IrSPEN (“we”) will not collect any information about individuals, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by them.

Examples of such information are:

  • Your name
  • Your mobile telephone number
  • Your email address

The information collected will be used to send you the information you have requested and to provide information that may be useful to you.

This gathering of information is consistent with our offline work practices. We do not forward information about you to any third party, except as required by law.

Security and Collection of Information
We strive to protect all confidential information transmitted to and from our website (the “Website”) and we regularly review developments in security and encryption technologies.

We cannot, however, guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of any information passing over the Internet via non-secured email or via this Website.

Information and Service Availability
As part of our commitment to providing a secure and reliable online service, the Website is supported by monitoring and management procedures to ensure that information is periodically updated and is available to users.

These in turn are supported by back up procedures and contingency plans which cater for both hardware and software failure.

Contact Information
We welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you believe that IrSPEN has not adhered to this privacy statement, please contact us and we will endeavour to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Complaints
IrSPEN endeavour to provide users of this Website with a user experience that is safe, secure and reliable. To support this, and inline with our overall commitment to excellent customer service and continuous improvement we welcome all feedback.

Cookies

We use cookies on this website. Cookies are small files containing information that are transferred to your device’s data storage to help us to improve our website and deliver you a better service. You can refuse to accept cookies at ant time by using the cookie settings in your browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you visit site.

We use cookies to:

  • Estimate the overall number of visitors and how they use our website.
  • Gain insights into how visitors find our website – through search engines, social media or specific promotions.

We use two kinds of cookies, session cookies and analytics cookies.

Session Cookies

These cookies allow us to ensure that our site functions correctly and operates correctly when you use it and are generally not considered to invade your privacy. We use the following session cookies (duration of cookie shown in brackets):

PHPSESSID (When the browsing session ends)
viewed_cookie_policy (12 months)
wordpress_test_cookie (When the browsing session ends)
wp-settings-1 (1 year}
wp-settings-time-1 (1 year)

Analytics Cookies

This type of cookie allows us to count the number of visitors to our site, see what content visitors are most interested in, determine the effectiveness of promotions and advertising campaigns and plan for website upgrades. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. This helps us to improve the way our website works and spot problems early. We use the following analytics cookies (duration of cookie shown in brackets):

__utma (2 years)
__utma (30 minutes)
__utmc (When the browsing session ends)
__utmt (10 minutes)
__utmv (Not currently in use)
__utmz (6 months)

Blocking Cookies

You can if you wish set your browser not to accept cookies either in general or from specific websites. However, you may find that some features of our website stop working properly if you do this. Please consult the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more information on blocking cookies.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across ALL websites. Click here for details.

Policy Changes
Any changes to this policy will be posted here.

This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms and Conditions of use of the Website. If there is a conflict between the Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions of Use shall prevail.