Under Irish Law* anyone operating a website must make users aware of information that may be gathered from them  or their computer when accessing a website.

Most web browsers allow certain information to be broadcast through the use of Cookies. I do use three programs: google analytics, webalizer and statcounter to gather general information about visitors to my site such as country of origin, most popular pages visited page and the type of browser used, but I use this information simply to get a general feel for what people are accessing on the website. I do not use this for extracting visitors email addresses, nor for spam mailing.

If you send information to me by email I will ensure that the information is fairly processed and that you have a right to decline further communications.

Should you provide your residential address and, or telephone numbers, this information will be stored for record purposes only in relation to queries and issues raised and will not be passed onto any other party.

Ciarán Cuffe TD

*In this case I refer to The Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003 and Statutory Instrument 535 of 2003 European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 2003, as amended by SI 526 of 2008