At the Irish Hospitality Institute we understand that privacy is an important issue for visitors to the Irish Hospitality Institute website and its related domains. The following information is designed to help visitors understand what information we collect from our site, and how we handle and use the information after that. Information collection and use Irish Hospitality Institute is the sole owner of any information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Irish Hospitality Institute may collect information from our users at several different points on our website. General enquiries If a user contacts Irish Hospitality Institute with a general enquiry, the user may need to provide Irish Hospitality Institute with personal information (for example contact details). Irish Hospitality Institute will use this personal information to respond to the enquiry and track further correspondence. Personal information collected is not used for any other purpose. Cookies Cookies are small text files that a site transfers to a visitor’s hard disk or browser for added functionality or for tracking site usage. In order to measure the effectiveness of our online presence, Irish Hospitality Institute may use cookies to determine the path users take on our site and to identify repeat visitors of our site. We do not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person’s name or e-mail address. External links Irish Hospitality Institute website may contain links to other sites. Please take note that Irish Hospitality Institute is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site. Changes to Irish Hospitality Institute Internet Privacy Policy Irish Hospitality Institute may, from time to time, make changes to this policy. We recommend that users of this site re-visit this privacy policy on occasion to learn of new privacy practices or changes to our policy.