Privacy and Cookies | Australian Chamber

The Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC) respects the privacy of its members and we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.

This privacy statement sets out how Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC) and its online store uses and protects any information that you give Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC)'s store when you use this website. The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC) (the “Site”) and apply generally to our parent, affiliates, subsidiaries or joint venture websites.

The Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC) may change this statement from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This statement is effective from 24th May, 2018 and may be further updated from time to time.

What we collect

All fields entered by you.

What we do with the information we gather

Our primary goal in collecting information from you, when you use this site, is to provide you with services and features that shall suit your needs and make your experience safer and easier. This shall help us in understanding you and your needs in a much better way and thus provide you with much better service, 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 about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We have implemented high standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal data and information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Unfortunately, the transmission of information by means of the internet, including through email, is not completely secure. Although we will continue to do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to or from us by means of email and any such transmission is at your own risk.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by simply clicking the unsubscribe link embedded in the footer of all our system generated emails, by writing to or emailing us at office@australianchamber.ie

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to service your account as required through the products or services you have purchased from us and to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen by actively opting in to our contacts list. We will also, for the purposes of security and access to premises where our events are being held, be obliged, from time to time, to share name and company details of an attendee with that venue, their relevant staff and/or our event management contractors. We do this to ensure that you are not refused access to such events.

You can access and update your member profile, which includes the personal information we hold that you have given us, at any time by logging into the members’ area on the website.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Contacting us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy statement you may contact us using the information below:

Name: Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC)
E-Mail: office@australianchamber.ie
The Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce is a Company Limited by Guarantee: Number 584984 - VAT No: IE 3428430QH

Your rights

You have several rights under data protection law in relation to how we use your personal information.

You have the right, free of charge, to:

(a) Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
(b) Rectify any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
(c) Erase personal information we hold about you.
(d) Restrict processing of your personal information.
(e) Object to our use of your personal information for our legitimate interests.
(f) Have your data transmitted to another data controller.

Data protection legislation limits these rights in some circumstances and we might require further information from you before we can respond to your request. If you wish to exercise any of these rights
please contact us using the contact details above.