Terms and Conditions

Version 1.2
Last updated: 21st July, 2011

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. They contain important provisions which, in particular, limit our liability to you, specify how we may use your content, and deal with how disputes will be resolved.

1. The Terms and Conditions

1.1 This page (together with the documents referred to on it and, in particular, our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Usage Policy) (together, called the "Terms and Conditions") tells you the terms and conditions on which you use this website www.worldirish.com ("WorldIrish"), whether as a Member or unregistered user.

1.2 By using WorldIrish, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you may not use WorldIrish.

1.3 We may revise the Terms and Conditions from time to time. When we do, we will notify Members by an email to their registered address. The Terms and Conditions should be read carefully each time that you intend to use or access WorldIrish as, by doing so, you will be bound by the most recent version of them. We recommend that you print or save a copy of the Terms and Conditions (and any documents referred to in them) for future reference.

1.4 Your mandatory consumer rights are not affected by these Terms and Conditions.

2. Information about us

2.1 This website is operated by Gateway Application Programming Interface Limited which is called "we" or other similar expressions in these Terms and Conditions. Our registered office is at Gateway House, 133 Capel Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. We are a company with limited liability registered under the laws of Ireland with registered number 493316. This is also our main trading address. We can be contacted at:

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +353 1 804 4710

3. Membership of WorldIrish

3.1 You are not required to register as a Member if you simply want to browse through WorldIrish. However, access to certain Content and parts, features and services of WorldIrish may be restricted to Members.

3.3 Only persons who are thirteen (13) years or older are eligible to become a Member of WorldIrish.

3.4 Registration as a Member is at our sole discretion and may be refused, accepted, suspended, revoked or terminated from time to time without reason or advance notice.

3.5 As a condition of registration as a Member, you agree:

to provide truthful, current and complete information about you;
to keep your profile accurate and up-to-date;
to choose an appropriate username and secure password for your profile;
to use your real name for your profile identity;
to maintain the security and confidentiality of your password;
to be fully responsible for all use of your profile and for any actions that take place using your profile;
to respect the privacy and rights of other users and Members and their profiles;
your use of WorldIrish does not violate any applicable law or regulation. and
to these Terms and Conditions including our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Usage Policy.

4. Your WorldIrish Profile

4.1 If WorldIrish accepts you as a Member, you will be provided with an individual profile and you will be required to choose a username and password for your profile. You must use your real name for your profile identity and must provide a valid email address. We may restrict the username or password you can choose. You are entirely responsible for all actions on, and Content posted or linked through, your profile.

4.2 You may not set up or operate a profile on WorldIrish on behalf of another individual or on behalf of a firm, organisation, charity or business without our prior permission. Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to do so.

4.3 You agree not to use the profile or username of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorised use of your profile or username or access to your password.

4.4 The information on your profile is publicly available to the world at large, including through Internet searches.

4.5 We may disable, revoke, suspend or terminate your profile, Membership, username or password at any time if, in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any provisions of these Terms and Conditions. This includes if Content is posted or linked by you or through your profile which breaches these Terms and Conditions.

4.6 We may issue you with a new profile, password or username if we feel this is necessary for the security and integrity of WorldIrish or otherwise required by us for policy reasons.

5. Using WorldIrish

5.1 Use of WorldIrish is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw, revoke, terminate, amend or suspend, in whole or in part, WorldIrish and the service and features we provide on it, without notice.

5.2 From time to time, we may restrict or change the levels of access to some parts, features and services of WorldIrish, or all of it. Different levels of access may, at our absolute discretion, be granted from time to time to Members depending on membership types we create. Any levels of access may be varied at our absolute discretion.

5.3 WorldIrish may only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes unless we have given prior permission. Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to seek permission for non-personal use. WorldIrish cannot be used for commercial gain or direct or indirect advertising, marketing or promotional purposes. It is not permitted to use WorldIrish to collect usernames and contact details for the purposes of sending direct marketing.

5.4 Use of WorldIrish is subject to our Acceptable Usage Policy.

6. Posting Content

6.1 You are solely and entirely responsible for all Content posted or linked on or through WorldIrish by you or through your profile. You must, in particular, ensure that it is fully compliant with these Terms and Conditions, our Acceptable Usage Policy and does not harm or infringe any other person's good name, privacy or intellectual property or other rights.

6.2 You continually warrant that any Content posted or linked on or through WorldIrish by you or through your profile complies with these Terms and Conditions and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. You agree, in particular, to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing to any person or entity by reason of any Content posted or linked on or through WorldIrish by you or through your profile (including any legal costs and expenses suffered or incurred by us arising out of any claims in any way connected with a breach of that warranty).

6.3 You acknowledge and agree that (with the exception of private messages) all Content posted or linked on or though WorldIrish by you or through your Member account: Is non-confidential, not private and will be fully available to any person using or searching WorldIrish.

6.4 You may edit your profile from time to time. However, you acknowledge that we may retain archived copies of such Content and that some of this may be cached or otherwise incapable of being located and, consequently, deleted from our system.

6.5 In order to ensure that conversations and threads are not disrupted, you cannot delete or edit your public Postings once posted. You can ask us to remove them and, while we are under no duty to do so, we will endeavour to delete them where there is a good reason for deletion. If you would like us to remove them, you should specifically identify the relevant Posting and exactly where it is posted on WorldIrish so that we can easily locate the relevant Posting to be removed.

6.6 We may reject, refuse to post, disable, remove, revise, edit or delete any Content (including links) posted or linked (in whole or in part) for any or no reason without notice. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any Content posted or linked on or through WorldIrish by you or through your profile.

7. Your Links to Other Websites

7.1 WorldIrish allows you to link Content from websites other than WorldIrish to your profile. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any Content from any such websites complies with these Terms and Conditions. In addition, you are solely responsible for ensuring that linking to those websites and related Content does not violate any agreement you may have with the operator of that website or any other person.

8. Ownership of Content

8.1 We do not claim any ownership rights in the Content you post or link to WorldIrish. After posting your Content to the Site, you continue to retain all ownership and/or license rights in such Content, and you continue (subject to these Terms and Conditions) to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose.

8.2 However, we do need your permission to use your Content for the purpose of the Site. Consequently, by posting or linking any Content on or through WorldIrish, you grant us a license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through WorldIrish and to any rights and remedies in respect of any unauthorised use of such Content by other persons. The benefit of this licence may also be transferred by us to any app developers or channel partners whom we permit to access your information by granting them a sub-licence. The license you grant to us is (and sub-licences we grant are) non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid and royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, and worldwide. You acknowledge and agree that this license continues after your membership is terminated or expires.

8.3 We may use or refer to Content posted or linked by you in preparing reports, conducting research, in our publications and in our communications with third parties and your license to us in this section extends to such uses by us. Such uses will only be on an anonymous and aggregate basis.

8.4 You represent and warrant that you have the right to grant the license set forth in this section.

8.5 We are the owner or the licensee of WorldIrish and all Content in or on WorldIrish or available through WorldIrish, including all related software, intellectual property rights, know how, and the looks and feel, structure and arrangement. The Content is protected by copyright, sui generis database rights and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. Your ownership of the Content you post to WorldIrish is not affected by this section.

8.6 You are granted, subject to full compliance with these Terms and Conditions, a limited revocable license to use WorldIrish and the Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use provided that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. This licence can be suspended, revoked or terminated, in whole or in part, at any time at our absolute discretion without cause or advance notice.

8.7 You may not extract, re-utilise, modify, copy, harvest, distribute, frame, reproduce, republish, download, scrape, display, post, transmit, licence or sell any Content in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. This is with the exception of your own Content that you legally post or link on WorldIrish.

8.8 All licences granted by us under these Terms and Conditions automatically terminate on any breach of these Terms and Conditions by you.

