PRIVACY POLICY

Gerri’s Place Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Gerri’s Place uses the personal data that we collect from you when you use our website.

 Topics:

o   What data do we collect?

o   How do we collect your data?

o   How will we use your data?

o   How do we store your data?

              

Marketing

o   What are your data protection rights?

o   What are cookies?

o   How do we use cookies?

o   What types of cookies do we use?

o   How to manage your cookies

o   Privacy policies of other websites

o   Changes to our privacy policy

o   How to contact us

o   How to contact the appropriate authorities

 

What data do we collect?

We collect the following data:

  • Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)

  • Financial information (credit card details, donation amounts, etc.) Details relating to your purchase (for example, personal preferences) Email address

  • Name, Phone number.

  • When you buy/pay/donate on our website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your: Billing and shipping address

  • We may share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

  • Our payment processor(s) StrikePay, Gofundme and Paypal will also collect payment information from you.

You can read their privacy policy at

•                     https://www.strikepay.co/

•                     https://www.gofundme.com/en-ie

•                     https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/business

•                     Demographic information (age, gender, location, etc.)

•                     Browsing data (IP address, browser type, pages visited, etc.)

•                     Registration form which is deleted once weekend is compete

•                     Evaluation form

Online contact us or subscription form

o   When you submit information to our website via a webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your questions. We share this information with Squarespace, our web hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

 

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Gerri’s Place with most of the data that we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.

  • Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.

  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

  • Register or agree to be on our mailing list

  • Register to receive news or newsletter

  • Register to receive information about our services

 We may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Social media platforms

  • Third-party donation platforms

  • Referrals from partner organisations

 

Our website collects personal data to power our site analytics. Our website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  •  Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  •  Web pages you view while on this website

  •  Your IP address

 Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling, Searches, Timestamp. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

The website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from the site to the following third party services: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

•                     Information about your browser, network and device

•                     Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

•                     Your IP address

 

 How will we use your data?

Gerri’s Place collects your data so that we can:

•                     Process donations, subscriptions, bookings and manage your account.

•                     Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.

•                     Email you with updates on our activities, events, and other information

•                     Determine whether a wellbeing break is suitable at this time

•                     Contact you to as part of our assessment to determine suitability at this time

•                     Surveys. Administer surveys and promotions on services offered

•                     Promote our Services and send you tailored marketing communications about services, offers, programs and promotions and we use squarespace and to measure the success of those campaigns

 

If you agree, we may share your data with our partner practitioners so that they may offer you their products or services.

When we process your order/booking, your data will be processed by our banking and financial management systems and yours and may send your data to, and also use the resulting data to credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases and manage payments.

Payments Services

We use certain third party service providers (including Stripe, paypal, gofundme) to: (i) operate and provide the Squarespace Payments Services, and process payments. We transmit some of your personal information via an encrypted connection to our payment processor.

How do we store your data?

Gerri’s Place uses squarespace to host it’s website. Squarespace, and its affiliated products, store your data in Tier III data centers across the United States. It serves images and other static assets via multiple geographically distributed content delivery networks (CDNs). This system ensures that the data in each page view is served from the data center closest to the visitor’s location.

We will keep your data for 30 days Once this period has expired, we will delete your data.

Marketing

We would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies. We may share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Gerri’s Place from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of Gerri’s Place such as our volunteer service providers.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click here.

What are your data protection rights?

Gerri’s Place would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

•                     The right to access – You have the right to make a request to Gerri’s Place for a copy of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee if you request subsequent copies of this data.

•                     The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Gerri’s Place correct any information concerning you that you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Gerri’s Place to complete any information concerning you that you believe is incomplete.

  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Gerri’s Place erases your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Gerri’s Place restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Gerri’s Place’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Gerri’s Place transfers the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make any of the requests outlined above, we will respond to you within one month. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us at our email:

Email us at: privacy@gerrisplace.ie

Call us: 089 2540990

Or write to us at: Gerri’s Place, Terenure Enterprise Centre, Unit 6 Desk C, 17 Rathfarnham Road, Terenure, Dublin 6 (please mark as private and confidential)

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

Gerri’s Place uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

•                     Keeping you signed in

•                     Understanding how you use our website

 Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionalities of our website. Without these cookies, our website cannot operate properly. They are typically set in response to actions made by you, such as filling out forms or setting your privacy preferences. Examples: Session cookies, authentication cookies.

Performance Cookies: Performance cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. They help us understand which pages are visited most frequently, how users navigate the site, and if they encounter any errors. This data allows us to improve the functionality and user experience of our site. Examples: Google Analytics cookies.

Functional Cookies – Gerri’s Place uses these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

Advertising – We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Examples: Social media cookies, third-party advertising cookies.

Third-Party Cookies: In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website and may deliver advertisements on and through the website. These cookies are set by external services like social media platforms or advertising networks. Examples: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter cookies.

 

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser to reject certain cookies, and allaboutcookies.org will instruct you on removing cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Gerri’s Place website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy. 19

 

Changes to our privacy policy

Gerri’s Place keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 17 July 2024.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Gerri’s Place’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: privacy@gerrisplace.ie

Call us: 089 2540990

Or write to us at: Gerri’s Place, Terenure Enterprise Centre, Unit 6 Desk C, 17 Rathfarnham Road, Terenure, Dublin 6 (please mark as private and confidential)

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Gerri’s Place has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC).

https://www.oic.ie/en/collection/e165b-contact-us/