Privacy & Cookies

Last updated 15 April 2023

Privacy Statement

This website is maintained by Donaghmede Estate Residents Association, Dublin 13, Ireland. We respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your permission. Any personal information which you provide will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Acts. This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website only. If you are concerned about how personal data is collected or processed via this website, please contact us.

Personal information

This website does not collect any personal information other than that which you provide when commenting on an article, submitting a contact form, or signing up to our mailing list. Information collected in this way is used only in connection with the purpose for which you provide it.

Information we collect

We may collect the following information from each user of this site:

  • information submitted as comments on articles, through contact forms, and to join our mailing list
  • activity on this site, including pages requested, documents downloaded, and searches performed
  • technical information, including IP address, hostname, user agent, and referring domain

How we use the information

Any personal information you provide when commenting on an article, submitting a contact form or joining our mailing list is used only in connection with the purpose for which you provide it. Site activity information is used for statistical purposes only. Technical information is used for statistical purposes and for administrative purposes such as spam detection and the reduction of unwanted automated traffic. The information collected for any of these purposes may be processed by third party services, including some outside the European Economic Area, to achieve these objectives.

Cookies

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Types of Cookies we use

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Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Please visit your browser’s official support documents for more information.