Privacy Policy

We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. This policy is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  1. Important Information and Who We Are
    Our website does not use third-party cookies. However, we do collect personal data when you sign up for our newsletter. This policy explains how we handle and protect this data.
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  2. The Data We Collect About You
    ‍    When you sign up for our newsletter, we collect the following personal data:
    • ‍Email Address: Used to send you our newsletter and updates.
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  3. How We Use Your Personal Data
    We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
    • Newsletter Subscription: To send you updates, news, and other information that you have requested.
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  4. How We Store and Secure Your Personal Data
    ‍    We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed.
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  5. Use of Third-Party Service Providers
    To manage our newsletter, we use Mailchimp, a third-party email marketing service. By subscribing to our newsletter, you acknowledge that your email address will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy. Mailchimp helps us to deliver our newsletters, manage our email lists, and track the performance of our email campaigns.
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  6. Data Retention
    We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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  7. Your Legal Rights
    Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
    • Request access to your personal data.
    • Request correction of your personal data.
    • Request erasure of your personal data.
    • Object to processing of your personal data.
    • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
    • Request transfer of your personal data.
    • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
    • If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at deirdre@stepupstepin.ie.
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  8. How We Share Your Personal Data
    We do not share your personal data with any third parties.
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  9. ‍Changes to This Privacy Policy
    We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
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  10. ‍Contact Details
    If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:‍
  11. Complaints
    If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us at deirdre@stepupstepin.ie. You also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

This privacy policy was last updated on 23/05/2024.