RIP.IE PRIVACY POLICY
RIP.ie Website Privacy Notice
1. Background
Gradam Communications Limited trading as RIP.ie, ("We" or “RIP.ie”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. RIP.ie is part of the Irish Times Group of companies as follows:
The Irish Times, irishtimes.com, newsdelivery.ie, myhome.ie, The Irish Examiner. irishexaminer.com the Evening Echo, echolive.ie, breakingnews.ie, recruitIreland.com, the Laois Nationalist, Kildare Nationalist, Carlow Nationalist, Western People; Waterford News and Star, the Roscommon Herald, WLR FM, Gloss.
This statement (together with our terms and conditions and cookie policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
2. Data About RIP.ie
RIP.ie is a Data Processor where we offer the use of our site to clients. For example, where a Funeral Director posts a death notice on our site, the Funeral Director is the Data Controller, Rip.ie is the Data Processor.
This information is a general description of processing activities and information. Please contact us should you wish to receive specific information on processing activities that relate to your personal data.
It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such data.
Our contact details: info@RIP.ie
3. What Does This Privacy Notice Cover?
This Privacy Data explains how we use your personal data: how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.
4. What is Personal Data?
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any data relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any data about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious data such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious data such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
5. What Are My Rights?
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
- The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Notice should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions.
- The right to access the personal data hold about you.
- The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. The right to be forgotten, i.e., the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have.
- The right to restrict (i.e., prevent) the processing of your personal data.
- The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
- The right to data portability.This means that, if you have provided personal data to us
- directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data
- is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way. For more data about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner, contact details as follows:
The Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House
Station Road
Portarlington
R32 AP23
Co. Laois
Telephone: +353 57 686 4800 / +353 76 110 4800
Lo Call Number: 1890 252 231
Fax: +353 57 868 4757
Email: info@RIP.ie
6. How Do You Use My Personal Data?
We may occasionally conduct surveys to gather feedback about our services or to understand your preferences better. Participation in these surveys is entirely voluntary. If you choose to participate, we may collect and process personal information such as your name, contact details, and responses to survey questions. We will use this information solely for the purpose of conducting the survey and improving our services.
Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. Your personal data may be used for one of the following legal bases:
- Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else's interests).
- Where it is needed in the public interests or for official purposes.
- Your consent
7. Information about deceased individuals
We process personal data of deceased individuals. The GDPR does not apply to deceased individuals. Our processing activities related to deceased individuals are primarily limited to the publication of death notices . We take appropriate measures to ensure that personal data of deceased individuals is handled with care and respect
RIP is the data processor for the following purposes of processing
Purpose | Personal Data |
|---|---|
| RIP is Processor: Death Notice Posting by Funeral Director, if not advertised | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above |
| RIP is Processor: Death Notice posting by Funeral Director, if advertised | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above |
| RIP is Processor: Death Notice posting by Funeral Director, if advertised | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above |
RIP is a data controller for the following purposes of processing
Purpose | Personal data | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Other Notice Posting e.g. Family Notice (PAID) such as Acknowledgement Anniversary via Funeral Director | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above | Contract |
| Other Notice Posting e.g. Family Notice (PAID) e.g. such as Acknowledgement Anniversary, month’s mind, birthday remembrance ... via family | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above | Contract |
| Fulfill shop orders | Name, Address, Contact Details. Order recipient details, if different to above | Contract |
| Registration of new members to provide services to members | Email address | Legitimate interest |
| Processing donations | Name, address, email address, payment details | Contractual necessity to process the donation |
| Printing condolence book | Name, address | Legitimate interest in providing a service to mourners |
8. How do you keep my data secure and confidential?
We are committed to ensuring that your data is secure with us and with the third parties who act on our behalf. We have a number of security precautions in place to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your data. All staff working for RIP.ie have a legal duty to keep data about you confidential and all staff are trained in data security and confidentiality. RIP.ie has strict data security policies and procedures in place to ensure that data about you is safe, whether it is held in paper or electronic format.
9. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected and in accordance with the legal obligations. In general, your data will be retained for no longer than is necessary to comply with our business and legal obligations.
10. Do You Share My Personal Data?
We use cookies and similar technologies to facilitate our Services in the retrieving of your user preferences; to personalise your visits; for the operation of our website; to collect statistical information about our visitors for analytical purposes (we use Google Analytics, Google Signals and Comscore); to simplify any sign-in procedures; understand user numbers, demographics and interests; and to provide social media features. In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
11. How and Where Do You Transfer My Personal Data?
When your personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the EEA and under the GDPR. There is not an adequacy decision by the European Commission in respect of some of these countries.
This means that the countries to which we transfer your data are not deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information. However, to ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection we have put in place the following appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those.
12. How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email address shown below.
If at any stage the data you have provided changes (e.g., change of email address) RIP.ie should be notified in writing, so our records can be updated.
13. Automated decision-making
Automated decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. We do not envisage that any decisions will be taken about you using automated means, however we will notify you in writing if this position changes.
14. How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details info@rip.ie
15. Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our practices in a way that affects personal data protection.
