Welcome to www.ourgreen.ie and Mayo Sligo Energy Concern Group. This Privacy Policy describes our practices for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing the Personal Data we collect from you when you visit our website and use our services.
General Information
What law applies?
In principle, we will only use your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws, in particular Ireland’s Data Protection Act (“DPA”) and the EU`s counterpart the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
What is Personal Data?
Personal Data is any information relating to personal or material circumstances that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes, for example, your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, or telephone number as well as online identifiers such as your IP address.
What is processing?
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means. The term is broad and covers virtually any handling of data.
Who is responsible for data processing?
The Data Controller within the meaning of the DPA and the GDPR is Mayo Sligo Energy Concern Group Ballina Co Mayo(“Mayo Sligo Energy Concern Group”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
If you have any questions, please feel free to use our Contact Form.
What are the legal bases of processing?
In accordance with the DPA and GDPR, we have to have at least one of the following legal bases to process your Personal Data:
Consent – This is where we have asked you to provide explicit permission to process your data for a particular purpose.
Contract – This is where we process your information to fulfil a contractual arrangement we have made with you or reply to your messages, e-mails, posts, calls, etc.
Legitimate Interests – This is where we rely on our interests as a reason for processing, generally this is to provide you with the best products and service in the most secure and appropriate way. Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests we balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.
Legal Obligation – This is where we have a statutory or other legal obligation to process the information, such as for archiving or the investigation of crime.
Data we collect automatically
Log data
Even if you do not log in or register on our website, but simply browse our website, data is collected and stored and processed by us. Specifically, this requires the IP address of your computer, Date and time of access, Name and URL of the accessed file, Browser used, Number of bytes transferred, Status of the page retrieval, Session ID, Referrer URL.
Hosting
The hosting service used by us for the purpose of operating our website is SquareSpace. In doing so, SquareSpace processes inventory data, contact data, content data, usage data, meta data and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors of our website and services, on the basis of our legitimate interests.
Content Management System
We use the Content Management System (CMS) of SquareSpace, to publish and maintain the created and edited content and texts on my website. This means that all content and texts submitted to my website is transferred to SquareSpace. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest.
Cookies
We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to your web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage. There are different types of cookies: a) Essential Cookies. Essential cookies are cookies to provide a correct and user-friendly website; and b) Non-essential Cookies. Non-essential Cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (“analytical” cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (“advertising” cookies).
As set out in Ireland’s the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011 (the “2011 Regulations”)and the EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”), we need to obtain consent for the use of Non-essential Cookies. For further information on the cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy. The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.
Cookie consent
Our website uses a cookie consent tool, to obtain your consent to the storage of cookies and to document this consent. When you enter our website, the following Personal Data is transferred to us: i) Your consent(s) or revocation of your consent(s); ii) Your IP address; iii) Information about your browser; iv) Information about your device; v) Time of your visit to our website. The basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.
Links to other websites
Please note that if you use a link from our website to a third-party website, that third-party may also set new cookies that are not covered by this policy. In such cases, we recommend that you read the cookie policy on the third-party website itself.
Data we collect directly
Contacting us
If you contact us, we store and process the following data from you: Name, e-mail address, telephone number as well as other personal data that you provide when contacting us. This data is collected and processed exclusively for the purpose of contacting you and processing your request and then deleted, provided there is no legal obligation to retain it. The legal bases for processing are contract and our legitimate interest.
Linked Documents and Publications
When you go ahead and download any of the several linked documents and publications on our website, your IP address is requested and logged for documentation purposes only. This is a mere technical process and required to make the linked documents and publications available for download to your device or depending on your browser available for viewing. The legal basis for this storage is the provision of a contract and our legitimate interest.
Linked websites (Learn how to make an Observation, Object Here, etc)
If you are interested in checking out any of the several linked websites on our website, you will be redirected to the relevant third party website, and as such your IP address and other data may be transferred to the relevant third party. We have no influence or control over the data collected and processed by the relevant third party when you are being redirected and you can learn more about data processing at the relevant third party's privacy policy.
Supporting Us (Donations)
We store and process information that you give us as part of a donation primarily for the purpose of carrying out the collection of donations that you have instructed us to do. Your donation will be processed through GoFundMe, and the payment data will not be passed on to any other third parties. The data collected is required for the execution of the donation. The data will not be used for any other purpose. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest.
Administration, financial accounting, office organisation, contact management
We process data in the context of administrative tasks as well as organisation of your donation, and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In this regard, we process the same data that we process in the course of providing our contractual services. The processing bases are our legal obligations and our legitimate interest.
Principles of processing Personal Data
Storage and Retention
As far as necessary, we process and store your personal data for the duration of our business relationship, which also includes, for example, the initiation and execution of a contract.
In addition, we are subject to various storage and documentation obligations, which result from the minimum statutory retention periods. The retention and documentation periods specified there are two to ten years.
Security
Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us. We have also implemented numerous security measures (“technical and organisational measures”) for example encryption or need to know access, to ensure the most complete protection of Personal Data processed through our website.
Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can always have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. And databases or data sets that include Personal Data may be breached inadvertently or through wrongful intrusion. Upon becoming aware of a data breach, we will notify all affected individuals whose Personal Data may have been compromised as expeditiously as possible after which the breach was discovered.
Special Category Data
Unless specifically required when using our services and explicit consent is obtained for that service, we do not process special category data.
Automated decision-making
Automated decision-making is the process of making a decision by automated means without any human involvement. Automated decision-making including profiling does not take place.
Do Not Sell
We do not sell your Personal Data.
Sharing and Disclosure
We will not disclose or otherwise distribute your Personal Data to third parties unless this is a) necessary for the performance of our services including our shipping forwarder and, b) you have consented to the disclosure, c) or if we are legally obliged to do so e.g., by court order or if this is necessary to support criminal or legal investigations or other legal investigations or other legal proceedings; or proceedings at home or abroad or to fulfil our legitimate interests. We may disclose personal data to An Bord Pleanala for the purpose of observations and petition signings, however, this will not be made public. We may contact you through the method you provided to us in our petition to clarify comments or ask for further details.
International Transfer
We may transfer your Personal Data to other companies as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In order to provide adequate protection for your Personal Data when it is transferred, we have contractual arrangements regarding such transfers. We take all reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the Personal Data we transfer.
Your Rights and Privileges
Privacy rights
Under the DPA and the GDPR, you can exercise the following rights:
Right to information
Right to rectification
Right to deletion
Right to data portability
Right of objection
Right to withdraw consent
Right to complain to a supervisory authority
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.
If you have any questions about the nature of the Personal Data we hold about you, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us.
Updating your information
If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please do so by contacting us.
Withdrawing your consent
You can revoke consents you have given at any time by contacting us. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Access Request
In the event that you wish to make a Data Subject Access Request, you may inform us in writing of the same. We will respond to requests regarding access and correction as soon as reasonably possible. Should we not be able to respond to your request within thirty (30) days, we will tell you why and when we will be able to respond to your request. If we are unable to provide you with any Personal Data or to make a correction requested by you, we will tell you why.
Complaint to a supervisory authority
You have the right to complain about our processing of Personal Data to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. The supervisory authority in relation to our services is the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2 D02 RD28, Ireland www.dataprotection.ie. However, we would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you contact the Data Protection Commission.
Validity and questions
This Privacy Policy was last updated on Saturday, 26 August 2023, and is the current and valid version. However, we want to point out that from time to time due to actual or legal changes a revision to this policy may be necessary. If you have any questions, please feel free to use our Contact Form.