Richard Humphreys
Labour Party Councillor for Stillorgan Ward

Privacy Policy

The Website

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.

General statement

We fully respect your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.

Implied consent

Providing personal data for example by emailing the email address listed on this website or contacting or otherwise communicating with us for political purposes constitutes consent to the terms of this privacy policy and to the processing, etc of such personal data in accordance with this policy.

Collection and use of personal information

Personal information for the purposes of this document is information that can identify an individual such as name, address, contact details. We do not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us or by using the Labour Party online feedback form). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, unless to do so is appropriate for the purposes of carrying out functions as a public representative. For example personal information provided which is relevant to a constituency case or other representation may be provided to the constituent or to a public or other authority or body or other third party where this is necessary or appropriate for the handling of the constituency case or representation. Providing such information for example by emailing the email address listed on this website or contacting or otherwise communicating with us for political purposes constitutes consent to receive occasional political communications from The Labour Party unless you opt out of such communications. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.

Collection and use of technical information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged for our statistical purposes. The technical details logged include the following items:

We will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. This information is used to allow us improve the information we are supplying to our users, find out how many people are visiting our sites and for statistical purposes. Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, discover what information is most and least used, inform us on future design and layout specifications, and help us make our site more user friendly.

Glossary of technical terms used

cookies - Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.

IP address - The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company's computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.

web browser - The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.