INTRODUCTION
We at Green Tech Skillnet C/o Wind Energy Ireland respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988, 2002 AND General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us. By using www.windenergyireland.com or gtsskillsconnect.ie (“our websites”) and submitting any personal information to us, you agree to the use by us of your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement.
TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
PERSONAL DATA
We do not require registration for access to www.windenergyireland.com or gtsskillsconnect.ie but if you participate in any of the activities or services offered by our websites, we will collect the personal information that we need in order to provide you with those services, such as:
NON-PERSONAL DATA
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you such as your IP (Internet Protocol) address, details of the pages you visit on our websites, and which browser you used to view our websites. We may also collect other information via www.windenergyireland.com or gtsskillsconnect.ie, such as web site usage activity and preferences, also known as demographic or profile data. In this connection we may use “cookies” to collect this information. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. Our cookies are not available to third parties. You can still use our website if you have cookies turned off. We may use third-party plug-ins on our site which use cookies to improve and personalise your experience.
PURPOSE OF WHICH WE HOLD YOUR INFORMATION
PERSONAL DATA
We collect personal information from you in the following circumstances:
PURPOSE OF USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use your personal information to:
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form for research purposes only. This web site collects standard internet log and technical data to measure and improve the effectiveness of this web site, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer this web site, to see where web site traffic is coming from and to provide you with an enhanced customer experience.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
It is our company policy not to disclose any personal information with any third party. Your data will be managed securely by the Green Tech Skillnet and only used by Green Tech Skillnet and Wind Energy Ireland or its service providers to provide services to you on our behalf. In general, we do not share your personal information with third parties (other than service providers acting on our behalf) unless we have a lawful basis for doing so. We rely on third-party service providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf, such as website hosting, electronic message delivery, payment processing, data analytics and research. This may mean that we have to share your personal information with these third parties. When we share your personal information in this way, we put in place appropriate measures to make sure that our service providers keep your personal information secure. From time to time, we may disclose personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. Other situations in which we may disclose your personal information to a third party, are:
INFORMATION SECURITY
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We require all employees and principals to keep personal information confidential and only authorised personnel have access to this information. We will retain your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy. We will retain your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy which set out
data retention periods required or permitted by applicable law.UPDATING, VERIFYING AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA
You may inform us of any changes in your personal data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and the GDPR we will update or delete your personal data accordingly. Please contact us at Training@windenergyireland.com
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it.
This document was last update on 28/05/2021