Privacy statement for the Redplain.com Web Site

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this 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

Redplain.com respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any detailed personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to Redplain.com will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Republic of Ireland Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. In accordance with normal practice, we record every use of this site. This information is used to improve the operation of the service and to provide statistical information about the use of the site.

Collection and use of personal information

Redplain.com does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us or by using online forms). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by Redplain.com only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Collection and use of tracking information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our web server(s). Details logged are confined to the following items:

The date and time of every visit to an individual page
The network address of the visitor's computer
The URL of the previous website from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used (if applicable)
Each page visited in the site
The type of web browser used by the website visitor.

Redplain.com will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Redplain.com 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 Redplain.com, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that these technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute "personal data" for the purposes of the Republic of Ireland Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.

This website does not use cookies to record personal data. Visitors can use this website with only minor loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

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.

URL

URL is the acronym for Uniform Resource Locator -- a way of specifying the precise location of a page or other piece of information on the Internet.

network address

A number (for example 192.168.72.34) which identifies a computer connected to the internet. Every computer connected to the web has a network address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.

cookies

Simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site in an area controlled by your web browser. Cookies act as a "memory" for the web site and can be used for a wide variety of purposes. We use cookies as a way to remember, in the short-term, choices you make which determine the information we display at a later stage in your visit. A cookie is only used for the duration of your visit.