Privacy Statement, Policy, Purposes, GDPR and Consent for Wolfe Tone Snappers project (www.wolfetonesnappers.ie)

General statement

The Wolfe Tone Snappers take our responsibilities under applicable data protection law, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and implementing legislation such as the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018, seriously.

The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the data relating to you that we collect and use in connection with this website and the uses (including disclosures to third parties) we make of such data.

The following discloses our information processing practices relating to this website. In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Statement.

By using this website you signify your express acceptance of this Privacy Statement.

If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of the Privacy Statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. Each time you use this website you shall be bound by the then current Privacy Statement and accordingly you should review the Privacy Statement each time you use this website.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any linked sites other than those that are directly related to www.wolfetonesnappers.ie.

If you have any questions about our use of your personal data on this website, please contact [email protected]

Collection and use of personal information

Wolfe Tone Snappers (www.wolfetonesnappers.ie) does not collect any other personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you provide when you make a donation, email us, or use any of our online/contact forms. This personal data may include:

  • When you submit/send data via any of our online/contact forms – your name and contact details, including your phone number and/or email address and any other personal data relating to you that you provide to us or that we generate about you in connection with your use of this website – see ‘Purposes’ below for additional data requirements
  • When you Donate – your name, email address and your donation amount. We use Stripe to process payments who also collect data, please see its privacy policy here
  • When you use our online/contact forms, the site is protected by reCAPTCHA to prevent abuse of the online forms, please see the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service – a security service of Google.

Purposes

We will use personal data relating to you for the following purposes (the “Stated Purpose”) of:

  • In addition to the ‘Application Terms’ of any of the Wolfe Tone Snappers website online/contact forms
  • Data submitted will be used for the purpose of contacting you in relation to your submission of data to the website in relation to the Wolfe Tone Snappers project, including where we may wish to contact you to discuss your submitted data in further detail and/or gain additional information for use in the Wolfe Tone Snappers project (the “Stated Purpose”):
    1. To send your details to a Wolfe Tone Snappers photographer to arrange for a photoshoot
    2. Use your submitted data, photography and additional information for use on the Wolfe Tone Snappers website
    3. For use in the Wolfe Tone Snappers exhibition
    4. To use in the Wolfe Tone Snappers social media pages
    5. Wolfe Tone Snappers print publications or
    6. Any related Wolfe Tone Snappers projects
  • We may also use this data to contact you with news and updates on the Wolfe Tone Snappers and information on the different elements related to the project including Wolfe Tone Snappers photo-prints and merchandise.
  • Your contact details will NOT be made public at any stage in relation to this project (the “Stated Purpose”).
  • Where data is submitted it will be used for the Stated Purpose and any reasonably incidental purposes only.
  • Dealing with any queries that you have submitted to us regarding the Wolfe Tone Snappers project and website
  • Processing transactions submitted through the website
  • Improving and developing this website
  • Sending you promotional and marketing materials, subject to any preferences that you express when we collect your contact details or subsequently. You can opt out of receiving promotional and marketing materials from us at any time by contacting [email protected]
  • Generating and analysing statistics regarding usage of this website, including the frequency of use of individual pages (where possible, personal data will be anonymised before being used for this purpose)
  • Fraud prevention, investigation and detection
  • Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims

Collection and use of technical information

When you visit our website, the following information is retained about that visit:

  • 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
  • Google analytics which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site
  • The type of web browser and operating system used by the website visitor

Wolfe Tone Snappers will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual.

It is the policy of Wolfe Tone Snappers 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 law. The technical information will be used only by Wolfe Tone Snappers and only for statistical and other administrative purposes.

Recipients of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data to other organisations in connection with the above purposes, including:

  • to third parties who we engage to provide services to us in connection with this website, such as outsourced service providers, IT services providers, professional advisers and auditors
  • to competent regulatory authorities and bodies as requested or required by law
  • digital marketing and analytics service providers

Retention

We will not hold your personal data for longer than is necessary. We retain your personal data for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Notice, or to comply with our obligations under applicable law and, if relevant, to deal with any claim or dispute that might arise between you and us.

Requirement to provide personal data

You are not under a statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with any personal data. However, where you submit an application to Wolfe Tone Snappers online forms, contact us via [email protected], or make a donation to the Wolfe Tone Snappers campaign, we will ask you to provide certain information. If you do not provide this information, we may not be in a position to process your request.

Your rights

You have the following rights, in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:

  • Right to access the data – You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you, together with other information about our processing of that personal data.
  • Right to rectification – You have the right to request that any inaccurate data that is held about you is corrected, or if we have incomplete information you may request that we update the information such that it is complete.
  • Right to erasure – You have the right to request us to delete personal data that we hold about you. This is sometimes referred to as the right to be forgotten.
  • Right to restriction of processing or to object to processing – You have the right to request that we no longer process your personal data for particular purposes, or to object to our processing of your personal data for particular purposes.
  • Right to data portability – You have the right to request us to provide you, or a third party, with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used machine readable format.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact [email protected]

Children’s Privacy

We recognize the need to provide further privacy protections with respect to personal information we may collect from children on the Site and applications. When we intend to collect personal information from children, we take additional steps to protect children’s privacy, including:

  • Notifying parents about our information practices with regard to children, including the types of personal information we may collect from children, the uses to which we may put that information, and whether and with whom we may share that information
  • In accordance with applicable law, and our practices, any of our online forms, the filling of the information is strictly for persons above the age of 18 and if information supplied contains information of persons under 18, we request consent from a Parent or Guardian
  • Giving parents the ability to request access to personal information we have collected from their children and the ability to request that the personal information be changed or deleted

Updates

We may occasionally update this policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

General

Delay or failure on our part in enforcing any of our rights shall not constitute a waiver by us of our rights and remedies. If any part of this Privacy Statement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity or enforceability of the remainder will not be affected.

Queries and Complaints

If you have any queries or complaints in connection with our processing of your personal data, you can contact us at [email protected]

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission if you are not happy with the way we have used your information or addressed your rights. Details of how to lodge a complaint can be found on the Data Protection Commissioner website – www.dataprotection.ie or you can call the Data Protection Commissioner at +353 (0)761 104 800; +353 (0)57 868 4800.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This legal notice and all issues regarding this website are governed exclusively by Irish law and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts.

Glossary of technical terms used

Web browser: The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari 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.

How we use Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Wolfe Tone Snappers uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the www.wolfetonesnappers.ie website, and their website access preferences.

Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the www.wolfetonesnappers.ie website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.