Privacy Policy |
Website of Boards.ie
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with the boards.ie websites e.g. boards.ie, adverts.ie social.ie, boards.tv etc. These sites are owned and controlled by boards.ie limited and your data will not be shared with any site not owned by boards.ie. From time to time we may ask an external provider to provide services, for example we may ask an external company to provide a survey. If any private information is required you will be advised.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any other websites.
General statement
Boards.ie Limited fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer in your public profile or post on the public forums will be available to anyone with access to the website. Do not post any information you are not happy leave up indefinitely. We recommend you do not post your name, address, telephone number email address or anything else that may lead someone to identify you if this is something you are uncomfortable with.
Occasionally, contributors speculate about the identity of anonymous/pseudonymous posters. We delete all such posts that are brought to our attention.
It is important to note that we do not remove user accounts and user name changes are only available to subscribers.
We advise against the posting of personal details or information that may identify you on the public forums. However, you are free to do so (just don't ask us to remove it later!)
Collection and use of personal information
Boards.ie does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the boards.ie limited only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Your personal data may also be anonymized used for statistical purposes.
Your rights regarding data supplied via this website
You have a right to be given a copy of your personal data which you may have supplied via this website. To exercise this right e-mail us at hello@boards.ie. You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier via the website (e.g. username & e-mail address) if you do not supply this verification information, no information will be provided. This request only covers the private information contained in your private profile. Any information that is publically available in posts and threads on the forum will not be provided. Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.
Collection and use of technical information
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session" cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. 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 .i.e., .com, .org, .net)
- The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
- "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 visitor.
Boards.ie Limited will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of boards.ie limited 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 boards.ie, 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.
Note on above
Our first line of defence against nuisance posts is to delete them and to ban the user. Nuisance posts include potentially defamatory material, surreptitious advertising, any other posts which breach the posting guidelines and any form of messages, posts or emails deemed offensive by the administrators or moderators.
Where a nuisance poster persists, we reserve the right to use email addresses and IP addresses to identify the user and halt the nuisance. For example, on a very few occasions, we have reported to organisations that it appeared that one of their employees or other users of their computer equipment was repeatedly making nuisance posts on boards.ie and asked them to take steps to stop it.
Where a poster recommends the products or services of their employer, they should state their conflict of interest. Where they do not do so, we reserve the right to point out that the poster appears to have a conflict of interest.
In common with many sites we use Google Analytics for web-site statistics. Some people have raised concerns about the privacy aspects of this service, as Google have access to your IP address (but not your boards.ie username or email address).
In addition to Google analytics boards.ie also stores full web logs for analysis purposes.
Glossary of technical terms used
Web browser - The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator 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.
Cookies - Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.
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