Animal News Ireland privacy policy relates to the privacy practices in connection with this website.  

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. All external links to other websites are clearly identified as such in the content of our web pages.     

GENERAL STATEMENT 
Animal News Ireland and its stafff respect your on-lne and off-line identity and privacy. We do not sell, trade or give away any off-line or on-line personal details submitted to Animal News Ireland during the course of business contact via existing on-line/off-line or future media transmission formats.

Any personal and business information which you volunteer to us will be treated strictly in accordance with the applicable legislation in respect of:

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Data Protection Act 2018
the “Law Enforcement Directive” (Directive (EU) 2016/680) which has been transposed into Irish law by way of the Data Protection Act 2018
the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003
the 2011 “ePrivacy Regulations” (S.I. No. 336 of 2011 – the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy And Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011)

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 
Animal News Ireland does not collect any personal data about you on this website apart from business information which your volunteer by e-mailing us or by using our existing or future on-line forms located on our website.

Animal News Ireland lists links to web sites of possible interest to our viewers as part of the fair use of website URLs details of which are available in various formats in the public and electronic arena.

Animal News Ireland asks its website viewers to respect the off-line and on-line identity and privacy of Animal News Ireland and its staff.

We ask you not to add our off-line and on-line contact details to any off-line/on-line mailing list in any existing or future media transmission on-line/off-line formats or add our on-line/off-line details to a website content unless it relevant to our area of operation.

COLLECTION OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION         
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our computer network. 

The technical details logged are confined to the following items: 

 IP address of the visitor’s web server * Type of web browser used by the website visitor * Top-level domain used (e.g. .com, .ie, .org, .net, .biz)

Previous website from which the viewer came to our website including any keywords used. * The viewer’s movements around the site (e.g. pages visited)

Animal News Ireland does not make any attempt to identify individual visitors or to link the technical details listed above with any website viewer.

It is the policy of Animal News Ireland never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.

The technical information will be used only by Animal News Ireland, 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.

Computer network protection systems including telephone monitoring procedures are established on our office communication systems.

All postal items are screened in a secure environment before opening by our staff.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES         
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

DATA  CONTROLLER
The data controller for this website can be contacted by using the Contact ANI page.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY     
This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

As of: 1st January 2026

Review scheduled: 1st May 2026