Privacy Statement: The Irish Production and Inventory Control Society Ltd (known as IPICS the Supply Chain Institute).

This statement describes privacy practices relating to any personal information provided to IPICS by members, and non-members enquiring about IPICS and APICS membership, courses and examinations. This includes any information submitted to the website owned and controlled by IPICS (www.ipics.ie).

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites to which we may link including www.apics.org.

Who is the Irish Production & Inventory Control Society Ltd (IPICS)?

IPICS The Supply Chain Management Institute is the leading promoter of education and training in Supply Chain and Operations Management in Ireland. It is a limited company with no share capital registered in Ireland. It is a not for profit organisation with offices in Dublin, Ireland and is a Premier Channel Partner of APICS in Ireland.

General Statement

IPICS fully respects your right to privacy and will not collect any personal information about you including the information gathered on the IPICS website, without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Regulation.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect the following types of personal information via our website, telephone and email queries to IPICS, including the exam and course application process:

• Names and email addresses for responding to general queries.
• Personal information of applicants for IPICS/APICS membership, course and exam applicants including names, addresses, phone numbers.
• Personal contact details of non-members who register for IPICS events or courses.
• Information which is collected via a form or forms explicitly described as course application and exam entry forms.
• Note: this information is stored by IPICS for a maximum of 7 years and is then deleted.

Payment Information

When you use the IPICS website to shop for or to purchase IPICS memberships, certification courses, certification testing, or other materials, IPICS utilizes third-party payment processors, as its agents (“Payment Agents”) to process your payment and provide payment verification to IPICS concerning your payment.  IPICS and its Payment Agents utilize systems whereby we substitute a proxy set of identifying information for your real financial information.  Our Payment Agents, which do handle your credit cards and other payment information, are PCI Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”) compliant.  As a result, IPICS does not collect or store your credit card numbers or other similar financially-related Personal Information and it isn’t exposed more than necessary. For more information about PCI DSS please visit https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/about_us/.  By using the IPICS website as described in this section you expressly consent (opt-in) to the uses of your Personal Information as described in this section, and subject to the Privacy Policies of IPICS Payment Agents.

Disclosure

IPICS will not provide the personal information of any Member or subscriber to a third party other than APICS.  APICS course and examination registration will be highlighted as requiring the provision of specific personal details to third parties e.g. name and address data for the purpose of course and exam registration.

Note: APICS is located, outside the European Union, in the United States of America. IPICS is not responsible for the privacy of data submitted to APICS on behalf of APICS exam candidates or those requesting APICS membership.

Summarised, statistical data, which cannot be used to identify any individuals, may be provided to third parties.

Security of Personal Information

IPICS takes the security of your Personal Information very seriously.  When your Personal Information is stored by IPICS, we use reasonable and appropriate measures to protect it from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.  Unfortunately, data transmission over public networks cannot be guaranteed to be one hundred per cent secure.  While IPICS will use all reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, IPICS cannot guarantee the security of your transmissions of such Personal Information, and you use the IPICS website at your own risk.  If you suspect your Personal Information has been compromised, please notify the IPICS data protection officer at  admin@ipics.ie attention of Data Protection Officer IPICS.

Your Rights Regarding Data Supplied via this Website

You have a right to be given a copy of your personal data which you may have supplied via this website. To exercise this right, you must write to IPICS at the address below, or e-mail admin@ipics.ie and mark for attention of the data protection officer IPICS.

You should include any personal identifiers which you supplied earlier by email, post or 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 no more than 1 month to process.

You also have a right to have inaccurate information corrected.  If you discover that IPICS holds inaccurate information about you, you have a right to instruct us to correct that information. Such an instruction must be in writing or via e-mail. A request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will take no more than 1 month to process.

In certain circumstance you may also request that data which you have supplied via the website be deleted. To exercise this right, you would generally be expected to identify some contravention of data protection law in the manner in which IPICS processes the data concerned.

Data Breach

While IPICS will, at all times, endeavour to protect your personal data, in the event of any data breach involving your personal data, you will be notified as soon as IPICS becomes aware of the breach.

Complaints about Data Processed Via the Website

If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to the attention of our Data Protection Officer at admin@ipics.ie and mark it for the attention of the Data Protection Office IPICS.

Collection and Use of Technical Information

Technical details in connection with visits to the www.IPICS.ie website is logged by us for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

• The IP address of the visitor’s web server.
• The top-level domain name used (for example .ie, com, org, net).
• The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used.
• Clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded).
• The type of web browser used by the website visitor.

IPICS will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of IPICS never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party other than the web statistics service provider unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by IPICS, 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.

Use of Cookies by www.ipics.ie

This website uses cookies to enhance the users experience.  Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your computer or device. Almost all websites use cookies and they have several different functions. The main purposes for cookies are to:

Allow the site to function correctly and to help keep it secure.

Make the site easier to use by remembering information that you’ve entered, to recognise you as a site user and to personalise your visit.

Collect basic information about the way you have used the site.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

By law web browsers allow control of cookie usage through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

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Notices of Changes to Privacy Policy

In the event of any change to the IPICS Privacy Policy, notice of such changes will be posted on the IPICS website.  Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the IPICS website. Your use of the IPICS website following these changes means that you accept the revised Online Privacy Policy.

Last Change: Revision 1.0 dated 25 May 2018