- Who we are
- The short version
- What we collect and why
- Cookies and tracking technologies
- Who we share information with
- Transfers outside the EEA
- How long we keep information
- Photography, video and children
- How we protect your information
- Your rights
- Links to other websites
- Changes to this policy
- How to contact us
1. Who we are
Laois Angling Centre ("we", "us", "our") operates the fishery at Coolrain, Co. Laois and this website, laoisanglingcentre.ie. We are the data controller for the personal information described in this policy, which means we decide how and why it is used.
Laois Angling Centre
Coolrain, Co. Laois, R32 NF80, Ireland
Email: info@laoisanglingcentre.ie
Telephone: 087-9962864 (Enda) or 087-7548823 (John)
We are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer. Any question about this policy or about your information should go to the email address above.
2. The short version
We are a small fishery, not a data business. In practice:
- There is no sign-up, no online booking and no online payment on this website. You cannot create an account here, and we do not sell anything online.
- Payment is taken in cash, on site. We never see or hold your card or bank details.
- We only hold your details if you contact us by email or phone, or if you book a group, school or corporate visit.
- We never sell or rent your information to anyone, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.
- This website sets no cookies of its own. The embedded Google Map does set third-party cookies — see section 4.
3. What we collect and why
Under data protection law we must have a valid "legal basis" for every use of your information. The table below sets out what we collect, why, and on what basis.
| Information | Why we use it | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Enquiries Your name, email address, phone number and whatever you choose to tell us in your message. |
To answer your question about fishing, rates, availability, lessons or facilities, and to follow up where needed. | Legitimate interests — responding to someone who has contacted us. Where your enquiry leads to a booking, performance of a contract. |
| Bookings Contact name, organisation, phone, email, date and time of visit, number of anglers, and any access, dietary or medical needs you tell us about. |
To arrange and manage your visit, including group, school and corporate bookings, catering, equipment hire and safety. | Performance of a contract. Where you tell us about a health or accessibility need, your explicit consent. |
| Payment and business records Amounts paid, dates, and any invoice or receipt details. Payment is taken in cash on site, so we do not collect or store card or bank details. |
To record payments taken on site and to keep the accounting records we are obliged to keep. | Performance of a contract, and legal obligation under Irish tax law. |
| Photographs and video Images of anglers, groups and events at the fishery. |
To promote the fishery on this website and on our social media. | Consent. See section 8. |
| Technical website data IP address, browser type, device type, pages requested, date and time. |
Recorded automatically in our hosting provider's server logs so the site can be delivered to you and kept secure and available. | Legitimate interests — operating and protecting the website. |
Providing your information is voluntary. If you choose not to give us your contact details, we simply will not be able to answer your enquiry or hold a group booking for you.
What we do not do
We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling. We do not send marketing emails or newsletters. We do not run advertising or analytics tracking on this website.
4. Cookies and tracking technologies
Cookies are small files a website can store on your device. Under Irish law (the ePrivacy Regulations, S.I. 336 of 2011) we need your consent before using any cookie that is not strictly necessary.
This website does not set any cookies of its own. We do not use Google Analytics or any other analytics service, and we do not use advertising or social media tracking pixels.
Google Maps
Our Contact section includes an embedded Google Map so you can find us. TO CONFIRM once the click-to-load map is in place — if the map only loads after the visitor clicks, replace this paragraph with wording that says so, and that clicking is what gives consent. When the map loads, Google receives your IP address and may set cookies on your device, including the NID cookie which Google uses to remember preferences and for security. These cookies are set by Google, not by us, and we cannot read them.
How Google uses this information is described in the Google Privacy Policy. You can also find our location without loading the map by entering our Eircode R32 NF80 into any sat-nav or maps app.
Fonts
This website currently loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives your IP address when a page loads. TO REMOVE once the fonts are self-hosted — at that point this whole subsection should be deleted.
Managing cookies
You can block or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings, and you can set most browsers to refuse third-party cookies entirely. Doing so will not stop you using this website, though the embedded map may not work correctly.
