Privacy Statement

This Statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. This Statement is required under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. The National Statistics Board (NSB) are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites to which we have provided external links.

Collection and use of personal information

The NSB fully respects your right to privacy, and does not collect any personal information about you on this website other than that provided by you via email or the website feedback option. Any personal information thus volunteered by you is treated strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003. It is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the NSB only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Your rights regarding data supplied via this website

You have a right to be given a copy of your personal data that you may have supplied via this website. To exercise this right, you must write to the NSB at c/o CSO, Ardee road, Rathmines, Dublin 6 or e-mail us at nsb@cso.ie. You should include any personal identifiers that 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. No fee is required.

Please note that the NSB does not have a general policy to retain emails sent to it. Hence your email or feedback response may already have been deleted after we responded to you.

You also have a right to have inaccurate information corrected. If you discover that the NSB does hold inaccurate information about you, you have a right to instruct the NSB to correct that information. Such an instruction must be in writing or via e-mail. Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take not more than 40 days to process. You may also request that data, which you have supplied via the website, be deleted.

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 the NSB or the Data Protection Commissioner.

Collection and use of technical information

The NSB does not use cookies to collect information about you. Visitors can use the NSB website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

The NSB makes no use of any information that may be logged by our internet service provider.