Cookie Policy

‍We may employ cookies on our website in order to recognise a return visitor as a unique user. Cookies are small text files that your browser stores on your hard disk that allow us to remember you; cookies cannot access, read, or modify any other data on a computer. The cookies we place are readable only by us. All Web browsers offer the option to refuse any cookie. You may also delete cookies manually from your hard drive.

The cookies we place do not contain any personal information; however, they do contain identifiers that may be linked to certain non-personally identifiable information described in this privacy policy, as well as certain non-personally identifiable advertising IDs from third parties.

We share your data only with relevant third parties, in a secure manner and only with your consent.
‍The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and may involve the transfer of data to countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). This occurs typically through use of cloud solutions for web hosting, email hosting or proprietary software solutions delivered to us through the Cloud. We do not however authorise any third party to use your personal data for their own purposes. Non EEA countries may not provide an adequate level of protection in relation to processing your personal data. By submitting your data, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to us. Any transmission of data is at your own risk. Once we receive your personal data, we use appropriate security measures to seek to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses made of your personal data
‍We use your personal data that we hold to:
• Provide our services
• Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
• Comply with legislation
• Notify you about changes to our services

We may use your data to send you information relating to our services, events and products which may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please notify us to that effect.

We keep your Data for varying periods according to our Data Retention Schedule and in line with relevant legislation and recommendations.

Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your Data to third parties who provide a service to us or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect our rights, property, or safety of staff or customers.

Some jurisdictions may not have adequate safeguards for the protection of personal data, and where this is the case we comply with Chapter 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to provide an alternative method of safeguarding your personal data.

Links to other sites
‍Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of those websites, please note that those websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those policies. Please check those policies before you submit any data to those websites.

In order to protect the privacy of personal information, Public Consultation:
‍• Takes all due care to protect personal information it holds from any loss, unauthorized access, modification, use, disclosure and disposal
• Has in place a Data Protection Breach Policy which will be used to investigate fully any potential data protection breaches
• Only uses personal data for the purposes for which it was collected
• Is registered as a Data Controller with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
• Is subject to the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003
• Is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2014

Your rights
‍As an individual, under EU law you have certain rights to apply to us to provide information or make amendments to how we process data relating to you. These rights apply in certain circumstances and are set out below:
• The right to access data relating to you (‘access right’)
• The right to rectify/correct data relating to you (‘right to rectification’)
• The right to object to processing of data relating to you (‘right to object’)
• The right to restrict the processing of data relating to you (‘right to restriction’)
• The right to erase/delete data relating to you (i.e. the “right to erasure”)
• The right to ‘port’ certain data relating to you from one organisation to another (‘right to data portability’)

The controller for the purposes of GDPR is Public Consultation’s management.

Changes to this policy
‍We reserve the right to change this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you can see what information we gather, how we might use that information and in what circumstances we may disclose it. By continuing to use our site or our services or otherwise provide data after we post any such changes, you accept and agree to this Policy as modified.

Contact Us
Questions, comments, requests and complaints regarding this Policy and the information we hold are welcome and should be addressed to us at info@publicconsultation.ie

‍All requests will be dealt with promptly and efficiently.