Forbidden City Translations Ltd
16 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin 7
Tel: 01 652 0760
Fax: 01 652 0766
mail@translation.ie
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
We at the Forbidden City respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations
under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002. The purpose of this Web Site
Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide
to us while visiting this web site. By visiting this web site, you are
accepting the terms of this Web Site Privacy Policy. Any external links
to other web sites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible
for the content or the privacy policies of these other web sites.
2. Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify, contact you
or process job applications on your behalf and may include your name, address,
email address, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not
been deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number, and billing and
credit history information. Such information is only collected from you
if you voluntarily submit it to us or have authorised us to obtain it.
Non-Personal Data
Like most web sites, we gather statistical and other analytical information
collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our web site. This
Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify
or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example,
user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser
types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our web
site.
3. Purposes for which we hold your Information
Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered
from visitors to our web site in an aggregate form to get a better understanding
of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise
our web site.
Cookies
This web site uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our web site -our
cookies are not available to other web sites. Cookies are required on
the Forbidden City website to allow users to access the Member's Extranet.
No personal information is recorded, and the cookie is automatically
deleted when you log out or close your browser. You are always free to
decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser
to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files
from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies
or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect
your ease of use of this web site.
Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following
purposes:
- to provide you with the services you have ordered;
- to contact you if required in connection with your service order or to respond to any communications you might send to us;
- to send you the Forbidden City t Newsletter and to communicate with you about associated activities.
4. Disclosure of Information
to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is
combined with similar information of other users of our web site. For example,
we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit
our web site, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our web site,
or the activities that visitors to our web site engage in while on our web site.
The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential
or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including web site
tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and
other similar parties.
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil service orders (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements. We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
5. Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer
information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event
of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially
all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees
to adhere to the terms of the Web Site Privacy Policy and provided
that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes
that you provided it to us.
You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
6. Security
Your Personal Data is held on secured
servers hosted by Active Online and on secured servers at our premises.
The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data.
7. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance
with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, Directive
95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995
on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal
Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and any implementing and/or
amending legislation as may be adopted in Ireland from time to time, we
will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.
To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact Forbidden City on 01 652 0760. Any such data subject requests may be subject to a fee.
8. Changes to the Web Site Privacy Policy
Any changes
to this Web Site Privacy Policy will be posted on this web site so you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Web Site Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.