General Statement
This statement relates to the privacy practices of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in connection with its survey data collection website. For more information about Data Protection at the CSO, read our Data Protection and Transparency notice for the Central Statistics Office as an organisation and our CSO Telecommunications Privacy Policy. The CSO fully respects your personal privacy rights and does not, as a general rule, collect personal information of any kind, without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to the CSO will be treated with the highest standard of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our web site contains links to other sites. The CSO is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other web sites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on our web site.
Security
We ensure that the information you provide is kept safe and secure. We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control.
Your survey data
The survey data collection service is used as an online collection mechanism. Survey data collection does need some personal data in its own right for the functioning of the platform. If you enter data in our survey forms, this data is transmitted to us via a secure socket layer (SSL) connection, we hold these details for the length of time necessary to process the data and only use the details for the purpose for which it was obtained i.e. the processing of statistics. If you email us or phone us using the contact details given on this site, the personal data you supply will be processed as per our Telecommunications Privacy Policy. We will hold these details for the length of time required for processing and we will only use the details for the purpose for which they were received. Further information for our data providers is available as per our Information for Data Providers.
Technical data
When you use our website, as with any website, some technical and usage information is logged automatically for analytical purposes. When you complete our survey forms, all data is transmitted via a secure socket layer (SSL). The data is initially processed by a 3rd party IT company who support our systems providing Cloud infrastructure, used to support the platform on which the Survey Data Collection service runs. Data is regularly transferred to internal CSO systems for further downstream processing, any data on the Cloud is then deleted.
Log data
Log data includes your IP address; device and browser details; date, time and duration of visit; and clickstream data (which records pages and documents accessed). This data is logged in our servers for the purpose of maintaining the security and quality of our website and is kept for 90 days to ensure the security and stability of the website. We do not identify users from this technical data.
Cookie data
This site uses cookies to support some of its core functions. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. We use cookies in the following ways:
Essential cookies power the website (session cookies)
Persistent cookies record your cookie consent
We do not set cookies to personally identify our users
Within the survey your responses are automatically saved as you progress through it. You can return to complete the survey at a later time using the same email link, but your survey must be completed on the same browser and device that you previously used
Definitions
Web browser
A web browser is software that allows a user to access and view web pages. Examples are Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Domain name
A domain name is the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet. For example, www.cso.ie is a domain name. A domain name is unique.
IP Address
IP Address stands for Internet Protocol Address. Each machine connected to the Internet has a unique address. The IP address takes the form of a series of four one- to three-digit numbers separated by dots, for example, 212.6.125.76 is an IP address.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files in your browser by a web site. Each cookie has an expiry date and persistent cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. Our website requests your consent to use cookies on your initial visit and we do not use cookies to store personally identifiable information.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
Is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers.
This policy will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be updated from time to time.