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Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

2030 Vision is provided by the National Transport Authority. We at www.2030vision.ie respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.

By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.

2. Types of Information Collected

We collect two types of information:

1. Personal Data
   This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, town/county/Dublin postal area, email address, information preferences and user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.
2. Non-Personal Data
   Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.

3. Purposes for which we hold your Information

1. Non-Personal Data
   We use Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to learn about the number of visitors to our site, to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website. We may compile and report aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related site information. Any such statistics will not include any personally identifying information.
2. Cookies
   This website uses 'cookie' technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not available to other websites. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.
3. Personal Data
   We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes: (a) to contact you if required or to respond to any communications you might send to us; (b) to send you email communications that you have opted into receive, for example where you indicate to us that you want to be notified about upcoming events relating to transport strategy and development..

4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might provide third parties with information regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, or the demographic breakdown of users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website.

We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement. We will not otherwise disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure.

5. Right of Access and Amendment

You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.

You have the right, subject to certain exemptions, to obtain a copy of any personal data we hold about you and to correct any inaccuracies in such data. To find out what Personal Data we hold about you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact us at consult@dto.ie. Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and, in any event, will not take more than 40 days to process.

6. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.

7. Disclaimer

The National Transport Authority makes no warranty or representation in relation to any document that appears on this website. The contents of these pages are provided as an information guide only. They are intended to enhance public access to information about the NTA. While every effort is made in preparing material for publication, the NTA accepts no liability for inaccuracies or errors on these pages or any site to which these pages connect. Although every effort is made to ensure the reliability of listed sites this cannot be taken as an endorsement of these sites.

8. Freedom of Information

Please note that consultation submissions which are received by us are subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003. These submissions may be published, in full or in part, on this website or elsewhere