Who we are

We are Saint Patrick’s National School, based in Galway City. Our website address is https://saintpatricksgalway.ie.

What this is:

This is our GDPR compliance and privacy policy statement. This document is copyrighted. Duplication or adaptation from this document below cannot be found on any other website without the consent of GDPR Services Galway in writing. Therefore this document is not a source of inspiration for other companies or websites. No one can sell this other than us. This is our personal tailored privacy policy continued as part 2 and our General Data Protection Regulation statement

Policy Scope

This Privacy & Compliance Policy (Policy) sets forth Saint Patrick’s National School’s privacy practices regarding the collection and use of personal data relating to the website named as www.saintpatricksgalway.ie. We are dedicated to treating people with respect, transparency and integrity; therefore, we don’t sell or lease your personal data to any third party. Saint Patrick’s National School adheres to privacy best practices, including the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002 & the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that complies with international personal data transfer framework requirements of 25th of May 2018.

Saint Patrick’s National School recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance to you and we fully comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002 & GDPR. This privacy statement is designed to provide information about the privacy, compliance and data collection practices of GDPR SERVICES GALWAY for the site https://saintpatricksgalway.ie/

If you have questions or concerns about our website and this Policy, please contact us through any of the following means:

Email: info@saintpatricksgalway.ie 

Telephone: 091 568 707

Information identification

Personal data is data that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, email address, telephone number or similar information. Saint Patrick’s National School does not keep or collects personal data you voluntarily give us, such as but not limited to, requesting information via our website through our ‘Contact Us’ page. Emails tend to be kept on our secure workstation as a copy/mirror of our personal email server, stored either in Pulsant. We also collect information about your interactions with our website and applications (e.g., browsing behaviour). Our website automatically tracks certain behaviour (Usage Data) during visits, such as referring/exit URLs and we also collect other basic information about you which does not directly identify you, however, which may correspond with you. We use this information to learn more about how our website is used and to otherwise improve and administer the site. We also use this information to enable us to deliver information tailored to your interests and preferences, based on your use of the website. We use certain information about individuals (who have voluntarily provided it to us through our ‘Contact Us’ page) in order to contact them about their challenges and our services and how we can help them. We also collect information to better understand how visitors use this website and to present timely, relevant information to them. In general, you can visit the website without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself through our ‘Contact us’ page. In these instances, Saint Patrick’s National School will ask for your name and/or child name, e-mail address, contact number and other appropriate information needed to respond to a query or provide you with specific informational services, that relate to the activities at Saint Patrick’s National School.

Collecting this data helps us understand what you are looking for from the organisation, enabling us to deliver improved, tailored online experience for our website’s visitors.

Specifically, we may use your data:

  • To contact you in response to a specific enquiry
  • To send you an email about our services and how we can help you (after you have contacted us through our ‘Contact Us’ page or by email)
  • To improve the online presence and services we provide you with
  • To customise the website for your enjoyment and facilitate/ease your information gathering efforts.

Note:

Like most websites, we gather information on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This non-personal data comprises of information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.

What we do with your information

Nothing. We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless the law requires us to. Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed under the Data Protection Act 1998, 2002 and GDPR. We will always hold your information securely on our server(if any is being stored.) We operate our website via HTTPS protocols for extra safety.

To prevent unauthorised disclosure or access to your information, we have implemented strong physical and electronic security safeguards. Our websites raise alarms/flags when any modification occurs without our design team’s input.

For example:

An email is sent to the webmaster if someone tries to breach the access to the website. We also follow stringent procedures to ensure we work with all personal data in line with the Data Protection Act 1998, 2002 and GDPR.

However, there is a certain circumstance where we may share your personal data without additional notice to you and that is to our IT Contractor/Web Developer to enhance and improve our website, a body that also has his own GDPR Compliance measures in place.

Links to third parties

Other Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices. Once you leave our websites URL’s Saint Patrick’s National School cannot control and has no responsibility for the privacy policies or data collection activities of other websites. Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over these links to other websites either. If you provide information to a website to which we are linked to, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy. Always be vigilant when submitting data to websites. Read the respective website’s policies fully.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Just cookies and email so that we can reply back to queries we receive. Also, this website does not store an email database or any private details. We are a school and the school GDPR Compliance and data protection compliance efforts differ from those of our website.

Our website does not collect, monitor, study, or sells any data to anyone. We are simply displaying our website for informative purposes only. We do not store any of the messages received and also we do not collect emails, names, phone numbers or any other type of personal data, as we are trying to be as much as we can, more compliant with the GDPR law.

Comments

We do not allow comments on our website or account creation. The website does not sell anything. There is and never will be a purchase button on our site.

An anonymised 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. This is part of the WordPress Gravatar service and has nothing to do with our website. It is a WordPress Improvement feature that may or may not be available to our website’s visitors.

