Privacy Policy

This privacy statement is for www.ssgt.ie managed by St Stephen’s Green Trust, Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor’s Lane, Dublin 8 (CRA no 20026547) and it governs the privacy of users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Acts) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). This statement will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhered to. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies and the download of any documents or files made available to you on this website. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

General Statement

Any information you provide will be carefully protected and stored in our secure database. We will keep your information confidential, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, except where disclosure is required and permitted by law. SSGT fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal data about you through this website that you do not give voluntarily.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect and process the following information about you if you email us or download and forward us our grant and report forms or use our feedback procedure:

• Information including your name, job title and function, organisation address, organisation email address, telephone number and other related details.
• Information on your visits to our sites including your IP address and the resources that you access.
• Data from completed research surveys.
• A record of our contact with you through all mediums i.e. online, in person, by telephone, social media, etc.
• Images, video and sound recordings. SSGT may take photographs/video/sound recordings at its events or on site visits for use in printed and electronic media for promotional purposes. Some images or recordings may be selected for permanent preservation in SSGT’s archive as a record of the impact of our grant holders and may be used for monitoring and evaluation, research, publication, displays and exhibitions. You will be informed of this privacy policy prior to recording.
• Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by SSGT only for the purpose for which you provided it.

We will not disclose your personal data unless you have consented to this disclosure. You may inform us of any changes in your personal data and, in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (the “DPA”) we will update or delete your personal data accordingly. You have the right to request a copy of any personal data held by us about you. You also have the right to have such data corrected where it is inaccurate or misleading.

To find out what personal data we hold on you or to have your personal data updated, amended or removed from our files, please e-mail us at info@ssgt.ie. Under the DPA such a request may require proof of your identity.

Collection and use of non-personal data

Like most websites, we gather statistical and analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This non-personal data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as:

• Visitor’s country of origin
• The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used.
• Clickstream data, which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed and documents downloaded)
• The IP address of a visitor to our website is recorded as part of this statistical data. However, no attempt whatsoever is made to link this IP address to any other information that may allow us to identify any individual visiting our site. We only use the non-personal data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.
• If you choose to visit this site and use this site, your visit and use and any dispute arising therefrom in respect of privacy, is subject to this Privacy Statement and our Terms and Conditions of use including the limitations and the exclusions expressed and included therein.

Social Media Policy & Usage

We adopt a Social Media Policy to set out how our our organisation and staff conduct themselves online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media. There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.

A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. It may allow a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or it may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present other information, run content or provide other functionality such as analytics.

Further information on cookies can be found at; https://cookiesandyou.com

• Session Cookies
• Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that are not persistently stored on your computer or mobile device. They are used to deliver basic functions of a website while you are actively using it – for instance during a registration process. Session cookies are generally erased when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site. This allows the site to deliver functions between browser sessions and subsequent visits. This site only places cookies that are specific to this site.

This website uses cookies when you visit our website. We have introduced Google Analytics to our pages in order to assist us in redeveloping our websites. Google analytics allows us to measure and learn in aggregate how our website is being used, and to see for example, which are the most popular pages. This will help us ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format. We also use a number of session cookies and a persistent cookie to record your acknowledgement of our cookie usage.

Third Party Cookies

Youtube – we have Youtube videos embedded on the site. Youtube may set cookies to track usage or remember preferences.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.