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Last updated Friday, February 4, 2006
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
If you have any questions about this Policy or your privacy,
please contact The Irish Scene at
admin@irishscene.com.au.
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The Irish Scene believes strongly in protecting user privacy
and has therefore adopted a Privacy Policy.
If you enter into a competition on this Website, all
information that you provide will not be disclosed to any other
party or third party and will be used solely for the purpose of
the competition and to communicate to you the results of the
competition.
If you provide us with feedback via email or using one of
our website forms, and your personal and contact details are
included in your communication, we will not disclose this
information to any other party or third party.
If you make a purchase on The Irish Scene Website using one
of our website forms, and your personal and contact details are
included in this form, we will not disclose this information to
any other party or third party.
Furthermore, we will not disclose any information about you
without your consent unless:
• It is required by law;
• We believe it necessary in order to provide you with a service
which you have requested;
• We suspect that your use of the Website is in breach of the
Terms and Conditions of Use;
• It becomes necessary to protect the rights or property of The
Irish Scene, any user of this Website or any member of the
public; or
• It is to lessen a serious threat to a person's health or
safety.
We will never share your personal information with a third
party or allow a third party to promote its products and
services directly to you without your explicit consent.
We will take all reasonable steps to keep secure any
information we hold about you and to keep this information
accurate and up to date. We do not store credit card information
that is provided to us directly using any means whatsoever,
whether verbal, keyed in or in written form and transmitted by
telephone or fax, posted or sent via email.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide
services related to our information systems are obliged to
respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by
us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising
from unauthorised access to your personal information.
You can also play an important role in keeping your personal
information secure by maintaining the confidentiality of any
password and/or accounts used on The Irish Scene Website. Please
notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your
account by any other Internet user or any other breach of
security.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Web servers (both
ours and your ISP where applicable) automatically identify your
computer by its IP address online but in particular, when
entering The Irish Scene's Communication Facilities such as the
chat room facility our servers, or the remote hosts' servers
that provide us with the chat room service, may log your IP
address. The Irish Scene and/or it's remote host(s) log IP
addresses solely for the purposes of system administration, and
to identify computers that are logged into our Communication
Facilities, thus enabling us to supervise users and to exercise
our right, if the need arises, to dismiss or ban users who do
not comply with our Terms and Conditions of Use. We do not link
IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means
that your session and your specific computer hardware will be
logged when you are using the chat room or other Communication
Facilities of this Website but you, the user, will remain
anonymous to us, and your IP address will not remain in storage
on our servers or databases when you log out of any of our
Communication Facilities. However, as much as it is our policy
to protect your privacy, please be informed that anonymity is
never guaranteed when using the internet.
Our use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to
your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Most web
browsers are set to accept cookies. The use of cookies can
enhance your enjoyment of what we offer, because they help us
personalise your experience of our Website by providing
information which is most relevant to your interests. Cookies
provide us with aggregated information on how users interact on
our Website, and help us improve your experience. We also use
cookies to operate the Membership system, as they help us
identify visitors to the Website who have previously registered.
Cookies do not personally identify you, but your browser.
However, if you do not wish to receive any cookies, you may
set your browser to refuse them. In some instances this may mean
you will not be able to take full advantage of parts of the
Website.
To eliminate cookies you may have currently accepted, and to
deny or limit cookies in the future, please follow this
procedure:
For Netscape Navigator 3.0 users, go to the Options
Menu, choose Network Preferences and then
Protocols. Check the box that says "Show an
alert before accepting a cookie". Then go into the
Netscape folder (usually c:\program files\netspace\navigator)
and delete the file that is called "cookies.txt." Under Windows
95, you could also use the Find feature on the start menu to
simply find the file called Cookies.txt.
For Internet Explorer 3.0 users, go to the View
menu, choose Options, then Advanced.
Check the box that says "Warn before accepting cookies".
Then go into your cookies directory (usually c:\windows\cookies)
and delete all the files in that folder. Once you delete these
files, you will have no more cookies, and you will be prompted
each time a website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At
that time, you can choose to either Accept or Cancel the cookie.
For Netscape 4.0+ users, go to Edit in the
menu bar, choose Preferences, then Advanced,
and check the box that says "Warn me before accepting a
cookie". Now go to your Start button,
click on Find, then Files and Folders,
type cookies.txt into the search box that appears, and click
Find Now. When the search results appear, drag all
the files listed, into the Recycle Bin. Now shut down and
restart your browser.
For Internet Explorer 4.0 users, go to the View
menu, choose Internet Options, then Advanced.
Check the box says "Prompt before accepting cookies".
Then go into your cookies directory (usually c:\windows\cookies)
and delete all the files you have there. Once you delete these
files, you will have no more cookies, and you will be prompted
each time a website attempts to send a cookie to your system. At
that time, you can choose to either Accept or Cancel the cookie.
For Internet Explorer 5.0+ users, go to the Tools
menu, then to Internet Options, then to the
Security tab. Highlight the "internet"
zone (selected by default). Select security level "high"
for this zone, then click on OK. Then go into your
cookies directory (usually c:\windows\cookies) and delete all
the files you have there. Once you delete these files, you will
have no more cookies. However, note that your browser will no
longer send or receive new cookies.
For Netscape 6.0+ users, go to Edit in the
menu bar, choose Preferences, click on
Advanced, and select the Cookies field.
Now check either the box that says "Warn me before
accepting a cookie" or "Disable cookies".
Click on OK. Now go to your Start
button, click on Find, click on Files and
Folders, type "cookies.txt" into the search box that
appears, and click Find Now. When the search
results appear, drag all the files listed, into the Recycle Bin.
Now shut down and restart your browser. Depending on your
earlier choice you will either be prompted by new cookie sets or
no cookies will be set or received. |
