Updated: November 14, 2024

The web site you have entered is operated by the Irish American Partnership (“IAP”). IAP is committed to protecting your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) outlines the types of Personal Information (defined below) that is collected by IAP on this web site and offline, such as when you enter an IAP sweepstakes or promotion, and how we use and disclose that information. This Policy also tells you certain rights you may have with respect to the Personal Information we collect. This Policy applies to web sites and social media accounts operated by IAP and to information IAP collects offline, except where a different privacy policy explicitly applies to that collection.

The Irish American Partnership is committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity in all fundraising efforts and to maintaining donors’ privacy rights. We will not sell, share, trade, or give our donors’ or supporters’ personal or contact information to any non-affiliated organizations without the donors’ permission to do so; nor send mailings on behalf of other organizations.

Use of donor information will be limited to the internal purposes. This is applicable to personal information gathered both electronically and non-electronically.

1. Your Consent to this Policy
2. Collection of Personal Information
3. How We Use or Disclose Your Information
4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
5. How Long We Retain Information and Data Localization
6. Security of Information
7. Opting Out of Communications
8. Changes in Our Policy
9. Who to Contact

Your Consent to this Policy

If you do not agree with any term in this Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information on this site or in any IAP sweepstakes, contest, or promotion.

If you choose not to provide Personal Information on this site or offline, you may not be able to do certain things, like access particular areas of the site or enter a sweepstake or contest.

Collection of Personal Information

As used in this Policy, “Personal Information” is information that is used to identify, relate to, describe, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you or your household. The categories of Personal Information that we collect are as follows:

• Identifiers (for example, your name, address, phone number, online identifier, IP address, device type, email address or other similar identifiers);
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (for example, your browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with an Internet website, application or advertisement);
• Our payment processor may collect financial information from you.

Your Personal Information may be collected from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you;
• Third-party vendors and service providers;
• Our parent and affiliate companies; and
• Website/mobile app/social media activity.

When you provide us with Personal Information, you are authorizing us to use that information in accordance with the terms of this Policy, which includes your right to limit our use of the Personal Information as described in this Policy (see “Who to Contact” below).

How We Use or Disclose Your Information

The information you provide, including your marketing preferences, will be processed on our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and will be used solely for the purpose for which you provided it.

We process personal data you provide to us for the following purposes:

• For processing your online donation(s).
• For donor relationship management purposes.
• For registering your interest in and communicating with you about our work: our fundraising campaigns; our events and activities; our publications; for conducting research and analysis to monitor the performance of our campaigns, appeals, and events.
• For our internal business purposes, such as day-to-day operation of our business, maintaining internal business records, such as accounting, document management and similar activities, enforcing our policies and rules, management reporting and analytics, auditing, and IT security and administration.
• For our internal research and product improvement purposes, such as improving our website or other services, creating new services, and debugging and repairing errors with our systems, networks, and equipment.
• For legal, safety or security reasons, such as complying with legal requirements, processes, or orders; complying with reporting and similar requirements; complying with government inspections and other requests from government or other public authorities; pursuing legal rights and remedies; investigating and responding to claims against IAP and its supporters and employees; protecting our, your, our supporters’, and other individuals’ safety, property or rights; addressing security and health and safety issues, and malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and receiving legal advice or approval.
• For marketing and targeted advertising, such as marketing our products or services or those of our affiliates, business partners, or other third parties. For example, we may use Personal Information we collect to personalize advertising to you (including by developing product, brand, or services audiences and identifying you across devices/sites), or to analyze interactions with us or our website.

We may use anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated information for any purpose.

In the course of doing business, we engage other companies and individuals to perform a variety of functions on our behalf.

Third-party recipients that may receive your Personal Information fall into the following categories:

• Third-party vendors and service providers.
• Government agencies, law enforcement, and other recipients for legal, security, or safety. purposes
• Advertising and analytics partners, such as certain companies that operate cookies and other tracking technologies, and social media companies. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent prior to the disclosure.
• Other entities in connection with corporate transactions.
• Entities to which you have consented to the disclosure, where consent is required by law.

