Privacy Notice

This Privacy Statement provides information about the ways in which womenvoices.ie (WE) use your personal data: how we collect, store, share or keep your personal information through our website or by other means.

All the personal data we collect will be handled according to the Principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in a way that your information will be:

• processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner;
• collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
• adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
• accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date;
• kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
• processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage using appropriate technical or organisational measures

What type of personal Information do we collect?

We may collect your name, email address or phone number, and any medical information you may share with us

How and when do we collect your personal data?

We collect your personal data:

• when you send us an email to get more information about us
• when you fill out the survey
• By a phone call

Why do we collect your Personal Data? What do we do with your personal data? (Lawfulness of Processing)

All stories submitted and all data collected via the online questionnaire will be published in a report that will be released by  the Abortion Inquiry. Your name and other personal information will be kept completely confidential unless otherwise directed by you.

• We act based on our Legitimate Interest: the collection of your personal data through the Abortion Enquiry in order to elaborate and publish the annual Report.

• We collect your personal data on the basis of the Consent you give us. For this purpose, we want you to be well informed about the way we handle your personal data. Your consent is freely given and can be withdrawn at any time.

We will never sell or share your personal data with third parties, and we do not transfer your personal data outside the country.

How do we store your information, and for how long?

Your information stored in our computers under safely technical and organizational measures.

Data kept on paper is shredded and destroyed as soon as the data is collected.

Otherwise, personal data is kept for 3 years and then it is destroyed or deleted.

Your data protection rights

• The right to be informed: This means that you have a right to know what personal data the Abortion Inquiry is processing, as well as why and who else the data may be passed to. The Abortion Inquiry will process the personal data you submit for the purposes mentioned above.
• The right to access: This is your right to know what data we have collected of yours. The Abortion Inquiry will let all participants review their story before publication or alternatively you can write the story yourself for submission. All other data is all optional for you to submit and what you submit is what the Abortion Inquiry will collect.   
• The right to rectification: This is your right to have the data collected on you to be corrected if needs be. If you feel any data you have submitted is not correct, please contact the Abortion Inquiry and it will be corrected. You will also review your story prior to submission and publication.
• The right to erasure: Under particular circumstances you have the right to have your data erased.
• The right to restrict processing: This gives you the ability to temporarily stop the processing of your data contribution. If for any reason this applies to you please inform the Abortion Inquiry and we will temporarily stop processing your data until you tell us otherwise.
• The right to data portability: This provides you the right to request of the Abortion Inquiry your data in a structured and commonly used machine-readable configuration so that you can use it and pass it on as you see fit.
• The right to object: You have the right to object the use of your data for any other reason than what the Abortion Inquiry has outlined as its purpose above.
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: You have the right to not be subject to a decision that is entirely founded on automated processing.

How to contact us

If you have any further questions, concerns or wish to make a submission or complaint or exercise any of your data protection rights, please email info@womensvoices.ie

You also have the right to complain to the Supervisory Authority, which in Ireland is the Data Protection Commission on www.dataprotection.ie