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PRIVACY POLICY

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:

  1. personal details (e.g. name);
  2. contact details (e.g. mobile number, email address, county of residence);
  3. employment details (e.g. office number, occupational category; employer name, employer address);
  4. Demographics (e.g. age range, gender, education level achieved);
Payment Details (e.g. payment transactions issued through our website using Stripe payment services)
The Green Tech Skillnet will collect information relating to participants on training programmes, seminars, workshops or events partially or fully-funded by Skillnet Ireland from the National Training Fund through the Department of Education and Skills (DES). Skillnet Ireland is mandated by the DES to monitor and evaluate training programmes and to ensure that funds are being used appropriately. Skillnet Ireland and the Green Tech Skillnet will comply with all applicable Data Protection Legislation in the processing of the information and personal data provided by users in your registration form. Where you provide sensitive personal information to us voluntarily we will assume that we have your consent to use that information in connection with the purpose for which it has been provided. 

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: 

Delivering Skillnet Ireland training programmes, seminars, workshops, working groups or events via the Green Tech Skillnet.
Monitoring the training programmes of the Green Tech Skillnet. Skillnet Ireland is required by the DES to perform compliance reviews, evaluations of the training programmes, quality assurance and to verify attendance at training. You may be contacted either by telephone or email for these purposes.
For the purposes of providing aggregated statistical information to the DES to help inform national policy in relation to skills. You may be contacted by third parties, contracted by Skillnet Ireland to perform monitoring and evaluation activities for these specific purposes only. 
  • when you contact us to request further information
  • when you subscribe to any of our insights through our mailing list
  • when you subscribe to any of our blogs
  • when you register to attend an event

Skillnet Ireland relies on the legal basis of necessary legitimate interests to process your personal data. Further information on this can be found in the Skillnet Ireland Trainee Privacy Statement at:
https://www.skillnetireland.ie/data-protection/Skillnet-Ireland-Trainee-Privacy-Statement
We collect the minimum amount of information to enable us to deal with your request. We will indicate where the provision of information is voluntary or compulsory. We would normally only request additional information to enable us to provide the most appropriate response to your request. We only use the personal information that you provide to deal with your request, and to manage www.windenergyireland.com or gtsskillsconnect.ie and the services that we offer to you via www.windenergyireland.com or gtsskillsconnect.ie as described in this Privacy Policy. 

PURPOSE OF USE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

 We use your personal information to:

  • contact you to give questions and other information regarding the services we are providing to you;
  • ensure that our records are kept accurate and up to date where you, your employees or contractors work on or visit our facilities;
  • send you messages about products and services which we think will be of interest to you;
  • comply with legal obligations to which we are subject
We must have a legal basis to process your personal information. In most cases the legal basis will be one of the following:
  • to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, for example to ensure that invoices are issued correctly, and for ensuring you are able to access our premises when required;
  • to comply with our legal obligations to you, for example health and safety obligations while you are on our premises, or to a third party (e.g to comply with a court order);
  • to meet our legitimate interests so that: we are able to provide the services you request; our services function correctly in relation to your business; any complaints or concerns can be promptly relayed to you; we can respond to any questions or concerns you might have; we may carry out research and analysis to ensure products and services we offer are relevant to you, and; our records are kept up to date and accurate; and
  • send you direct electronic marketing messages to the extent you have consented to receiving such messages in accordance with applicable law.
NON-PERSONAL DATA 

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:

  1. perform other services we request from service providers;
  2. in the course of a sale or an acquisition of Wind Energy Ireland;
  3. where permitted by law, to protect and defend our rights and property; and
  4. when required by law, and/or public authorities;
We may also share aggregated information that cannot identify you for general business analysis, e.g. we may disclose the number of visitors to its websites or services. We do not provide information to third parties for their own marketing purposes and we do not undertake mailings for third parties. 

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