Privacy Policy under GDPR regulation - Knockea National School

This privacy policy describes how our company collects, uses and discloses your personal information and data when you use our services through our websites and/or application.

What kind of data is collected?

Our company collects the following set of data and information:

Personal identification information (name, physical address, email address, phone number…)
Images, videos

How is the data collected?

You provide our company with most of the data we collect, we collect data and process personal data and information when:

You register online or place and order for any of our products or services
Use our website or application when cookies are set on your device

Our company might also receive data and information indirectly from the following sources:

Flurry (https://www.flurry.com)
Firebase (https://www.firebase.google.com)
Count.ly (https://count.ly)
AppsFlyer (https://www.appsflyer.com)
Facebook App Event (https://developers.facebook/coom/docs/app-events)

How will we use your data?

Our company collects your data so that we can:

Process your order, manage your account
Send you email with special offers on products and services

When our company processes your order it may send your data to credit and banking agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases that can include third-party payment processors.

How is the data stored?

Our company securely stores your data in France (Europe).

Our company will keep your information for 12 months. On this time period has expired, we will delete your data by automated cron job.

Device model (anonymous)
OS version (anonymous)
Device’s language (anonymous)
Geolocalisation if provided
Country (deducted from geolocalisation)
City (deducted from geolocalisation)

Data protection rights

Our company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user has, if applicable, the right to:

The right to access: you have the right to request our company for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: you have the right to request that our company corrects any information you believe is inaccurate or mistaken. You also have the right to request our company to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: you have the right to request that our company erase your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: you have the right to request that our company restricts the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: you have the right to object to our company’s processing of personal data under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: you have the right to request that our company transfers the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions.

If you have any request regarding this matter we have a month to answer you. If you want to exercise any of these rights please contact us by using the following contact detail: principal@knockeans.ie

Send us an email at: principal@knockeans.ie

Privacy policies of other websites or third-party

Our company’s website might contain links to other websites, our privacy policy applies only to our website and/or application and services so if you click on another website you must read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page, this privacy policy was last updated on 22/05/2023.

Contacting us

If you have any questions or demand about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercice one of your data protection rights, please contact us at: principal@knockeans.ie

Send us an email at:

Contacting the appropriate authority

If you have any complaint or concern regarding how your data is managed you can contact the appropriate authority at: dpo@dataprotection.ie

Updates do this privacy policy

Our company will revise or update this policy from time to time, if we make significant changes to how we handle personal information we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the end.

Updated on: 22/05/2023

Cookie Policy and other similar tracking technologies (GDPR and non GDPR)

When you visit Knockea N.S. we may send cookies or other similar tracking technologies to your computer or to any other device you use. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track user’s preferences and to know how he uses our services.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

Cookies are used for user identification and proper assignment of historical user data collected during previous visits.

Both temporary cookie files (session cookies) and persistent cookies are used. Users may delete or remove cookies for the browser at any time or block cookies from being installed on its device. However this may affect the operation of our services or even result in its blocking.

As described above, we use your personal information and data to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example (CHECK THE COOKIES YOU ARE ACTUALLY USING):

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

GOOGLE - https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

We can use different type of cookie or tracking technologies while you are visiting our website and/or application:

Strictly necessary cookies: These types of cookies enable you to access and browse websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like billing or shopping baskets cannot work properly.
Performance cookies: these cookies collect information and data about how you use our websites and/or application. The data collected can be used to optimize our websites and/or applications. These cookies are used to know where our visitors and users are coming from. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.
Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website or application to remember your choices. They can be used to memorize your localisation, or your preferences such as language settings or font size.

How to manage cookies?

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website and/or application tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However some of our websites and/or applications might not work properly without the use of cookies.

Here are some of the main explanation on how to delete cookies on your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome); https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox); https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera); https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer); https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

For mobile devices, if you don’t want to receive targeted advertising based on your center of interest coming from a mobile application, please check the parameters of the operating system of your mobile device and follow these instructions: 1) iOS Users: to enable “Limited Ad Tracking” follow the instructions given by Apple. 2) Android Users: to enable the option “deactivate ad personalisation”, follow the instructions given by Google on Google Play. 3) You might want to download the DAA mobile AppChoices application to control behavioral advertising online.

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