Fisheries Local Action Groups Website Privacy Notice

Updated 12/08/2024

Introduction

The www.fisherieslocalactiongroups.ie website (the “Website”) is operated by 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”).

Who are we?

The FLAG scheme (Fisheries Local Action Development) is operated by BIM. The initiative is focused 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 as well as 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: P.O. Box 12, Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices, please email BIM at dataprotection@bim.ie.

Purpose of Processing and Legal Basis

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

 

 

 

Disclosure of your information

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 the members of your local FLAG in the case of queries that are directed towards them.

Do we transfer your information outside of EEA?

In limited and necessary circumstances, your information may be transferred outside of the EEA or to an international organisation to comply with our legal or contractual requirements and only where we have determined that individuals have an adequate level of protection over their personal data.

Data Retention

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

Cookies are a form of technology used in the delivery and analysis of a website. When you visit a website, small text files are placed on your device temporarily. We track the webpages that our users visit, in order to determine what content are the most popular. This data is used to better tailor our content to you by allowing us to understand better 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 have the ability to accept or decline cookies by clicking the cookie banner when you first visit our websites. You can view our Cookie Policy here.

 

Data security and storage of personal data

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 to 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, technological security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and anti-virus software.