<p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">This privacy policy sets out how SCTIL (Social Care Training Ireland Ltd.) uses and protects any information that you give SCTIL when you use this website.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;"><strong>SCTIL</strong> is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information, by which you can be identified, when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">SCTIL may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. <span style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;color: #c2202c;">This policy is effective from <strong>May 25</strong><sup><strong>th</strong></sup> <strong>2018</strong>.</span></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><!--StartFragment--><p style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><b>The Use of Personal Data</b></strong></span></p><p style="font-size: 13px;">When a user is registering with SCTIL  you are entering into a contract with us. You are contracting SCTIL to provide a service to you.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;">The legislation with regards to data protection states that we can use your personal data provided to us if we are required to do so to fulfill our contractual requirements. </p><p style="font-size: 13px;">We will only use your data for the purposes of fulfilling our contractual data unless there is a legal requirement for us to do otherwise.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;">We will never provide your personal data to a third party for marketing purposes unless you have explicitly consented for us to do so.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;">We will need to contact you during the course, or sometimes after even after the course. We will make contact be phone and/or by email. </p><p style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: inherit;font-size: 19px;">What Information We Collect</span><br/></p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We may collect the following information:</p><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Person’s Name</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Person’s E-Mail address and or Phone Number</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Demographic information such as town, county and postcode</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Other information like customer testimonials, product serial number and information relevant to customer surveys and/or special offers</li></ul><p><br/></p><h4>Data Retention<br/></h4><p>As part of our contract with you, we will retain your personal information for a period of 7 years following completion of the contract, unless there is a legal requirement for us to retain it for longer.<br/></p><p>This is an important requirement to allow us to fulfill our obligations to provide certificates, reference in any case.</p><!--StartFragment--><p style="font-size: 13px;">Your Rights</p><p style="font-size: 13px;">You are entitled to:</p><!--EndFragment--><ul><li>Request access to your personal information</li><li>You can request us to correct any information that we hold that is inaccurate</li><li>You have the right of erasure, to have your information erased</li><li>The right to withdraw your consent for use of your personal data, if consent is the basis of use<br/><br/></li></ul><h2 style="font-size: 19px;">How We Use Your Information</h2><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:</p><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Internal record keeping.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We may use the information to improve our products and services.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We may periodically send promotional email about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We may provide your information to our third party partners for marketing or promotional purposes.</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We will never sell your information.</li></ul><h2 style="font-size: 19px;">Information Security</h2><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.</p><h2 style="font-size: 19px;">Information Collection Using Cookies</h2><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.</p><h2 style="font-size: 19px;">External Links</h2><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">Our website may contain external links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.</p><h2 style="font-size: 19px;">Controlling Personal Information Privacy</h2><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:</p><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes</li><li style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at <strong>info@socialcaretraining.ie</strong></li></ul><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018.   If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to:</p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;"><b>Data Protection</b></p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;"><strong>Social Care Training Ireland Ltd<br/><span id="selectionBoundary_1527502762385_727606146443478" class="rangySelectionBoundary">&#65279;</span>Unit 4, <br/>Lismard House,<br/>Tullow Street,<br/>Carlow<br/></strong></p><p style="font-size: 13px;text-align: left;">If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.</p><!--EndFragment--><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>