Privacy Statement
The Irish Cancer Society respects your right to privacy and complies with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The goal of this privacy policy is to help you understand how the Society deals with any personal data you provide when you visit its website or interact with the Society online through email, social media and other channels.
By visiting www.irishcancersociety.online-compliance.com/, www.cancer.ie and other Irish Cancer Society online channels, you are accepting the terms of this privacy policy.
This website contains external links to other websites and the Society is not held responsible for the privacy policies of these other websites.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
Personal Information
Personal information under GDPR is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. In other words, any information that is clearly about a particular person.
Why do we collect Personal Information?
We collect and store Personal Information in order to provide and manage online training services to you as well as provide services for people affected by cancer.
We collect your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register for training, we collect your information. We use this information to create your student profile, manage your training records, and keep you informed about the training course(s) you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services.
We may also use this information for training, quality monitoring or evaluating the services we provide. We may also collect and retain your data if you send feedback about any of our services or make a complaint.
How do we collect personal information?
We collect personal information only by lawful and fair means, and only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the legitimate purposes identified and for which consent has been obtained.
Information You Provide To Us
The Website provides various a place for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested training, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Tracking Technology
As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our Website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
Use of Cookies And Pixels
Similar to other commercial websites, our Website may use a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as required by law.
How do we use your information?
We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, carrying out any contract between you and the The Irish Cancer Society, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
You control your information
All registered users of our online community may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their control panel of the relevant section and going to the 'Edit profile' page.
The Irish Cancer Society is committed to upholding the rights of individuals and have processes in place for providing individuals' access to their personal information. A subject access request (SAR) is a request for access to the personal information that the Irish Cancer Society holds about you, which we are required to provide under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) unless an exemption applies.
You can make this request in writing using our downloadable request form or you can submit your access request electronically using this form.
Where requested, we will provide the following information:
- The purposes of the processing of your personal data;
- What kind of personal data is stored;
- Where this data is stored;
- How long your data is stored.
Your request will be completed in 30 days in an electronic format. Learn more about subject access requests.
Disclosure of Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.
The information you provide when interacting with our website will be kept securely and used by the Irish Cancer Society in order to make your interaction with the Society possible. Your information will only be shared with selected third-party service providers, contracted by the Irish Cancer Society to assist with our operations. Your information will not be shared with any other organisation, other than with your permission, or where required by law.
We also reserve the right to enforce our site policies in order to protect our rights and the rights of other individuals in a manner that is safe and compliant with the law.
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing
Updating Information and Correcting Errors
Since we use your personal information to provide goods or services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date. If any of your information changes, is inaccurate or incomplete, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Access to Personal Information
We will respond promptly to any request for access to your personal information We will not respond to requests for access to personal information that are frivolous, vexatious or repetitious. In certain circumstances, we may be unable to provide access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Please check our Website for the most up-to-date version of the policy.
Online privacy policy only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website, email and social media networks, and not to information collected offline. For more information please refer to our general privacy policy www.cancer.ie/privacy.
Your consent
By using our website, you consent to our privacy policy (this page).
Questions, concerns or requests for access
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us as follows:
Data Protection Officer, Irish Cancer Society
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us as follows:
Data Protection Officer, Irish Cancer Society
43/45 Northumberland Road
Dublin, D04 VX65
Website: www.cancer.ie
Email: dataprotect@irishcancer.ie
Telephone: + 353 1 231 0500
Effective Date of Policy: April 17 2020