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Introduction:
Dad.ie is a parenting website for dads & dads-to-be which provides parenting advice & information on pregnancy, fatherhood, health, money, legal and lifestyle matters. We at Dad.ie respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under
the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this website Privacy Statement
is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting
this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with the content of this Privacy Statement
you should not use this website. By visiting Dad.ie, you are accepting the terms
of this Privacy Statement & the Terms and Conditions. Any external links to other
websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content
or the privacy policies of these other websites.
By visiting Dad.ie, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Statement & the
Terms and Conditions. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable
as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these
other websites.
Types of Information Collected:
Personal Data:
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may
include your name, address, email address, user IP addresses in circumstances where
they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised. Such information is only collected
from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.
Non-Personal Data:
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our web site. This
non-personal data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact
you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where
they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical
data involving the use of our website.
Purposes for which we hold your Information:
Non-Personal Data:
We use the non-personal data gathered from visitors to
our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors
come from and to help us better design and organise our website.
Cookies:
This website uses "cookie" technology. No personal information is
recorded, and the cookie is automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Personal Data:
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the
following purposes:
a) To provide you with services you have requested; e.g. Newsletter subscription.
b) To respond to any communications you might send to us.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties:
We will keep the information you provide to us in confidence. We will not sell or
rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However
we may provide non-personal data to third parties, where such information is combined
with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform
third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic
breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors
to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may
provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers
of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners,
sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.
We will not disclose your personal data to third parties unless you have consented
to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil your order (in
such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements).
We will disclose your personal data if we believe in good faith that we are required
to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant,
a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
Sale of Business:
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your personal data) to a
third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer
of all or substantially all of the assets of Dad.ie provided that the third party
agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Statement and provided that the third
party only uses your personal data for the purposes that you provided it to us.
You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded
an opportunity to opt-out.
Security:
Your personal data is held on secure servers. The nature of the Internet is such
that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit
to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate
technical and organisational measures) to protect your personal data.
Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data:
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our
obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002 we will update or delete
your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or
to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please
contact us by email at info@dad.ie Any such data subject requests may be subject
to the prescribed fee.
E-Mails to the site:
All submissions to the site become the property of Dad.ie and we will have the right
to use them free of charge and in any manner and in any medium forever and throughout
the world. If you do not want your submissions to become the property of Dad.ie,
please do not submit to our site.
Community Forum:
You should be aware that personal information that you disclose by way of our community
forum may be collected and used by third parties who are unknown to you or to Dad.ie
Therefore, Dad.ie gives no guarantee in relation to the security of information
that you disclose online and you acknowledge and agree that you do so at your own
risk. In addition, Dad.ie reserves the right to delete any information posted on
the site by users that it considers to be in breach of the terms and conditions
of use of the site.
Changes to the Privacy Statement:
Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this website so you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use personal data in a manner
significantly different from that stated in this website, Privacy Statement, or
otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email,
and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new
manner.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction:
This Privacy Statement is governed by the laws of Ireland and is subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts.