This Data Protection and Privacy Statement has been developed to provide assurance to you in relation to Sage Advocacy’s commitment to maintaining your privacy. Sage Advocacy clg. is the Data Controller, for the purposes of the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018 (as amended), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the 2011 “ePrivacy Regulations” (S.I. No. 336 of 2011 – the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy And Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011).
The Data Protection Officer has overall responsibility for ensuring that all personal information received is handled in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679). Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted on 01-5367330 or at compliance@sageadvocacy.ie.
Sage Advocacy collects information and personal data through correspondence with us by phone, email, post, drop-ins to the office, visitors to our website, and on CCTV at our office on 24-26 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7.
We collect personal information to enable us to respond to your queries, enquiries, requests for information and advocacy service. With your consent we may also collect ‘special category’ or sensitive information from you or about you if it is necessary to support our work with you. We will only collect the information that we need in order to provide you with a service.
The lawful basis for Sage Advocacy to process your personal information is that you have given us your consent to process your data so that we can provide you with a service.
We use your data in a number of ways in order to respond to your request, query or advocacy need. This includes:
With your consent we may share your personal data with third-parties, i.e. stakeholder professionals/organisations when it is necessary to support the case work we are doing with, and for you.
It may also be necessary for us to share your information without your consent under the following circumstances:
Sage Advocacy will only share your information in the circumstances above. Otherwise, we do not share or transfer data to any organisations or other jurisdictions. Furthermore, we have contracted with external ICT companies to manage the storage, back up and security of our digital and telephone systems. These companies are compliant with the GDPR 2018.
Sage Advocacy endeavours to protect all personal information in its possession from being accessed, lost, deleted or damaged unlawfully or without proper authorisation through the use of data security measures.
Maintaining data security means making sure that:
This statement is subject to change and any such changes to our statement will be posted on our website without prior notification. Contact the Data Protection Officer on (01) 5367330 or compliance@sageadvocacy.ie if you have any questions about your data privacy.