Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate values your data and is committed to treating it ethically
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate is committed to protecting your data privacy
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate will store its data in the European Economic Area
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate expects that you will respect other users and other people in your use of the Cairde app
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate does not condone inappropriate behaviour in the use of its app
The Cairde app will identify users as the creator of the information they add to the app
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate will remove inappropriate material on request and will, where necessary, remove users who persist in using the service inappropriately
GDPR: We collect and process your data under Article 6.1 subsections (b) and (f) of the GDPR
Cairde connects neighbours together and is dedicated to safety, security and small acts of kindness
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate ("We") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices and how we will treat your personal data.
This policy also sets out the standards of behaviour we expect of Cairde users particularly in relation to any use of the app in which a user may make reference to other people.
By using the Cairde app, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
The new regulation replaces the current Data Protection Act and became enforceable on 25th May 2018. The updated data protection principles have taken a huge step up, including the requirements around the lawful bases for processing personal data. The 6 bases covered under GDPR are:
We have reviewed the purposes of our processing activities, and selected the most appropriate lawful bases for each activity. These are
| Processing Activity | Legal Basis |
|---|---|
| Message delivery from Gardai | Contract |
| Message exchange between group members | Contract |
| Panic Button responses | Contract |
| Analytics | Legitimate Interest |
We may collect and process the following data about you:
You give us information about you in the process to set you up as a user of the Cairde app.
The information you give us is your name, address and phone number.
We also ask for email address and eircode.
We ask for permission to
With regard to your use of our app, we may automatically collect or use the following information:
We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, community text alert groups) and may receive information about you from them to enable your receipt of certain information (for example we may receive phone numbers of community alert members and add them to our records to allow the system route text alerts to these numbers).
We use information held about you in the following ways:
We will not share your individual information with any other group without your consent.
Using our app constitutes your consent to identify you as the originator of any content you add to the app.
We may provide information at aggregate level to third parties for the purposes of community safety initiatives, research and business development.
Currently we do not plan to provide advertisers with access to you via our app. If this were to change, it will necessitate a change to this policy.
Analytics, development partners/providers that assist us in the development, operation and improvement of our app may need access to data to enable provision of the services.
The data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination inside the European Economic Area ("EEA") – currently Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Dublin. It may also be accessed by staff who work for us or for one of our suppliers who may not reside within Europe. Such staff will be engaged in the provision of support services.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We will use an SSL Certificate to encrypt traffic between your phone and our backend databases.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our app; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing and assess. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
You have the right to ask us to remove any material from our app that you believe to be incorrect or inappropriate. You can exercise your right to do this by contacting us at support@checkmate.ie or by post to 24 Luttrellstown Drive, Carpenterstown, Dublin 15.
From time to time, our app may contain links to the websites of other companies. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You are responsible for the data you post on the Cairde app.
You are responsible for ensuring the data you post is appropriate.
You are responsible for ensuring your posting of information is done for purposes consistent with the intended uses of Cairde (described above).
You must not use Cairde to deliberately harass, bully or otherwise infringe the rights of others.
You must not share screenshots of Cairde messages on any other platform.
Use of Cairde is at your discretion and you are expected to act responsibly and make all reasonable efforts to ensure the information you post is correct and appropriate.
Use of Cairde is at your own risk, posting of inappropriate comments or photos is also at your own risk.
Muintir na Tíre / CheckMate is not and cannot be responsible for the content you post.
The Acts give you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Acts. Any access request may be subject to a fee of €6.35 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be made available on this page.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@checkmate.ie or by post to 24 Luttrellstown Drive, Carpenterstown, Dublin 15.