Data protection and privacy
IRI recognises that your privacy is important to you and is committed to respecting your online privacy. We will apply appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us. The information you submit will be kept confidential and with the highest standards of security once it reaches our server. The information you provide will be entered onto a database and processed by in accordance with the Data Protection regulations.
Any personal information provided by you to IRI through your se of this website will only be used for the following purposes by IRI:
- updating and enhancing membership records
- defining areas of interest to you and improving the website to meet users’ habits and requirements and compiling information relating to users’ movements across the website
- advising you of other products, courses or services, which may be of interest
Any personal information received from you will be retained by IRI and will only be disclosed where required by law. We shall also give you the opportunity to remove yourself from any of our mailing lists at any time.
This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal rights.
Use of cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help this website analyse how users use the site, but does not identify your personal information.
Disabling/ Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to login to the website if cookies are disabled. You can also manually remove cookies from your system. For more information on disabling and enabling cookies you should search for or lookup ‘Cookies’ in your Operating System Documentation.
Transparency – our use of cookies
Cookies set by us
When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site.
Third party cookies – Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how people use our site.
| Name of cookie | Expiry | Data Stored | Purpose |
| __utma | 2 years from set / update | Google Analytics Unique ID number | Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out unique visitor numbers. |
| __utmb | 30 minutes from set / update | Google Analytics Unique ID number | Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out visitor session length. |
| __utmbc | End of session | Google Analytics Unique ID number | Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out visitor session length and whether a session has expired. |
| __utmz | 6 months from set / update | Google Analytics Unique ID tracking numbers | Tracking data for Google Analytics. Used to work out referrals from other domains. |
Copyright Notice
This website is copyright of IRI, The Irish Reflexologists’ Institute Ltd (IRI). Its content is copyright of IRI and of contributors who have exclusively licensed such copyright to IRI. © IRI and contributors 2000-2018. All Rights Reserved.
You may not otherwise use or reproduce any of this website or the material contained within it in any manner other than those listed above without first obtaining the prior written permission of IRI. Any images that appear on this website with an acknowledgement to the Licensed Material include restrictions on downloading such material for other than personal use, and prohibit republication, retransmission, reproduction or other use of the Licensed Material.
All intellectual property in the design and layout of this website and the material and information published on its pages belongs to and is vested in IRI or its licensors. You may not copy any part of this site or otherwise do anything in relation to any part of the site other than the following:
(a) You may print or download to a local hard disk pages from this website for your personal and non commercial use only
(b) You may only quote from this site provided that such quote is not used in a misleading context and that you give due credit to both the author and to IRI.
We welcome inward links to the IRI website. We request that links be appropriate and relevant in the context of reflexology and must not give the impression that IRI is in any way associated with or has approved such other site.
Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting revisions on the site. Changes will be advertised on the site for a reasonable period.