Privacy Policy

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The purpose of our Data Protection and Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting our website and throughout the course of various interactions pre, post and during your interactions with Plant a Tree Grow a School.

By availing yourself of services, attending events and/ or by visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Data Protection and 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.
If you are not happy with this policy you should not use this website and please inform us immediately at info@plantatreegrowaschool.ie, as this may impact how we interact with you (‘you’ applies to you as an individual and/or as a company/ group).

Plant a Tree Grow a School respects your right to privacy. Any personal data that you volunteer to Plant a Tree Grow a School, if retained, may be held on our cloud-based file hosting service, on our web/email provider’s system or other such third party services as are necessary to manage our data and provide a professional service to you. These service providers are responsible for adhering to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

We may contact you to notify you regarding your query or purchase, to resolve a dispute, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email or telephone.

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. 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.

Personal data is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include, for example, your name, address or e-mail address or emails, notes, etc. that specify your name or can be identified as relating to you.

Plant a Tree Grow a School collects any personal data that you volunteer to provide (for example by e-mailing us or by completing any on-line forms).

We use this personal data that you volunteer to us in various ways, including to::

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyse how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service
• To contact you in response to communications you might send us
• To provide you with the information/service you have requested. This may include completion of forms and questionnaires
• To send you email alerts and/or newsletters that you have opted-in to receive by filling in our online forms or contacting us by email or by other means. We also provide the facility to opt-out of receiving such communication within each such email we send you.
• Find and prevent fraud

Plant a Tree Grow a School follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Like any other website, Plant a Tree Grow a School uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Cookies are small packets of information which are stored by your web browser. They are put on your web browser by the websites that you visit. If you wish to ensure that cookies are not used, please see below or visit Your Oneline Choices . For further details on cookies in general, please see All About Cookies. Please be aware that disabling cookies will mean the control tool will no longer function effectively and may have an adverse effect on your overall browsing experience.

We also use cookies on this website to maintain the functionality of the website and generally, to continually improve the services we offer you through this website. No personal details are stored in this process and the information collected is only used in aggregate.

Click on the cookie ID to see it’s Domain, Duration and Description:

We don’t seek to collect your personal information and where we do, we strive to anonymise your personal information as soon as practicable.

Plant a Tree Grow a School’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. 

You can choose to disable cookies through the cookie settings on this site, available from the icon in the bottom left of your window. You can also disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Your data will not be disclosed to third parties unless such disclosure is required in order to deliver services that you have requested or by law.

We minimise the level of data that we collect and retain and we review data held on a six monthly basis to consider if it is still required.

We retain records of contracts, invoices, receipts, book-keeping, bank account payments, etc. for a period as required by the Revenue Commissioners or as deemed appropriate in the specific circumstance.

We reserve the right to change the above retention period if, for example, our professional accrediting bodies require a longer retention period.

Personal contact details may be retained and used (only by or on behalf of Plant a Tree Grow a School) unless you ask us to delete such records or desist from sending certain communications. If you wish to do so, you are invited to contact us.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Plant a Tree Grow a School does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a restructuring of our organisation, provided that the third party has an equivalent privacy policy in place and all necessary legal requirements are complied with.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.</p>

Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of West Cork Sudbury School and the Privacy Policy Generator.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.