GDPR Privacy Policy for Blanchardstown School of Music & Shop Limited, Trading as Blanch Music

Effective Date: 19.05.2024

At Blanchardstown School of Music & Shop Limited("we," "our," "us"), we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This GDPR Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit our website [website URL] (the "Website").

1. Data Controller

Blanchardstown School of Music & Shop Limited is the data controller responsible for your personal data. Our contact details are:

- Address: 1st Floor, Unit 103, Coolmine Industrial Estate, Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin, D15 P9FW

- Email: GDPR@blanchmusic.com

- Phone: +353 (0) 1 8103504

2. Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

Identity Data: Name & Date of Birth

Contact Data: Email address, phone number, postal address.

Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.

Usage Data: Information about how you use our Website.

Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

Direct interactions: You may provide personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.

Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, such as analytics providers like Google.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

To register you as a new student or user.

To manage your relationship with us, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.

To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.

To use data analytics to improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.

5. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

We will process your personal data on the following legal bases:

Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.

Contract: The processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.

Legal obligation: The processing is necessary for us to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations).

Legitimate interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

- Request access to your personal data.

- Request correction of your personal data.

- Request erasure of your personal data.

- Object to processing of your personal data.

- Request restriction of processing your personal data.

- Request transfer of your personal data.

- Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [Insert Email Address].

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on our Website. You are advised to review this policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: GDPR@blanchmusic.com

Address: 1st Floor, Unit 103, Coolmine Industrial Estate, Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin, D15 P9FW

Phone: +353 (0) 1 8103504