return cookies do not contain any information supplied by you or any personally identifiable information about you.
Such measures are necessary to allow the ICA to measure the usability of the systems, which will help to continually improve user experience of our websites.
Your browser software should however enable you to block cookies if you wish to.
Consent
By submitting your personal information to us, you signify your consent to the ICA using the information provided in the manner described above. If we amend our privacy policy, any changes will be published on this website. If at any time you wish to update the information which we hold about you, or if you wish to stop receiving information from the ICA, please contact us either in writing to Operations Manager, ICA Central Office, 58 Merrion Road, Dublin 4, by Telephone to 01-6680002 or Email to