Who we are

Our website address is: http://www.project60.ie.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Users are required to login before they comment and this is via a Social Media Account. Comments are moderated and we can remove comments deemed to violate the spirit of the website or if they are considered by us to be :

  • false/misleading
  • inaccurate
  • biased
  • racsist/sexist
  • defamatory
  • self promoting 

We reserve the right to temporarily or permanently banned select visitors from commenting on this website if they are deemed to have infringed the commentary policy or its spirit of collaboration. 

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We provide a contact form purely for the purpose of visitors to make enquiries. The submissions in these forms is held for 12 months only and then is deleted. The submissions are not shared with any 3rd party and the enquiry information submitted is only every used to reply back to the sender.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics data to annonymously collect data on our website about visitor interactions. This data cannot identify you as an individual but it will give us insights around how visitos us our website and how we can make improvements in the user experience.

Who we share your data with

The data we collect via Contact Forms is only ever used to reply to your queries and is not shared with third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you submit a query via a contact form on our website then we store this contact information for 30 days after which it is deleted.

Additional information

How we protect your data

This website uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates to encrpyt and secure your any information submitted via forms on this website.