Lough Neagh Partnership (“we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Introduction
This Privacy Policy, relates to our use of any personal information (referred to throughout this Privacy Policy as your “personal data”) we collect from you via the following online services:
- any Lough Neagh Partnership website or service that links to this Privacy Policy
- social media or official Lough Neagh content on other websites
- mobile applications (“apps”)
It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence and in person.
In order to provide you with a full range of Lough Neagh services, we sometimes need to collect information about you. This Privacy Policy explains the following:
- what personal data Lough Neagh Partnership may collect about you;
- how Lough Neagh Partnership will use personal data we collect about you;
- whether Lough Neagh Partnership will disclose your personal data to anyone else;
- your choices regarding the personal data you provide to us;
- the use of cookies on Lough Neagh Partnership websites and how you can reject cookies.
Whenever you provide personal information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal data, including the Data Protection Act 1998 up until 24 May 2018, and on and from 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Please read the following carefully to understand our view and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Contact Us
This website www.discoverloughneagh.com; www.loughneaghtours.com; www.loughneaghlp.com; and other online services are being offered to you by:
Lough Neagh Partnership
Unit 3 The Marina Centre
135a Shore Road
Ballyronan
BT45 6JA
Telephone: +44 (0)28 7941 7941
Email: info@discoverloughneagh.com
Lough Neagh Partnership is the Data Controller of the personal data it holds about you.
What information will Lough Neagh Partnership collect about me?
Information that you provide to us
The personal data that we collect and process about you may include:
- Personal data that you provide by participating in, accessing or signing up to any of Lough Neagh Partnership’s services, activities or online content, such as newsletters, competitions, requesting material via post and to use Lough Neagh Partnership’s websites and apps.
This data can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, business name, job title, gender and date of birth.
We may also ask you for information, for example when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may ask you to complete surveys or provide feedback about Lough Neagh Partnership’s websites and apps, which we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Information we collect in relation to social media networks
Where we provide personalised services, we may ask your permission to review third party data about you, for example, your Twitter or Facebook feeds, to get to know you better and to provide more effective personalisation.
Some of our services enable you to sign-in via a third party service, such as Facebook. If you choose to sign-in via a third party app, you will be presented with a dialog box which will ask your permission to allow Lough Neagh Partnership to access your personal information (eg. your full name, date of birth, email address, profile picture and location). Please note that any information that is not required by the particular service you have opted to use will not be retained by Lough Neagh Partnership.
Please note, you can withdraw your permission for Lough Neagh Partnership to review any of the information set out above by contacting us info@discoverloughneagh.com tel: 028 7941 7941
Information we collect when you use websites, products, services or applications from us
In order to improve and provide a better a user experience, Lough Neagh Partnership collects information about how you use Lough Neagh Partnership websites, apps, products, services and other Lough Neagh online content, and the device(s) you use to access the services.
This includes:
- Unique online identifiers such as IP addresses, which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the Internet. We may use your IP address to determine your location or country of origin.
- Details of your usage patterns and the content (including any advertisements) that you view and interact with. For example, when you use our websites, we may collect information about your visit, such as your browser software, which pages you view and which items you clicked on.
- Service, product or server logs, which hold technical information about your use of our service, product or websites, such as domain, device and application settings, errors and hardware activity.
- Device information such as your device ID(s), including information about where your device is physically located. For example, when you are using a geo-location service or application and you have given consent to your location being shared.
- Interests and preferences that you specify during set up or registration of any product or service.
How will Lough Neagh Partnership use the information it collects about me?
We may use the personal information you provide to us, or which we collect, for a range of purposes including:
General
Lough Neagh Partnership will use your personal information to:
- provide our services, activities and online content, to provide you with information about them and to deal with your requests and enquiries.
- provide services to fulfill a contract.
- provide you with the most user friendly online experience.
Marketing communications
We may use your information to provide you with product and service updates, email newsletters and other communications about existing and/or new products and services by post, email, telephone, in-device messaging and/or text message (SMS).
We may personalise the message content based on information you have provided to us and your use of Lough Neagh Partnership’s platforms.
We may use information which we hold about you to show you relevant advertising on third party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter). This could involve showing you an advertising message where we know you have used a Lough Neagh product and service.
If you don’t want to be shown targeted advertising messages from Lough Neagh Partnership, some third party sites allow you to request not to see messages from specific advertisers on that site in future.
We use your personal data in this way because you have consented to us doing so. You can change your mind at any time in the future by contacting us by emailing info@discoverloughneagh.com tel: 028 7941 7941
IP addresses
We track IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users, to establish the number of visits from different countries, and to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not.
We can use your data in this way because it is in our interest in promoting and managing our business to do so. We balance this interest with the impact on you and it will assist us to provide the best service to you.
Personalised content, recommendations and advertisements
We may use the information we collect and/or any information which you share with us to personalise our websites, apps, services, content, recommendations and adverts, and provide a more relevant, tailored service.
