Privacy Statement

This website is maintained by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. The Department fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear and explicit permission.

Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated securely and confidentially in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.

Collection and use of personal information

This website does not collect any personal data, apart from information that you volunteer, when providing feedback or subscribing to be notified about a consultation for example.

Any information you provide in this way is used only for its specified purpose. For other types of information collected relating to website visitors see below.

Information we collect

We may collect the following information from each user of this site:

• Previous website address from which you reached us, including search terms used
• Personal data you provide voluntarily (e.g. via contact forms or email)
• Technical data such as:
  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of access
• Subscription account:
  • We use MailerLite to manage our subscription list. The MailerLite Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available on their website.

Legal Basis

We process personal data based on:

• Your consent
• Our legal obligations
• The performance of a public task

How We Use Your Data

We use your data to:

• Respond to queries or feedback
• Send updates, notifications, and other information related to your use of the service
• Provide and improve the organisations service: to operate, maintain, and enhance the service, and to provide customer support
• Generate anonymised usage statistics

We do not use your data for marketing or share it with third parties unless required by law.

Cookies

This website uses Fathom Analytics for website analytics, which does not use cookies and complies with Data Protection legislation. Using this privacy-friendly website analytics software, your IP address is only briefly processed, and we have no way of identifying you. As per the CCPA, your personal information is de-identified. You can read more about this on Fathom Analytics’ website. The purpose of using this software is to understand our website traffic in the most privacy-friendly way possible so that we can continually improve our website and business. The lawful basis as per the GDPR is “Article 6(1)(f); where our legitimate interests are to improve our website and business continually.” As per the explanation, no personal data is stored over time.

Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil its purpose or comply with legal obligations.

Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Rectify inaccurate data
• Erase your data (where applicable)
• Restrict or object to processing
• Lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission: https://www.dataprotection.ie

More information and how to make a request

If you are concerned about how personal data is processed via this website, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention. To do so, you can contact the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation's Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@per.gov.ie

Changes to This Statement

This statement may be updated periodically. Please check this page for the latest version.