Effective date: 26 May 2026

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club (“we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, make an enquiry, or interact with our club online.

This policy applies to https://dunlaoghairelionsclub.ie/ and any pages, forms, or features available through that website.

Who We Are

Dun Laoghaire Lions Club is a community and humanitarian service club based in Co. Dublin, Ireland.

Information We Collect

We may collect personal information that you choose to provide to us, including:

• your name;
• your email address;
• your phone number;
• the contents of messages or enquiries you send through our contact form;
• information you provide when enquiring about membership, volunteering, events, fundraising, donations, or community support.

We may also collect limited technical information when you use our website, such as:

• your IP address;
• browser type and device information;
• pages visited and general website activity;
• cookie and similar technology data;
• spam-prevention and security information.

How We Use Your Information

We use personal information to:

• respond to your enquiries;
• provide information about our club, events, volunteering, membership, fundraising, and community activities;
• manage club communications and administration;
• review and respond to requests for assistance;
• protect the website from spam, misuse, or security issues;
• maintain records where needed for legitimate club, legal, or administrative purposes.

We do not sell your personal information.

Legal Basis For Processing

Where applicable under Irish and EU data protection law, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• your consent, for example when you submit a form or choose to contact us;
• legitimate interests, such as responding to enquiries, operating the website, and managing club activities;
• legal obligations, where we need to keep records or comply with applicable law;
• contract or pre-contract steps, where your enquiry relates to a specific arrangement with us.

If you attend an event or activity, you are responsible for following any instructions, safety guidance, venue rules, and applicable laws. Additional terms may apply to specific events.

Contact Forms

When you submit a contact form, we collect the information entered into the form, including your name, phone number, email address, and message. We use this information to respond to you and manage the purpose of your enquiry.

Form submissions may be processed by our website tools and hosting providers. We keep form submissions only for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose they were provided, unless we are required to keep them longer for legal, safeguarding, administrative, or record-keeping reasons.

Cookies

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to make the site work properly, improve security, remember user preferences, support forms, and understand basic website performance.

Some cookies may be set by WordPress, website plugins, embedded content, analytics tools, spam-prevention tools, or social media features. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. If you block cookies, some website features may not work as expected.

Embedded Content And Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites or embedded content, including social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, maps, images, videos, or other external resources.

Third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with their content. Their privacy practices are governed by their own privacy policies, not ours.

Social Media

If you interact with us through social media, the relevant platform may process your personal information according to its own terms and privacy policy. We may see information you make available to us through those platforms, such as comments, messages, profile names, or public interactions.

Comments And User Accounts

If comments, accounts, or login features are enabled on the website, WordPress may collect information such as the details shown in the comment or account form, IP address, browser user agent, and login cookies. This information may be used for moderation, account access, spam detection, and website security.

Who We Share Information With

We may share personal information only where necessary, including with:

• club officers, volunteers, or committee members who need the information to respond to your enquiry or manage club activities;
• website hosting, maintenance, email, form, security, and technical service providers;
• professional advisers or authorities where required by law;
• third-party services you choose to interact with through links or embedded content.

We ask service providers to handle personal information responsibly and only for the purposes needed to provide their services.

International Transfers

Some website tools, hosting services, email services, analytics tools, or social media platforms may process data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area. Where this happens, we expect appropriate safeguards to be used as required by applicable data protection law.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected, including to respond to enquiries, manage club activities, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve issues, and protect our website.

General enquiries may be deleted when no longer needed. Information connected to club membership, events, fundraising, donations, safeguarding, or formal requests may be kept longer where there is a legitimate administrative, legal, or community-service reason.

How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, email system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• access the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• ask us to delete your information;
• object to or restrict certain processing;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
• request a copy of your information in a portable format;
• make a complaint to a data protection authority.

In Ireland, you may contact the Data Protection Commission at https://www.dataprotection.ie/.

To exercise your rights, contact us at info@dunlaoghairelions.ie.

Children And Young People

Our website is intended for general community information. If we collect information relating to children or young people through club activities, events, or support requests, we handle that information with additional care and only where appropriate.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, please contact: