This privacy policy sets out how Euro-Toques Ireland uses and protects any information that you give to Euro-Toques Ireland when you use this website.
Euro-Toques Ireland is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Euro-Toques Ireland may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. This policy is effective from 25 May 2018.
WHAT WE COLLECT
We may collect the following information when you sign up to be a Chef member, Producer member, Partner or register to attend or participate an Euro-Toques Ireland event or competition:
- contact information including email address, postal address, telephone and mobile number, social media handles
- Members photographs
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- other information relevant to participating in our events and competitions.
WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send emails about ongoing activity in Euro-Toques Ireland, new membership benefits, or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for membership purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, or mail. We will only use your home or business address to send out plaques, stickers and any other Euro-Toques Ireland product you have requested from the office. We will notify you before products are posted.
SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
WEBSITE CONTENT
The materials [wording, photography and videography] contained in this website are intended for general information purposes only and are not intended to be, nor do they constitute, factual or legal advice or other professional advice. Euro-Toques Ireland accepts no liability for the material contained in these pages to the extent permitted by law in any jurisdiction that would or could arise from or as a result of reliance on the contents of this website.
The pages in the website are protected by copyright. No part of the website may be permanently copied or reproduced in any form or reproduced on any other website or stored in or transmitted to or from any other electronic or digital form in whole or in part. Links to our website may not be included in any other website without our prior written permission from an official representative of Euro-Toques Ireland. We reserve the right to withdraw this permission at any time. You may access and download the contents of these pages and store a copy of them on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of viewing those pages. Links within our website may lead to other sites. Euro-Toques Ireland does not support, endorse or otherwise approve of any information or statements appearing in those sites, nor in sites referred to in or linked to those sites. All moral rights and equivalent rights wheresoever arising in the contents of this website are hereby reserved asserted.
If Members or Partners would like their content updated or removed, please content us at office@euro-toques.ie.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website contain links to members websites and social networks, our partners websites and other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the Euro-Toques Ireland website, you are asked to tick our privacy policy box to say you have read and agreed to this statement.
- if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information and photographs for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at office@euro-toques.ie.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Please note we do outsource our accounts to a third party company, DLD Accounting. They have access to your contact information via our office only to process annual subscriptions and payment. We have a strict contract and policy in place with them on data privacy which is audited from time to time to make sure they have your data secured. This contract is renewed on an annual basis where data is removed, renewed and updated.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
You can access our Data Breach response plan here