Terms and Conditions

This statement relates to the National Centre for Plasma Research and Technology's (NCPST) privacy practices in connection with its website.

General statement

NCPST fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share information with the NCPST. The NCPST will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your permission save in cases where the NCPST is required by law to do so (e.g. the investigation of a criminal offence or a breach of the NCPST’s policies, procedures or guidelines). Any personal information which you volunteer to the NCPST will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1988 and Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.

Collection and use of personal information

NCPST does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing the centre). Any information, which you provide in this way, is not made available to any third party - other than those working with the NCPST on normal NCPST business, and is used by the NCPST only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Collection and use of technical information

This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary `session' cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website may be logged by the centre’s internet service provider for accounting and auditing purposes.
It is the policy of the NCPST not to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from the centre’s internet service provider, which records such data on the NCPST’s behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which the NCPST cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute `personal data' for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988 and Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.

Disclaimer

NCPST is not liable or responsible for any damages or injuries caused by use of this web site (such as viruses, omissions or misstatements). NCPST may revise the information, services and the resources contained in this web site from time to time and we reserve the right to make such changes without obligation to notify past, current or prospective visitors. In no event shall NCPST be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of any use of the information contained herein.

Rights of Access, Rectification and Erasure

You have a right to be given a copy of personal data held about you. A request for a copy of such data must be submitted in writing to the Operations Manager, National Centre for Plasma Research and Technology, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. Any such request will be dealt with within 40 calendar days. You also have the right to have your data corrected, if inaccurate, or erased, if the NCPST does not have a legitimate reason for retaining the data. Requests for correction or erasure must be submitted in writing to the Director of Computer Services, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. Any such request will be dealt with within 40 calendar days.