9. Reliance on Content

9.1 We do not investigate, monitor or check for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness Content posted or linked on or through WorldIrish by users or us. It may, for example, be inaccurate, misleading, untrue or out of date at any given time. All Content should accordingly not be regarded as advice or information on which any reliance should be placed. Any decision to do so is at your own risk.

9.2 The Content on, and features and services of, WorldIrish change regularly. We cannot and do not guarantee or in any way represent that Content will remain on or available through WorldIrish, or that features of services or WorldIrish will remain available through WorldIrish, for any particular period.

10. Complaints regarding Content

10.1 We respect the good name, privacy, intellectual property and other rights of others and we prohibit users from posting on or through WorldIrish any Content that infringes or harms another person's good name, privacy or intellectual property or other rights.

10.2 If you feel that any Content is not compliant with our Terms and Conditions, please let us know by submitting a complaint in accordance with our complaints procedure.

10.3 When we receive proper notification of alleged breaches of our Terms and Conditions, we endeavour (without obligation) to promptly remove, delete, edit, revise or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and may terminate the profile of repeat infringers where, and insofar as, we, at our absolute discretion, consider this appropriate and justifiable. However, we are not responsible or liable for any Content posted or linked by any person.

11. App Developers

11.1 Application developers or other commercial users of WorldIrish or any Content on it may only may use WorldIrish subject to, and in accordance with, our Developers Policy.

12. Our Liability

12.1 WorldIrish and the services, features and Content accessible on or through it is provided "as is" and "as available" without any guarantees, conditions or warranties. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we (and other members of our group of companies from time to time and third parties connected to us) hereby expressly exclude:

a. all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law (including negligence) or the law of equity;
b. any liability for any indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with WorldIrish, its services and features or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of WorldIrish, its services and features, any websites linked to WorldIrish and any Content posted or linked on or through it, whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable or even if we were advised in advance of the possibility of such loss or damage;
c. any liability for any:
i. loss of income or revenue;
ii. loss of business;
iii. loss of profits or contracts;
iv. loss of anticipated savings;
v. loss of or damage to, or loss of use of, data, equipment or infrastructure;
vi. loss of or damage to goodwill or reputation;
vii. breach of these Terms and Conditions by, or conduct of, any other person; and/or
viii. wasted management or office time, whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable or even if we were advised in advance of the possibility of such loss or damage.

12.2 Our total aggregate liability to any user or Member for any direct losses proven to have been caused by us will in all cases be limited to €100.

12.3 You accept and acknowledge that we are an information society service provider, as defined in Directive 2000/31/EC and transposed into Irish law by the European Communities (Directive 2000/31/EC) Regulations, 2003 (S.I. 68 of 2003), and that we are not under any obligation to monitor the information which we transmit or store. You agree and acknowledge that we shall not be liable in respect of information which is hosted or cached by us or in respect of which we act as a mere conduit.

13. Privacy

13.1 We fully respect your right to privacy. Please see our Privacy Policy which is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information, Content and Postings you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using WorldIrish.

13.2 By accessing and/or using WorldIrish, you agree to our Privacy Policy, whether as a Member or unregistered user.

13.3 With the exception of private messages, any Content posted on or though WorldIrish by you or through your Member account is considered non-confidential and can be disclosed or made available to other users and third parties. Postings (such as story comments or forum posts) are public and can be viewed by any visitor to the site.

13.4 When you use an application, your Content is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that Content.

14. Links from WorldIrish

14.1 Any links on WorldIrish to other sites and resources provided by third parties are provided for your information only. WorldIrish has no control over the contents of those sites or resources, does not investigate, monitor or endorse them and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you access from WorldIrish.

15. User Disputes

15.1 You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of WorldIrish. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.

