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Privacy Statement
Irish Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group
Website: http://www.icecho.org
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.
General Statement
The Irish Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group
(IcEcho) 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 the Irish Cardiac Echo and Imaging
Group (IcEcho) will be treated with the highest
standards of security and confidentiality,
strictly in accordance with the Data Protection
Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Collection and use of Personal Information
The Irish Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group
(IcEcho) 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 form in the
“Feedback”, “Contact Us” and “E-mail Opt-In”
sections). Any information which you provide in
this way is not made available to any third
parties, and is used by the Irish Cardiac Echo
and Imaging Group (IcEcho) in accordance 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.
The Irish Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group
(IcEcho) will make no attempt to identify
individual visitors, or to associate the
technical details listed above with any
individual. It is the policy of the Irish
Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group (IcEcho) 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 the Irish
Cardiac Echo and Imaging Group (IcEcho), 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 Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Glossary of technical terms used
Web Browser: The piece of software you
use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.
IP Address: The identifying details for
your computer (or your internet company's
computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code
(for example 192.168.72.34). 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.
Cookies: Small pieces of information,
stored in simple text files, placed on your
computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by
the web site on your subsequent visits. The
information stored in a cookie may relate to
your browsing habits on the web page, or a
unique identification number so that the web
site can "remember" you on your return visit.
Generally speaking, cookies do not contain
personal information from which you can be
identified, unless you have furnished such
information to the web site.
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