Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: newhorizonathlone.org.
New Horizon – Athlone Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support, are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of all visitors to our web site newhorizonathlone.org.
In particular, we want you to know that New Horizon is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with companies and businesses for marketing purposes.
We are not a government-supported organisation and maintain strict confidentiality in all our dealings with refugees, asylum seekers, volunteers and other support groups.
We do need some information to be able to do our support work.
This Privacy Policy provides lots of detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
When someone visits newhorizonathlone.org we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns.
We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.
We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
WI-FI
New Horizon provides WI-FI to enable people to access online courses and information sources.
When you use New Horizon Wi-Fi we may collect data about:
a) your device;
b) the volume of data which you use;
c) the websites and applications which you access; and
d) your usage by access time, frequency and location.
Mailing Lists
As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.
You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our data protection officer Gerry Callaghan.
Who we share your data with
We may share limited personal information, such as name, gender, phone number, email addresses and study choices with our education partners.
We may share anonymised personal information with other organisations such as the Irish Refugee Council and our funders. They will use this anonymised data to develop refugee protection policies and evaluate projects.
We will not share sensitive information without the explicit permission of the information owner.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold.
Email your request to our data protection officer Gerry Callaghan
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
New Horizon Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Use of Content
New Horizon encourages the sharing and use of our website content by other community groups for non-commercial purposes. You may reproduce, distribute, and display content from this site, provided that:
- The use is for non-commercial purposes only.
- Proper credit is given to New Horizon as the source of the content.
- Any reproduced content is not altered in any way.
- A link to our website New Horizon is included.
For permissions beyond the scope of this license, please contact us directly at newhorizonathlone.org
Confidentiality
Any personal information shared with New Horizon through this website or any other communication means will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to any third parties without explicit consent, except as required by law. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information.
No Spam
New Horizon strictly prohibits the use of our contact information for unsolicited commercial communications. We value your time and privacy and will never send you spam. If you receive any unwanted or suspicious communications claiming to be from New Horizon, please notify us immediately at newhorizonathlone.org
Or if you prefer, Woody Gutherie’s copyright notice…
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don’t give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.
