Greenbusiness.ie is publicly-funded through the National Waste Prevention Programme (NWPP) and acts semi-independently. All information provided to greenbusiness.ie is held confidentially and only to allow businesses to be effectively assisted. It is not used for any regulatory purpose.
The Green Business website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms and Conditions that take effect from the date of first use. We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of the Green Business website after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.
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The information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services) on the Green Business website is provided 'as is', without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the Green Business website.
The Green Business website fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal data about you through this website that you do not give voluntarily, for example by e-mailing us, by using our online contact and feedback forms, or registering for the online tools. Any personal data that you volunteer to the Green business website will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
This website uses Google Analytics to track user activity across the Green Business website. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following the IP address of the visitor's web server, the country of that webserver, the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used, information about whether you are a new or repeat visitor, which pages of this website are the most popular, duration of visit, and statistics on the the type of web browser and operating system used by the website visitor.
This privacy statement only covers the Green Business website at http://www.greenbusiness.ie. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.
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We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
From 26 April 2011 we have launched a new version of our audit tools. The changes to the tools mean your previous audits are not compatible with the new audit tools.
Need information, advice or support? Contact us on 1850-green1 (1850-473361) (helpline is available Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17:00) or by email at contactus@greenbusiness.ie. Companies may also submit a request for a free Resource Efficiency Assessment (REA), involving a site visit to your business by an expert.