Aug 03, 2015: The European Union's ePrivacy directive – more specifically Article 5(3) – requires prior informed consent for storage of or access to information stored on a user's terminal equipment. In other words, you must ask users if they agree to most cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) before the site starts to use them.

For consent to be valid, it must be informed, specific, freely given and must constitute a real indication of the individual's wishes.

Finfacts only uses cookies as part of the Google Analytics system and the Google AdSense program.

For example in respect of Google Analytics, one of the features provides: " Contribute anonymous data to an aggregate data set to enable features like benchmarking and publications that can help you understand data trends. All identifiable information about your website is removed and combined with other anonymous data before it is shared with others." 

Opt-out for Google Analytics - through an adjustment to your browser

This is Google's information on some of the ways you can control the information that is shared by your web browser when you visit or interact with Google services on partners' sites across the web:

How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps

How a web user can adjust Google ad settings

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

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You acknowledge and agree that, in certain circumstances, we may be obliged to disclose personal information, if we have any, relating to you to third parties, for example, in order to conform to any requirements of law or to comply with any legal process, as well as to protect and defend the rights of property of Finfacts, our licensors and/or our other customers. 

Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded to ensure that we carry out your instructions correctly and to help improve the quality of our service.

Use of Technical Information

Cookies are files which are transferred to your computer's hard disk by a website. Cookies can store information about your preferences and other information which you need when you visit a website.

Finfacts only uses cookies as part of the Google Analytics system and user information is completely anonymous.

Google Analytics will not transfer the information it collects to any third party except where required to do so by law. Please note that we will not use Google Analytics to collect any information from which you can be personally identified, and we will not associate the information provided to us by Google Analytics with Your Information. Google Analytics' cookies will remain on your computer for between thirty minutes and two years from being set / updated, unless you delete them before they expire. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html .

For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Statistical and analytical information collected through the standard operation of our Internet servers and logs provides us with general and not individually specific information. Finfacts will make no attempt to identify individual users, or to associate any technical information collected through the standard operation of our Internet servers and logs with any individual user.

Disclaimer

Finfacts, its directors, employees, servants and agents, affiliates or other representatives and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, shall not be liable in respect of any claims, emergencies, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you in accordance with this privacy policy and your consents. 

You should be aware that, where you link to another website from the Finfacts website, Finfacts has no control over that other website. Finfacts has no responsibility for the privacy practices of other websites.

While every effort is made to ensure that the information provided by Finfacts  on this Site, is accurate, all warranties whether express or implied, are disclaimed. Neither Finfacts, any member of the Company, nor suppliers of information, accept any responsibility for any loss or damage occasioned by any user of the finfacts.ie/com Site, whether through use of information provided by Finfacts or through access to other Internet Sites, facilitated by the finfacts.ie/com Site.

No liability is accepted in respect of any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential loss of business profits or special damages.

Access to and use of the finfacts.ie/com Site, is governed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland and only the Courts of the Republic of Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction regarding any issues concerning the finfacts.ie/com Site.

Amendments

Finfacts reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement for any amendments.

Copyright

The contents of the finfacts.ie/com Site are © Finfacts Multimedia Limited and remain at all times, the property of Finfacts Multimedia Limited.

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