Privacy Policy
This policy sets out how Anthony Carey uses and protects any information that you share with PAnthony Carey when using this website. Anthony Carey are compliant with the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and also the GDPR, which enters into force 25th May 2018.
We respect your trust in us to use, store and share your information. In this notice, we explain how we collect personal information about you, how we use it and how you can interact with us about it.
Anthony Carey is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. By using the Anthony Carey website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
What we collect
Anthony Carey collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Anthony Carey also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Anthony Carey. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Anthony Carey for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Anthony Carey Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Anthony Carey public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Anthony Carey does not read any of your private online communications.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.
Anthony Carey encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Anthony Carey so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Anthony Carey is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Anthony Carey and Anthony Carey family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Anthony Carey collects and uses your personal information to operate the Anthony Carey Web site and deliver the services you have requested, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping
We may use the information to improve our products and services
We may periodically send promotional emails to inform you of other products or services available from Anthony Carey
We may share your data with necessary third parties, as part of delivering our service.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Anthony Carey keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Anthony Carey, in order to determine what Anthony Carey services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Anthony Carey to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Controlling your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anyone for direct marketing purposes
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at anthony@acarey.ie
Anthony Carey does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Anthony Carey Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Anthony Carey or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Anthony Carey; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Anthony Carey, or the public.
If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to do so as quickly as possible; unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Anthony Carey Data Protection Team, 48 Mount Street Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland.
You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing (where applicable) in accordance with the data protection laws; as well as to object to any direct marketing from us. Where applicable, you have the right to data portability of your information.
If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.
Use of Cookies
The Anthony Carey Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.
Cookies are not actual programs or software. When you visit a website it stores a snippet of text from your visit; the next time you visit, this text is retrieved by the website and they recognise you. This can be used differently depending on the actual website visited. Cookies allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately. Cookies on our website do NOT store any personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, email addresses or phone numbers.
Our cookies help us:
• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Remember your settings during visits
• Allow you to share pages (names/blog articles) with social networks like Facebook or Twitter
• Continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
• Collect any personally identifiable information - we will always ask for your express permission if we ever do collect this information.
• Collect any sensitive information, without your express permission
What information is kept by the cookie?
A cookie will typically hold:
• The name of the website that it has come from
• How long the cookie will stay on your computer or phone
• A value – usually a randomly generated unique number
How long do cookies stay on my computer?
• Session cookies – these only last until you close your browser. They are not stored on your hard drive. They are usually used to track the pages that you visit so that information can be customised for you for that visit.
• Persistent cookies – these are stored on your hard drive until you delete them or they reach their expiry date. These may, for example, be used to remember your preferences when you use the site.
Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies
If the settings on the software you are using to view this website (i.e. browser e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc) are set up to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you accept our use of cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can disable cookies through ‘Internet Options’ on your browser menu at any time, however please be aware that doing so will probably mean that our site may not work as well as you would expect.
Our use of cookies falls into a few categories such as:
• Website function cookies
• Social media cookies
• Third party and advertising cookies
• Analytics cookies
More about Our Cookies
Website Function Cookies such as session or preference cookies
We use cookies to make our website function including:
• Holding information once you’ve logged in to save you having to re-login each time you visit a different page during your session
• Once you log off or close the browser the session cookie will be removed
Third-party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video.
Disabling these cookies is likely to break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Media Website Cookies
To facilitate easy sharing or liking of content on social network platforms such Facebook and Twitter, we have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor & Behaviour Statistics Cookies
Analytics programs use cookies to compile website statistics for us to use to improve our site. Unless you explicitly give us your information by filling in a form or calling us, all data that analytics programs collect is stored anonymously where we only see totals and not specific individual data.
Examples include:
• How visitors reached our website (e.g. from a search engine, an advert, from social media site etc)
• The activity of users on the site such as the number of pages viewed, time spend on individual pages, the pages visitors leave our site on
• How often visitors return to our site
• Visitor technology used (e.g. browser, operating system, device etc)
These statistics help us make our site as user-friendly as possible, to ensure a good experience for all visitors.
We use:
• Google Analytics which is a program that helps us measure site usage details including the examples above.
Site Improvement Cookies;
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.
Google Advertising
Some of our business partners or third parties use cookies or other tracking technologies on our site, including:
• Third party vendors, including Google, show ads on sites on the internet.
• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website.
We have no access to or control over these cookies. Users may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
You may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Turning Cookies Off
You can switch cookies off by adjusting your internet browser settings to stop it accepting cookies. There are many different browsers and versions. Some of the most common browsers and versions and listed below. Click the name of your preferred browser below to learn how to disable and manage cookies. If you version of browser is not listed, please visit your preferred search engine.
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Please be aware though that turning off cookies will impair the performance of many websites and not just ours.
Security & Retention of your Personal Information
Anthony Carey secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Anthony Carey secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
We only ever retain personal information for as long as is necessary and we have strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations. Anthony Carey shall not retain data for no longer than is necessary to fulfil the lawful purpose of data processing.
Changes to this Statement
Anthony Carey may change this policy from time to time, to reflect company and customer feedback, by updating this page. Anthony Carey encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Anthony Carey is protecting your information. This policy is effective from 20th May 2021.
Contact Information
Anthony Carey welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Anthony Carey has not adhered to this Statement, please contact a member of our Data Protection Team at anthony@acarey.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
For further information on your rights and the General Data Protection Regulation, please contact:
Address: Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co Laois, R32 AP23
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
