General Data Protection Regulation

To access the Data Protection Policy of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and details of your data protection rights and who to contact – please see our Data Protection page.

Copyright

The material featured on this site is subject to copyright according to the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000. The material may be downloaded to file or printer for personal use only. Where this material is being issued to others, the source including the URL and copyright status must be acknowledged.

The permission to reproduce Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board copyright material does not extend to any material on this site, which may be the property of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Use of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s logo

The logo is the property of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (“the authority”) and may not be used by third parties in a manner that implies that the user is acting on behalf of the authority when they are not, or where it is linked to aims and activities incompatible with the role and responsibilities of the authority.

The authority’s logo should be used for programmes or projects that are funded wholly or in part by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board.  It should not, under any circumstances, be used by a commercial company to advertise a product.

Written permission for use of the logo is required and will only be granted where a body / agency is promoting programmes / projects funded by or approved by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. Contact the authority’s communications specialist at communications@lcetb.ie for permission to use the logo.

Disclaimer 

The contents of these pages are provided as an information guide only. They are intended to enhance public access to information about Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. While every effort is made in preparing material for publication, no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board for any errors, omissions or misleading statements on these pages or any site to which these pages connect. Although every effort is made to ensure the reliability of listed sites, this cannot be taken as an endorsement of these sites.

Privacy 

Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board respects the rights of its users and does not, as a general rule, collect personal information of any kind. Where a user voluntarily provides personal information in response to a questionnaire or survey, the data will be used for research or analysis purposes only.

For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us via our internet service provider. This information may include the logical address of the server you are using, the top level domain name from which you access the internet (for example, .ie, .com), the type of browser you are using, the date and time you access our site and the internet address used to link to our site.

Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site and to identify what pages are accessed most frequently. We use these statistics to help us make our site more user-friendly.

Cookies 

This website uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is a small piece of data or a small text file stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not available to other websites.  In particular cookies enable us:

• to measure visitor traffic to our website and their usage patterns
• to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests
• to speed up your searches
• to recognise you when you return to our website

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout 

Disabling Cookies 

You are always free to decline such cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to gather statistics on our website. The statistics we gather help us to provide a better web service for our visitors. For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google’s website

Google Analytics uses cookies to define user sessions, as well as to provide a number of key features in the Google Analytics reports. This means that the cookies are linked to our website domain(s), and we will only use that cookie data for statistical analysis related to your browsing behaviour on our websites. If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser.  You can opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

Links to external sites 

Articles on our website may occasionally include some useful links to other third party sites that are not related to collegeoffet.ie or maintained by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. Please be aware that once you click to one of these sites, you are subject to that site’s privacy policy and not to ours. You may wish to review the privacy policy for each site you visit.

Social Media Usage

Social media is an important means for us to communicate with the community we serve in Limerick and Clare. It enables us to engage with you directly and is used alongside our websites as a core communication tool.

We welcome your comments on these channels but, as a public body, we do need to moderate them. We will hide/delete the following:

• Obscene, abusive, discriminatory or accusatory comments about students/learners, staff, any individuals or organisations
• Comments on any issue relating to controversial, sensitive or political matters
• Any misinformation which is intended to mislead, or could mislead, members of the public

We will also hide/delete:

• Comments which contain obscene language
• Comments which aim to incite hatred/criminal activity
• Comments which do not comply with the relevant platform’s terms and conditions

Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board is not responsible for content posted by members of the public on social media channels.

Thank you for your interest in our social media channels and understanding the need for us to operate within these guidelines.