Privacy Policy
Last Update 17th July 2008
1. Introduction
Tropical Medical Bureau respects your right to privacy and we comply with our
obligations under the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002. The purpose of this
Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you
provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with
this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website. By visiting this
website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any
external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are
not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
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 or contact you and may include your
name, address, email address, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have
not been deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number, birth date and
billing and credit card information. Such information is only collected from you
if you voluntarily submit it to us.
"Non-Personal Data"
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate
basis of all visitors to our website. 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 website.
3. Purposes for which we hold your Information
• Non-Personal Data:
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our
website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors
come from and to help us better design and organise our website.
• 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. Our cookies will
record if you are currently logged onto to the service or web site and track
your timeout window. 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 goods or services you have requested or subscribed to;
- to
contact you if required in connection with the service you requested or to respond to any
communications you might send to us;
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
website 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 website 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 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 Website 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 is held on secure servers hosted by The
Internet Business Ltd. 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 2002 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 email us at
info@tmb.ie. Any such data subject requests may be subject to a
fee.
8. Changes to the web site Privacy Policy
Any changes to this web site Privacy Policy will be posted on this website 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 Website Privacy Policy, 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.
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