1. Introduction
We at the Braintree Tutors respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations
under the Data Protection Acts. The purpose of this Web Site
Privacy Policy 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 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 mortgage applications 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 Braintree Tutors 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 Braintree Tutors Newsletter and to communicate with you about our 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 is held on secured servers hosted in reputable
data-centres and
on secured computers 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 Act,, 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 Braintree Tutors.
Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
8. Changes to the Web Site Privacy Policy
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 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.