Privacy policy

Privacy and Data Protection

NIVAL is committed to protecting the privacy of users of this website. We understand that as a user of this site the security and privacy of your information is vitally important. We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality of the information you provide. By visiting www.nival.ie you are agreeing to the terms of this statement. If you do not wish your information to be recorded, you may leave this site. Some links to other websites are available from our site. When leaving our site, be advised that we are not responsible for the privacy standards of these websites. Information recorded during web browsing is used for statistical purposes only to gain an understanding of our audience reach and to improve the functionality of the site. These include:

The domain name from which you access the internet
The IP address of the computer you have used to access the site
The date on which the website was accessed
The pages accessed
Keywords used in search engines to find our website
Keywords and phrases used to search our website.

Data Collection

The 2018 Data Protection Act enshrines a number of derogations to safeguard the activities of specialist library and archive services:

Section 36 – Provides for archives to process personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest (AIPI) or historical research purposes
Section 42 – Provides for archives to process personal data that they hold
Section 54 – Provides for archives to process sensitive personal data that they hold
Section 71 – Provides for archives to process data, where the data was not originally collected by the archive.

Researcher Registration Form

When you visit NIVAL’s Reading Room, we will ask you to complete our Researcher Registration form. This registration form helps us understand the communities we are currently reaching at NIVAL and, through their absence, the communities we are not reaching, as well as which materials in our collections are most frequently accessed.

Your information is collected in line with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations). NIVAL will not collect any personal information about you without your clear permission. Any personal information that you volunteer to NIVAL will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. Any information that you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties and is used exclusively by NIVAL in line with the purpose for which you provided it. We will only store and use your personal information to correspond with you about your appointment(s) and improve our services and accessibility for other researchers. You can contact us at any time to have your information changed or deleted. If you do not wish for information relating to your visit to be recorded, you may prefer consulting with NIVAL’s collection via our website only.

Mailing List

You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time using the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the footer of any of our newsletter emails. You can also email us on nivalinfo@ncad.ie and we will unsubscribe you.

Website Cookies

What are Cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use Cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What cookies are used on www.nival.ie

Effective date: 4 April 2025
Last updated: 4 April 2025
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We categorise the cookies we have on our website in the following manner:

Manage Cookie Preferences

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the button above. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

Your Rights

You may request that NIVAL stops processing your personal data.
You are entitled to request access to a copy of any information we hold about you.
You may request that you are removed from our mailing list at any time.

Please contact NIVAL at nivalinfo@ncad.ie to exercise any of these rights, or let us know if you have a complaint about how your information has been collected, how it has been used or how long we have kept it for.

NIVAL reserves the right to amend this statement at any future date.

Last updated: 4 April 2025.