5. Who we share information with
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. We share it only where we need to, and only with:
- Our service providers, who process information on our instructions — our website host, our email provider, and our accountant.
- Caterers or instructors, where you have booked a group visit that includes catering or tuition, and only the details needed to deliver it.
- Public authorities, where we are required to disclose information by law, or where it is necessary to establish or defend a legal claim, or to protect someone's safety.
Every one of these providers acts on our instructions, is bound by a written agreement, and may use your information only to deliver the service we have asked them for. None of them may use it for their own purposes.
If you would like to know exactly which companies we use, please just ask us and we will tell you.
6. Transfers outside the EEA
Some of our service providers are based outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States, which means your information may be transferred there. Where that happens, the transfer is protected by appropriate safeguards recognised under the GDPR — either the provider's certification under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, or Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. You can ask us for more detail about these safeguards using the contact details in section 13.
7. How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as we actually need it.
| Information | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Enquiries that do not lead to a booking | Up to 12 months from your last contact with us, then deleted |
| Booking correspondence and records | Up to 2 years after your visit |
| Accounting and payment records | 6 years, as required by Irish tax law |
| Photographs and video used for promotion | Until consent is withdrawn or the image is no longer in use |
| Website server logs | Retained by our hosting provider for a short period for security and diagnostics |
8. Photography, video and children
We sometimes take photographs and video at the fishery — at competitions, events, lessons and group visits — and use them on this website and our Facebook page to show what the centre is like.
- We rely on consent to publish any photograph in which someone is identifiable, and we will ask before using an image of you.
- For anyone under 18, we ask the parent or guardian for written consent before taking or publishing an image. For school and youth group bookings, we agree this with the organiser in advance.
- You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing us, and we will remove the image from our website and social media as soon as we reasonably can. Withdrawing consent does not affect use of the image before you withdrew it, and we cannot always control copies that others have already shared.
If you would prefer not to be photographed during a visit, please just tell a member of staff on arrival and we will respect that.
Children's information generally
This website is not aimed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from children through it. Where children attend the fishery through our fishing school or a school or youth group, we deal with the parent, guardian or group organiser, and we collect only what we need for the visit and for safety.
9. How we protect your information
We take reasonable steps to keep your information safe. Our website is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection. Access to our email and booking records is limited to the people who run the centre, and accounts are protected by passwords. Paper records, where we keep them, are stored securely on site.
No method of transmitting information over the internet is completely secure. Please avoid sending us sensitive personal information by email unless it is necessary for your booking.
10. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the following rights over your personal information:
- Access — to be told whether we hold information about you and to receive a copy of it.
- Rectification — to have inaccurate or incomplete information corrected.
- Erasure — to have your information deleted where there is no good reason for us to keep it.
- Restriction — to ask us to pause using your information while a concern is resolved.
- Objection — to object to our using your information where we rely on legitimate interests.
- Portability — to receive information you gave us in a commonly used electronic format.
- Withdraw consent — where we rely on consent, such as for photographs, you can withdraw it at any time, and it is as easy to withdraw as it was to give.
To exercise any of these rights, email info@laoisanglingcentre.ie. We will respond within one month. There is no charge, and we may need to confirm your identity first so that we do not disclose information to the wrong person.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please tell us first — we would like the chance to put it right. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission, the Irish supervisory authority, at www.dataprotection.ie.
11. Links to other websites
This website links to our Facebook page and to Google Maps. Once you follow a link to another website, this policy no longer applies — those sites have their own privacy policies and we are not responsible for how they handle your information. We would encourage you to read them.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time, for example if we change how the website works or start using a new service provider. The date at the top of the page always shows when it was last changed. Where a change is significant, we will make that clear on the website.
13. How to contact us
For anything to do with this policy or your personal information:
Laois Angling Centre
Coolrain, Co. Laois, R32 NF80, Ireland
Email: info@laoisanglingcentre.ie
Enda: 087-9962864 · John: 087-7548823