Consent to collect information

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at management@writerscentre.ie or mailing us at: Irish Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland, D01 E102.

Types of data we collect

Contact information and Purchasing Data

When you purchase a course, membership or gift voucher(s) through the Irish Writers Centre office or website your name, address data, email and contact number will be stored in our system. We do not share your personal details with any other company without your consent.
We may provide course facilitators with your email address so that they can provide you with materials for the duration of your course. Facilitators are not permitted to use your information for any other purpose unless permission has been given you.
We may contact you regarding your experience of the Irish Writers Centre courses and resources. This feedback and information is used to improve our services and is never passed on to other organisations.

Mailing Lists

As part of the registration process for our monthly e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to inform you about the activities of the Irish Writers Centre; 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 Deputy Director at management@writerscentre.ie.

Payment Data

Our store is hosted on WooCommerce. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our courses and services to you.
Your data is stored through WooCommerce’s data storage, databases and the general WooCommerce application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Our payment gateway provider is Stripe. They store your credit card data which is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Website and External Links

We use cookies so that you can experience the full functionality of our website. You can take a look at the breakdown of cookies used through our site for further information. Some cookies may be set by third-parties when you are interacting with content such as YouTube video embeds. When you click on external links, they may direct you away from our website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

Access to your personal information

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our Deputy Director at management@writerscentre.ie with the subject line ‘Data Protection’.

Changes to this policy

This policy was updated in January 2022.

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