Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: www.irishmountaineering.ie.
Irish Mountaineering Academy cares about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal data only as it might be needed for us to deliver to you our services, Your personal data includes information such as:
• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Email address
Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe to you how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we process.
If at any time you have questions about our practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) and our dedicated team that supports this office by contacting us at ste@irishmountaineering.ie. This inbox is actively monitored and managed so that we can deliver an experience that you can confidently trust.
1. Cookies and Similar Technologies
On our websites and our mobile applications allow us to track your browsing behaviour, links clicked, items purchased, your device type, and to collect various data, including analytics, about how you use and interact with our Services. This allows us to provide you with more relevant product offerings, a better experience on our sites and mobile applications, and to collect, analyse and improve the performance of our Services. We may also collect your location (IP address) so that we can personalize our Services.
Data about Usage of Services is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.
2. How you can delete your data?
All promotional mail sent by us as an opt out option which you can utilise if you no longer wish to receive mail from us. Should you want all personal data stored by us removed please contact us at ste@irishmountaineering.ie. We will remove your data and confirm its removal with you.
If you make a request to delete your personal data and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honoured only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any Services purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.
3. How we secure, store and retain your data
We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods:
- Mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations;
- For preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
- Needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records.
If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact us at ste@irishmountaineering.ie.
4. Data Protection Authority
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) and believe we maintain your personal data subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may direct questions or complaints to the data protection commissioner
Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House, Station Road
Portarlington, Co. Laois
R32 AP23
Phone: +353 (0)57 868 4800 / +353 (0)761 104 800
Fax: +353 57 8684757
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
5. Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may contact our Office of the DPO by phone on 087 6369820 or via email at ste@irishmountaineering.ie.