We will not sell, trade, or rent your Personal Information to third parties.

At times we may provide Personal Information and aggregate statistics about our visitors, database entries, web traffic patterns, and related site information we collect on our web site to selected vendors or third parties to analyze solely to help us improve our products and our web sites. Finally, please note that we may release your Personal Information if required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena, or court order.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Cookies are files or pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. IAP may use cookies to collect information during your visit to our web site, such as the particular site areas you visit. We collect this information to better tailor our site and our content to your interests and needs. This information may also be used to help speed up your future activities on our sites.

No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. For more information on cookies see All About Cookies.

Although the cookies we use may change from time to time, they generally fall into one of the following categories:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary in order for you to use the services, load and view content.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies help us remember you and personalize features and content for you.
• Preference cookies: These cookies allow us to capture and store your preferences (e.g., your opt-in and opt-out), account settings, and certain login information.
• Analytics cookies: These cookies help us and our service providers compile statistics and analytics about platform users, including traffic, usage, demographic, and trend data, which will enable us to understand how users engage with our website.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Refusal of cookies at the site you entered may result in an inability to visit certain areas of the site or to receive personalized information when you visit the site. Our cookie management platform responds to Do Not Track signals and global privacy preferences where required by law.

Site measurement statistics may be used to personalize your web site experience, as well as to evaluate statistics about usage of the web site. Information about your computer, such as your IP address, the type of Internet browser you are using and the type of computer operating system you are using may also be collected. This is to ensure that our website presents the best web experience for visitors and that they are an effective information resource.

For example, we use Google Analytics to help us improve the user experience. Google Analytics may use cookies and other tracking technologies to perform their services. To learn how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit: “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

How Long We Retain Information and Data Localization

IAP will retain your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was originally collected. However, if a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, or for legal, tax, regulatory or other legitimate and lawful business purposes, we will retain the information in accordance with such requirements or purposes.

The Irish American Partnership is based in the United States, and the Personal Information we collect and process is retained and stored in the United States. IAP affiliates and third parties also may transfer, store, or process your information in the United States or other countries. By using the IAP website, you consent to any transfer, storage, or processing of information in this manner, which depending on where you live, may be outside of your country.

Security of Information

We take reasonable precautions to keep your Personal Information secure. Personal Information is subject to reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, modification, or misuse.

Opting Out of Communications

We may communicate with you by email about products and services that may be of interest to you. If you have opted in or otherwise qualify to receive these forms of communication, and no longer wish to receive such communications, you may opt out or unsubscribe by following the instructions that are included in the communication or by contacting us using the information provided in the “Who to Contact” section below.

 Changes in Our Policy

IAP reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. When we do so, we will also revise the date at the top of this Policy. We will post any new policy here and we encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed.

Contact Us

Your privacy is important to us.  If you have any comments or questions regarding this statement, please contact us using the information below:

Email: [email protected]
Irish American Partnership, 15 Broad Street, Suite 210, Boston, MA 02109, USA.
Phone: +1 617 723 2707

 

Legal Disclaimer / Copyright Notice

All the information and content (content being text, design, layout and graphics, GIF, JPEG, PDF files, HTML, ASP and Javascript) posted on this website are the property of the Irish American Partnership and are protected by U.S., U.K. and other foreign copyright and trademark laws.

By accessing this website, you agree to the following terms and conditions. All text, design, layout and graphics (unless otherwise noted) on this website are copyright the Irish American. This website and any of its contents may not be copied or distributed in any manner (electronic, web or printed) without the prior written consent of the IAP, including translation to other languages, with the exception of linking to IAP pages and posts.

Portions of this website may publish contributors comments and opinions. The Irish American Partnership does not assume or have any responsibility or any liability for those comments or opinions, nor do we claim ownership or copyright -that belongs to the original author(s).