Privacy and Cookie Policy
This CFRAM Study website is maintained and hosted by RPS on behalf of the Office of Public Works (OPW). OPW fully respects your right to privacy, and therefore no personal information about you will be collected by this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988-2003.
This statement relates to the privacy practices connected with This CFRAM Study website. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
Collection and use of personal information
This CFRAM Study website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer. (For example, when providing feedback or asking a question). Any information you provide in this way is used only for the purpose you provide it. However This CFRAM Study website uses cookies and similar technologies like pixels and tags to ensure that we give you the best possible experience on our website.
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings. If you use This CFRAM Study website without changing your browser settings, we’ll assume that you’re happy to receive all cookies on the website. Please note that This CFRAM Study website will not work properly without cookies.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the webpage, or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.
Cookies are used in a number of places on This CFRAM Study website.
- When you first visit this website, you will see a message informing you about cookies. If you click the ‘Accept’ button, a cookie will be set which records your preference.
- This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Use of cookies
This CFRAM Study website uses two types of cookies, persistent and session. A persistent cookie is set once you’ve logged in to your CFRAM account. The next time you visit the website using the same device, the persistent cookie will enable us to recognize you as an existing user, so you may not need to log in before using our services. A session cookie is used to identify a particular visit to the website. Session cookies expire after a short time, or when you close your web browser.
Cookies may be set by the CFRAM website when you visit, or they may be set by other websites or services who run content on the page you’re viewing (known as third-party cookies). Cookies can be used to do lots of different things, like recognize you when you navigate to a page, storing your preferences and improving your experience. Cookies also make your interactions more secure, faster, and help us ensure that your experience is personalized to you and in line with your settings. This CFRAM Study website uses cookies for a number of purposes, including:
Security
This CFRAM Study website uses cookies to support or enable security features we have deployed, and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our User Agreement.
Preferences, features and services
This CFRAM Study website uses cookies to know which language you prefer, what your communications preferences are, and they help you fill out forms. Plus they provide you with features, insights, and customized content through our plugins.
Performance, Analytics and Research
This CFRAM Study website uses cookies to help us learn how well our site and plugins perform across the globe. We also use cookies to understand, improve, and research products, features, and services, including when you access from other websites, applications, or devices such as your work computer or your mobile device.
Information we routinelt collect
We may collect the following information from each user of this site:
- Statistical information (IP address and hostname, web browser version, pages visited etc.).
- The previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used
- Other information submitted in forms, for example if you submit your personal details when requesting a form or providing feedback
What we use the information for
Any personal information you provide will be used only for the purpose supplied. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is our policy never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by 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.
Further information or to make a request
If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention. [click here to be taken to the feedback page]
Glossary
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 companys 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.