Privacy Statement
This website is maintained by Kieran Daly Design on behalf of The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission.
Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.
Collection and use of personal information
This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information you provide to us or information provided by your Organic Certification body to facilitate the proper functioning of this site.
When you register with us as a user, you provide us with some personal data such as your name and email address, which we will store in order to create your account. We will also store information relating to any further use of our service, such as requesting an alert when an advert is placed for a product you have requested.
Information we routinely collect
We may collect the following information from each user of this site:
- statistical information (IP address and hostname, web browser version, pages visited and so on)
- the previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used
What we use the information for
We use this information to analyse the usage patterns of the website in order to improve the website’s effectiveness. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
It is our policy to never disclose such information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless explicitly stated or obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.
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 activities on the website, or a unique identifier 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. Cookies on organictradinghub.ie do not contain personal information from which you can be identified.
Cookies on this website
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine uses cookies to anonymously gather user statistics and protect against malicious attack.