1. Introduction
The Electro Automation Group respect your right to privacy and comply with
our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002. The purpose
of this Web Site Privacy Statement is to outline how we deal with any
personal data you provide to us while visiting this web site. By visiting
this web site, you are accepting the terms of this Web Site Privacy
Policy. Any external links to other web sites are clearly identifiable as
such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy statements
or policies of these other web sites.
2. Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify, contact you
or process orrders on your behalf and may include your name, address,
email address, detailed financial information, user IP addresses in
circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised,
telephone number, and billing and credit history information. Such
information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us
or have authorised us to obtain it.
Non-Personal Data
Like most web sites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our web
site. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to
identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for
example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised,
browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of
our web site.
3. Purposes for which we hold your Information
Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our web site in an
aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come
from and to help us better design and organise our web site.
Cookies
This web site uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a little piece of text
stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We
may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save
your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time
you connect to our web site -our cookies are not available to other web
sites. Cookies are required on the Electro Automation website to allow
users to access the Member's Extranet. No personal information is
recorded, and the cookie is automatically deleted when you log out or
close your browser. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your
browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your
discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification
each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this
web site.
Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following
purposes:
to provide you with the services you have ordered;
to contact you if required in connection with your service order or to
respond to any communications you might send to us;
to send you the Electro Automation Newsletter and to communicate with you
about Group activities.
4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information
is combined with similar information of other users of our web site. For
example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique
users who visit our web site, the demographic breakdown of our community
users of our web site, or the activities that visitors to our web site
engage in while on our web site. The third parties to whom we may provide
this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of
advertising services (including web site tracking services), commercial
partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have
consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to
fulfil your service order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound
by similar data protection requirements. We will disclose your Personal
Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in
order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a
court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
5. Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal
Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation,
receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our
company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the
Web Site Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your
Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be
notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an
opportunity to opt-out.
6. Security
Your Personal Data may be held on secured servers hosted by Active Online
and on secured servers at our premises. The nature of the Internet is such
that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet
can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable
steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to
protect your Personal Data.
7. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance
with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003,
Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24
October 1995 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the
Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and any
implementing and/or amending legislation as may be adopted in Ireland from
time to time, we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To
find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data
updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact Electro
Automation on +353 1 824 6666. Any such data subject requests may be
subject to the prescribed fee.
8. Changes to the Web Site Privacy Statement
Any changes to this Web Site Privacy Policy will be posted on this web site so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Web Site Privacy Statement, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.