ISME Skillnet Privacy Statement
ISME Skillnet has created this Privacy Statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to the General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR). ISME Skillnet will ensure that any information you give us remains private and is used only for the purposes outlined in this policy. Any personal information which you provide to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 1988-2018.
Outlined below is ISME Skillnet’s commitment to the privacy of the users of ISME Skillnet’s website. By visiting this site, you are agreeing to the terms of this privacy statement. If you are not happy with the contents of this statement and do not wish your information to be recorded, you may leave this site.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
A user can access our website, www.ismeskillnet.ie, and utilise many of our services without providing any information to us at all. ISME Skillnet will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your consent. Before collecting it, we will let you know what we intend doing with your information so you can decide whether to furnish that information to us.
Where you volunteer information by emailing us or by using online feedback forms, such information will only be used in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Any personal information which you volunteer when you visit our website through e-mail alerts or when using our online feedback forms will be treated with the highest standard of security and confidentiality.
Click here to view our Data Protection Statement and FAQ.
Collection and Use of Technical Information
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged via Google Analytics for our statistical purposes. This information cannot be used to personally identify you and does not constitute personal data.
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 visitors, and
- the version of the operating system used by the visitor.
This information is used for statistical purposes only, including:
- to find out how many people are visiting our sites,
- to identify what pages are accessed more frequently,
- to help us improve the information we are supplying to our users, and
- to make our site more user friendly.
ISME Skillnet will never disclose this information to any third party unless explicitly stated (see Google analytics below).
Sharing Personal Information
ISME Skillnet does not routinely share your personal information. In limited cases, we may be required to share your personal data to verify or validate certain information to administer a service to you or on your behalf. In these instances, we will inform you in advance about our data sharing processes.
ISME Skillnet Trainee Privacy Statement
Our Trainee Privacy Statement describes how we use trainee personal data.
Click here to view our Trainee Privacy Statement (.pdf)
Cookie Policy
This policy outlines the use of cookies on this website. This policy may be updated from time to time to reflect any changes to the functionality of this website or changes in technology or data protection legislation.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data or text file sent by a website to the browser on your computer or mobile device when you are visiting a website. It consists of anonymous information, including a unique user identifier. When you navigate between pages on a website or revisit a website, the cookie is sent back from your browser to the website, to enable the website to remember your browser and whether you have entered personalised details or preferences on that website before.
How do we use cookies on this website?
We use cookies for the inherent functionality of this website and its Content Management System. We also use cookies to collect information about how visitors use this website.
Google Analytics: We use cookies associated with Google Analytics. Google provides code to collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is collected anonymously and does not identify an individual. Information collected by Google Analytics includes data about where visitors have come from, what pages they viewed and how long they spend on the site. We use this information to help us improve the way www.ismeskillnet.ie works to provide a better user experience. Google Analytics prohibits the tracking or collection of personal information or association of personal information with web analytics information.
Google Adwords & Remarketing: Google Adwords is an advertising analytics service provided by Google. Adwords uses temporary cookies that are stored on a user’s computer for a limited period. Only pages that a user has visited containing the Google conversion code are tracked. Google do not collect or store personal information.
AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google. This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to www.ismeskillnet.ie. Users may opt-out of Adwords Remarketing use of cookies by visiting the Adwords Remarketing opt-out page.
Facebook Retargeting:
We use Facebook Retargeting cookies so we can advertise relevant information about ISME Skillnet to our social media users. Facebook Retargeting is a remarketing service provided by Facebook Inc which uses the Facebook Pixel. The Facebook pixel is a small, invisible piece of code owned and operated by Facebook that tells Facebook to save visitors’ cookies to the ISME Skillnet website. More information on Facebook’s cookie policy can be found here.
Users may opt-out of Facebook Retargeting use of cookies by visiting https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences.
Facebook Custom Audiences:
Facebook’s custom audiences feature enables ISME Skillnet to create an audience list for sending ads through Facebook. ISME Skillnet uses customer data such as email addresses and phone numbers to match (at an email address or telephone level) to Facebook users. If a Facebook user clicks on an ad which has been sent to them because they are part of a custom audience list, a Facebook cookie installed on the Facebook website allows their user behaviour to be tracked. This enables ISME Skillnet to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to ISME Skillnet.
Users may opt out of Facebook Custom Audiences by visiting https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.
3rd Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set on our website that are not related to ISME Skillnet, for instance if you visit a page with content embedded from YouTube or Facebook. These services may set their own cookies. ISME Skillnet do not control the use of these cookies. If you have any doubts, check the third party websites for their cookie policies.
How to control cookies
Most web browsers give you some control over cookies through the browser settings. However, turning cookies off may interfere with your browsing experience.
For instructions on how to manage and disable cookies, see the privacy and help documentation of your specific browser’s website. If you use more devices and/or browsers you will need to disable cookies on each device and on each browser separately.
For more information about how to manage cookies, including opting-out of different types of cookies please visit: www.aboutcookies.org
Enquiries
ISME Skillnet’s Data Protection Officer
ISME Skillnet,
17 Kildare Street
Dublin D02P766
skillnet@isme.ie