Flying Ducks Personal Data Protection Notice
Flying Ducks (“we”, “us” or “our”) operates the “www.flyingducks.ie” website and is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Data Protection Notice tells you about your privacy rights and sets out how we collect, use, process and disclose your personal data relating to your interactions with us. This Data Protection Notice should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy.
Our website address is: https://www.flyingducks.ie
Information we may collect from you
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect and process any type of personal data you provide to us in the course of your interactions with us. Personal data may include (but is not limited to):
- Name
- Email Address
- Telephone Number
The purpose and legal basis for the collection of personal data are set out below:
| Purpose | Legal Basis |
| To collect contact details from you | Consent To enable us to communicate with you and provide our service |
| For direct marketing | Consent |
If you do not provide us with your personal data we may not be able to provide you with our services or respond to any questions or requests you submit to us via our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
We will use the information you provide to enable us to contact you.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google analytics to improve user experience. You can find details about their Privacy Policy here.
Disclosure of your personal data
We will not share your Personal Data with third parties unless required to do so by law.
Retention of your Personal Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We will store your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes that it was obtained.
What rights you have over your data
You can exercise your right to access your right to your personal data. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We use third party security software to protect your data as much as possible.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of those websites, please note that those websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those policies. Please check those policies before you submit any personal data to those websites.
Our Contact Details
If you have any concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us.