Background

Privacy Statement

This website is maintained by Morrow Communications on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine. The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine fully respects your right to privacy, and does not sanction the collection any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission.

Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.


Collection and use of personal information

This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer, when registering for our Agriculture and Climate Change conference.  Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose.


Information we routinely collect

We may collect the following information from each user of this site:

  • statistical information (IP address and hostname, web browser version, pages visited and so on)
  • the previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used

What we use the information for

We use this information to analyse the usage patterns of the website in order to improve the website’s effectiveness. We will neither make attempts to identify individual visitors, nor associate the technical details listed above with any individual.

It is our policy never to disclose such information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless explicitly stated, or obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Some cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing activities on the website, or a unique identifier so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies on agriclimateconf.com do not contain personal information from which you can be identified.


Cookies on this website

Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to customise your settings for cookies. To find out how to do this, see the ‘Help’ menu on your browser. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.


How We Use Your Information

The purpose of this service is to provide a simple, secure, easy to use platform for organisations to provide a mechanism to collect data for public services in order to streamline their data collection and service provision.

The information you provide may be used for the following purposes:

  • To provide and improve the registration process: To operate, maintain, and enhance the service, and to provide customer support.
  • To communicate with you: To send you updates, notifications, and other information related to your registration of our conference.

Legal Basis

The legal basis for data processing is governed by the data controllers' responsibility to collect data for the provision of public services, as well as their legitimate interests. The applicable legislation in each case should be set out by that data controller. Data subjects should be notified about the purpose of data collection in their service provision, please see relevant site for more information.

Web Browser

The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

IP Address

The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in internet protocol code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.