Privacy Policy

This statement pertains solely to our privacy practices related to this website.

The website corkalliancecentre.com is operated by the Cork Alliance Centre, a registered charity located at 6 Robert Scott House, St. Patrick’s Quay, Cork City.

The Cork Alliance Centre supports individuals released from prison and residing in the Cork area, helping them to better manage their lives. Our primary programs include the Desistance & Integration Support Programme (DISP) and the Community Support Scheme (CSS).

When we collect information?

We gather personal information from our website and social media pages when:

- You visit our website; we collect specific information related to your device.

- You interact with us through our social media platforms.

- You submit a job application via our recruitment section.

What type of information do we collect?

We collect, receive, and store any information you provide on our website or through other means. Additionally, we gather the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet. We may utilise software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, duration of visits to certain pages, page interaction details, and browsing methods.

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect both non-personal and personal information for the following reasons:

1. To provide and operate our services.

2. To offer ongoing client support to our users.

3. To generate statistical data and other non-personal information to enhance our services.

4. To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

How do we store, use, share and disclose your site visitors’ personal information?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to share our services with you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?

Our web servers use cookies to automatically collect certain information when you visit corkalliancecentre.com, including your IP address, information about your browser and the device you are using. They also collect information about what you do on corkalliancecentre.com like the pages you visit and actions you take on the website.

Cookies are small data files sent from a web server to your web browser and stored on your web browser. They store data about how you interact with websites and send the information back to the server each time your browser requests a page from the server This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

We use ‘session’ cookies on the website. These cookies are used to keep track of you whilst you navigate the website.

We use Google Analytics to collect and analyse data on the use of corkalliancecentre.com. Google Analytics uses cookies to generate statistical and other information – not including identifying personal date like your name or email address. This information is stored by Google. We can only use information to generate reports about how our website visitors use and interact with corkalliancecentre.com.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to corkalliancencetre.com is restricted by the Google Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Terms of Use.

Contacting Cork Alliance Centre

If you have questions about your rights or concerns regarding how Cork Alliance Centre handles your personal data, please reach out to:

Administrator,

6 Robert Scott House,

St Patrick's Quay, Cork City, T23 Y2EA

Email: sinead@corkalliancecentre.com

Office: 021-4557878, (8.30am-5pm Mon-Thurs, 8.30am-2pm Fri)

Contacting the appropriate authority

You also have the right to lodge a complaint directly to the Data Protection Commissioner which is the authority for handling Data Protection related to complaints in Ireland.

The Data Protection Commissioner

Canal House, Station Road,

Portarlington,

Co. Laois

R23 AP23

Email: info@dataprotection.ie

We periodically review and update corkalliancecentre.com and this page, so please check back frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon posting on the website. If we make significant changes to this policy, we will notify you here to keep you informed about the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may use or disclose it

The Privacy Policy was last updated on 30th September 2024.