Media

When we upload images to the website, we avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. However, the location of the school is well known and provided on our contact page.

Contact forms

We have a Request a call form that does not store the information we ask for. Once the form is completed, the form sends an email to the selected party. We also have a contact form that allows parents to get in touch with the school’s secretary office or principal. This, after all, is a necessity,  as to enrol your children we will require offline information from parents and pupil.

Cookies

The website is using cookies. However, there is no account creation on our website. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Cookies are small text files sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser while the user is browsing a website. When users visit the same website again, the browser sends cookies back to the website allowing the website to recognise the user and remember things like personalised details or preferences.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We may use cookies to:

  • Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package.
  • Identify whether you are signed in to our website.
  • Test content on our website.
  • Store information about your preferences.
  • To recognise when you return to our website.

Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us through our ‘Contact Us’ page. More information about cookies and details of how to manage or disable them and to learn more about cookies and how they are used can be found on www.aboutcookies.org.

We may use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a “cookie”. We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our website and to give you a personalised service whilst using our website.

Our website will have information posted about cookies and when a cookie will be uploaded to your computer.

Saint Patrick’s National School and its governing entities together with our hosting partners use a variety of technologies to facilitate the delivery of services to you through our website and to understand and preserve your personal preferences. Use of these is governed by our Policy or the policy of the third party providing the service.

Which Cookies do we use?

When you use our websites the following types of cookies can be set on your device:

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You can use your website browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your website browser to refuse cookies. However, please note that doing this may affect how our website functions for you. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you. Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website may issue cookies when you visit it.

Also, as you can see, we have tailored and offered you significant choices for management of what data is being used, int the tab menu option of the privacy policy compliance notice.

Updates to our Policy

Saint Patrick’s National School may, in its sole discretion, occasionally review, revise and /or update this Policy by posting the amended Policy on this website. We will notify you prior to any significant changes, when and where required, or material Policy changes via your email address or by a website notice.

This Policy was last updated on Monday, Friday, the 15th of February 2019. We will not use your existing information in a manner not previously disclosed.

Data Retention

We retain your information while we are communicating with you, whether it be through e-mail, telephone or by post or as needed to provide you with services. While your personal data is required we a safe and secure hosting environment to protect it. Our hosting company, LiquidNet LTD. Is storing all our documents and data in their secure Pulsant Datacenter in Scotland. This is a 24/7 supervised service and no attack is possible without attracting the attention of the engineers in the data centre. Usually in less than one month after you supply your information to our website through our ‘Contact Us’ page, it is deleted and we tend to update extremely fast, to keep the websites extremely secured.

Security

Saint Patrick’s National School takes personal data security seriously. We use reasonable and appropriate data protection measures, such as robust technologies, security policies and procedures, to reduce the risk of misuse, alteration, accidental destruction or loss and unauthorized disclosure or access to our systems and data. For example, we encrypt the transmission of sensitive information using 256kb Encryption. All passwords stored in our websites databased are MD5 encrypted. We follow GDPR and industry standards and best practices to protect your personal data during transmission and once we receive it. Unfortunately, no security method is 100% secure and we are aware that very skilled hackers or evildoers are out there, therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security. However, we carry out every effort to keep your personal data that we have received from you through our ‘Contact Us’ page secure.

 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We employ the services of Google Analytics to help us understand how our marketing efforts are successful and how are our websites being used. You have an option to opt out from any Google Tracking Technologies.

Who we share your data with

In general terms, no one. Google might track customer behaviour in their end, but we do not. We analyse in general how many visitors we had using their services so that we know how to work on our marketing. No personal or individual data is processed, collected, tracked, stored or sold.

How long we retain your data

Since we do not register accounts or ask for private information, there is nothing to retain. No databases, no users, names, forms, emails etc…

What rights you have over your data

Since we do not record anything, the users do not have any rights over any activities performed of the website. Once you require information via one of our forms, you the visitor, allow us to contact you back in response to your approach.

Your contact information

Call our phone or email us if you require any information. You can use our contact us page or

Email: info@saintpatricksgalway.ie

Telephone: 091 568 707

How we protect your data.

The website data belongs to the school. The pictures on the website belong to us as well. The website is stored in Pulsant, Scotland(A very secure datacenter.)

What data breach procedures we have in place

Since no personal data is being stored, we try to comply as much as we can with the hosting services and follow their data breach procedures. In case we lose any personal information, our policy is that we will announce the police about this and all of the users holding present data on the website will be notified of this occurrence. Fully transparent. IT IS NEVER OUR WISH to disclose any data to any party.

What third parties we receive data from

Maps, via Google maps API.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Nothing that must be mentioned in the online environment. No automated decisions or profiling occurrences are set.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements:

This website is GDPR Compliant. We have our cookie policy and our efforts for compliance are noted from the perspective of a non-storing data software. We are using WordPress and try to update it regularly.