Letters 1916-1923 has published this Privacy Statement to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of users of our Website. This website is maintained by the Letters 1916-1923 project, and is hosted by Maynooth University. Letters 1916-1923 does not accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of any external links held on the site. Users should consult the privacy statements of these external sites separately.
The project fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal data about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal data which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts. Personal data covers any information that relates to an identifiable, living individual. This data can be held on computers or in manual files, and is the responsibility of the data controller. A “data controller” means a person who, either alone or with others, controls the contents and use of personal data. The data controller for this project is the Primary Investigator: Prof. Susan Schreibman.
The obligations of the project under the Data Protection Acts are that:
– data must be obtained and processed fairly;
– data must be accurate, complete and where necessary, kept up to date;
– data must have been obtained only for one or more specified, explicit and legitimate purpose;
– data must not be further processed in a manner incompatible with that purpose;
– data must be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which it is collected or further processed;
– data must not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer (for example, when registering an account or emailing the project) and your IP address. Any information you provide in this way is used only for the purpose for which you provide it.
General Web Browsing
For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us through the website logs. Like many websites, certain types of information is obtained and collectable from a web browser, such as
– IP address used to connect your computer to the internet;
– computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, platform;
– referring URLs and pages visited on the site.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the webpage, or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.
Cookies’ allow for a better user experience by allowing us to analyse information about site traffic. Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the webpage, or a unique identification number, and other basic information such as the time spent on each page, the route you take to get to various pages and the amount of times you revisit. Often, cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website. A typical example of a cookie file is a unique ID number that a website creates for each visitor and stores this on the user’s machine. Once an ID exists, the site will recognise your ID each time you visit. It can track your activity on the site including basic information such as the time spent on each page, the route you take to get to various pages and the amount of times you revisit.
For the purpose of this project, we use cookies to determine dates and times that users access our site, how many users use the site and how many access individual pages, how many are repeat users and also trends in user experiences. This allows us to generate statistics which can assist us to improve the website and the users’ experience.
Cookies may be set in a number of places on this website. When you first visit this website, you will see a message informing you about the use of Cookies and the Privacy Statement. If you click the ‘Hide this message’ button, a Cookie will be set which records this action.
Most browsers allow you to turn off Cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, refer to the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of this site may not work correctly.
(Note if L1917-23 uses Google Analytics, this must be reflected here)
Note if L1917-23 uses 3rd Party Cookies, this must be reflected here)