PRIVACY POLICY

The website at irishanimationawards.ie is owned and operated by Animation Ireland, Registered Office: 14 – 16 Lord Edward Street, Dublin 2, D02 YC63. Company registration number: 556477.

To contact us please email irishanimationawards.ie.

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.


GENERAL STATEMENT

Animation Ireland fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect or publish any personal information about you through 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.


COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Animation Ireland does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us, by using our online feedback form or by making an account). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by us only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.


COLLECTION AND USE OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION

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 personally identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

  • Google Analytics which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded).

Animation Ireland will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. 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.

COOKIE POLICY

Why we use cookies?

We use cookies on our website to understand more about our users and to improve their experience across our website. The purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

We use cookies on our website to recognise a computer when a user visits the website

  • track users as they navigate the website

  • improve the website’s usability

  • analyse the use of the website

  • administer the website

  • prevent fraud

  • improve the security of the website

  • personalise the website for our users

What are cookies?

A cookie is a file containing an identifier string of letters and numbers that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

Statistics cookies

We use Google Analytics Universal to analyse the use of our website. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies. This means, Google analytics collects information while you are using our website, specifically information about your browser, the pages you visit and our posts you interact with.

The information generated is used to create reports about the use of our website. It can also be used to help improve Google’s products and services. Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

Managing your cookies settings

Most browsers allow you to change your settings and preferences for cookies. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.