What type of information do you collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

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How do you collect information?

When you subscribe to our newsletter or submit the contact form, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

 

Why do you collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purpose:

- To be able to contact our Visitors and Users and Subscribers with general or personalised project-related notices and messages.

 

How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

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How do you communicate with your site visitors?

We may contact you to notify you to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our project, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email.

 

How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site.

 

Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:

• To provide a great experience for your visitors and customers.

• To identify your registered members (users who registered to your site).

• To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of Wix's platform.

• To ensure our platform is secure and safe to use. 

 

This website uses cookies when you visit our website. We have introduced Google Analytics to our pages in order to assist us in redeveloping our websites. Google analytics allows us to measure and learn in aggregate how our website is being used, and to see for example, which are the most popular pages. This will help us ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We also use a number of session cookies and a persistent cookie to record your acknowledgement of our cookie usage.

Google Analytics make available an opt-out mechanism and more information.

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Within your browser settings you can choose whether your wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers’ instructions on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete all cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“third party cookies”), or those from specific websites.

Google Chrome : https://support.google.com/
Internet Explorer : https://support.microsoft.com/
Firefox : https://support.mozilla.org/
Safari : https://support.apple.com/
Opera : https://www.opera.com/

 

Should you be using another internet browser, please check the instructions on your help function on how to disable and delete cookies.

 

Important note: Blocking cookies might prevent some pages from displaying correctly.

 

The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

• Cookie settings in Firefox

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

• Cookie settings in Google Chrome

• Cookie settings in Safari (OS X)

• Cookie settings in Safari (iOS)

• Cookie settings in Android

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

How can your site visitors withdraw their consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at: info@theopencommunity.ie

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

 

Questions and your contact information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at: info@theopencommunity.ie