The www.fisherieslocalactiongroups.ie website (the “Website”) is operated by An Bord Iascaigh Mhara (“BIM”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Notice provides you with information about how Fisheries Local Action Groups (“FLAG”) processes your personal data when you visit our website or otherwise make your data available to us in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018 (the “Act”).
The FLAG scheme (Fisheries Local Action Development) is operated by BIM. The initiative focuses on community-led local development to enhance the economic opportunities and social sustainability of Fisheries- and Aquaculture-dependent areas. Each FLAG has, through a process of public consultation, developed a Local Development Strategy aimed at supporting job creation, adding value, promoting innovation, enhancing environmental assets, and promoting each area’s maritime cultural heritage.
For more information on BIM, see BIM’s Privacy Notice here.
Full contact details of BIM are as follows:
Name: An Bord Iascaigh Mhara
Address: West Pier, Old Dunleary Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin A96 A621.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices, please email BIM at [email protected].
The website processes data to collect information about interested parties in the field of fisheries. As part of this, we collect the following data from you:
| Purpose | Categories of Personal Data | Lawful Basis |
|---|---|---|
| To respond to any questions or queries and to share these with the appropriate FLAG. | Name, Email, Details of the Query/Message | Legitimate Interest – to provide you with support on the query. |
| To ensure the security of our website through the use of cookies | IP address, Browser Type, Operating System, Device Type | Legitimate Interest – for the purposes of ensuring network and information security |
We may share your personal data with third-party service providers. We will only permit our service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Only the minimum personal data necessary will be shared.
We may also disclose your data to members of your local FLAG in response to queries directed to them.
In limited and necessary circumstances, your information may be transferred outside the EEA or to an international organisation to comply with our legal or contractual requirements, only where we have determined that individuals have an adequate level of protection for their personal data.
We retain your information in accordance with our Data Retention and Deletion Policy. Subject to your rights, we will ordinarily process your personal data throughout the course of your relationship with us and will then retain it for a period after that. The precise length of time will depend on the type of data, our legitimate interests and other legal or regulatory rules that may require us to retain it for certain minimum periods.
In determining the appropriate retention period for different types of personal data, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data in question, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of that personal data, the purposes for which we need to process it and whether we can achieve those purposes by other means are considered.
Cookies are a technology used for the delivery and analysis of a website. When you visit a website, small text files are temporarily stored on your device. We track the webpages that our users visit to determine which content is most popular. This data is used to better tailor our content to you by helping us understand what you are interested in.
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. You can accept or decline cookies by clicking the cookie banner when you first visit our websites. You can view our Cookie Policy here.
We use a range of electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your personal data secure, accurate and up to date. These measures include education and training for relevant staff to ensure they are aware of our data protection obligations when processing personal data; administrative and technical controls to restrict access to personal data to a need-to-know basis; and technological security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and anti-virus software.
Under certain circumstances, you may have the following rights over your data:
If you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 18, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Supervisory Authority at dataprotection.ie or by post to 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, Ireland.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please get in touch with us at [email protected]. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within one month (subject to any extensions to which we are lawfully entitled). Any request to access personal data will be dealt with free of charge unless it is considered excessive, in which case, we may charge a reasonable fee.
We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has significant or legal effects on you in the provision of our services.
If you have any queries or concerns, you can contact us at [email protected]. or by post at West Pier, Old Dunleary Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin A96 A621.
We may update this notice from time to time. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here and update the ‘Last Updated’ date at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