16. Indemnity

16.1 You agree to indemnify us (and our subsidiaries and associated companies from time to time) from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable legal fees, suffered or incurred by us (and our subsidiaries and associated companies from time to time) arising out of or in connection with your use of WorldIrish, and breach of these Terms and Conditions and/or any Content posted or linked by you or through your profile.

17. Entire Agreement

17.1 These Terms and Conditions represent the entire understanding between you and us concerning the use of WorldIrish and all prior promises, representations, agreements and understanding are hereby revoked. You confirm that you have not relied on, and have no remedies in respect of, any representations or warranties that are not set out in these Terms and Conditions and that there is no collateral agreement between us and you.

18. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

18.1 Ireland is the place of performance in respect of WorldIrish and its services and features. The Irish courts have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, use of WorldIrish or Content posted or linked on it or any matter or dispute arising out of, or in connection with, the foregoing (although WorldIrish retains the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms and Conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country). These Terms and Conditions and any dispute, claim or matter arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) is governed by and construed in accordance with Irish law.

19. General

19.1 You agree that we may transfer, assign, sub-licence or sub-contract in any manner whatever any of our rights and obligations, in whole or in part, to a subsidiary or affiliate company, successor or any purchaser of all or any part of WorldIrish's assets. We will endeavour to ensure that any assignment has no detrimental effect on any guarantees we have provided to you.

19.2 The section headings to the provisions in these Terms and Conditions are inserted for convenience of reference only and will not be considered as part of or affect the construction or interpretation of these Terms and Conditions.

19.3 If any provisions of these Terms and Conditions are held by any court of competent jurisdiction or other competent authority to be unenforceable, illegal or void in whole or in part, then such part may be severed by the relevant court or competent authority from the remainder of the these Terms and Conditions which shall remain in full force and effect to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

19.4 These Terms and Conditions may only be waived by a party in writing. A waiver by either party of any breach by the other party of any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions does not constitute a general waiver of such provision or of any subsequent act contrary to it. The failure or neglect by a party to enforce any provision of these Terms and Conditions is not (and will not be deemed to be) a waiver of that party's rights under these Terms and Conditions and does not prejudice that party's right to take subsequent action in respect of such provision.

19.5 We reserve the right, in our absolute discretion, to waive or modify any of these Terms and Conditions as they apply to a specific Posting or item of Content or as they apply to a specific Member or user, without affecting the application of these Terms and Conditions to all other Postings, Content, Members or users.

20. Definitions

20.1 In these Terms and Conditions, the following terms have the following meanings:

"Content" includes all information, data, comments, materials, messages, notes, text, music, video, photos, advertisements, listings, postings in forums, chat areas, blogs and testimonials and other content (and including all related software, intellectual property rights, know how, and look and feel, structure and arrangement).
"Ireland" means the Republic of Ireland and references to Irish law mean the law of the Republic of Ireland.
"Member" means a person who we accept as a member of WorldIrish.
"post" and similar expressions include the uploading, publishing, linking or display of Content on or through WorldIrish and the transmission and sharing of Content with other users of WorldIrish.
"Postings" mean any postings of Content in forums, chat areas, blogs and testimonials and other areas of WorldIrish other than on your or another Member's profile.

Privacy Policy

Version 1.1
Last updated: 21st July, 2011

1. Who runs WorldIrish.com?

"We" are Gateway Application Programming Interface Limited, the operator of WorldIrish.com (the "Site"). Our registered office is at Gateway House, 133 Capel Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.

"You" are the user of the Site.

2. What is WorldIrish.com?

WorldIrish.com is a Site that enables people who are Irish, or have a connection with Ireland, to share their interests and passions. To facilitate this, we pull together (i) the information you provide to us; along with (ii) the information you choose to share with us from other websites that you use.

To enrich your and other users' experience, we request and display your information to members and visitors. This allows our users to identify, find, contact and learn more about each other.

Our members can change their profile information or leave the Site at any time.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. As an Irish based Site, we are required to hold your data in accordance with our obligations under the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.

This privacy policy sets out our policies in connection to your personal data.

