Website of Roscommon Bound by Roscommon County Council
Roscommon County Council has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. By visiting roscommonbound.ie you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with the aforementioned website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
General statement
Roscommon County Council fully respects your right to privacy, and we will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any information which you volunteer to Roscommon County Council’s website will be treated with the highest standard of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
What personal information about customers does Roscommon County Council gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually improve your online experience at www.roscommonbound.ie.
Here are the types of information we may gather:
Information you give us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising our online services for you, improving our online services, and communicating with you.
Where a user voluntarily provides personal information, the data will be used for analysis, research or customer service purposes only. Any personal data provided by you to us will be held in accordance with the data protection principles set out in the Data Protection (Amendment) Act, 2003, the Data Protection Act, 1988, Electronic Commerce Act, 2000, and other relevant E.U. and Irish legislation.
If we do use mailing lists to pass on information or promotions to you about our online services, we will always have a clear mechanism for you to remove yourself from future mailings.
Roscommon County Council assures you that the identity of all who contact us through this website is kept confidential: we do not rent, sell, or exchange mailing lists, or otherwise disclose such information to third parties, except as may be required by law, or through voluntary cooperation with law enforcement authorities if we judge that such cooperation is necessary to combat fraud or other crime.
Automatic information:
For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us from our website logs. For example, like many websites, we obtain certain types of information when your web browser (browsers are pieces of software that allow you to access the internet; examples include: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, etc.) accesses www.roscommonbound.ie. See below for examples.
Examples of information collected:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet (for example 192.168.88.21)
- Email address – if you email any of our public email addresses
- Computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, platform, referring url and pages visited
Roscommon County Council will make no attempt to identify individual visitors or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual, except in cases where criminal activity has taken place (i.e. in response to a “hacking” incident). It is the policy of Roscommon County Council never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to a third party (except for law-enforcement bodies and then only in response to illegal activity such as “hacking”; also our Internet Service Provider which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by Roscommon County Council, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Cookies
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS COOKIES POLICY AND PRIVACY STATEMENT, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS/USE THE SITE.
A cookie is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. It allows a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time.
Further information on cookies can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
There are 2 different types of cookie:
- Session Cookies
- Persistent Cookies
Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not stored on your computer or mobile device. These session cookies are erased when you close your browser, or after 20 minutes of inactivity.
Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site.
Managing Cookies
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“third party cookies”), or those from specific websites.
The following links provide instructions on how to do this for the most popular browsers:
First Party Cookies:
These cookies are issued by our own webserver and help the site to work the way you would expect it to work.
| Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Performance: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years. |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| PHPSESSID | SESSION | This is a cookie designed to store and identify your unique session ID on the website. It does not contain any personal information and usually looks something like 1234567890abcdef. PHPSESSID is deleted as soon as you close all browser windows. |
| aviaCookieConsent | 1 month | Registers that the user has accepted the cookie policy. |
Third Party Analytics Cookies:
This site uses Google Analytics to monitor the traffic coming to our site. It does not track personal information, but helps us to understand how users view the site. We also link our Google Adwords account to our Analytics account to better understand how our adwords are performing. The following cookies are deployed by Google to facilitate that.
Further details of the cookies used by Google Analytics are provided here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
For visitors who want to turn this feature off in their browser Google have developed a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on details can be viewed here:
| Name | Third Party | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSID | Browser session to 6 Months | ‘DSID are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings. | |
| IDE | Browser session to 6 Months | Google also use one or more cookies for advertising we serve across the web. One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is named ‘IDE‘ and is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. | |
| 1P_JAR | 1 month | Google ad personalisation | |
| AID | 1 week | We also use cookies named ‘AID,‘ ‘DSID,’ and ‘TAID‘, which are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings. | |
| SAPISID SIDCC SSID APISID HSID | 2 Years | These cookies, provided by Google Inc., are used in conjunction with the Google+1 button to enable you to share information publicly, as part of your Google Profile. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en | |
| OGPC | 1 MONTH | Description: these cookies are used by Google to store preferences and user information each time they visit web pages containing geographical maps of Google Maps. | |
| SID | 2 Years | Google: We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. For example, we use cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| NID, OTZ | 6 months | Advertising cookie by google | |
| _ga | 2 Years | Performance: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years | |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. | |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. | |
| DV | 2 Years | Security cookie to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. | |
| CONSENT | 1 year | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Please note that Third Party cookies are subject to change and we will endeavour to monitor those cookies and update this notice as required.
This Cookie Policy Last Updated: September 2019
Does roscommonbound.ie share the information it receives?
Rarely. In cases where there is a statutory requirement to share information with a government agency or other local authority or where your information must be shared with another agency in order to answer a customer query, then the minimum amount of information required will be shared in an appropriate manner. Generally, information is shared with other agencies as an aggregate rather than as a specific piece of data. We may choose to release automatic information (see above) and other information received to the website to companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Information of this type will only be shared about users who have caused or attempted to cause damage to roscommonbound.ie. This type of information would be shared only as a result of “hacking” attacks, fraud or other illegal activities.
What information can I access online?
www.roscommonbound.ie will make as much public information available online as possible in order to improve the transparency of our organisation.
Links To Other Websites
In order to make more information easier to find for our users, roscommonbound.ie provides links to content owned and hosted by other local authorities, government agencies, companies, organizations, attractions, accommodation providers etc. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. We link to other websites that provide information relevant to members of the public living or visiting Roscommon and to websites whose content we think would be of interest or assistance to those planning to visit Roscommon. Roscommon County Council makes no promises or recommendations about the quality of services provided by groups owning the websites we link to.
Glossary of Technical Terms Used
Web browser: The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
IP address: The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in “internet protocol” code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.
Disclaimer
Roscommon County Council, its Councillors, directors, employees, servants and agents, affiliates or other representatives and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, shall not be liable in respect of any claims, emergencies, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, including without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you in accordance with this privacy policy and your consents.
You should be aware that where you link to another website from the Roscommon County Council or other Council websites, that Roscommon County Council has no control over that other website. Roscommon County Council has no responsibility for the privacy practices of other websites.
Amendments
Roscommon County Council reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement for any amendments.
More Information/Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Roscommon County Council website or your dealings with this Roscommon County Council website, you can contact:
Webmaster, Roscommon Bound, Roscommon County Council, Áras on Chontae, Roscommon, F42 VR98.
