Privacy Notice

Scoil Mhuire agus Íde are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your personal data. Please read the following Privacy Notice to understand how we collect and use your personal data, for example when you contact us, visit our website, or seek to avail of our services. The Data Controller is Scoil Mhuire agus Íde, we can be contacted through smi@smincw.ie or through our registered office, which is located at Scoil Mhuire agus Íde Bóthar Buí, Rathnaneane, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Please note that whenever you provide us with your personal data, you are consenting to its collection, recording, organising, structuring, storing, adaptation, alteration, retrieving, consulting, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

What Personal data do we collect?

Scoil Mhuire agus Íde may collect personal data such as your name and smi@smincw.ie through our website interface on http://www.smincw.ie/ or through completion of our enrolment form, e-mail communication, or other means of communication or contact that we may have with you.

How we use your personal data

You are not obliged to provide your personal data to Scoil Mhuire agus Íde, you may provide your name, address, contact details or smi@smincw.ie (as applicable) as a point of contact. The purpose of collecting your personal data is outlined in the appendix “A”, “B”, “C” or “D” hereunder in respect of your personal or special category data, to aid the delivery of our educational services etc. Failure to provide personal data will create difficulties in delivering our educational services. The provision of personal or special category data is required mainly in relation to aiding the performance of the functions conferred under enactment of secondary legalisation by the Department of Education and Skills.

Sharing your personal data

When you provide Scoil Mhuire agus Íde with your personal data, that data will be used, processed or stored in the school. Scoil Mhuire agus Íde shares your personal or special category data with the Principal, Deputy Principal, Teachers, Department of Education & Skills, Student Counsellor, Special Educational Coordinator, Year Heads, Board of Management, Administration Staff, State Examination Commission, National Council for Special Education (NCSE), Tusla, HSE, Department of Social Protection, Revenue Commissioners, Education Welfare Officer, National Education Psychological Service (NEPS), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS), and An Garda Siochana as applicable to each individual case. The Department of Education & Skills privacy notice is displayed at https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Data-Protection/department-of-education-and-skills-privacy-notice.pdf

Scoil Mhuire agus Íde will not share or pass on your personal data to any other persons or third parties, third countries or international organisations other than those specified unless you specifically request this.

In the event that we receive requests from government departments, agencies or other official bodies, we will only disclose your information, if and to the extent that we believe we are legally required to do so (for example, but without limitation, upon receipt of a court order, warrant, subpoena or equivalent). Except as set out above, we will not disclose your personal data save where we need to do so in order to enforce our rights.

If we are compelled to share your personal data, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that it is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

Recipients of categories of Personal Data

The recipients of the categories of personal and special category data that Scoil Mhuire agus Íde processes includes the following Principal, Deputy Principal, Teachers, Department of Education & Skills, Student Counsellor, Special Educational Coordinator, Year Heads, Board of Management, Administration Staff, State Examination Commission, National Council for Special Education (NCSE), Tusla, HSE, Department of Social Protection, Revenue Commissioners, Education Welfare Officer, National Education Psychological Service (NEPS), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS), Counselling Service and An Garda Siochana as applicable to each individual case.

Transfer to third country

The GDPR and Data Protection Acts require that Scoil Mhuire agus Íde specify whether or not it transfers personal data to any third country or international organisation. Scoil Mhuire agus Íde does not transfer any personal data to any third country or international organisation.

Period of retention of personal data

Personal data provided to Scoil Mhuire agus Íde will be retained for a period of time depending on the purpose of collecting each category of personal data.

1. In the event that personal data is provided in relation to the provision of our educational services we are required to retain the personal data for a period of 7 years after the student reaches the age of 18 years of age.

2. The retention period for documents in relation to provision of education by school is available at http://dataprotectionschools.ie/en/Data-Protection-Guidelines/Records-Retention/Retention-Records-Schedule/ in respect of all school records.

3. The retention period for school documents in relation to Revenue records is available at https://www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-records-invoices-and-credit-notes/vat-records-to-be-kept/how-long-do-you-keep-records-for.aspx

Product and service related data

If you avail of our educational services or are employed by Scoil Mhuire agus Íde, we may collect and process your personal and special categories of data as is outlined at Appendix “A”, “B”, “C” or “D” as applicable.

In order to continuously provide our educational services, it may be necessary for us to collect and process certain information relating to you. You acknowledge and agree that the information we collect may include personal and or special category data as is outlined in the Appendix “A”, “B”, “C” or “D” as is applicable to you.

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your personal and special category data and we will never share this outside of those mentioned above.