About Vaccines Privacy and Cookies Statement
General statement
About Vaccines fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your consent. Any personal information which you volunteer to the About Vaccines will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2018.
Website visits
When someone visits www.AboutVaccines.org/www.AboutVaccines.ie we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site; identify what pages are visited most frequently and, ultimately, make the site more user-friendly.
- We do not attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website
- We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source
- If we do intend to collect personal information we will make it clear and will explain what we intend to do with it
Certain pages on this site provide an option to request further information by email, or to provide feedback online. This information will only be recorded if you choose to send us a message and will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
All cookies used on the AboutVaccines website are associated with the use of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses code, provided by Google, to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form that does not identify an individual. They provide information regarding the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.
If the consent is declined, cookies are stored locally on the user's device and are not transmitted or used anywhere else. For further details see Google Analytics developer page.
You can use our cookie manager to review the current status of your cookies permissions on the site at any point (use the cookie text icon in the bottom left of the screen to activate).
Links to other websites
This privacy statement does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
For more information, you can also visit DCU’s Data Protection Unit site.
