Privacy Policy

For more information you can also visit DCU’s Data Protection Unit site

General statement

Dublin City University fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your consent. Any personal information which you volunteer to the University will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2018.

Website visits

When someone visits joltetn.eu we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site; identify what pages are visited most frequently and, ultimately, make the site more user friendly.

  • We do not attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website
  • We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source
  • If we do intend to collect personal information we will make it clear and will explain what we intend to do with it

Certain pages on this site provide an option to request further information by email, or to provide feedback online. This information will only be recorded if you choose to send us a message and will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The majority of the cookies used on the DCU website are associated with the use of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses code, provided by Google, to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form that does not identify an individual. They provide information regarding the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.

The remaining cookies are DCU generated cookies and are used to customise the content provided to you. Should you decide to disable cookies at any time, some functionality of our website may be impaired.

The following are a list of cookies used on our website. It is not comprehensive as cookies can change from time to time for example to stop a message being shown to a user who has already viewed it:

Cookie NamePlaced By PurposeExpires
__utmaGoogle AnalyticsUsage Statistics – Identifies Unique Visitors2 years
__utmbGoogle AnalyticsUsage Statistics – Visitor Session30 minutes
__utmcGoogle AnalyticsUsage Statistics – Visitor SessionEnd of Session (deprecated)
__utmvGoogle AnalyticsUsage Statistics – Custom Variables2 years
__utmzGoogle AnalyticsUsage Statistics – Traffic Sources & Navigation6 months

 

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Links to other websites

This privacy statement does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Project Members

Funding

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This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement No 765140