Section 1. Introduction

At TURAS.TV  we respect the right to personal privacy and our obligations under the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018. This Privacy Policy outlines how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website, or as a registered user. If you are not happy with this Website Privacy Statement you should not use this website.

By using this website, you are accepting the terms of this privacy statement. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy statements of these other websites.

We take care to protect the privacy of customers and users of this website (“site”). This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us, whether you are a visitor to the site or a customer that subscribes to our services online or over the phone.

Who we are
In this privacy policy, the terms “we”, “our” and “us” are used to refer to TURAS Camping and 4WD Adventures Ltd. company number 332439. We provide an online magazine, referred to as the ‘magazine’, TURAS is the data controller for any data submitted to our website or email addresses.
You can contact us regarding this Privacy Policy at [email protected]

Section 2. Types of Information Collected

We retain two types of information:

“Personal Data”

This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and includes information such as your name, address,  email address and phone number. While information such as name and email address is mandatory (we need it to provide you with the service), the rest is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.

“Non-Personal Data”

Like many 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), browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 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 and clicking on the ‘I Accept’ button, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Section 3. Purposes for which we hold your Information

“Non-Personal Data”

We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

“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. Our cookies will record the number of user sessions on the site and to track the number of users who return to the site. 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.

“Personal Data”

We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:

to respond to any queries you submit to us;

where you have consented to the sharing of your information with third parties, we will do so in accordance with Section 4 below;

to seek your views on our site and our services;

to send you newsletters, updates about magazine issues, or other forms of communication that you register for.

Section 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 inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil a service you have requested (in such circumstances, the third party is also bound by GDPR). Any third party we disclose the information to will use it for the purposes of delivering the service in question unless you have agreed otherwise.

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.

Section 5. Security

Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet Service Provider. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data.

Section 6. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data

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. We will not hold your Personal Data for any longer than is necessary for functions for our website. We will review our databases on a periodic basis, and shall delete data that is outdated, inaccurate, or no longer necessary. TURAS reserves the right to contact users in this regard.

Section 7. Your Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal information that is processed by us. These rights are listed below. These rights are not absolute and apply subject to certain conditions. For example, . Your rights may include:
the right to access personal data held by us about you;
the right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal data held by us about you;
in certain circumstances, the right to require us to erase personal data held by us about you;
in certain circumstances, the right to restrict our processing of personal data held by us about you;
in certain circumstances, a right to receive personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format.
the right to object to our processing of personal data held by us about you (including for the purposes of sending marketing materials to you); and
the right to withdraw your consent, where we are relying on it to use your personal data
If at any point you wish to review or change your preferences, you can use the ‘unsubscribe’ mechanism or other means provided within the communications that you receive from us or by sending an email to [email protected].

Section 8. Concerns or Complaints

You can contact us regarding this Privacy Policy at  [email protected]. Should you wish to make a complaint, you may also contact the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office using the details set out on its website, which is currently: https://www.dataprotection.ie

Section 9. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Website Privacy Statement 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 Statement, 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.

Any queries or comments about this policy should be sent to [email protected]

Please note that any site that you may connect to from here is not covered by this Privacy Policy.