Long Covid Advocacy Ireland acts as Data Controller when we collect your data from you when you submit your email. It will be used by us only in accordance with the purposes outlined in this notice.

Any personal data you provide to us will be processed fairly and lawfully. It will be used for the purposes of compiling a database of people interested in information from Long Covid Advocacy Ireland (LCAI). The Data Protection Acts (2018) allows us to process your data because you have provided your explicit consent. You are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time. If you do withdraw your consent, LCAI will no longer process your personal data and will take steps to delete all references to your data securely.  LCAI will not share your data with third parties.  In keeping with the data protection principles, we will only store your data for as long as is necessary. For the purposes described here, we will store your data for two years.

You have various rights under data protection law, subject to certain exemptions, in connection with our processing of your personal data, including the right:

– to find out if we use your personal data, access your personal data and receive copies of your personal data;

– to have inaccurate/incomplete information corrected and updated;

– in certain circumstances, to have your details deleted from systems that we use to process your personal data or have the use of your personal data restricted in certain ways;

– to object to certain processing of your data by LCAI;

– to exercise your right to data portability where applicable (i.e. obtain a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic form)

– where we have relied upon consent as a lawful basis for processing, to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;

– to not be subject to solely automated decision;

If you wish to avail of these rights, please email: longcovidadvocacyireland@gmail.com

If you have any complaints in connection with our processing of your personal data, you can contact us at longcovidadvocacyireland@gmail.com

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission if you are unhappy with our processing of your personal data. Details of how to lodge a complaint can be found on the Data Protection Commission’s website (www.dataprotection.ie), or by telephoning 1890 252 231.

Cookies

This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary “session” cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

• the IP address of the visitor’s web server
• the top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
• 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 type of web browser used by the website visitor

LCAI will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of LCAI, never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by LCAI, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts,(Ireland) 2018.

Social media

If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter, those social networks will record that you have done so. They may set a cookie for this purpose.

In some cases, where a page on our website includes content from a social network, such as a Twitter feed, or Facebook comments box, those services may set a cookie even where you do not click a button. As is the case for all cookies, we cannot access those set by social networks. Social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.

Log files

Our systems automatically gather some anonymous information about visitors, including IP addresses, browser type, language, and the times and dates of webpage visits. The data collected does not include personally identifiable information. It is used, as described above, for statistical analysis, to understand user behaviour, and to administer the site.

External links

LCAI website may contain links to websites operated by third parties under different privacy policies. Should you choose one of those links, you will be leaving the LCAI site and this privacy notice will no longer apply.