Data Protection Statement

Last Updated: Monday 15 March 2021

CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about this Data Protection Statement or the way in which your Personal Data is being used by us please contact:

Data Protection Officer, Taste Wexford

Email: hello@tastewexford.ie

References to “we”, “us”, and “our” shall apply to Taste Wexford.  

When we refer to “Personal Data” in this Data Protection Statement we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘Data Subject‘); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

OUR DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), we are required to explain to you why we need your Personal Data, how we intend to use it and whether we will share it with anyone else. We must also explain your rights under the GDPR and related data protection law in relation to our processing of your Personal Data. For your convenience we have divided our Data Protection Statement into sections. This general section is applicable to everyone and covers activities which are applicable to all individuals we interact with. 

The other sections set out specific information relating to the following individuals:

  • Members

  • Business Contacts

We treat the protection of your personal data very seriously and when we collect and process your Personal Data, we will do so in accordance with the GDPR and the Data Protection Acts 1988 – 2018 in Ireland (the “Data Protection Laws”).

WHO THIS DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT APPLIES TO

We process Personal Data about a wide range of people. This general section includes information relevant to all Data Subjects including:

  • users of our website and online shop;

  • individuals who receive marketing communications;

  • members which include a range of food, hospitality and tourism providers;

  • business partners which include suppliers and strategic corporate and public sector partners.

SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA

We receive Personal Data from a variety of sources, as follows:

  • the Personal Data is often provided as part of the relationship;

  • the Personal Data may be collected from public sources;

  • the Personal Data may be collected through our website;

  • the Personal Data may be collected indirectly from a website or from a third party; or

  • the Personal Data may be collected through our training programmes.

Website Visitor Data

When you make a payment on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing address

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.


Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Click

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

You can control the sharing of data on your device via your privacy settlings.


Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.


Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address


Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.