PRIVACY POLICY

Sister Sheds CLG
is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a secure online experience.

Data Collection
From the first moment you interact with Sister Sheds we’re collecting data. Sometimes you provide us with the data, sometimes it’s collected automatically.

Your personal data is any information that can be used to identify a person, such as email address, first and last name, or a data of birth. Sometimes you may submit personal information, for instance if you sign up for membership or make a donation, and sometimes information is automatically shared.

Why and when we gather information:

When we gather it Basis for processing
You browse our websites www sistersheds.ie
You make an online or telephone enquiry Legitimate Interest with query regarding your current shed or with interest in setting up a new Sister Shed in your area

Legitimate Interest

Websites
We collect certain information or data about you when you use our website.

This includes:

Questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you send an email to our websites
Your ip address from which you access our website, and details of which version of web browser and operating system you used
The date and time of your visit
Clickstream data, which is information on how you use our website, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve our website
The website address of the website from which you accessed our website
This helps us to:

improve our website by monitoring how you use it
respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to
Unless you voluntarily submit personal information to us (for example, by sending us an e-mail or completing the contact form), we can’t personally identify you using your data.

Cookies
Information may be sent to your computer in the form of an Internet “cookie” to allow sister shed servers to monitor your requirements. The cookie is stored on your computer. The sister shed server may request that your computer return a cookie to it.

These return cookies do not contain any information supplied by you or any personally identifiable information about you.

Such measures are necessary to allow sister sheds to measure the usability of the systems, which will help to continually improve user experience of our websites.

Your browser software should however enable you to block cookies if you wish to. For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Enquiries
When you send us enquiries either by email, through our feedback forms, by calling the office or sending us a letter we will need to record certain information to help us answer your questions. The information we usually need would be your name and contact number or address/email address (to allow us to respond), the nature of your query and your shed name if relevant.

Members

Where your data is stored
We store your data securely in the Republic of Ireland. Your data can only be viewed by our trained admin staff.

Keeping your data secure and disclosing your information
We have physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data. Any data you transmit to us is at your own risk. We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it.

We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites. We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

Links to third parties
Our website contains links to third party websites that may be of interest to you. This privacy policy only governs www.sistersheds.ie and we are not responsible for the privacy policy or statement that governs third party websites that we may link to.

Following a link to another website
If you go to another website from this one, including any websites that we link to, you example (event bright) should read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information. If you go to another website from this one, we may pass personal information collected about you on our website to the destination website.

Following a link to our website from another website
If you come to our website from another website, we may receive personal information about you from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.

Social Media
We operate several different social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube. This statement covers how the Sister Sheds will use any data collected from those pages. It does not cover how providers of social media websites will use your information. Check the policies of each site to find out how they collect information and how to opt out or delete the information.

This Policy
This Policy is effective from June 31st 2023. If we amend our privacy policy, any changes will be published on this web site. If at any time you wish to update the information which we hold about you, contact us about any concerns you have regarding the use of your data or if you wish to stop receiving information from IMSA, please contact us at admin@sistersheds.ie