youthworkandyou.org 21.08.19
1. Website Privacy Statement
1.1 How we use your information
1.2 What type of information do we collect?
1.3 What do we use your information for?
1.4 Search engine
1.5 Emailing us
2. Cookie Policy
2.1 What is a cookie?
2.2 How are they used on this site?
3. Terms of use
3.1 Terms of website use
3.2 Information about us
3.3 Accessing our site
3.4 Re-use of company name Information
3.5 Reliance on information posted
3.6 Our site changes regularly
3.7 Our liability
3.8 Information about you and visits to our site
3.9 Viruses, hacking and other offenses
3.10 Linking to our site
3.11 Links from our site
3.12 Jurisdiction and applicable law
3.13 Variations
3.14 Your concerns
4. Accessibility Statement
4.1 Standards Compliance
4.2 PDF Documents
4.3 Images
4.4 Visual design
4.5 Browser Requirements
1. Youth Work eLearning Partnership [YWeLP] Website Privacy Statement
The Youth Work eLearning Partnership [YWeLP] respects your right to privacy and complies with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The goal of this website privacy policy is to help you understand how youthworkandyou.org deals with any personal data you might provide when you visit its website or interact with youthworkandyou.org online.
By visiting the youthworkandyou.org website, you are accepting the terms of this website privacy policy. This website contains external links to other websites and youthworkandyou.org is not held responsible for the privacy policies of these other websites
1.1 How we use your information
This privacy notice provides information about the ways in which youthworkandyou.org operated by YWeLP does or does not collect, store, share or keep personal information provided by visitors.
1.2 What type of information do we collect?
You may browse our site anonymously, but certain functions and pages may be unavailable to you. We do not directly collect information from you. However, you are invited to contact us at ywelp@mu.ie. Any data provided by email will only be used to contact you and address any query. It will not be used for any other purpose without your permission.
1.3 What do we use your information for?
We only use any information you supply by email to contact you and address any query. It will not be used for any other purpose without your permission. Please see below for our Cookie Policy.
1.4 Search engine
The website does not have a search function.
1.5 Emailing us
You can email us at ywelp@mu.ie from any email client. As noted in 1.3 above, we only use data you supply by email to contact you and address any query. It will not be used for any other purpose without your explicit permission. In that instance, we aim to ensure:
– transparency with regard to the use of data
– that any processing is lawful, fair, transparent and necessary for a specific purpose
– that data is accurate, kept up to date and removed when no longer necessary
– that data is kept safely and securely.
2. Cookie Policy
2.1 What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. It may allow a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or it may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.
Further information on cookies can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
2.2 How are they used on this site?
This site uses 2 different types of cookie:
• Session Cookies
• Persistent Cookies
Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not persistently stored on your computer or mobile device. They are used to deliver basic functions of a website while you are actively using it – for instance during a registration process. Session cookies are generally erased when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site. This allows the site to deliver functions between browser sessions and subsequent visits. This site only places cookies that are specific to this site.
Cookies used on youthworkandyou.org
YWeLP uses cookies when you visit our website. We have introduced Google Analytics to our pages in order to assist us in redeveloping our websites. Google analytics allows us to measure and learn in aggregate how our website is being used, and to see for example, which are the most popular pages. This will help us ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We also use a number of session cookies and a persistent cookie to record your acknowledgement of our cookie usage.
Specific Cookies
The following cookies are used specifically on this site:
The following functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make to provide enhanced, more personal features.
• Twitter.com – displays the youthworkandyou.org twitter feed/social media sharing buttons
• YouTube.com – displays youthworkandyou.org videos hosted on YouTube
Managing Cookies
Within your browser settings you can choose whether your wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers’ instructions on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete all cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“third party cookies”), or those from specific websites.
• Google Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari
• Safari Mobile
• Opera
3. Terms of use
3.1 Terms of website use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website youthworkandyou.org (“our site”). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
3.2 Information about us
youthworkandyou.org is a site operated by YWeLP as established under the 1988 Data Protection Act. Our postal address is:
YWeLP, c/o CYRD
Department of Applied Social Studies
North Campus, Maynooth University
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
3.3 Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
3.4 Re-use of YWeLP Information
All of the information on the website is open source and available under Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International which means that you can use, share and adapt it as you see fit provide you attribute this project as the original source material to us and the organisatons that who shared video footage with us in the same way the we have attributed source material to them.
YWeLP is not liable for any loss or liability associated with the re-use of information and does not certify that the information is up-to-date or error free. YWeLP does not authorise any user to have exclusive rights to re-use of its information.
3.5 Reliance on information posted
Any materials posted on our site do not amount to legal advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
3.6 Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
3.7 Our liability
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
3.8 Information about you and visits to our site
We use cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. 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. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data through cookies in the manner and for the purposes set out in our cookie policy.
3.9 Viruses, hacking and other offenses
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material, which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001 (as amended). We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
3.10 Linking to our site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission at any time whereupon you shall immediately remove all links of any kind to our site without notice.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to ywelp@mu.ie.
3.11 Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
3.12 Jurisdiction and applicable law
The Irish courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by Irish law.
3.13 Variations
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
3.14 Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material, which appears on our site, please contact ywelp@mu.ie.
4. Accessibility Statement
YWeLP is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.
We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines. The following statement outlines the provisions we have made to ensure a high standard of accessibility throughout this website.
4.1 Standards Compliance
The pages on this site are designed to be WCAG AA compliant, and to comply with all Priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The pages on this site are designed to be compliant with the Irish National Disability Authority IT Accessibility Guidelines.
This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for is developed using HTML 5 and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant HTML 5/CSS code means it will also display correctly in any future browsers.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.
NOTE: Whilst we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. If you should experience any difficulty in accessing the website, please do not hesitate to contact us.
4.2 PDF Documents
All of the PDF documents on the website are designed to be accessible.
4.3 Images
All images used in this site include descriptive ALT or LONGDESC tag.
4.4 Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
4.5 Browser Requirements
The youthworkandyou.org website should work with any modern standards based browser. YWeLP does not require, or recommend, any particular browser as our web sites and public-facing applications support the current versions of all major browsers.
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