If you have concerns about any aspect of our privacy policy please contact us on our contact page.

3. Why do you need to register?

To enable us to moderate content and to protect our community, only members of WorldIrish.com may create profiles on our Site and contact other members.

4. What information do we collect?

To operate our service we collect information provided during registration and through your use of the Site. We collect, in particular, information that you choose to provide us and other information you choose to share with us from other online services and platforms.

We collect user submitted information such as name and email address to authenticate members and to send notifications to members. We do not share your email address with anyone unless you have included it in your publicly available profile.

We may also collect other profile data that you post or share such as: biography, location, interests / values, photographs and other visual content, gender and age.

We also collect information from other websites that you link to your WorldIrish.com profile. For more information see: What happens if I link my other web accounts to the Site?

This enables users to identify, find, contact and learn more about each other. We may also use this information to investigate compliance or non-compliance by you or other members with our Terms and Conditions which you agree to on joining the Site.

You should note that some of the information that you share with us is personal data, and that some of this information may be sensitive personal data. By choosing to share this information with us you are giving us explicit consent to process such personal data for the purposes and in the manner set out in this privacy policy.

We and/or our contractors also collect other technical details about use of the Site. This is done through keeping records of the IP addresses which you use to access our Site and through the use of cookies. The information is used by us on an aggregate basis only to assess levels of traffic to the Site and the areas of the Site members are accessing by using Google analytics and similar services. For more information on how we use cookies, see section 6 below.

5. Do we use cookies?

In common with most web sites, we use cookies. A "cookie" is a file sent to your browser by our server that enables your computer to access information on the Site in a faster and more efficient manner. We do not use cookies to collect or store personal information.

The Site uses cookies to simplify your login, to keep track of your preferences and to follow the usage of the website. In addition, some of our contractors and site partners may set cookies for analytics and advertising purposes. These third parties do not have access to your username or any other identifying information about you.

Currently we set the following cookies:

Cookies set by WorldIrish:

Cookie Name	Description	Expires
PHPSESSID	used to confirm your account as you browse the website and engage in functions such as create, message, like or follow	this cookie expires on browser close

Cookies set by our partners:

Cookie Name	Description	Expires
_utma	Used to determine unique visitors	2 years
_utmb	Used to keep up to date with user info	30 mins
_utmz	Used to store the users referrer	6 months
_utmv	Used to store user custom settings	2 years
_utmx	Used by Website Optimizer to store visitors assigned variations for each experiment	2 years
_Jsuid	Identify new and unique visitors
First_pv_[site_id]	Set on only the first page view
Unpoco_[site_id]	sends back a ping with visitor sits on a single page to track "time on site"
no_tracky_[site_id]	when our website stops using the service
loc	This is our geolocation cookie, so our publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located	3 months
Coyote-2-a0f0083	This is our load balancer cookie
bt	A behavior targeting cookie	2 years
ana_svc	a real-time service cookie
phpbb3_*	and style_cookie These are set by our support forum software
__utm*	Google analytics tracking
uid/uit	User id and login time tracking	2 years
psc	View counter cookie	2 years
di/dt	Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies	2 years/30 days
ssh/sshs	Service share history, used for configuring our preferred services	2 years
__atuvc	For new connections	2 years
ssc/psc/uvc	These cookies are used in recording user sharing and social activity	2 years
user_segment		2 years
uvc		2 years

You can change the settings on your browser to refuse all cookies. However, you should note that disabling cookies may result in some parts of the Site not working efficiently or in slower downloads.

6. Why are there links to other websites on WorldIrish.com?

The Site or its members may provide links to external websites. This is particularly likely to happen where members have chosen to link their profile with other popular web services which they subscribe to.

WorldIrish.com has no control over the privacy policies or contents of these websites. We strongly encourage you to exercise discretion when providing information to such websites.

WorldIrish.com provides no assurances or warranties as to the safety of any external website. Please exercise care when following external links.

