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Privacy Policy

1. The information we collect

Automatic Data Collection

Google Services

Social Media

2. How we use the personal data we collect

3. Your Rights

4. Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information

5. Our commitment to security

6. Information collected for journalistic purposes

7. Transfer Outside the EEA

8. How Long We Keep Your Data

9. Complaints

Privacy policy

This is the privacy policy of IRadio and their legal successors.

This policy explains our approach to digital information collection, storage and use in connection with all our digital content. We are committed to protecting your privacy. IRadio will ensure that it keeps all personal data you provide to us in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU 2016/679).

We may update this policy from time to time, so please review it regularly. If you have any questions about this policy or the information which we hold, please contact us at: [email protected].

This policy applies to IRadio digital services only and not to other websites, APPs, social media sites linked to or from iRadio digital services.

The information we collect

IRadio will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and will not process your information in any way, other than as specified in this notice.

The personal data that IRadio collects if you if you make direct contact can be:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Contact Phone Number

IRadio collects your personal data when you;

  • fill out a contact form on our website
  • email the company
  • contact the company directly

Automatic Data Collection

IRadio use cookies to track the performance on our website.

Full details of the cookies we use and what they can do can be found in our Cookie Policy.

Google Services

iRadio uses Google Analytics to monitor the usage of it’s digital assets, this is based on legitimate interest and is an essential part of the running of any website. It provides the information we require to manage our server capacity and the popularity of our content. This information is anonymous.

Please see: https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html for more details.

Social Media

You should be aware that you may be making available personally identifiable information about yourself when you submit material to our social media pages or to other interactive elements of our digital services.

2. How we use the personal data we collect:

iRadio takes your privacy very seriously and will never disclose, share or sell your data without your consent; unless required to do so by law. We only retain your data for as long as is necessary and for the purpose(s) specified in this notice.

Automatic Data Collection

iRadio use cookies and capture IP addresses as part of the essential operation of our sites and media streams, this data is used to geo-fence our content and media streams so we can adhere to our licencing agreement regarding the broadcasting of licenced material.  We also use cookies to maintain preferences you have selected, manage load balancing and DDOS mitigation these cookies are used only for this purpose and do not track you beyond our digital assets.

Marketing/Advertising Cookies

With your consent we use marketing cookies to better target advertising and make it more relevant to you and your interests, we also use these cookies to frequency cap the number of times you will see an individual ad.  Advertising cookies collect information regarding your use of both our website and other websites you may visit. This information allows advertising networks to target their audience.

Where consent is not provided you will still receive ads but they will not be targeted.

You can find more about Advertising cookies here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

You can also have control over what third party cookies are used on your device by using tools like

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/your-ad-choices

Or

http://optout.networkadvertising.org/

Further details of the cookies we use can be found in our Cookie Policy.

Site Analytics

iRadio uses Google Analytics to monitor the usage of its digital assets which is an essential part of the running of any website.  It provides the information we require to manage our server capacity and the popularity of our content. This information is anonymous. Please see : https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html for more details .
iRadio also use a service called Chartbeat to provide analytics on site usage,  Chartbeat sets first party cookies on your device to allow them track unique users.

More information regarding Chartbeat's privacy commitment can be found here https://chartbeat.com/privacy/

The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below: -

  • We collect your data to administer a service which you have subscribed to and given consent for your personal data to be processed, this includes Station Newsletter and/or promotional material.
  • We collect your data as part of a competition entry to allow us contact you regarding the competition, and future competitions.
  • We collect personal data to administer your personalised preferences such as news content or preferred music and services.
  • We collect your personal data that you provide us with when you contact us directly to respond to your specific inquiry or to administer the relevant site activity where we have a legitimate interest.
  • We automatically capture your IP addresses to geo-fence our content.
  • Comply with legal regulatory requirements and legitimate business purposes.

 

Marketing uses

How we use marketing information?

