Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Introduction

thisisGO has published this Privacy Statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of users of our website. It applies to the use of your personal information (also known as ‘personal data’) by thisisGO through the viewing or use of its main website (www.thisisGO.ie) or any website within the thisisGO domain which has pointed you to this page. The information published here is limited to the use of personal information by the thisisGO website hosted under the thisisGO.ie domain only. thisisGO does not accept responsibility for the content or privacy practices of other external websites. External links to other websites are not always clearly identifiable as such. Within the thisisGO domain you may find websites over which thisisGO does not maintain editorial responsibility or direct control. Such sites can include the websites of other organisations etc. While thisisGO encourages compliance with this web privacy statement at such sites, please consult the privacy statements of individual sites or contact the persons responsible for those sites, in order to understand the policies and practices under which they operate. You can take a look at our Guide to privacy on thisisGO My Profile here.

General statement

thisisGO fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share information with thisisGO. Any personal information you provide to thisisGO will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as introduced in May 2018.

Processing of personal information

thisisGO does not collect any personal data about you on this website apart from information you volunteer, for example by creating an account. Any information you provide is not made available to any third parties, other than those working with thisisGO on normal business and is used by thisisGO only in accordance with the purpose for which you provided the information and will only be retained for as long as required for the purpose.

thisisGO will not process any personal information about you on this website without your permission, save in cases where thisisGO is required by law to do so, such as the investigation of a criminal offence by the Gardai, or a breach of the thisisGO own privacy policy.

thisisGO is the Data Controller of the personal data retained. Your personal data can be accessed by the thisisGO team and will be accessed only for the purpose of administering your profile. Your personal data will not be used for any other purpose. Your personal data can also be accessed by Full Circuit for the purpose of administering the system.  Full Circuit is a “data processor” which provides services to thisisGO.  There is a contract in place to ensure your personal data is processed safely and securely.

This is normally stated on the web-page where the information is requested and should be self-explanatory. However, if you have any specific queries about the purpose for which your information is to be used, you should contact our Data Protection Officer before submitting the information. thisisGO policy and procedures relating to the processing of personal data, including your rights of rectification and your responsibilities as providers of personal information, are available are available from gdpr@thisisgo.ie.

Processing of technical information

Cookies may be used by the thisisGO website to collect non-personal information about how visitors use our website or to remember display preferences. Temporary session cookies may also be used on some websites to enable specific functionality and no information is retained once the “session” is complete.

Occasionally cookie information is passed to third parties for analysing website activity and usage. This information will not include any of your personal information from which you will be readily identifiable. Further Information regarding thisisGO’s cookie usage is available on our Cookie Policy page.

Technical details in connection with visits to this website may be logged on thisisGO’s server for accounting and auditing purposes (e.g. Computer IP number). It is the policy of thisisGO not to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which thisisGO cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.

Access and Rectification

If you become aware of any inaccuracy in the personal data you have supplied to us, please let us know and we will update our records accordingly. Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have a right to have incorrect or incomplete data corrected or erased by thisisGO. You can do this by contacting us at any of the contact points listed below.

Pursuant to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have certain rights to obtain a copy of the data held by you. For assistance in exercising these rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer at the address set out below.

Security

We take appropriate physical and technical security measures, including staff awareness training to maintain the security of personal data supplied to us and we review these measures regularly.

Review

This Privacy Statement explains the privacy policy that thisisGO has adopted for its website. However, in legal terms it shall not be construed as a contractual undertaking. thisisGO reserves the right to review and amend this Statement at any time without notice and you should check this page regularly to view the most up to date Privacy Statement.

Further Information and Contact Details

Further information on your data privacy rights is available on the website of the Data Protection Commissioner.

If you have any questions relating to the processing of personal data on this website please contact the Data Protection Officer at the address set out below:

gdpr@thisisgo.ie

If you would like to make a data subject access request please email gdpr@thisisgo.ie or by post to:

thisisGO

Catherine McAuley Education & Research Centre

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Eccles St., Dublin 7.