7. What happens if I link my other web accounts to the Site?

WorldIrish.com allows you to aggregate a variety of your social media and other online accounts into one place. We will only access your other accounts with your explicit permission.

Once you have linked your WorldIrish.com account with another online account, the information you share on that account will also be shared on the Site in accordance with the settings on your other account. If you are not comfortable with this you should not link your WorldIrish.com and other accounts together.

Where you do choose to share your accounts you should remember that the information you provide will be processed and used in accordance with this privacy policy.

8. Who can see and access information in my profile?

When you publish information on your WorldIrish.com profile, you make this information publicly available to the world at large. It ceases to be private or confidential.

The information in or accessible via your profile is publicly available on the Site to all members, visitors and users of the Site and appears in Internet searches. People are able to search or identify you by this information, such as by your interests / values, location, name or other content searchable on the Site or the Internet.

This also includes your contact details if you have included them in your publicly available profile. We recommend that you only post your contact details to your profile if you are happy to let people you don't know contact you.

9. Why do we want to know your location?

WorldIrish.com seeks to join together Irish people or those who have an affinity with Ireland or Irishness. One of the ways we do this is by showing the cities and countries where our members are based.

To do this, we ask you to identify where you are located. You can enable us to do this automatically or alternative you can manually designate your location. If you do not want to reveal your location, you can choose not to do so. You can edit or delete your location at a later date. We may also ask, from time to time, for an update on your current location. You are under no obligation to share this information.

10. Why do we want your email address?

We require your email address to identify and authenticate your account and to contact you from time to time. For more information see: Will we email you? and Contacting Members.

11. Why do we ask for real names?

In common with many other websites, WorldIrish.com is built on engaging with others using real identities. We believe that a real name policy lets you know who you are talking to, helps to encourage civil conversation and tends to discourage bad behaviour on the site.

12. Will we email you?

From time to time we may send emails updating you on the latest developments on our Site and any of our other similar products or services. It is also possible that we might email you about projects, products and services which our channel partners are involved in or promoting To send such updates, we will use the email address or other contact details you provided at registration. When you sign up, you will be given the choice whether to opt-in to receiving any such emails that we might send. If you don't want us to send you such e-mails, you should adjust your settings accordingly or e-mail us at [email protected].

If you wish to control the emails you receive, or to stop receiving emails altogether, please visit your settings and adjust your email settings. We receive and reply to emails from users on a regular basis. For record-keeping purposes we retain copies of all incoming and outgoing email.

13. Contacting Members

Members can send messages to other members. We do not edit or screen the message and, consequently, are not responsible for its content. You can choose whether to be notified by email about new private messages, but we never reveal your email address to the sender.

The profile of the person sending the message is included in the message. This is to ensure transparency and openness and also enables you to respond directly to the sender if you wish to do so.

Private messages should not be used for direct marketing purposes.

We are not responsible for the conduct of members.

14. Are we going to share your personal information?

We are committed to protecting your personal information and privacy. We only provide your personal information, from which you are identifiable, to third parties:

where your privacy settings permit this,
where required to enable or assist us to provide the Site,
where required by law to do so, or
where we reasonably consider that disclosure is necessary and proportionate for the protection of the legitimate interests of ourselves or of a third party. For example, if you chose to share content on the Site with your other social media accounts we will have to share that information with the other website to allow for the cross-posting of information.

We may also provide information to our contractors where necessary for the operation of the Site. Where we do so, we will ensure that our contractors are bound to comply with this policy and to handle this information in a secure and confidential manner.

We may also share information which you have chosen to make public with app developers or our carefully selected channel partners. For more information, please see: Will you share information with "app" developers or channel partners?

15. Can I share personal data about third parties?

We would remind you that information you share on the Site or other websites which are linked to your WorldIrish.com account may contain personal data concerning third parties such as your friends or contacts. We ask that you take great care before sharing such third party personal information. You should only publicly share personal data about another person with their clear prior consent.

