The Child Protection Service respects your right to privacy and this statement lays out its policy towards safeguarding the information that you disclose to us.
The Child Protection Service will never wilfully disclose information about you which could be used to identify you on an individual basis to any third party without first receiving your express permission. The exception to this is where the information supplied indicates that a child/children may be at risk of abuse or imminent harm. In these circumstances the information will be referred to An Garda Siochana.
Where the Child Protection Service asks you for any personal information, such as your name and address, from which you can be individually identified, this will only be done where we require that information for specific purposes, for example registration. We will let you know what we intend doing with that information before collecting it, so that you can decide whether or not to furnish that information to us. If at any time you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use such information, or in the case that the information becomes out of date, you are free to notify us, and we will use all reasonable endeavours to remove or rectify the information promptly.
You acknowledge and agree that in certain particular circumstances we may be obliged to disclose personal information relating to you to third parties, for example, in order to conform with the requirements of law or to comply with legal processes.
Please be aware that every time you visit a website, general information about your visit is retained. Statistical and other analytical information is collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site. This statistical and analytical information provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit and return to this website; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page and site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website, so that we can better manage the website's efficiency and capacity. It also helps us to understand which parts of this website are most popular, and to assess, on a general basis, user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and efficiency of the various areas of the website. 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". You can prevent the use of cookies by activating the facility that is available in most web browsers that enables you to deny or accept cookies. However, you should realise that cookies may be necessary in order to provide you with certain features such as the proper customised delivery of certain information.
Please also be aware that where you link to another website from the Child Protection Service website, that the Child Protection Service has no control over that other website. Accordingly, the Child Protection Service cannot guarantee that the controller of that website will respect your privacy in the same manner.
The Child Protection Service reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement for any amendments.
