Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT: May 2021

The Irish Focusing Network is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you or you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. As Data Controllers under the Data Protection Act 1988 we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of the Irish Data Protection legislation and will ensure that we:

Obtain and process information fairly.
Keep information only for specified, explicit and lawful purpose.
Use information only in ways compatible with these purposes.
Keep information safe and secure.
Keep information accurate, complete and up to date.
Ensure that information is adequate, relevant and not excessive.
Retain information for no longer than is necessary for the specified purpose or purposes.
Give a copy of personal data to the individual from whom it was taken on written request.

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time and from time to time without notice by publishing a new version on our website. Please refer to the top of this document to see date of the latest version in force.

1. CONSENT

By using our website and voluntarily providing any personal data to us, you confirm that you agree to and consent to the terms of this Privacy Statement including the collection and use of information, to the extent that your consent is required by any applicable law.

2. IDENTITY

This is the privacy policy of The Irish Focusing Network. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, about how we process your personal data or have any complaints, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

3. PURPOSE

Information we collect on the website may be used for the following purposes:

To enable you to become a member of the network or to renew your membership
To process your membership
To collect and make payments due and administer our accounts.
To make changes to your settings and profile at your request.
To provide information to you about our website, systems and services and to keep you updated generally.
To keep you informed of courses and events which might be of interest to the members of the Focusing community
To communicate with you concerning any enquiries, services, problems and complaints, and to respond to any submissions, enquiries or requests from you.
To keep internal records and maintain reasonable archives, including concerning enquiries, services, and complaints.
To carry out surveys and analyse the results to help us improve the functioning of the network
For any other purpose for which we have obtained your consent

4. DISCLOSURE

The Irish Focusing Network will not share your data with any third party except in the following circumstances.

Where any facility on our website is clearly designed to make certain of your personal data public (e.g. posts you make to our Facebook group), then any personal data you provide in relation to that forum, which is provided in circumstance where it is clear that it is intended to be published, will be disclosed accordingly, subject to moderation by us.

We may supply personal data to a government authority or regulator where required to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice or where reasonably required to protect your vital interests. We may disclose your personal data where otherwise required by or permitted by law.

We may provide links to a number of other web sites that we believe might offer you useful information and services. However, those sites may not follow the same privacy policies as us. Therefore, we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the actions of any third parties, including any web site owners whose sites may be reached through this Site, nor can we control the activities of those web sites. We urge you to contact the relevant parties controlling these sites or access their on-line policies for the relevant information about their data collection practices before submitting any personal information or other sensitive data.

This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information. In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organisations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organisations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media pages.

5. RIGHT OF ACCESS

Our privacy policy is not a contract, nor does it form part of any contract. You have certain non-contractual rights in accordance with legislation. Should you contact us regarding these rights, we are entitled to request proof of your identity before we act, and may refuse to act if you do not provide this.

You may request information on whether we are processing personal data about you, to tell you what personal data we are processing and for what purposes, and to provide you with a copy of your personal data that we hold.

All requests must be in writing and may be submitted by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and you will receive a response within 30 days of receipt of your written request.

If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress or delete Personal Information that you have previously provided to us, you may contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database, or other limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information.

6. RIGHT OF RECTIFICATION OR ERASURE

All requests of rectification or erasure must be in writing and may be submitted by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and you will receive a response within 30 days of receipt of your written request.

You have the right to request us to cease using your personal data for any purpose, subject to exceptions.

You have the right to request us to rectify, block, erase or destroy any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.

7. EXTENT OF DATA BEING PROCESSED

We process the following types of personal data:

Personal Data – concerning you as an individual which includes some or all of the following: your name, address, telephone, mobile, e-mail, and any other information provided to us by or in relation to you which concern you as an individual.
Survey Information – information collected or generated out of any surveys we conduct.
Membership – Information concerning your memberships of the Irish Focusing Network.
Correspondence – Correspondence, communications and messages, including between you and us..
Website Usage Information – We may collect information about your visits to, browsing of, and use of our website, unless your web browser blocks this. The range of data we collect will depend on how you interact with our website. This information may include: your IP address (a unique identifier allocated to your computer for your connection to the internet); your computer device details (PC, tablet, smartphone, watch etc.); the make and version of web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) you are using; your operating system (e.g. Windows, Windows Phone, OSX, iOS, Android, Linux etc); your time-zone; your browser plug-ins; any web-page you came from, identified as the referrer web page address by your web browser; cookies; page response times; download error; pages and parts of pages you visit; usage you make of our website, including enquiries and searches undertaken, and registrations for accounts, forums etc.; services and products you viewed; length of visit to website and pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling, keys pressed, mouse clicks, touches, and mouse-overs). This will normally be collected and used anonymously, and aggregated for analysis, with your name and any characteristics identifying you remaining anonymous, but our privacy policy will apply, and it will be treated as your personal data, if this information is in any way linked to you personally. This information may also include: data inputted into forms and field; registrations for any accounts, forum, feedback mechanism, social functionality, newsletters or other features of our site; usernames and passwords, log-in / out history, and settings; actions taken within any account or other registration, including view and update and changes to settings; and posts to any forum, feedback, review or other social functionality on our website.
To collect and make payments due and administer our accounts. Payments are made through a secure server, administered by Stripe ™ The Irish Focusing network has no access to, or record of, your credit/debit card details.
To collect and make payments due and administer our accounts. Payments are made through a secure server, administered by Stripe ™ The irish Focusing network has no access to your credit/debit card details.