If you believe that another user has shared your personal data without your consent, please notify us on our contact page.

16. Are you going to sell my personal data to advertisers?

No. WorldIrish.com will not share your personal data with advertisers.

From time to time you may see advertisements on our Site. In these cases, we are asked by advertisers to display or send the advertisement to members with certain interests or profiles, which we then match against the information you have provided. However, the advertiser does not receive any personal data about you.

17. Will you share information with app developers or channel partners?

Where you have made information public, that information will be shared with "app" (i.e. application) developers who wish to offer services to you or with our carefully selected channel partners. This is provided that they have signed up to our terms and conditions which contain detailed provisions regulating the use of your information. This is on the basis of our understanding that you are happy for this information to be made available to the world at large as you have published it on the Site.

The information shared in this way is limited to information contained in your publicly accessible profile which you have made public by publishing it on the Site. It does not, for instance, include your email address unless you have included it in your publicly accessible profile.

The app developers and channel partners will determine the purpose for which they will use your information and are required to notify you of this purpose insofar as is practicable.

18. Are there any other ways you will use my personal data?

The purposes for which we may hold and use your information are those described in this privacy policy generally. We may also hold it and use it for the following purposes:

a. To share the information you provide (including, but not limited to the interests which are important to you, the content you upload and information from websites which you link to your WorldIrish.com account) with other users and members of the Site and any other website which you have linked to your WorldIrish.com account.
b. To allow other users and members to find you.
c. To serve advertisements — we will never share your personal data with advertisers.
d. To analyse the usage of the Site.
e. To analyse the aggregated profiles of our members — we will only ever do this having first anonymised your personal information.
f. To provide your personal information to our third party contractors that process data for us solely for the purpose of operating the Site.
g. So that we and our third party contractors that process data for us, may keep you up to date in relation to any developments, changes to the Site, promotions, competitions or other campaigns which we may hold or notify to you in the future.
h. To facilitate member interaction, interaction with our personnel and the operation of WorldIrish.com in the manner described in this privacy policy and on the Site.
i. To disclose it to app developers or channel partners so that they can make further use of it.
j. To assist us in providing the Site or administering this service. We may also process your personal information in conjunction with our rights and obligations in (and to enforce) the Terms of Service which you agree to when you join the Site.
k. To enable our hosting providers to operate the platform which supports the Sites.
l. Our mission is to link Irish people and those who have an affinity to Ireland or Irishness . In furtherance of this goal we may, on occasion, visualise and graph the information provided on this Site to determine, for example, which cities around the world have the highest concentration of Irish people. We will only ever do this using anonymous aggregated data. Data which is personally referable to you is only used to provide the Site's functionality.

19. What are WorldIrish.com's Data Protection Obligations?

We are a data controller in relation to personal information held about you. We are obliged to hold and process your personal information in accordance with the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.

20. Can I access my personal information?

You have certain rights to access your personal data under Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. If you want to make a data access request please write to:

Gateway Application Programming Interface Limited
Gateway House,
133 Capel Street,
Dublin 1,
Ireland.

Your letter should make explicit reference to the fact that you are making a subject access request under Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003, be accompanied by a cheque or money order for €6.35 and include a photocopy of government or official identification. We may request that you furnish additional proof of identity.

We are obliged to respond to your request within 40 calendar days. If you only want to access certain specific information, please let us know as it will make dealing with your request much easier.

21. Do we hold inaccurate, irrelevant or excessive information about you?

We endeavour to only hold accurate, complete and up-to date information about you which is not irrelevant or excessive. You play a critical role in this respect as you are the source of a large amount of the information we hold about you.

You can amend most inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or excessive data by amending your profile. If you are unable to do so directly please contact us at our contact page.

22. Can I delete my personal information?

You may edit your profile from time to time. We endeavour to only hold your personal information for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. When you delete any information on your profile, it ceases to be publicly available. While we endeavour to generally delete this information from our systems, it is possible that certain data may not be readily locatable in which case it may not automatically be deleted (but will be inaccessible except to us) or may be cached and, therefore, not deleted.

