The objective of the Laois County Enterprise Board is to discharge the duties and functions entrusted to it by the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment and in accordance with the Operating Agreement signed between the County Enterprise Board and the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment in an efficient and professional manner. The County Enterprise Board is governed by the "Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies" which ensures that CEB customers and the public in general are afforded an excellent service, decisions and made fairly without bias, CEB staff observe the highest standards of business ethics and ensure no actions of the CEB staff, shall ever weaken the publics faith in the integrity of the CEB. This Code applies to Directors of the Board, Evaluation Committee members and employees of the Board. When you are dealing with the Board, staff will seek to ensure that you are fully informed of all services and supports and that you are facilitated in gaining proper access to these services and supports.

Courtesy and Helpfulness - You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board to be:

• Given the name of the staff members with whom you are dealing
  
   
• Directed to the appropriate staff member dealing with your enquiry.
  
   
• Information - You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board to be given full and accurate information in simple language in relation to any query you may raise.
  
   
• Efficiency - You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board to have your query dealt with in a speedy and efficient manner, while recognising the need to keep to the minimum any cost which you might necessarily have to incur. 
  
   
• Privacy and Confidentiality - You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board to have all information, both personal and business, provided by you dealt with in total confidence.
  
   
• Redress - You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board that any legitimate complaint regarding to (a) the improper administration of the functions entrusted to this Board; or (b) the manner in which an enquiry was processed will be dealt with speedily and sympathetically and in accordance with the Board's Client Care and Complaints Procedures. These procedures are without prejudice to an individual's normal rights in law or to any independent review systems that might be put in place. You can expect that in all your contacts and dealings with the County Enterprise Board to have your query dealt with in a speedy and efficient manner, while recognising the need to keep to the minimum any cost which you might necessarily have to incur.
  
   
• Privacy Statement - Laois County Enterprise Board
  This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. All external links to other websites are clearly identified.
  
   
• General Statement - The Laois County Enterprise Board fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
  
   
• Collection and use of Personal Information - The Laois County Enterprise Board does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer by E-Mailing us at admin@laoisenterprise.com or by using our Contact Us Section. Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by us only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
  
   
• Collection of Technical Information - 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)
  * 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.
  The Laois County Enterprise Board will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual.

Maria Callinan
Chief Executive

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PRIVACY STATEMENT

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. All external links to other websites are clearly identified as such in our Links Section.

General Statement

The Laois County Enterprise Board fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

The Laois County Enterprise Board does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer by E-Mailing us or by using our Contact Us Section. Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by us only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Collection of Technical Information

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);
• 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. 

The Laois County Enterprise Board will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
      
Maria Callinan
Chief Executive

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Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 (SI 279 of 2005)

The Laois County Enterprise Board complies with the regulations on the re-use of Public Sector Information and we encourage the 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 Laois County Enterprise Board, please refer to Freedom of Information Sections 15 & 16 Manual.

If you have a small business in County Laois, or are considering establishing a business here, and want to explore what Laois CEB can do for you, please contact us without delay.