Privacy Policy
MyTown.ie Privacy Policy - Information about use of MyTown.ie
The key points of our privacy policy are:
- You can end your membership at any time by contacting mytown.ie.
- We only disclose information from which you may be personally identifiable to selected third parties in accordance with this privacy policy.
- By participating in the mytown.ie community, you agree to this privacy policy.
Information collected by mytown.ie
We collect the following types of information about you when you use MyTown.ie:
- Information provided by you. We collect the personal inormation that you enter when registering on MyTown.ie, this information includes:
- Name
- Email address
- Password (encrypted)
- Town
- Newsletter preference categories
- Once registered, you have the option of publishing information on MyTown.ie in the following areas, all of the information that you publish in these areas are for public consuption and therefore is recorded by MyTown.ie. You should not enter any information in the following areas that you do not want to appear publicly:
- Listings
- Listings Comments/Error Reports
- Classified Ads
- Classified Ad Error Reports
- Gallery Images
- Information collected automatically. mytown.ie receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically from your computer when you browse the Internet and use mytown.ie. This information includes information from cookies (which are described in paragraph 4 below), your IP address and browser type. Your IP address is the unique address of your computer which is automatically provided to other computers when your web browser or email application requests a web page or email from those computers on the Internet.
- In accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we adhere to your "Right to be forgotten". If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are improperly using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the data has been deleted.
Use of Third Party Data on MyTown.ie
In some areas of MyTown.ie, we have sourced and published information from third parties. If you find information that personally identies your or your business on MyTown.ie that you would like removed or updated, please submit a request to MyTown.ie and we endeavour to complete your request at our earliest opportunity. All business and classified listings include a link to report an error, if you need to report an issue on any other area of the site you can find contact information on our about us page.
Use and Disclosure of information
- We will use your name so that you are recognisable on our database and so that we can personalize your experience. We will use your email address to contact you from time to time and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are.
- We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to gather statistics about the number of people who visit mytown..
- Advertisements that appear on mytown.ie are delivered to you by our advertising partners. mytown.ie may transfer information about your use of mytown.ie, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to our advertising partners and other third parties. This information may be used to provide advertising, promotions and other products and services that may be of particular interest to you. It may also be used to provide you with a tailored choice of content and media products.
- Our advertising and promotions partners have no access to your name or personal contact information stored by mytown.ie. mytown.ie does not provide your name or personal contact information to an advertising partner when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement.
- We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the services to us.
- We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of mytown.ie, its affiliates or the public. We may also co-operate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency or authority in doing so.
- We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of mytown.ie, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.
Cookies
- Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computers hard drive when you access a site. They allow mytown.ie to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of mytown.ie if you do so. You can disable cookies by changing your browsers settings.
- Our advertising partners may set and access cookies or use other technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies) in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. mytown.ie uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with mytown.ie’s own privacy standards as set out in this privacy policy.
Internet awareness
Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. mytown.ie recommends that you exercise discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.
Security and confidentiality
- The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. mytown.ie uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for mytown.ie to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or security settings on the mytown.ie website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
- If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact a member of our team.
Changes in Privacy Policy
From time to time we may update this privacy policy and will post a notice of any changes on our website. Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall stop using the mytown.ie service. Your continued use of the mytown.ie service following our posting of a change notice or on our website or receiving our email notifying you of the change will constitute your binding acceptance of the change.
Canceling membership
To cancel your membership you should contact a member of the mytown.ie team.