  • To help us to monitor, analyse and improve iRadio . This information helps us to understand which iRadio  content, products and services are most interesting, enjoyable and useful to our users, and if they are shared via social networks. The information also helps us to identify when errors occur within the digital products and services within iRadio and test different versions of a page or feature to see which one works best. All of which helps us improve our digital products and services for our users.
  • We can create a more tailored experience by looking at the information we have about you. For example, we will do this by making programme recommendations or telling you about relevant iRadio events in your area.
  • To inform the way we commission future content at iRadio. We will use aggregated and anonymous user data to help our commissioning teams understand what type of content our users like.
  • To sell advertising on iRadio.
  • We will send you information about the digital products and services within iRadio or other marketing activities,  Similarly, sometimes, third party partners will want to send you information about products and services, but will only do so if you have agreed to receive them by ticking an opt-in box associated separately with a competition partner.
  • We will email you occasionally about the digital products and services within iRadio  that you have signed up or used for (for example, to provide you with password reminders or to contact you about content you have submitted to us via our digital products and services) so that we are able to deliver these services to you. We may also invite you to participate in surveys from time to time to help us understand what you think about our programmes, products and services, and in turn make them better.

Cash Machine

  • When entering the Cash Machine competition entrants are added to our customer database and may receive service-related SMS messages, these messages will be free of charge. Entrants can opt out of this at any time by texting: STOP to 57557. This will be charged at 1 standard network rate message.
  • You can stop receiving messages anytime by texting STOP to 57557. This will be charged at 1 standard network rate message.

3. Your Rights

You have the right to access any personal information that IRadio processes about you and to request information about:

  • What personal data we hold about you
  • The purposes of the processing
  • The categories of personal data concerned
  • The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
  • How long we intend to store your personal data for
  • If we did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source

If you wish to make a Subject Access Request you can email [email protected]

You have the right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

You have the right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.

You have the right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.

You have the right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.

You have the right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

You have the right to object to automated processing, including profiling

If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.

4. Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information

We do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this policy or where there is a legal requirement.

5. Our commitment to security

IRadio takes your privacy seriously, we employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your information.

We use the following industry standard methods to protect your data:

  • SSL (HTTPS) Across all websites
  • Encryption
  • Enterprise firewalls

Unfortunately, the sending of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our utmost to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent to our digital services within IR

6. Information collected for journalistic purposes

Under Article 85 of the GDPR (EU 2016/679)  material acquired and used for journalistic purposes is exempt from certain Articles of  GDPR,  these include Chapter II (principles) other than Article 5(1)(f), Chapter III (rights of  the data subject) Chapter IV (controller and processor obligations), Chapter V (transfer of data),  Chapter V1, Chapter VII and Chapter IX.

Please note that the requirement to process personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security remains when processing for journalistic purposes.

7.Transfer Outside the EEA

iRadio utilise services (or parts of them) that may be hosted/stored outside the EEA which means that we may transfer any information which is submitted by you through one of our digital services to outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") where this is the case, we will ensure that those providers use an appropriate level of protection for your information and agree to abide by GDPR (EU 2016/679) by way of standard contractual clauses.

8.How Long We Keep Your Data

iRadio only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary to provide a service you have consented to or to adhere to certain warranties or proof of delivery for competition winners.

Where you have subscribed to a Newsletter we will retain your data until you unsubscribe or the Newsletter is canceled. We include unsubscribe links on all newsletter emails.

We have retention policies in place to meet these obligations.

9.Complaints

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Bauer, or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Data Protection Commissioner and Bauer.

 

The details for each of these contacts are:

Data Protection Commissioner

Canal House

Station Road

Portarlington

R32 AP23

Co. Laois

Phone: 1890 252 231

Fax: +353 57 868 4757

 

 

Bauer Media

Privacy Officer

Marconi House

Digges Lane

Dublin 2

Co Dublin

D02TD60

Phone: +353 1 8049000