Africa Centre
Ireland Privacy Statement
This privacy
policy discloses the privacy practices for www.africacentre.ie,
which is operated by Africa Solidarity Centre CLG (Africa Centre Ireland). This
privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will
notify you of the following:
1 What personally identifiable information is
collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be
shared.
2 What choices are available to you regarding
the use of your data.
3 The security procedures in place to protect
the misuse of your information.
4 How you can correct any inaccuracies in the
information.
Information
Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have
access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other
direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use
your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We
will not share your information with any third party outside of our
organization, other than as necessary to fulfil your request, e.g., to answer a
question, membership payment, donations, etc. Unless you ask us not to, we may
contact you via email in the future to tell you about new services or changes
to this privacy policy.
Instances we
may share your information will be:
•
to agents or service providers appointed by us, to regulatory
bodies or to others who work for us in connection with the provision of our
services to you.
•
to our actual or prospective professional indemnity insurers,
brokers or advisers, bank and auditors or risk managers who they may appoint,
or as otherwise may be required by operation of law.
•
to our internal or external examiners who monitor the professional
standard of our work by auditing a small number of our files to ensure we
maintain our quality systems.
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for marketing purposes, we may wish to disclose or publish that we
have advised you, in which event we may identify you by name and indicate the
general nature of our advice and any details which may properly have entered
the public domain. If you object to our using your name or business logo in any
publication, please let us know.
•
if required to do so by law or in good faith and belief that such
action is necessary to: (a) conform with the law or comply with legal process
served on us; (b) protect and defend our rights or property including, without
limitation the security and integrity of our network and systems; or (c) act
under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of clients, users of
our services or members of the public.
•
if required to disclose information by Court order or by law.
Certain laws (for example, money laundering and tax fraud) give power to
authorities such as the police or the tax authorities to inspect clients’
information and to take copies. It is possible that at any time, we may be
requested by law to provide them with access to documents held by us or to
attend interviews with them in connection with the information received from
you. If this happens, we will comply with the request only to the extent that
we are bound by law and, in so far as it is allowed, we will notify you of the
request or provision of information.
•
in certain circumstances, where solicitors are required by Statute
to make disclosure to the Garda Siochana and/or the Revenue Commissioners where
they know or suspect that a transaction may involve a crime, including money
laundering, drug trafficking or terrorist financing. If we make a disclosure in
relation to your matter, we may not be able to tell you that a disclosure has
been made.
•
To share information such as your name and email address with our
newsletter services provider who sends out our newsletters. This provider is
not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf.
•
with our practice management system provider. We may also send you
emails through our email service provider. They may only process this data for
the purpose of providing us with their services, and no other purpose.
Your Access
to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the
following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number
given on our website:
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See what data
we have about you, if any.
•
Change/correct
any data we have about you.
•
Have us
delete any data we have about you.
•
Express any concern
you have about our use of your data.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive
information via the website, your information is protected both online and
offline.
Whenever we
collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is
encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking
for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for
"https" at the beginning of the address to the web page.
While we use
encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect
your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store
personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Updates
Our Privacy
Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this
page.
Subscription
We request information from you on our membership subscription form or when
making donations. To pay for your memberships or making a donation, you must
provide contact information (like name, address and phone number) and financial
information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is
used for billing purposes and to fill your membership or donations to our
activities. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this
information to contact you.
Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on
a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and
identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to
identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby
saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target
the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a
cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our
site.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not
responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable
information.
Contact
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy or you need further information on this policy, please feel free to contact us immediately via telephone at +353 1 8656951 or via email at info@africacentre.ie.