Our Privacy Policy

The Irish Charities Tax Reform Group (ICTRG), Vat Campaign (located at www.vatcampaign.com) value and respect all individuals and organisations seeking to donate their time towards our Vat Campaign. We understand that you may be concerned about privacy issues that surround the use of the Internet and we are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide:

Due to the nature of our web site, many areas of the site require some identification in order to be effective.

A. If you provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address by signing the petition or sending an email to your local candidates, we will have a record of your information. Your personal information will not be given or sold to any other organisations or entities not affiliated with the Irish Charities Tax Reform Group, except to send it, along with the message, to targeted Dail candidates or Election Candidates for action.

B. When you sign our petition or send an email to your local candidates, you may choose to receive more informational updates about this or future ICTRG campaigns. Your information will be added to our email list and database. We will use your email address to send you email updates on Irish Charities Tax Reform issues. We require your full postal address in order for your Local candidates to identify you as a genuine constituent and therefore respond to your appeals.

C. If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask you for the friend's name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@vatcampaign.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

General Information Automatically Collected and Stored:

Like most web sites you enter, vatcampaign.com automatically gathers certain usage information like the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Web Site. Our system automatically stores your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address (this is not your email address); the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g. "eircom.net" or "oceanfree.net"); the Internet address of the web site, if any, from which you came to our site; the date and time you arrived at our site and how long you spent on the site; and which pages you visited.

We only use such data in the aggregate. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use certain parts of the site, so we can improve our site to assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many of you as possible. We also may provide aggregated statistical "ratings" information, never information about you personally, to third parties for the purpose of reporting the sites success rate. E.g. x number of petitions signed per x number of visits.

Security:

Personal information you provide is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated individuals.

About Cookies:

When you complete our online petition or send an email to a local candidate, we will place a file called a cookie in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site can store on your computer and later use to recognise you. We will use the cookie only to recognise who you are when you return to the VatCampaign web site so that we can make it even easier for you to identify which appeals you have already participated in, and to avoid duplicate emails or petition entries being completed. A cookie cannot be read by any web site other than the one that set it up. If after accepting the cookie on this web site you change your mind, just click on "stop remembering your info".

Outbound Links

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site www.vatcampaign.com.

Privacy Changes

If we decide to change our privacy statement for our web site, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone.

Choice/Opt-Out

This site gives visitors the following options for removing their information from our database or to not receive future communications.

1. You can visit the following URL: www.vatcampaign.com/html/mailing_list.html and remove yourself from our mailing list

2. Email the administrator at: info@vatcampaign.com

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.