We collect or generate personal data in the following way:

Visiting our website – By visiting and using our website you or your computer may provide personal data. This includes: information which is automatically provided by your browser to our servers; information record on our web servers about your interaction with our website and pages viewed; information we capture or place on your computer or generate using cookies or other technologies on our website; and information you input into forms and fields on our website.
Data you provide – Your personal data will include data you provide (or later amend), whether: from correspondence with you; verbally to us over the phone or in person; by filing in any field or form on a website; by filling in any printed form we provide you with; by e-mail; from documents you provide use with; and from updates to any information to provide from time to time. This includes when you: register or subscribe for any service, account, members, or make an enquiry whether in person, by phone, through our website or otherwise; send us your comments or suggestions; and subscribe to any newsletter or other publication.

8. SECURITY

We (and any affiliate, subcontractor or other person processing your personal data on our behalf) may transfer, store and otherwise process your personal data anywhere in the world. Where we disclose your personal data to third parties, that disclosure may also involve a transfer of your personal data anywhere in the world, and those third parties may themselves transfer, store or otherwise process that information anywhere in the world. In each case, we will comply with any legal requirements concerning the transfer of your personal data by us to any third party outside the country where we are established, and where your personal data is still controlled by us or is being stored or otherwise processed on our behalf, our security measures will also apply.

We are committed to doing what we reasonably can to keep your personal data secure, and we are obliged by law to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data. We have accordingly implemented security policies, rules and technical measures with a view to achieving this:

We use Secured Socket Layer (“SSL”) software in order to encrypt the personal information that you provide to us whilst it is in transit over the internet. This will work if your browser is SSL enabled (which most are). You can verify that this is working by looking for the symbol of a closed lock or solid key on the bottom bar of your browser window, and checking that the prefix for the web address in the browser address bar has changed from “http” to “https”.
The personal information we collect from you online is stored by us and/or our service providers on databases protected through a combination of physical and electronic access controls, firewall technology and other reasonable security measures.
For your own privacy protection, we encourage you to maintain anti-virus and other malware protection software on your computers and other devices, and to maintain your own measures to protect your personal data. Please do not include sensitive personal data in any e-mails you may send to us, including payment card information.

We also encourage you to be careful about whom you give personal data to.

We never contact you to ask you for sensitive personal data, such as payment card information, or sensitive personal data such as log-in details. Please let us know if you someone purports to contact you in our name.

9. USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

Our website and all the services provided are not intended for individuals under the age of eighteen (18) and we request that they not do not use our website and do not provide personal information through our website. Our Privacy Statement prohibits us from accepting users who are under the age of 18 and all persons under the age of 18 are directed not to use, post information to or submit queries on this website. Should we inadvertently acquire personal information or other data from users under the age of 18, we will not knowingly provide this data to any third party for any purpose whatsoever, and any subsequent disclosure would be due to the fact the user under age 18 used the website and submitted personal information without solicitation by or permission from us.

10. ACCURATE, COMPLETE AND UP TO DATE

We are not responsible for ensuring that any personal information submitted by you on or through our website and our online services are accurate and up-to-date. Should you wish to verify whether or not the personal information you provided us with, that is held or may still be held by us is up-to-date, you may contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

11. ADEQUATE, RELEVANT AND NOT EXCESSIVE

Unless specifically requested, we ask that you not send us or disclose, any sensitive Personal Information on or through our website and our online services or otherwise to us.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes.

12. RETENTION

We keep your personal data for so long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which we use it, and if longer, for any duration required by law.

13. COMPLAINT RESOLUTION MECHANISM

The laws we comply with are regulated by Data Protection Commissioner. If you have a complaint or concern, please feel free to contact us to discuss the matter and we will strive to assist you and resolve your issue. Should you wish to seek assistance from a government regulator, the Data Protection Commissioner contact details are here below:

Data Protection Commissioner:
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland

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