General statement

www.celbridgefilipinocommunity.com (the “Website”) is operated by team of dedicated volunteers who manage and maintain its content and services. Any information provided by you to us will be treated lawfully in accordance with that Data Protection Acts, 1988, 2003, 2018 and the Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 and/or such amending legislation or other applicable data protection legislation as may be adopted in Ireland from time to time. Please read the following carefully to understand practices regarding your personal data (including sensitive personal data) and how we will treat it. We also encourage you to read our terms and conditions.

Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy statements of any other websites. Each time you use the Website, you will be bound by the then current statement and you should review this each time you use the Website to satisfy yourself that you are happy with it. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices or the privacy statements of any other websites which we provide links to on the Website. All links to external websites are easily identifiable.

Collection of your personal data

For some of the services which the website offers we may collect and process personal data from you. The personal data you give us is personal to you or the person to whom it relates. The personal data we collect from you may include, but is not limited to: name, gender, date of birth, email address, mobile number, and images (given your consent). When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information may be collected on the IP address of the visitor’s webserver, the top-level domain used, previous website from which the visitor has visited us, click stream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this website and the type of browsers used by the website visitor. This information is used to administer the Website.

Use of your personal data

The website may use personal data for the following purposes:

• to register event attendees, communicate event details, and make necessary arrangements.
• to send event-related updates, announcements, and important information.
• to promote images for marketing materials, social media posts, or other promotional activities related to our events given your consent.
• to ensure that content on the Website is presented in the most effective manneer for you and your computer;
• to contact you by email regarding updates or informative communications related to terms and policy updates;
• to provide you with news and events which we offer that are similar to those you have already participated or received or unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• to attend and manage your request to us.

Where we store your data

We want you to know that your data is stored securely on servers provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), a trusted cloud computing platform. AWS adheres to industry leading security standards to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Security of your personal data

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We follow the best practice guidelines to help protect your information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. 

Access to your personal data

You have the right to object to the use of your personal data and the right to block any specific uses of your personal data and may inform us of any changes in your personal data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts, we will update or delete your personal data accordingly. To find out what personal data we hold on you or to have your information updated, amended or removed from our database or if you would like a copy of some or all of your personal data, please e-mail us at: info@celbridgefilipinocommunity.com. All access requests are free of charge.

Data retention

In general, we expect to keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes we may make to this statement in the future will be posted on the Website and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail or when you next access the Website.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email: info@celbridgefilipinocommunity.com.