Rainmaker Website Privacy Policy

Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

Author

1.00

18/01/2008

Created, Revised

Anthony Carville

1.01

11/06/2010

Updated

Shane McGarry, Declan Bright

Documentation Map

This document states the Website Privacy Policy for Rainmaker Business Technologies.

  • Rainmaker Website Privacy Policy
  • Revision History
  • Documentation Map
  1. Overview
  2. Policy and Types of Information Collected
  3. How Information is Collected
  4. Purposes for which we hold your information
  5. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
  6. Sale of Business
  7. Security
  8. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
  9. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

1. Overview

Rainmaker Business Technologies operates the website www.rainmaker.ie to communicate information about our products and services and to provide a tool for communicating with our customers and vendors. News releases, product overviews and information on Rainmaker events are all provided through this website.

We at Rainmaker Business Technologies respect your right to privacy and comply with out 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 us while visiting our 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. Policy and Types of Information Collected

Rainmaker.ie is a site operated by Rainmaker Business Technologies to provide information about our business and the products and services we offer. The website contains information on products and services, partners, news, events. You may be asked for personal information depending on the service or information you are requesting.

We retain 2 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, e-mail address, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number. 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 addressed where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website

 

3. How Information is Collected

Voluntary information:

Voluntary information may be collected from you when you request information to be sent to you on various products and services or when you provide us information relating to potential business opportunities. You will be asked to complete an online form or to submit information via e-mail.

Involuntary Information:

Cookies are data that may be placed on your computer to enable us to monitor your preferences for future visits to our website. Rainmaker.ie may use cookies to determine your preferences for how website options are presented to you. We never use cookies to gather personally identifiable information.

4. Purposes for which we hold your information

  • Non-Personal Data

We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in a aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

  • Personal Data

We will process any Personal Data you provide us for the following purposes:

    • To provide you with information and services you have requested
    • To contact you if required in connection with your requests and to respond to any communications you might send to us

5. 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 web marketing companies (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, 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 specific request, in which circumstances the third party must have equivalent privacy commitments in place. 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 requirements.

6. Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information, including your Personal Data, to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt out.

7. Security

Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by Rainmaker and by DigiWeb. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security or 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

8. 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 e-mail us with details of your request to info@nullrainmaker.ie

9. 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 e-mail, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.