You may notice this personalisation when you use our products and services, when we send you marketing communications and when you visit our own and third party websites that show advertisements from us or our advertising partners (for example, you might see an advertisement for a product that you have recently viewed on one of our websites).
For instance, we could use your viewing history on www.loughneaghtours.com to provide personalised recommendations of things to do, events and places to stay near Lough Neagh.
Some of the personalisation that you see on our websites or in our online advertisements makes use of cookies set by us or our third party advertising partners.
If you are subscribed to email newsletters, you may receive a personalised service. If you don’t want to receive these services you can unsubscribe from email newsletters by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email.
Analysis and research
We use your information for analysis and research purposes so that we may improve the services offered by Lough Neagh Partnership. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.
We can use your data in this way because it is in our interest in promoting and managing our business to do so. We balance this interest with the impact on you and it will assist us to provide the best service to you.
Will Lough Neagh Partnership share my personal information with anyone else?
Lough Neagh Partnership does not sell or pass on your personal details to third parties without your consent, except in the following, highly unlikely, instances:
- where it is required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order
- where it is required urgently to prevent serious loss or damage to property of Lough Neagh Partnership
- where it is required for the purposes of obtaining legal advice or for the purposes of, or in the course of, legal proceedings to which Lough Neagh Partnership is a party or a witness.
Generally, we will use your information within Lough Neagh Partnership and will only share it outside Lough Neagh Partnership where you have requested it or given your consent. However, we may share with third party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter) some data, with appropriate security measures, to show you relevant advertising on third party sites.
Sometimes Lough Neagh Partnership uses third parties to process your information on our behalf, for example to provide services or analysis. Lough Neagh Partnership requires these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and Lough Neagh Partnership requires that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes, unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in this way.
Where we store your information
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.
Cookies
Lough Neagh Partnership uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and online services. This helps us to provide you with a good user experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. Please see our Cookie Policy outlined below:
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, that is sent to your computer, tablet or mobile phone’s web browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive.
Each website can send its own cookie to your web browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website, in order to track online traffic flows.
Similar technologies are also often used within emails to understand whether the email has been read or if any links have been clicked.
If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on Lough Neagh Partnership’s websites. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time.
How does Lough Neagh Partnership use cookies?
We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:
- analysing how you use our website
- giving you a better, more personalised experience
- recognising when you’ve signed in.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies let you use all of the different parts of our website. Without them, services that you might require cannot be provided.
Access to information we hold on you
You can contact us for one of the following reasons by emailing info@discoverloughneagh.com or by writing to:
Lough Neagh Partnership
Unit 3, The Marina Centre
135a Shore Road
Ballyronan
BT45 6JA
To ask us to fix information about you that is wrong or incomplete, this is known as a right to rectification.
To ask us to delete information about you, this is known as the right to erasure.
To tell us you no longer agree to us using information about you and ask us to stop, this is known as a right to object.
To tell us to stop using information about you to sell you products and services, which is known as the right to restrict processing.
To make a “subject access request” – which is a request for us to send you the information we have about you.
To ask us to provide you or someone else (on your request) in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format with the information you have provided to us about yourself. This is known as a “data portability” right.
To ask us not to use information about you in a way that allows computers to make decisions about you based solely on automated processing.
Sometimes we will not stop using your information when you ask us to, for the reasons described in this notice, but we will tell you about this if you make a request.
In other cases, if we stop using your information we will not be able to provide the services that you are asking us to give you. We will tell you about this if you make a request.
Security
Lough Neagh Partnership takes appropriate measures to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, apps and services and periodically updates its security measures in light of current technologies.
You need to be aware, however, of inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the Internet. Lough Neagh Partnership cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any personal information you submit to our sites. If you have concerns in this regard, Lough Neagh Partnership has other ways of obtaining and providing information such as post or telephone. Contact us by emailing info@discoverloughneagh.com for more information.
Lough Neagh Partnership sites may also be linked to websites operated by third parties. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party sites do not constitute endorsement on the part of Lough Neagh Partnership of those sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the owners and operators of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and practices on each site which asks you to submit personal information.
How long will Lough Neagh Partnership keep information about me
We are only allowed to keep our information if we need it for one of the reasons we describe above.
We will keep it for up to 2 years since your last contact with us.
Complaints
If you are not happy with the way we are processing your personal data, you can contact us by emailing info@discoverloughneagh.com or phoning 028 7941 7941 and we will discuss your consents.
You also have the right to complain about how we treat your personal data to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”). The ICO can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.
Conditions of use and revisions
Lough Neagh Partnership’s function may change in the future and Lough Neagh Partnership reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion. Any modifications that do occur will be effective upon such time as the amendments are posted on the website. Users shall be deemed to accept the modified policy by continuing to access Lough Neagh Partnership’s site or services on or after the date of modification.
Review
We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review.
Queries
If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by emailing info@discoverloughneagh.com