Dear user,
At SportsNewsIreland.com, Cookies are used for ads personalisation.We care deeply about protecting your privacy and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. This includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU) and the ePrivacy Directive. In order to provide our services, we may collect and process your personal data. We would like to explain to you how we handle your data and obtain your consent for this processing.
What data do we collect? When you use SportsNewsIreland.com, we may collect certain information about you, including:
- Your IP address and other technical information about the device you are using to access our website;
- Your browsing history and information about the pages you visit on our website;
- Your name and email address if you choose to sign up for our newsletter;
- Your preferences and interests that you have provided to us.
How do we use your data? We use your data for the following purposes:
- To provide you with our services and website features;
- To improve our services and website features;
- To personalize your experience on our website;
- To send you marketing communications, including our newsletter, if you have subscribed to it;
- To comply with legal obligations and respond to legal requests.
How do we obtain your consent? By using SportsNewsIreland.com, you consent to our collection and processing of your personal data as described above. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at [insert contact information]. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide our services to you.
How do we share your data? We may share your data with third parties in order to provide our services, including service providers that assist us with website analytics and email marketing. We may also share your data with legal authorities if required to do so by law.
How do we protect your data? We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. We also limit access to your data to those employees and third-party service providers who have a business need to know.
Your data rights You have the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data that we hold. You also have the right to object to or restrict the processing of your data, and to data portability. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@sportsnewsireland.com.
Changes to this policy We may update this policy from time to time, so please check back periodically for any changes. If we make any significant changes, we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on our website.
Thank you for your trust in SportsNewsIreland.com. If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at info@sportsnewsireland.com
This Cookie Policy was last updated on August 17, 2023 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.sportsnewsireland.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Advertising cookies
On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your behaviour on https://www.sportsnewsireland.com. With these cookies you, as website visitor, are linked to a unique ID but these cookies will not profile your behaviour and interests to serve personalised ads.
5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.
5.5 Social media
On our website, we have included content from Facebook and Twitter to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook and Twitter and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalised advertising.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook and Twitter are located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
SportsMediaIreland
Knocknacara, Galway
Ireland
Website: https://www.sportsnewsireland.com
Email: info@sportsnewsireland.com
Phone number: 0863626001
This Cookie Policy was synchronised with cookiedatabase.org on May 28, 2023.