Privacy Statement

Website of the Mid-West Regional Authority

The Mid-West Regional Authority has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to your privacy. This statement relates to the Authority’s privacy practices in connection with this website. The Authority is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such.

General Statement
The Mid-West Regional Authority fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any information which you volunteer to the Mid-West Regional Authority will be treated with the highest standard of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003, the Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 and other relevant EU and Irish legislation.

Collection and Use of Personal Information
The Mid-West Regional Authority does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing the Authority). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, but is used by the Authority only in line with the purpose for which you provide it.

Use of Technical Information
Cookies are files which are transferred to your computer’s hard disk by a website. Cookies can store information about your preferences and other information which you need when you visit a website. This website does not contain any cookies.
Statistical and analytical information collected through the standard operation of the Authority’s internet servers and logs provides general and not individually specific information. The Mid-West Regional Authority will make no attempt to identify individual users, or to associate any technical information collected, with any individual user. Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics which allow the Authority to assess the number of visitors to the site, identify what pages are accessed most frequently and, generally, help to make the site more user-friendly.