Privacy Policy
CBC Monkstown Park Past Pupils Union ("CBC PPU")
Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy")
We in the CBC PPU respect your right to privacy and fully comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to outline how we collect and deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website, and how we use "cookies" technology. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Privacy Policy, you should not use this website.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites, including that of Paypal, Inc. Different terms and conditions may apply to such websites, and such websites may not maintain the same standards of privacy as this website. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
1. Types of Information Collected:
We retain two types of information:
1.1 Personal Data
This is the data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and date of birth. This can include information relating to any transactions carried out between you and CBC PPU on or in relation to this website, including information relating to booking of events, membership information membership renewal payments, or any other information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters. This information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us, and we will always inform you of the reasons why we request your Personal Data.
1.2 Non-Personal Data
Similar to most websites, we gather statistical information collected on an aggregate basis on all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
2. Purposes for which we hold your Information:
2.1 Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:
(a) To provide you with information about the events, activities and other matters connected with CBC PPU, or its authorised affiliates;
(b) To contact you if required in connection with your enquiry and to respond to any communications you might send us;
(c) To allow the Executive Committee (with the assistance of fellow past pupils) to organise reunion events; or
(d) To allow CBC Monkstown Park (the "School") to organise events involving past pupils,
provided that, at all times, such information shall be processed only under the supervision of a member of the Executive Committee and solely for the purposes noted above.
2.2 Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.
2.3 Cookies
This website uses "cookies" technology. A cookie is a piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so that you do not have to re-enter them each time that you connect to our website. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may restrict your ease of use of this website.
3. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties:,
3.1 We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information collected from other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of the website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we provide this information may include our website design, development and hosting contractors. In this regard, we will, of course ensure that your personal information can in no way be uniquely identified.
3.2 We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required in order to process an application or other communication from you or to perform the services that you have applied for. We will however disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention).
4. Security:
4.1 Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet Service Provider. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using encryption technology. We take our responsibilities in relation to the security of your Personal Data very seriously. The nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet.
4.2 No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data and we will review these measures regularly.
5. Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data:
5.1 You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data and, in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.
5.2 To find out what Personal Data we hold on you, please e-mail us. Any such requests may be subject to a prescribed fee which is currently fixed at €50 and we will reply to you within 40 days.
5.3 To have your Personal Data rectified (if it is inaccurate) or erased (if we do not have a legitimate reason to hold your Personal Data) please e-mail us. We will comply with a request to rectify your Personal Data (if it is inaccurate) or erase your Personal Data (if we do not have a legitimate reason to hold it) within 40 days of receiving such a request from you.
5.4 You can ask us at any time to stop or change the methods by which we send you communications by e-mailing us.
6. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy:
6.1 Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstance, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by e-mail, and you will have a choice as to whether we use your information in the new manner.
