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Privacy Notice

As you might expect from the focus of this website, every effort is made to ensure that your data protection rights are respected. This includes only collecting the minimum personal data necessary, enabling privacy by default (e.g. no tracking) and the purposeful selection and configuration of service providers and their platforms to minimise privacy risk to individuals.

The following sets out details regarding what personal data is collected and how it is used in the provision of this website and its services. In general, such data is processed in order to deliver website content and a newsletter.

👋🏻 Who Runs Privacy Transformation?

This website and newsletter (feel free to sign up 🙌🏻) is provided by me (Alan Mac Kenna). You can contact me at:

📨 Type Of Personal Data Collected

Personal data collected in the provision of this website include:

  • ✍🏻 Name and email address (when signing up to the newsletter).
  • 💻 Identifiers (such as IP Address) are processed in the course of providing the website to visitors. Such information is only processed incidentally by the hosting provider.
  • 🍪 Cookies: None.
  • 📌 Email newsletters do not have tracking enabled and so no information (such as open rates) are collected in the provision of the newsletter.

🎯 Purpose For Processing

The primary purpose for collecting and processing an individuals personal data is to send a newsletter. The information necessary to do so is provided directly by subscribers on the basis of their consent, which can be withdrawn at any time.

🔐 How Your Personal Data Is Stored

This website is hosted in Amsterdam by Ghost Foundation who provide the Ghost Pro platform and associated functionality (e.g. newsletter) that the website uses to provide its services to users. Personal Data is stored within the Ghost Pro platform. Ghost implements various technical and organisational measures to ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of data. More information can be found here.

🏢 Third Parties

The following third parties are used in the provision of this website:

  • Ghost Foundation: The Ghost Pro platform is used to deliver this website and newsletter to users. It is hosted within the EU (Amsterdam). Where Ghost make data transfers outside of the EEA, they rely on SCCs with additional safeguards in place. More information can be found Ghost's Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy.
  • Cloudflare: Cloudflare is used to manage the domain name and Domain Name System (DNS) resolution for this website. More information can be found in Cloudflare's Data Processing Addendum and Privacy Policy.

🛡  Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection law, you have the following rights:

  • 📄 Right of Access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.
  • ✔ Right to Rectification: You have the right to ask to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • 🚮 Right to Erasure: You have the right to ask for erasure of your personal data.
  • 🛑 Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to ask to restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • ✋🏻 Right to Object to Processing: You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
  • 📤 Right to Data Portability: You have the right to ask that your personal data that you provided is made available for transfer to another organisation, or to you.

If you make a request, you can expect a response within one month. To make a request, please contact:

🤖 Automated Decision-Making, Including Profiling

Nope.

😡 Complaints

I hope it doesn't come to this, but if you have any concerns about the use of your personal information, you can make a complaint by contacting me at:

You can also complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The DPCs contact details are:

Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland

Phone: 01 7650100 / 1800437 737

Website: https://dataprotection.ie/