Introduction: Search4tutors.ie has created this privacy statement to demonstrate commitment to privacy. The following discloses the practices of Search4tutors.ie. A user can access our site and utilize a number of our services without providing any information at all. However, all users who register for Search4tutors.ie services provide basic contact and may provide demographic information. The information which we provide our advertisers, the people that make it possible for visitors to use Search4tutors.ie, need summary information about our users (not individual information) to determine how effective their advertising investment is. Search4tutors.ie will not disclose a user's personally identifiable information to any third party without the user's express permission except where applicable for the purpose of supplying the service for which the user has registered.
Search4tutors.ie collects the following information:
Optional Sign ups: If users wish to utilize certain services located on specific sections of Search4tutors.ie, they must sign up. Services that currently require some form of sign up include; purchase of a featured listing, contact with a service, submitting a rate & review & subscribing to partner product or service.
The information collected when a user signs up for a service, the information can include an e-mail address and name. A user may also "opt-in " to various e-mail notifications or offers.
Polling: Search4tutors.ie, from time to time may offer interactive polls/questionnaires so users can easily share their opinions with others and see what other Search4tutors.ie users think about important topics. Their name, e-mail address and country information is retained temporarily.
Cookies: Certain sections of the site use cookies to maintain single user sessions as well as to aggregate broad demographic data as it relates to user behaviour. You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser.
"Refer a friend” Service: The user provides a valid e-mail address for both the sender and the recipient in order to ensure that the service functions properly and to inform the recipient who sent the information. There is also an option to include a name which is only used for the e-mail salutation. None of this information is used for any other purpose.
Information Automatically Logged: We log your IP address, browser's user agent, and referring address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site and to identify unique users. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.
Auditing our traffic figures: We also provide our log file data to partners to verify our traffic figures to the website. The information is used solely for auditing purposes.
Finally, the data may on occasion of abuse or harassment be used to find and locate individuals abusing the network system and or services of Search4tutors.ie. In these cases this data may be passed on to appropriate individuals, organisations or companies, if specifically requested.
Irish Data Protection Commissioner: Further information on your data privacy rights go to http://www.dataprivacy.ie (website of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner)
Advertisers: search4tutors.ie may perform statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have seen or "clicked" their advertising banners. We may also use demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our Web site to be targeted, in aggregate, to the readers for whom they are most pertinent. This means that readers may see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the effectiveness of the advertisements. In this statistical analysis and banner advertisement targeting, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form. Personal information about you as an individual subscriber will not be provided to any third party without your consent.
We may from time to time use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Web site. A third-party advertising company also separately places or recognises a cookie file on your browser in the course of delivering advertisements to Search4tutors.ie.
Form Submissions: Online subscription options require users to give us financial information (such as their credit card numbers), and demographic information (such as their address etc.). Financial information that is collected is used solely to bill the user for products and services.
Correct/Update Personal Information
Search4tutors.ie allows you to change or modify your personal information by visiting http://www.Search4tutors.ie. It is up to you, once a member, to edit your membership, or notify us of same. Search4tutors.ie can accept no responsibility for third parties adding your personal details or email address to our database, or any form of misrepresentation. If any issues arise due to misrepresentation or similar, please contact us on info@search4tutors.ie.
E-mail: Using the e-mail addresses provided on registration, Search4tutors.ie may contact you with information on our upgrade options, regarding renewal of subscriptions to premium listings, advertising, if there is a problem with a review or rating.
Promotions and competitions that run on Search4tutors.ie may be sponsored by companies other than Search4tutors.ie or may be co-sponsored by Search4tutors.ie and another company. Search4tutors.ie or its sponsors or business partners may with your expressed permission, from time to time, send you e-mails regarding its products and services.
External Links: This site contains links to other sites. Search4tutors.ie is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Security: This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Search4tutors.ie cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Opt-In: Our site provides users with the opportunity to opt-in to receive promotional/marketing information from Search4tutors.ie and select advertisers. Special Interest Sites: Search4tutors.ie provides certain services in conjunction with third parties: These third parties have their own security and privacy policies. You are advised to review these separately.
Contacting the Web Site: If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the security practices of this site, you can contact: info@search4tutors.ie
Ratings & Reviews: You are required to submit your email address before submitting a rating &review. We need to confirm your e-mail address before posting your rating & review.
If you have not found the information you are looking for, please email us at info@search4tutors.ie
hyperlinks to such other web sites does not mean that Search4tutors.ie endorses the material on such web sites or has any association with the owner(s) thereof.
Your account security
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password, and the activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to immediately notify Search4tutors.ie, of any unauthorised use of your username and password, or any other breach in security. Search4tutors.ie cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to adequately safeguard your username and/or password, or to otherwise comply with this section.
Cancellation Policy
In respect of subscription and joining fee payments if you cancel any subscriptions to a Search4tutors.ie service before the end of the contract or subscription period you will not be entitled to a refund of all or part of amounts already paid by you. By purchasing a paid subscription to Search4tutors.ie, you understand and accept that Search4tutors.ie is solely a service which allows you to exchange tutoring services with individuals you know and trust, and you agree to use the service only for such purpose. Due to the fact that we provide the service to you from the moment you purchase it, we cannot offer a cancellation or "cooling off" period. This is in accordance with the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
Termination
You agree that Search4tutors.ie, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the web site(s), and remove and discard any information posted by you on the web site(s), for any reason, including, without limitation, if Search4tutors.ie, believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. You agree that Search4tutors.ie, may terminate your access to the web site(s) without prior notice, and they acknowledge and agree that Search4tutors.ie, may immediately deactivate or delete their account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the web site. Further, you agree that Search4tutors.ie, shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the web site. You may discontinue your participation in and access to the web site(s) at any time.
Interpretation and Operation of Agreement
This document embodies all of the Terms and you may not rely on any representation, promise, or any understanding not expressly set forth in these Terms. No failure or delay by Search4tutors.ie to exercise any right or remedy under these Terms shall be or be deemed to be a waiver thereon. If any term of these Terms or any part thereof shall be or be declared illegal invalid or unenforceable for any reason by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such terms or provisions shall be divisible from the balance of these Terms and shall be deemed to be deleted.
Contract Formation and Governing Law
Any and all contracts formed between Search4tutors.ie and you will be interpreted, construed and enforced in all respects in accordance with the laws of Ireland. You irrevocably agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts.