Privacy Policy

Business For Biodiversity Ireland is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information, and how we use and store it.

Who we are: Business For Biodiversity Ireland is a registered CLG. Our business address is:
Kinsale Community Enterprise Centre, Market Quay, Kinsale, Cork, P17HR12, Ireland.
You can contact us at manager@businessforbiodiversity.ie.

We collect personal information in the following ways:

1. When you register as a member of Business For Biodiversity Ireland, we collect your name, email address, details about your organisation, role and sector, plus information on your areas of interest and areas of expertise. The purpose of this is for us to know who our subscribers are and what they are interested in so that we can deliver relevant communications and events. 
2. Registration data are stored on WordPress and periodically exported for analysis in Excel, and will be held for the lifetime of this CLG and for no longer than a period of 4 years after that. You can de-register and have your data permanently removed at any time by emailing manager@businessforbiodiversity.ie.

2) Registering as a member automatically signs you up to receive email newsletters from us. Newsletter mailing lists are stored on Mailchimp.com or Hubspot. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time using the unsubscribe link at the bottom, or by emailing manager@businessforbiodiversity.ie.

3) When you sign up for events, we collect your name, contact information, and, on occasion, dietary and logistical requirements through the ticket registration process. This is carried out by us via email or occasionally via the Eventbrite app which has its own privacy policy, in order to facilitate your attendance.

4) We also use anonymised data to understand how visitors to our websites are using the site. These data are collected by Visitor Analytics and stored on WordPress.

Newsletter signup data are stored on Mailchimp, Hubspot and other sign-up data in WordPress. We will never sell your data or share it with third parties without your consent.

You will always have:

• The right to access the personal data that we hold about you, together with other information about our processing of that personal data, in a timely manner, that is within one month of request
• the right to require us to rectify any inaccuracies in your personal data;
• the right to require us to erase your personal data;
• the right to request that we no longer process your personal data for particular purposes;
• the right to object to our use of your personal data or the way in which we process it; and
• the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller.

  If you are not satisfied after contacting us to rectify any issues, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission, see www.dataprotection.ie or you can contact their Office at:Lo Call Number: Tel: 1800 437 737
  E-mail: info@dataprotection.ie
  Postal Address: Data Protection Commission, 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, Ireland

If you have any questions, please contact us: manager@businessforbiodiversity.ie.