Privacy Policy
Website of cables.ie – Privacy Statement:ORS Ltd. has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. By visiting www.cables.ie or any sub-sites of the above (cables.ie) you are deemed to accept the practices set out and described in this Privacy Statement.
This Statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with the aforementioned websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Some technical terms used in this Statement are explained at the end of this page.
General Statement
ORS Ltd. fully respects your right to privacy. We will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any information, which you volunteer to ORS Ltd. websites will be treated with the highest possible standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.Information You Give Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of the features of our websites. When you register for online forms etc., we require personal information (like your name, email address, etc.). We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising our online services for you, improving our online services, and communicating with you.
Where a user voluntarily provides personal information, the data will be used for analysis, research or customer service purposes only. Any personal data provided by you to us will be held in accordance with the data protection principles set out in the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003, the Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 and other relevant EU and Irish legislation.
If you register on our site you may be given an option to send online forms with your email address. Your email address will only be used for the purpose of the form and sent only to the specific people dealing with the relevant form.
In the event of online payment being processed via the cables.ie website we do not store any record of your credit card or laser number. Any credit or debit card data is transferreddirectly from your computer to our card services partners' server over a secure, encrypted connection.
ORS Ltd. assures you that the identity of all who contact us through this website is kept confidential. We do not rent, sell, or exchange mailing lists, or otherwise disclose such information to third parties, except as may be required by law, or through voluntary co-operation with law enforcement authorities if we judge that such co-operation is necessary to combat fraud or other crime.
Automatic Information:
For general web browsing no personal information is revealed to us, although certain statistical information is available to us from our website logs. For example, like many websites, we obtain certain types of information when your web browser (browsers are pieces of software that allow you to access the Internet; examples include Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, etc.) accesses cables.ie. Also, to ensure the security of your online account information in our Pay Online area, we use cookies to ensure that security is maintained by preventing the "hijacking" of your online identity (see below for more on cookies). The only information that is stored in the cookie is a key code, which can be used by our server only during the current visit to verify your identity online. The cookie becomes unusable after either the user logs out or after 20 minutes of inactivity on our website.
Examples of information collected:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet (for example 192.168.11.47).
- Login-if using our account services.
- Email address-if you email any of our public email addresses.
- Computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, platform, referring url and pages visited.
ORS Ltd. will make no attempt to identify individual visitors or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual, except in cases where criminal activity has taken place (i.e. in response to a "hacking" incident). It is the policy of ORS Ltd. never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to a third party (except to law-enforcement bodies and then only in response to illegal activity such as "hacking"; also 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 ORS Ltd., 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.
Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide security while you access your online payment account information.The "Help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of cables.ie's account-based features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
To ensure the security of your online account information in our Payments area, we use cookies to ensure that security is maintained by preventing the "hijacking" of your online identity (see below for more on cookies). The only information that is stored in the cookie is a key code which can be used by our server only during the current visit to verify your identity online. The cookie becomes unusable after either the user logs out or after 20 minutes of inactivity on our website.
Does ORS Ltd. share the Information it receives?
We may choose to release automatic information (see above) and other information received to the website to companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Information of this type will only be shared about users who have caused or attempted to cause damage to cables.ie website. This type of information would be shared only as a result of "hacking" attacks, fraud or other illegal activities.How secure is Information About Me?
We do not collect credit card information or other payment methods via this website. All transactions are completed via a third party online payment processing engine to ensure maximum protection for your account information.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using our online payments Account Viewer tool and to sign off from your computer when using a shared computer.
