PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY
1. Introduction
1.1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
1.2. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.
2. Collecting personal information
2.1. We may collect, store and use the following kinds of information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
(c) information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication); and
(d) any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
3. Using personal information
3.1. Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2. We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer our website and business;
(b) personalise our website for you;
(c) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(d) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(e) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(f) send you marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(g) provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
(h) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(i) keep our website secure and prevent fraud; and
(j) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
3.3. If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
3.4. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the storage of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.5. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
4. Disclosing personal information
4.1. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2. We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.3. We may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
4.4. Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
5. International data transfers
5.1. Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
5.2. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.3. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.
6. Retaining personal information
6.1. This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2. The information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
7. Security of personal information
7.1. We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
7.3. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
8. Amendments
8.1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
8.2. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
8.3. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
9. Your rights
9.1. Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: outinkink@gmail.com
10. Third party websites
10.1. Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
11. Updating information
11.1. Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
12. About cookies
12.1. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a 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.
12.2. 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.
12.3. 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.
12.4. 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.
13. Our cookies
13.1. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
13.2. The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
(a) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally (cookies used for this purpose are: viewed_cookie_policy).
(b) viewing preference – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the viewing of video content on the site for YouTube and Vimeo (cookies used for this purpose are: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, PREF, GPS, vuid)
14. Analytics cookies
14.1. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.
14.2. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
14.3. The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: Google Analytics GA; and _gid, _gat)
14.4. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
14.5. Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: [http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/].
15. Blocking cookies
15.1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
(b) in Firefox (version 39) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 44), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
15.2. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
15.3. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
16. Deleting cookies
16.1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
(b) in Firefox (version 39), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 44), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
16.2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
17. Cookie preferences
17.1. You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website by clicking this link to revoke your consent: Revoke consent
18. Our details
18.1. This website is owned and operated by OutINKink.
18.2. We are registered in Ireland under company registration number 725745.
18.3. You can contact us by email to outinkink@gmail.com
