Privacy Policy

This Policy makes clear the privacy practices of Kelly & Cogan Architects. This Privacy Policy shall apply to the user’s “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” meaning the individual accessing this website “site”. “We,” “our” means Kelly & Cogan Architects and its affiliates. “Site” refers to website.

Kelly & Cogan Architects is committed to protecting the privacy of any personal data we collect as you use our site and services. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use information that we collect from you, the user. By using this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of this site, and any additional terms that may apply when you access services or materials on certain areas of this website.

What we collect and how we use this information

Non-personal information is information collected on our site that cannot identify you. If you visit our site to read information, such as information about our services, we may collect certain non-personal information about you from your computer’s web browser. As non-personal information cannot identify you and does not connect to you in any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-personal information.

Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways: (i)When you send us an application or other form. (ii)When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others. (iii)When we collect information about you in support of a transaction, such as credit card information. (iv)In some places on this web site you can send us personal information about yourself, to opt for receiving information or to purchase access to one of our products or services.

Our use of cookies and other technologies when collecting personal information

Kelly & Cogan Architects may use cookies and related technologies, including web beacons, to collect information on our site. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with us, a cookie helps Kelly & Cogan Architects to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. We may use web beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the web site or to monitor how our users navigate the web site, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages sent were opened, acted upon or forwarded.

Third party vendors also may use cookies on our web site. For instance, we may contract with third parties who will use cookies on our web site to track and analyse anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, to manage our site content, and to track visitor behavior. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mail to our registered users. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third-party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of Kelly & Cogan Architects is used solely by or on behalf of Kelly & Cogan Architects and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

From time to time we may allow third parties to post advertisements on our web site, and those third-party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third party. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third party ad servers. We do not control cookies in such third-party ads, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. We will not share your personal information with these companies, but these companies may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you, and they may share your personal information that you provide to them with others.

You have the right to accept or decline cookies at your convenience. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Kelly & Cogan Architects site that you visit.

How we use personal information

Kelly & Cogan Architects may keep and use personal information we collect from or about you to provide you with access to this web site or other products or services, to respond to your requests, to bill you for products/services you purchased, and to provide ongoing service and support, to contact you with information that might be of interest to you, including information about products and services of ours and of others, or ask for your opinion about our products or the products of others, for record keeping and analytical purposes and to research, develop and improve products and services.

Personal information collected online may be combined with information you provide to us through other sources We may also remove your personal identifiers. In this case, you would no longer be identified as a single unique individual. Once we have de-identified information, it is non-personal information and we may treat it like other non-personal information. Finally, we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property and to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process.

What information is shared

We will not share your personal information collected from this web site with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorise them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.

We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party service vendors including credit card companies and banks who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it. We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law or regulation.

We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting site visitors who violate our rules or engage in behavior, which is harmful to other visitors, or illegal. We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this web site.

If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.

How we use personal information for communication

We may contact you periodically by e-mail or telephone to provide information regarding products and services that may be of interest to you. In addition, some of the features on this web site allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.

How we secure your personal information

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third-party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal information.

How you can contact us if you have any requests

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to us. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the web site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the web site on which you have provided such information or contact us at james.kelly@kellyandcogan.ie

Modifications

Kelly & Cogan Architects reserves the right to modify this statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included on the homepage of the web site for a period of time.