privacy
1. Introduction
We at the Powerofone.ie respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the
Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002. The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we
deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are
not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any
external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for
the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
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 or contact you and may include
your name, address, email address, mobile and telephone number, information preferences and user IP
addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised. Such
information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.
- "Non-Personal Data"
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an
aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. 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 website.
3. Purposes for which we hold your Information.
- Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to
get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and
organise our website.
- Cookies
This website 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 website - our cookies are not available to other websites. 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 website.
- Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes: (a) to
provide you with the Energy Saving pack you have ordered; (b) to contact you if required in
connection with your order or to respond to any communications you might send to us; (c) to send
you email and SMS communications that you have opted into receive.
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 website. For example, we might inform third parties
regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our
community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on
our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include [Sustainable
Energy Ireland, DCMNR, ESB, 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 your order (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. Security
Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by LGCSB. 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.
6. 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 2002 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 send an email to with your email address and the
information you would like to view and email it to us at
info@powerofone.ie.
7. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this website 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 Website 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.