Privacy Statement: Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland.
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with the website www.hisi.ie and the hosted membership database.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites to which we may link.
Who is HISI?
From 1976 to 1996, Healthcare Informatics interests in the Republic of Ireland were represented by the Medical Specialist Group of the Irish Computer Society. This group represented Ireland at the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It hosted the European Medical Informatics conference, MIE 82, and was associated with the IMIA Working Group 8 international symposium on Nursing Informatics held in Dublin in 1988.
In May 1996 the members of the Medical Specialist Group formed a new society, the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (Cumann Ríomheolais Sláinte), in order to broaden the base of membership and increase the range of services offered.
General statement
HISI fully respects your right to privacy and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Collection and use of personal information
HISI collects the following types of personal information via its websites:
• names and email addresses for newsletter subscriptions, and
• personal information of HISI Members (and applicants) including names, addresses, phone numbers, DOB etc., and
• personal information of non-members who register for HISI events.
Personal information provided in this way is not made available to any third parties, except were third party services are requested (see below), and is used by the HISI only in line with the purpose for which you provided it as described below.
Names and addresses for newsletter subscriptions.
Information collected for this purpose is collected via a form (or forms) explicitly described as newsletter subscription forms. Subscribers are given control over their subscriptions and can opt out or modify their details at anytime. The sole purpose for which this information is collected is the distribution of HISI newsletters and updates.
Personal information of HISI Members.
This information is collected through the membership application forms of the www.hisi.ie website.
This information is collected for the following purposes:
• To support written communication between the Society and its members; including invoices, annual diary, newsletters, offers etc.
• To record applicants educational and work experience for the purposes of processing their applications.
• To analyse Members’ interests and fields of work to support scheduling of relevant events and training.
• To provide statistical data to government and other agencies when representing the membership.
Personal information of event registrants.
Information is collected through event registration forms on the www.hisi.ie website. This information is collected for the purposes of recording attendees, communicating information about the event, and issuing receipts.
Disclosure
The Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland will not provide the personal information of any Member or subscriber to a third party unless the Member or subscriber opts in for products or services supplied by a third party. These services will be highlighted as requiring the provision of limited personal details to third parties e.g. name and address data for the purpose of distributing magazines.
Summarised, statistical data, which cannot be used to identify any individuals, may be provided to third parties.
Your rights regarding data supplied via this website
You have a right to be given a copy of your personal data which you may have supplied via this website. To exercise this right, you must write to the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland at the address below, or e-mail
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. You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier via the website (e.g. Name; address; phone number; e-mail address). Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.
You also have a right to have inaccurate information corrected. If you discover that the HISI holds inaccurate information about you, you have a right to instruct us to correct that information. Such an instruction must be in writing or via e-mail. A request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process.
In certain circumstance you may also request that data which you have supplied via the website be deleted. To exercise this right you would generally be expected to identify some contravention of data protection law in the manner in which the HISI processes the data concerned.
Complaints about data processed via the website
If you are concerned about how personal data are processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to the attention of Sharon Hogan
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Collection and use of technical information
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session" cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by us for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
• the IP address of the visitor’s web server
• the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
• the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
• clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• the type of web browser used by the website visitor.
HISI will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of HISI never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party other than the web statistics service provider unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by HISI, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute "personal data" for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Glossary of technical terms used
• web browser: The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.
• IP address: The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.
• cookies: Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.
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