In order to ensure that conversations and threads are not disrupted, you cannot delete or edit your public Postings once posted. You can ask us to remove them and, while we are under no duty to do so, we will endeavour to delete them where there is a good reason for deletion. If you would like us to remove them, you should specifically identify the relevant Posting and exactly where it is posted on WorldIrish so that we can easily locate the relevant Posting to be removed.

If you feel that we do not have a legitimate reason to hold your personal information you may request that it be erased by contacting us on our contact page page. We must respond to such a request within 40 days. There is no charge for making such a request.

23. Will we ever change this privacy policy or your privacy setting?

We may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time. Where you have made choices about how your information may be used, we will not change these without your permission except to remove them where they are no longer relevant.

We will update you of any material changes via email to the address you provided at registration.

Updated versions of the privacy policy will always be posted here. The date the privacy policy was last updated is set out at the top of this privacy policy.

Acceptable Usage Policy

Version 1.1
Last updated: 21st July, 2011

Please read this policy carefully. It contains important clauses which restrict the way in which you may use WorldIrish and which you should read before using our website at www.worldirish.com and its directly associated domains ("WorldIrish") or posting any Content and/or Postings on or through WorldIrish.

As outlined below, access or use of this website signifies your acceptance of this Acceptable Usage Policy, whether or not you are a registered member.

Acceptable Usage Policy
This Acceptable Usage Policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access WorldIrish. It applies in addition to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
This Acceptable Usage Policy applies to all users and members of WorldIrish.
More information about us is set out in the About section of WorldIrish and our Terms and Conditions.
This Acceptable Usage Policy forms a part of our Terms and Conditions and, accordingly, should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy. Certain terms are defined in the Terms and Conditions.
By accessing and/or using WorldIrish, you agree to the Acceptable Usage Policy set out in this webpage, whether as a Member or unregistered user.

Prohibited Uses You may use WorldIrish only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
- in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
- in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
- for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
- to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any Content which does not comply with our Content standards in clause 3 below;
- to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); and/or
- to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of WorldIrish in contravention of the provisions of our Terms and Conditions.
- not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

Content Standards
These Content standards apply to any and all Content and/or Postings posted on or or linked to WorldIrish by you or through your account, and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter.
The standards apply to each part of any Content and/or Postings as well as to its whole.
Content and Postings must:
- be accurate (where they state facts);
- be genuinely and reasonably held (where they state opinions); and
- comply with applicable law in Ireland and in any country from which they are posted.
Content and Postings must not:
- contain any material which is or may be defamatory of any person;
- contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promote sexually explicit material;
- promote violence;
- promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
- be likely to deceive any person;
- be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
- promote any illegal activity;
- be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
- be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
- be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
- give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; and/or
- advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Interactive Services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on WorldIrish, including, without limitation, chat rooms and/or bulletin boards ("Interactive Services").
Where we do provide any Interactive Service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
We generally do not, and are under no obligation to, oversee, monitor or moderate any Interactive Service we provide on or through WorldIrish, although we reserve the right to do so.
We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any Interactive Service by a user in contravention of our Content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

Suspension and Termination
We will determine, in at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Usage Policy through your use of WorldIrish. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this Acceptable Usage Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms and Conditions upon which you are permitted to use WorldIrish, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use WorldIrish;
- immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Content posted or linked by you on or through WorldIrish;
- issue of a warning to you;
- legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
- further legal action against you; and/or
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude our liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Usage Policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
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Changes to Acceptable Usage Policy
We may revise this Acceptable Usage Policy at any time by amending this page. When we do, we will notify Members by an email to their registered address. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes WorldIrish makes, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Acceptable Usage Policy may also be supplemented by provisions or notices published elsewhere on WorldIrish.

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