Privacy Policy

This notice relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. This privacy notice does not cover other websites that we link to from this site. If you have questions about how a site uses your information, you will need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Who we are

Léargas is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. We work under the aegis of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science (DFHERIS) and our Board is appointed by the Minister. We also work in close partnership with the Department of Education, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and Department for Arts, Tourism Sports. Our Registered Charity Number is 20020330. Our CHY (Revenue) Number is 8317. Our Company Number is 208725.

We manage funding programmes in international exchange and cooperation in formal and non-formal education. To manage these programmes properly, we need to process personal data of people who may be interested in, apply for, and/or take part in these programmes. Staff in Léargas, the relevant government departments, the European Commission and other agencies and evaluators with whom Léargas works have access to the information and use it only for the purposes for which it was supplied.

Your right to privacy

We fully respect your right to privacy. Any personal information that you volunteer to Léargas will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with the Data Protection Bill 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (EU 2016/680). Any information you provide is used by Léargas only in line with the purpose for which you provided it. Your personal data may also be anonymised and used for statistical purposes.

Types of data we collect

Website Cookies

Our website uses cookies to collect information.  Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device (such as your computer, tablet or smart phone) as you browse this website.  They are used to ‘remember’ when your device accesses our website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience.

We use cookies to collect information about your browsing behaviour; this includes information about pages you’ve viewed and your journey around our website. We use this information to judge how well we’re meeting the information needs of our website visitors.

You can disable cookies by changing your website browser settings to reject cookies.  How you do this will depend on the browser you use. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Google Analytics

Our Platforms use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google Inc. For more information on Google Analytics and their Privacy Policy, visit their Safeguarding your data page.

The collected data will be transferred to, and stored on, a server in the USA operated by Google, Inc. Google, Inc. may transfer this data to third parties where required by law, or other third party processors used by Google, Inc. You may prevent cookies from being stored in relation to your visit to, and use of, our website.

HubSpot

Elements of our website are hosted through Hubspot. This website uses a HubSpot tracking code which uses cookies or similar technologies to track visitors. We use the information gathered to improve our website functionality, the user experience and content.

HubSpot uses log files. Log files may collect demographic information from you, for example, address, age, gender or interests. They may also collect information about your computer hardware and software. This can include your IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, on-site behaviour, feature use metrics and statistics. This information is used for the newsletter Subscription Service. For these purposes, we do link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information such as name, email address, address, and phone number.

Navigational Information

We may collect navigational information when you visit HubSpot-hosted web pages on our website. The navigational information is used to improve your experience of using the website and to ease navigation around the site.

Mailing Lists

As part of the subscription process for our Newsletters, we collect personal information. We use that information to tell you about events, training courses, deadlines and relevant articles or blogs. We use a third-party provider, HubSpot, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our Newsletters and their delivery. You can unsubscribe to our mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails. We don’t rent or trade email lists with organisations and businesses. For more information, please see Hubspot’s privacy policy..

Event Registration

We use a number of different providers to allow people to apply for or register directly for various events (which may be held either online or at a venue). When you register using these tools, we use the personal data you provide to help us manage the event and meet your information needs. We may also use the data to build our lists of people who may be interested in hearing about or receiving funding through our programmes. We don’t rent or trade registration lists with organisations or businesses.

Here is a list of the tools we use for event registration and links to their Privacy Policies: SALTO, EventBrite, SurveyMonkey and Facebook.

Requests regarding data supplied via this website

You are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to dpc@leargas.ie We will respond to you as soon as possible and will take no longer than 30 days to process.