Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy

Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy

This website is maintained by the Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI). DCCI fully respects your right to privacy and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003 and General Data Protection Regulation, 2018.

We would like to guarantee all visitors to the designireland.ie website that under no circumstances do we carry out the following:

  • Share the information we track on this site, in any form with advertisers or other parties
  • Release personal information about any individual visitor

Information we may collect on this website: This website does not collect any personal data apart from information you volunteer e.g. when you log in to post an activity notice. Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose. Cookies remember information for member logins (names, emails and IP addresses, for example) and other than that are only used for anonymous analytics tracking.

What we use the information for: If you provide us with personal information such as your name or email address via our website, or our electronic publications and surveys, with your consent we may use that information to send you updates on our latest programmes/services and opportunities. You can choose to opt out of these communications at any time. To opt out of any email communications from us, please click the ‘unsubscribe’ link that appears at the footer of the email in question. Alternatively, if you wish to be removed from our database/mailing lists or have any further queries please contact us.

DCCI Cookie and Privacy Policy

DCCI Cookie and Privacy Policy

DCCI considers your privacy very important and treats any personal information you share with us as confidential. Please note that by using the designireland.ie website you are agreeing to the privacy statement detailed below. Please read this document carefully.

If you do not agree with any part of this privacy statement, please discontinue using designireland.ie or contact communications@dcci.ie.

Design Ireland (DCCI) may occasionally update its privacy policy so check this page regularly for any changes. Last updated: June 2020.

DCCI is not responsible for the privacy practices of any external websites linked to from this website.

General Privacy Statement

General Privacy Statement

DCCI only collects personal information that you give us, for example, through our online forms or through email. DCCI will never share your personal information with third parties without your consent. The only exceptions to this is where it is publicly available (i.e. listed on your website) or unless we are compelled to by law. You acknowledge that if we are obliged to disclose your information by law we will comply with legal process.

Your Rights Under GDPR

Your Rights Under GDPR

You have a right to know if DCCI holds personal information about you. You have a right to be told what information is being held and for what purpose it is being used. Your request should be made in writing to Nuala McGrath, DCCI HR & Corporate Services Manager, at nuala@dcci.ie. You have a right to be given a copy of the personal data we may have collected through this website. This service is free of charge.

Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Designireland.ie uses cookies. Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer to help your browser keep track of your movements on the site, remember preferences you may have selected or keep you logged in until you log out. Other cookies are deleted when you close your browser and only relate to the working of the website. Cookies are also used to anonymously collect marketing data, mostly through Google Analytics, which is used to assist us in the functioning of this website. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

When you first visit this website, you will see a message informing you about our Cookie Policy. If you click ‘Accept’, a cookie will be set that records your preference. Cookies may also be disabled in your browser settings. Please note that if you turn off cookies or change your settings, some features of the website may not work correctly.

Cookies are categorised as follows:

Strictly Necessary:
Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.

Performance:
Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor

Targeting:
Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.

Functionality:
Functionality cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website, eg. language, timezone, enhanced content.

Listed Cookies & Preference Options

Newsletter Subscriptions

Newsletter Subscriptions

If you sign up for our email newsletters, DCCoI will use the information you gave us to send you email newsletters.

You can unsubscribe from any of the DCCoI newsletters via the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the newsletter itself or by emailing us at communications@dcci.ie requesting it be removed from the mailing list.

Irish Law

Irish Law

This privacy statement and all issues regarding designireland.ie and dcci.ie are governed by Irish law.

Contact

Contact

For any queries, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@dcci.ie