Cork Education & Training Board will not use any personal information, in any other manner, except for the purpose it was provided e.g. your email address will be required if you submit a query using the contact form on the “Contact Us” page. Any such information volunteered will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites. Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

Our cookies help us:
• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Twitter etc.
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:
• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Should you wish to remove, limit or not use cookies from our site, you should manage your preferences through the “Manage Cookie Settings” option in the pop up window. You can learn more on how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect, as some functionality may be diminished. You may also update your cookie preferences at a later date by clicking on the gear icon on the bottom left of your screen.

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Persistent Cookies – used for  Language settings
• Anonymous Analytics Cookies – Some of the cookies we use are called analytical cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. This information is anonymous (i.e. it cannot be used to identify you and does not contain personal information such as your name and email address) and it is only used for statistical purposes.

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
• Videos (powered by YouTube and Vimeo)
• Google Maps
• Other embedded content
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

So you can easily “Like” or share our content using a variety of social media tools, we have included sharing buttons on our site:

Cookies are set by:
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Google Plus
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks, please refer to each individual site for their Privacy Policy.

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of this site and a large proportion of the world’s websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that you have concerns around cookies in relation to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing  a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.

You have the following rights:
• To enquire as to how we use, collect and process your data.
• To enquire as to how we use, collect and process your customer’s data.
• To receive a copy of your information.
• To have incomplete or inaccurate data amended and updated.
• To request to have your data deleted or to have the use of your information restricted.
• To exercise the right to data portability.
• To withdraw your consent at any time where the storing and processing of data is based on your consent.
• To lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner in relation to the collection and processing of your data.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you want to correct, update, reasonably access or delete, your information with us, please email us at: info@fet.corketb.ie