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Data protection and privacy | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are hereAbout VSO IrelandAbout us Data protection and privacy VSO Ireland is single-minded to safeguarding your privacy online. This statement explains how we will collect, use and unroll information. This statement may transpiration from time to time, so please trammels this page periodically.  What information we collect Why we collect information Where we collect information from How long we alimony your information for Who we share your personal information with How your information is secure Further information Your rights It’s important that you finger completely well-appointed and confident that your personal information is in unscratched hands. Voluntary Service Overseas Ireland (VSO Ireland) takes protecting your privacy extremely seriously and takes all reasonable steps to ensure your information is secure.  The use of your personal information, why we collect it and what we save varies depending on how you interact with VSO Ireland, what consent you have given us and what the situation is. We have washed-up our weightier to indicate this throughout the statement. There may be other privacy policies that wield to unrepealable services we provide. We will make these explicit when they apply. Please read them surpassing you subscribe for such services. What information we collect? We may collect a variety of personally identifiable or sensitive information from you for various reasons. For example, we may collect: Any personal details you may segregate to requite us, such as your name, age, or address. We save this so we can alimony in touch with you. Your financial details, if you have made a kind donation to us. We need this to process your gift. Your education and employment background, in order to process your using if you have unromantic to work with VSO Ireland. Any equal opportunity data, or physical or mental health information that you may have given us if you wield to volunteer with VSO Ireland. This is so we can fully and fairly supervise your application.     Why we collect information Information helps make the fight versus poverty possible. Whenever you interact or communicate with us, we collect personal information. This information allows us to function and wilt more efficient. Some examples may include: Processing volunteer and employee applications. Your personal and sensitive information allows us to communicate with you and assess your suitability for the role. Continuously improving. We value any feedback, including complaints, you may have. In order to increase the impact we make and modernize the service we provide to you and others, we need to communicate with you and collect personal information. Fundraising. So we can communicate with you in the ways that suit you best, we may create a profile of your interests, preferences and support. Creating profiles allows us to target our resources effectively, which our supporters tell us is a key priority. We may use additional information which is publically available such as where you live or your age. This helps us make the right requests to the right people; for example, leaving a souvenir in your Will. Being worldly-wise to communicate with you is highly important to us, as your support can help transform the lives of poor communities virtually the world.   We would like to use the personal details you provide us to communicate with you well-nigh the impact you make and to requite you our news. We may moreover let you know well-nigh other ways you could help us – whether that’s through fundraising, campaigning, events, volunteering, trading activities or educational activities. We will unchangingly ask for your consent if we want to message you by email or text message; however we do not normally ask for consent to make calls or to write to you if you are a supporter or volunteer considering we have a legitimate interest to contact you, provided of undertow that this does not violate your fundamental rights. We will only make telephone calls to you where you have consented to receive them.  When you requite us your details we will unchangingly tell you what we are going to do with them. If we request your contact details for any reason, you will unchangingly have an option to not requite us them or to opt out. It is unchangingly your nomination and you can transpiration your mind at any time by contacting us directly. Where we collect information from Examples may include: From you directly, for example, when you fill out one of our volunteer applications or when you make a donation (thank you!). From external sources, for example, when you create a JustGiving page or when you interact with us on social media. From other organisations, when you requite permission or where your personal data is misogynist publically. An example of this includes measures of affluence. This helps us make towardly requests to supporters who may be worldly-wise and willing to requite more. It helps us raise funds and work increasingly quickly and forfeit powerfully than we would otherwise be worldly-wise to. Currently, we do not make use of wealth data providers but if we wish to do so in the future, we will unchangingly ask for your explicit consent. From our website, when you visit. For example, we use software such as Google Analytics to identify which pages on our website are visited most. This information is placid automatically. It does not contain any personal or sensitive information, so browsing is anonymous. For information on this, and the use of cookies, please click here. How long we alimony your information for We alimony personal information for variegated lengths of time dependent on the purpose. For example, we would like to alimony volunteer information vastitude the length of a placement so we can alimony in touch well-nigh our work, protract our relationship together and requite volunteers the opportunity to leave a souvenir in their Will. We want to ensure that the personal information we collect from you is used to thus support our work together and considers any future dealings that you would like to have with us. For example, many people ask to receive references for their volunteer work. In these cases it is important we have the correct personal information on file. You can contact us at any time to ask us to remove or update your personal information. Who we share your personal information with If you wield to volunteer or work for VSO Ireland, we will use your personal information to run checks versus official sanctions lists, which contain details of known terrorist individuals and entities (e.g. UN Sanctions). This ensures that VSO are not complicit in funding or supporting terrorism. We may moreover need to unroll your details if required to by the police, regulatory persons or legal advisers. We never sell your personal details with third parties for the purpose of marketing. Sometimes we may need to share your information with external organisations. Some of our suppliers and country offices are outside the European Economic Area. Whenever we share or transfer your personal information, we comply with the standards set by the GDPR and this privacy statement at a minimum. How your information is secure The security of your information is of utmost importance to us. We seek to use reasonable measures to protect your information as required by the law, in line with industry standards and in vibrations with the policies VSO has set. Sensitive data is held under strict security conditions. If you have any reason to believe that any personal information we hold is no longer secure, please contact us immediately. Further information The laws that say how your personal information can be used are: The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) At VSO Ireland, we try our weightier to go vastitude the minimum and moreover follow the weightier practice lawmaking by the Charities Regulator. You can moreover contact the Data Protection Commisioner's Office to find out increasingly well-nigh types of personal information, its usage and your rights, or to report a concern. Your rights You have the right to: Ask for a reprinting of the personal data that we hold well-nigh you (your right to access) Request that we delete personal data held on you, where we no longer have any legal reason to retain it (your right to be forgotten)Transpirationhow you hear from us, opt out of marketing communications and opt out of us holding your personal data if we have no legitimate reasons to do so (your right to object) Ask us to restrict processing of data – which ways that we would need to secure and retain your data for our goody but not otherwise us it (your right to restrict processing) Ask us to supply you with some of the personal data we hold well-nigh you in a machine-readable format to flipside organisation (your right to data portability). You can transpiration your liaison preferences or stop receiving communications from us at any time. 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