Cookie Policy
St Michael’s House Foundation subcontracts theSt Michael’s House Foundation website from Digital Revolutionaries. In a similar way to most websites St Michael’s House Foundation ("SMH", "we", "us", "our") site makes use of cookies.
Cookies are small data files that are stored by your web browser on your computer. You can find out all about cookies and their uses on Wikipedia.
When you use any of our online services the website collects and uses certain information about you. St Michael’s House Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and takes security of your information seriously. St Michael’s House Foundation aims to be clear and transparent about the information we collect about you and how we will use that information.
This policy will set out the following;
The Data Controller
The Data Protection Officer (DPO)
What Personal Data St Michael’s House Foundation collects
What St Michael’s House Foundation use your Personal Data for
How long will St Michael’s House Foundatione hold your Personal Data
Cookies used on the St Michael’s House Foundation site
Managing and deleting cookies
Who will have access to your personal data
Cookies used on the St Michael’s House Foundation site
Managing and deleting cookies
Your Individual Rights
1. The Data Controller
St Michael’s House Foundation is the Data Controller for all personal data which is collected and used by our website. A Data Controller is the legal entity which determines how and why personal data is collected and used. We subcontract to a processor who are, Digital Revolutions. We have an agreement with Digital Revolutions to protect your privacy and take the security of your information seriously.
2. The Data Protection Officer (DPO)
St Michael’s House Foundation has appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee the compliance with its data protection obligations. The Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be contacted directly by email to dpo@smh.ie
3. What Personal Data St Michael’s House Foundation collects?
Personal data means any information relating to you which allows St Michael’s House to identify you, such as your name, address, contact phone number, email address. St Michael’s House is currently developing the website which will enable online applications for recruitment purposes, Club draw applications and fundraising activities.
4. What we use your Personal Data for?
Any personal data we collect from you on this website will only be used by St Michael’s House for the following purposes:
Career – recruitment purposes
To provide you with a better customer experience by making services available online?
Analysis of visitor traffic to and usage of our website
To support fundraising events across our services
5. How long will St Michael’s House Foundation hold your Personal Data
We only hold onto your information on the website to perform the specific transactions as initiated by you.
You can come back to this page at any time to set your cookie preference for our site. If you have enabled your browser's 'Do Not Track' setting, then cookies will initially be disabled by default.
6. Cookies used on the St Michael’s House Foundation site
Essential Cookies: We use essential cookies to store preferences and settings from your visit, and to help protect the site against attack and abuse. These essential cookies are required for the proper operation of the site and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
| Cookie name | What it's for | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_notice_viewed | Set when you dismiss the cookie notice. | 60 days |
| cookie_pref | Stores your cookie preference for the site. | 70 days |
7. Who will have access to your Personal Data
Only St Michael’s House Foundation staff, agents and suppliers who are directly involved with the management of the St Michael’s House Foundation website shall have access to your personal data which is collected by this website. All St Michael’s House Foundation staff, agents and suppliers who may have access to personal data, shall be bound to St Michael’s House Foundation confidentiality agreements and are obliged to keep your personal data secure, and to use it only for the purposes specified by St Michael’s House Foundation.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
To remember settings and preferences so we can tailor content to your specific needs
To measure how people use our website so we can improve the content, structure and layout
Our cookies are not used to identify you personally. They are used to improve the effectiveness of the online work and to provide you with a better end user experience on our websites.
8. Cookies used on the SMH Foundation site
Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure the site is meeting users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
Opt out of Google Analytics | Google Analytics Policies
| Cookie name | What it's for | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
Social networks
SMH maintains active social network accounts particularly on Facebook and Twitter. We embed widgets from these networks to provide follow buttons, like boxes and stream embeds. This may result in cookies being set by these networks while using our site.
| Social Network | Policies | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy Policy | Cookies | GDPR Compliance | Opt-out Options | |
| Privacy Policy | Cookies | GDPR Compliance | Opt-out Options |
Third party services
SMH makes use of a wide range of third party online services to provide features such as embedded video and social sharing. These services may set cookies when visiting our website. When cookies are disabled we aim to block the loading of third party iFrames without your specific consent.
| Service | Policies | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube : embedded video | Privacy Policy (on Google) | Cookies | GDPR Compliance | Opt-out Options |
| Vimeo : embedded video | Privacy Policy | Cookies | Opt-out Options |
Advertising
SMH use ads on Google, Facebook, and Twitter to promote our policies and to help direct users to pages of interest on our website. These services will set cookies on your browser.
| Service | Policies | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager (GTM) | We use GTM to help manage the placement of analytics, conversion tracking, and remarketing code on our site. | Read more |
| Google Ads | We use Google Ads from time to time and may place remarketing code on this site. | Privacy Policy | Opt-out Options |
| Facebook Pixel | We use Facebook Ads from time to time and place the Facebook Pixel Code on this site. | Privacy Policy | Opt-out Options |
9. Managing and deleting cookies
It is possible to view, manage and delete cookies within your web browser. We have provided links to instructions on how to do this for the most common web browsers below. For all other browsers you should look for a section called 'privacy' or 'security' within the application settings or preferences.
IP address
The type of computer device used by you to connect to the website
Operating system of the computer device used by you to connect to the website
Your preferred language used to display the webpage
The data and time when you accessed the website
The page you visited on the website
Total time you spent on the website
Geographic location (country only) of the computer device used by you to connect to the website.
10. What are your Rights?
Under certain circumstances by law, you have the right to;
Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.
Right of portability – where certain conditions apply, you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
Right to review: in the event that St Michael’s House refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why.
Withdraw your consent – where you have consented to receiving emails or newsletters you may withdraw your consent at any time
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, then please submit a request, to Data Protection Officer at: dpo@smh.ie. When submitting a request, St Michael’s House Foundation will require information from you to confirm your identity, before processing any request.