Archive Website of South Eastern Health Board

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

The Health Service Executive (HSE), which took over responsibility for health services on 01-January-2005 from the health boards, fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission.  Any personal information you volunteer to the HSE will be treated with the highest standard of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003.

Collection & Use of personal information

The HSE does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by emailing us or by using our online forms).  Any information you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the HSE only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

 Collection & Use of technical information

This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary “session” cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited.  Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes.  No information is collected that would be used by us to identify website visitors.  The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

•  the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the visitor’s web server

• the top-level domain name used (e.g. .com, .org, .net)

• the previous website address from which the visitor reach us, including any search terms used

• clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this website (e.g. pages accessed and documents downloaded)

• the type of web browser used by the website visitor.

The HSE will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with the individual.  It is the policy of the HSE never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.  The technical information will be used only by the HSE, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.  You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003.

Glossary of technical terms used

• Web browser – the piece of software you use to read web pages.  Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.
• IP Address – the identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer) expressed in “internet protocol” code (e.g. 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.
• Cookies – Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website.  Cookies can be read by the website 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 website 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 website.