Introduction
Welcome to the Privacy Notice of Techmeetup.Space
Techmeetup.Space respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This
Privacy Notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website
(regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects
you.
This Privacy Notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set
out below.
Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this Privacy
Notice.
- IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
- THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
- HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
- HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
- DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
- INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
- DATA SECURITY
- DATA RETENTION
- YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
- DATA SECURITY
GLOSSARY
1 Important information and who we are
1.1 Purpose of this Privacy Notice
(a) This Privacy Notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your
personal data through your use of this website), sign up to our newsletter, submit a
query or use other online services.
(b) This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating
to children.
(c) It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with any other Privacy Notice
or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting
or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we
are using your data. This Privacy Notice supplements the other notices and is not
intended to override them.
1.2 Controller
(a) This Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of Techmeetup.Space CLG, having its
principal place of business at Dogpatch Labs, CHQ Building, Custom House Quay,
Dublin 1, which is the controller and responsible for this website.
(b) If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to
exercise your legal rights, please contact info@DUMMY.ie.
(c) You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the Data Protection
Commission ("ODPC"), the Irish supervisory authority for data protection issues at
info@dataprotection.ie. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your
concerns before you approach the ODPC so please contact us in the first instance.
1.3 Changes to this Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new
Privacy Notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways
from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
1.4 Changes to your personal data
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep
us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
1.5 Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on
those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data
about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their
privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the Privacy
Notice of every website you visit.
2 The data we collect about you
2.1 Types of Data
(a) Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual
from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity
has been removed (anonymous data).
(b) We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you
which we have grouped together as follows:
(i) Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or
similar identifier, title/position, date of birth and gender.
(ii) Contact Data includes billing address, business address, business name,
email address and telephone numbers.
(iii) Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, device identifier, your
login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser
plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other
technology on the devices you use to access this website.
(iv) Profile Data includes your LinkedIn profile username, your interests,
preferences, feedback and survey responses.
(v) Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
(vi) Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving
marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
(c) We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic
data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is
not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal
your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the
percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or
connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly
identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in
accordance with this Privacy Notice.
(d) We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes
details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual
orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health
and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal
convictions and offences.
2.2 If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with
you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the
contract we have or are trying to enter into with you.
3 How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
3.1 Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data filling in forms or by
corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you
provide when you:
(a) subscribe to our publications;
(b) request marketing to be sent to you;
(c) enter a survey;
(d) apply for a job in our "Careers" section;
(e) give us some feedback; or
(f) submit a query.
3.2 Third parties or publicly available sources.
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including Technical Data
from analytics providers/advertising networks and search information providers such as
Google.
4 How we use your personal data
4.1 Lawful basis
(a) We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we
will use your personal data in the following circumstances where:
(i) we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered
into with you;
(ii) it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your
interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;
(iii) where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
(b) Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal
data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to
you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at
any time by contacting us at info@DUMMY.ie.
4.2 Purposes for which we will use your personal data
(a) We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use
your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also
identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
(b) Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground
depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact
us at info@DUMMY.ie if you need details about the specific legal ground we are
relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set
out in the table below.
| Purpose/Activity |
Type of data |
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
| To register you as a new
client
|
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
|
performance of a contract with you |
|
|
|
To manage our relationship
with you which will include:
(a) notifying you about
changes to our terms or
privacy policy
(b) asking you to complete
a survey and
(c) other activities arising in
the day to day
maintenance of our
relationship with you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and
Communications
(a) performance of a contract with
you
(b) necessary to comply with a
legal obligation
(c) necessary for our legitimate
interests (for research/lobbying
purposes, to keep our records
updated, to engage with Scale
Ireland stakeholders and to
study how clients use our
services and develop our
offerings)
To administer and protect our
business and this website
(including troubleshooting,
data analysis, testing, system
maintenance, support,
reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (for running our
business, provision of
administration and IT services,
network security, to prevent
fraud and in the context of a
business reorganisation or
group restructuring exercise)
(b) necessary to comply with a
legal obligation
To deliver relevant website
content and advertisements to
you on our website, third party
websites and social media
channels, and measure or
understand the effectiveness
of the advertising we serve to
you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and
Communications
(f) Technical
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (to study how clients use
our and services, to engage with
Scale Ireland stakeholders, to
develop them, to grow our business
and to inform our marketing strategy)
Marketing to you about our
activities
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (in promoting our activities,
supporting our marketing strategy
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(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and
Communications
(f) Technical
and sending you marketing materials,
noting that you have the right to
object to such marketing
communications at any time).
(b) you have provided consent (which
may be withdrawn at any time)
To carry out lobbying (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (to undertake lobbying and
advocating your views to
governmental
bodies/politicians/public officials in an
attempt to influence governmental
policy/decisions.
To use data analytics to
improve our website, offers,
marketing, client relationships
and experiences
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (to define types of client for
our various offerings, to keep our
website updated and relevant, to
develop our business and to inform
our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and
recommendations to you
about offers that may be of
interest to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(a) necessary for our legitimate
interests (to develop our services,
grow our business and engage with
Scale Ireland stakeholders)
4.3 General marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly
around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control
mechanisms set out in paragraphs 4.4 – 4.8
4.4 Promotional offers from us
(a) We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view
on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is
how we decide which services may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
(b) You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information
from us, received a service from us, or if you provided us with your details have not
opted out of receiving that marketing.
4.5 Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any
company outside Techmeetup.Space for marketing purposes.
4.6 Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us
at info@DUMMY.ie at any time.
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4.7 Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites
set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this
website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Change of purpose
(a) We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless
we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is
compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the
processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please
contact us at info@DUMMY.ie.
(b) If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and
we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
(c) Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or
consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by
law.
5 Disclosures of your personal data
5.1 We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set
out in the table in paragraph 4 above:
(a) Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary;
(b) External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary;
(c) third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business
or our assets; alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with
them; if a change happens to our business, then the new owners or newly acquired
businesses may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy
Notice.
5.2 We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in
accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your
personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for
specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6 International transfers
6.1 Many of our external third parties are based outside the EEA so their processing of your
personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
6.2 Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of
protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
(a) We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to
provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European
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Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the
protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
(b) Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by
the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in
Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the
transfer of personal data to third countries.
6.3 Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when
transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
7 Data security
7.1 We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition,
we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third
parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our
instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
7.2 We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will
notify you and any applicable supervisory authority or other regulator of a breach where we
are legally required to do so.
8 Data retention
8.1 We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we
collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting
requirements.
8.2 To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount,
nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use
or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data
and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal
requirements.
8.3 By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity
and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax and other legal
purposes.
8.4 In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
8.5 In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be
associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this
information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9 Your legal rights
9.1 Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your
personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
(a) Request access to your personal data
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(b) Request correction of your personal data
(c) Request erasure of your personal data
(d) Object to processing of your personal data
(e) Request restriction of processing your personal data
(f) Request transfer of your personal data
(g) Right to withdraw consent
9.2 If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at
info@DUMMY.ie.
9.3 You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other
rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded,
repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these
circumstances.
9.4 We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and
ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is
a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no
right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to
your request to speed up our response.
9.5 We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us
longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of
requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10 Glossary
10.1 Lawful Basis
(a) Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing
our business to enable us to give you the best offering and the best and most secure
experience; we make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both
positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our
legitimate interests; we do not use your personal data for activities where our interests
are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise
required or permitted to by law); you can obtain further information about how we
assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of
specific activities by contacting us at info@DUMMY.ie.
(b) Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the
performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request
before entering into such a contract.
(c) Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data
where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are
subject to.
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10.2 External Third Parties
(a) means service providers based in Ireland who provide IT, system administration
services and cloud storage services, including Google (GSuite) and MailChimp;
(b) professional advisers acting as processors or controllers including lawyers, bankers,
auditors and insurers based in the EEA who provide consultancy, banking, legal,
insurance and accounting services; and
(c) the Revenue Commissioners, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or
joint controllers based in Ireland who require reporting of processing activities in
certain circumstances.
11 Your Legal Rights
You have the right to:
Request access: to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access
request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to
check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction: of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have
any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify
the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure: of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove
personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have
the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully
exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your
information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with
local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of
erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your
request.
Object to processing: of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or
those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you
want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights
and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data
for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have a
compelling legitimate ground to process your information which overrides your rights and
freedoms.
Request restriction of processing: of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to
suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to
establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us
to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need
it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your
data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer: of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you,
or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used,
machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you
initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract
with you.
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Withdraw consent at any time: where we are relying on consent to process your personal
data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you
withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain
offerings to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.