1. INTRODUCTION

Donegal Association (website url address: www.donegalassociation.com  is a London, UK based non profilt community based organisation.

Donegal Association London is committed to protecting personal data. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. Donegal Association London processes personal data for numerous purposes, and the means of collection, lawful basis of processing, use, disclosure, and retention periods for each purpose may differ.

When collecting and using personal data, our policy is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data.

Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent to both documents in order to have permission to use our services

2. DATA COLLECTED

1. CLIENTS

Donegal Association London processes personal data about contacts (existing and potential clients and/or individuals associated with them). This information will include name, employer name, contact title, phone, email and other business contact details.Personal data relating to business contacts may be used by Donegal Association London for the following
purposes:

• Administering, managing and developing our businesses and services
• Providing information about us and our range of services
• Making contact information available to Donegal Association London’r personnel.

2. SUPPLIERS

Donegal Association London collects and processes personal data about our suppliers (including subcontractors and individuals associated with our suppliers and subcontractors) in order to manage the relationship, contract, to receive services from our suppliers and, where relevant, to provide professional services to our clients.

We use personal data for the following purposes:

• Receiving services
• Providing services to clients
• Administering, managing and developing our businesses and services
• Security, quality, health & safety and risk management activities
• Providing information about us and our range of services
• Complying with any requirement of law, regulation or a professional body of which we
are a member

As with any provider of services, we are subject to legal, regulatory and professional
obligations. We need to keep certain records to demonstrate that our services are provided in
compliance with those obligations and those records may contain personal data.

3. VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE

Visitors to our websites are in control of the personal data shared with us.
We may capture limited personal data automatically via the use of cookies on our website. We use small text files called ‘cookies’. The use of cookies is now standard operating procedure for most websites. However, if you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, most browsers now
permit users to opt-out of receiving them. Additionally, after ending the visit to our site, you can always delete the cookie from your system if you wish.

Visitors are also able to send an email to us through the website. Their messages will contain the user’s screen name and email address, as well as any additional information the user may wish to include in the message.

We ask that you do not provide sensitive information to us when using our website; if you choose to provide sensitive information to us for any reason, the act of doing so constitutes your explicit consent for us to collect and use that information in the ways described in this privacy statement or as described at the point where you choose to disclose this information.

4. STAFF

We collect personal data concerning our own personnel as part of the administration, management and promotion of our business activities.

5. OTHERS

We collect personal data when an individual gets in touch with us with a question, comment or feedback (such as name, contact details and contents of the communication). In these cases, the individual is in control of the personal data shared with us and we will only use the data for the purpose of responding to the communication.

RETENTION OF DATA

We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation).Personal data may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law or regulation and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Donegal Association do not sell or otherwise release personal data to third parties for the purpose of allowing them to market their products and services without consent from individuals to do so.

COOKIES

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
  • cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
  • PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED IN CUSTOMERS)
  • wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
  • wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
If you are not a registered client for our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself. If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:
  • Our system administrators.
  • Our supporters when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts and access.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

Your contact information may be retained in our email inbox for a duration of time, if you wish for us to remove your contact information at any time from our contact list please contact us: [email protected]

SECURITY MEASURES

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.

In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.

GDPR RIGHTS

Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. AxiomThemes permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of AxiomThemes to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.

AMENDMENTS

Last updated: Dated: March  2024

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.