Privacy

PRIVACY STATEMENT
WEBSITE OF JOHN C. O’DONNELL & SONS SOLICITORS

1. 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.

2. The John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors website is structured so that you can visit John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors on the web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.General statement

3. John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors 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 to John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.Collection and use of personal information

4. John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties except where it is necessary in order to deal with your inquiry or to provide legal advice. Such information is used by John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.Collection and use of technical information.

5. 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.

6. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for 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 Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of the visitor’s web server;
– – the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .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.

John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors, 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.

Glossary of technical terms used
“Web Browser” means the software used to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
“IP Address” means the identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in IP 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” means 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.

CONTACT
7. Any comments or queries can be addressed to:
John C. O’Donnell & Sons Solicitors Webmaster,
John C. O’Donnell & Sons,
First Floor, 15 Mary Street, Galway, Ireland.
Tel: (091) 561128/9
Fax: (091) 561481
Email: info@jcod.ie

Date of Statement
8. This statement is made on 23rd July 2008 and the facts therein are true as of that date.