Last updated: 30th June 2018
Privacy & Cookies Statement
BitcoinsInIreland.com is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in line with GDPR regulations.
This webpage tells you the data protection and privacy practices for Bitcoins In Ireland, specifically:
What personally identifiable information is collected
Which organisation is collecting this information
How this information is used
Our policy on sharing this information
How we protect your information
How you can correct any inaccuracies in this information
Third Party tools & content on our websites
Plain English Summary
We take your privacy very seriously.
Children (under 18s) are not eligible to use our services and should not submit any personal information to us.
BitcoinsInIreland.com does not actively track you as an individual.
Should you send us an email via the contact form below, your name, email address and message will be emailed to us (as you would expect). This information is kept private. We will store this information within our own email system so that we are able to respond to you.
We have comments disabled on our website, so there is no way to have your details listed.
The website does use some cookies when you browse this website. These are used to ensure proper running of this website, for serving ads, and for analytics to understand where our users broadly come, how long they spend on our site, and what pages are being visited. We use an IP anonymisation policy in our analytics tool. Our web server (as all web servers do) stores access logs, which are automatically purged every 30 days.
NONE OF THE INFORMATION WE GATHER VIA COOKIES IDENTIFIES YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL – IT IS ALL ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS.
If you would like to delete any cookies on your computer from this site, open your browser settings, go to the cookie section, and search bitcoinsinireland.com, and delete any or all cookies related to it..
Which organisation is collecting this information
BitcoinsInIreland.com is a website owned by bitcoinsinireland.com. Bitcoins In Ireland is a website dedicated to information on bitcoin, ethereum, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as covering Irish related news on the topic.
How this information is used
If you have chosen to share it with us, we use your email address to contact you in reply to your message.
Our disclosure of this information
We do not share your personal information or email address with third parties.
Email opt-out
Just like you, we hate spam. We do not send you spam emails. Any of our emails collected (ie via surveys or newsletters) are fully opt in. You may opt-out of our emails at any time. An ‘unsubscribe’ link is included in all of our email newsletters.
Protection of your information
BitcoinsInIreland.com uses best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information by not collecting it in the first place, anonymising what we do record in any software we use, and using SSL encryption to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. It is important to be aware that there is no such thing as “perfect internet security”.
How to correct inaccurate information
Our site does not allow comments, however, if you have been covered in one of our articles, or are included in a photograph (from an event for example) would like to have this information removed please contact us with the link or image in question and we will do this for you.
You should know that because of technical constraints, all information may never completely removed from our database, although we endeavour to do our best to do so. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed. We will aim to remove all publicly-facing information as a minimum.
How to contact us
Please use the contact form on this site to contact us. If you have any GDPR related queries, please email dataqueries [at] bitcoinsinireland [dot] com
Third Party tools & content on our websites
In order to better understand our visitors, and to get information to help us develop our sites further, we utilise Google Analytics. You can read their privacy policy by clicking here. Google also provide an option to opt-out of Analytics, and you can get information on this by clicking here.
From time to time we also utilise a number of advertising partners. These have their own separate privacy policies. You can read the Google Adwords privacy policy by clicking here. You can opt out of Google’s adwords tracking by following the information available at this page, or by enabling “Do Not Track” in your browser settings. You can read the Facebook privacy policy by clicking here. You can read the Twitter privacy policy by clicking here.
Our website run a self hosted version of WordPress, and you can read their privacy policy by clicking here. We also utilise social media platforms to inform our customers about our products. Given the recent tracking controversy with facebook, we have removed all third party liking buttons that may track you on your site whether you’re logged into their platforms or not. Instead, we link to these sites with our own basic images and links. You can read Facebook’s privacy policy by clicking here, Twitter’s privacy policy by clicking here and YouTube’s privacy policy by clicking here.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy in line with website changes that may affect the personal information we gather about you. It is assumed that you accept such changes if you continue to use the site and services. If you do not accept such changes then you should stop using BitcoinsInIreland.com’s website and services, and contact us (details above) if you would like any information removed.
