Privacy Statement of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General statement

The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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 this Department will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1988 and the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.

Collection and use of personal information

The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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 contact us form). Any personal information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, save as required by law, and is used by this Department only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. In certain circumstances, some detail provided to us on our Freedom of Information (FOI) application form may be required to be provided to other third parties about whom information is being sought, as is required under the FOI Act. If you have any questions about this aspect of FOI our Freedom of Information Unit would be happy to clarify the position.

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:

• the IP address of the visitor’s web server
• the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
• clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
• the version of the operating system used by the visitor

The Department of Enterprise Jobs and Innovation 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 Department 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 this Department, 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.

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