Collection and use of personal information by the Labour Relations Commission

The Labour Relations Commission does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us or by using our online comment/feedback forms). Any personal information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, except if required by law, and is used by the LRC only for the purpose for which you provided it. It should be noted that the terms of the Freedom of Information Act do not apply to cases referred to the Advisory, Conciliation and Rights Commissioner Services, which means that information you supply online about your case cannot, in any event, be released under that Act to other parties. However, information supplied in connection with matters other than the operations of these services, for example in relation to the Commission's general administrative or financial activities, are subject to the terms of the FOI Act and may be disclosed on request, within the terms of that Act. If you have any questions about this aspect of FOI our Freedom of Information Officer will provide you with additional information. 

Access to Personal Information
Information that you supply online by email or electronic form may be retained within the case records of the Labour Relations Commission in connection with the statutory activities of the Commission. These case records are confidential to the Commission and are not released to third parties. On application under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 you may request to be provided with a copy of the data concerning you that is retained by the LRC. You also have the right to request that any data concerning you, which is incorrectly retained, is promptly corrected in our records. In order to preserve the confidentiality of our data, and to prevent unauthorised access to the information we hold about you, the LRC will require each applicant seeking a copy of his/her personal data to provide to the Commission clear and unequivocal evidence of identity. Should you wish to seek a copy of your personal data from the Commission, please title your request 'Data Protection Act' and submit it by letter, enclosing a fee of €5.00 (five euro) and evidence of your identity, to

The Secretary
The Labour Relations Commission
Tom Johnson House
Haddington Road
Dublin 4.
Telephone: (01) 613 6700
Lo call: 1890 220 227 (outside (01) area)
Fax: (01) 613 6701

Please note that applications that do not include satisafctory evidence of the identity of the applicant, or the fee of €5.00 (five euro), or both, will be returned to the applicant. Where an aplication is correctly submitted, the LRC will comply with the request within 40 calendar days of receipt by the LRC of that application. If you require assistance in preparing your application, please contact the Commission's Freedom of Information Officer at the address above.

Collection and use of technical information
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session" cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider 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)

• 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

• the version of the operating system used by the visitor

The Labour Relations Commission makes no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of the organisation 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 this organisation, 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.

Re-Use of Published Information Regulations 2005 (SI 279 of 2005)

The Labour Relations Commission complies with the regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information and we encourage the appropriate re-use of the information that we produce. The regulations are available at www.psi.gov.ie.

Information and documents obtained from this website may be reproduced and/or re-used subject to the latest PSI licence available at www.psi.gov.ie.

For a list of the information maintained by the LRC,please refer to Freedom of Information Sections 15 & 16 Manual. Please also see our site map.

Please contact info@lrc.ie with any queries.

Glossary of Technical Terms

Web browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape Navigator and Opera.

IP address
The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company's computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.

Cookies
Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.