Tipperary Arts is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about how we use it. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, why we use it, how long we keep it, and your rights in relation to your data.
1. Who We Are
Tipperary Arts is an arts co-operative based in Tipperary Town. We are the data controller for the personal information we collect and use.
We handle personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws in Ireland, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Personal Data We Collect
If you contact us with a question, enquiry, booking request, feedback, complaint, or expression of interest, we may collect the following information:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your phone number, if you provide it
- Details of your enquiry or message
- Any additional information you choose to provide
If you register for a workshop, event, exhibition, or activity, we may also collect information needed to manage your participation, such as the event you are attending, booking details, or relevant access requirements that you choose to share with us.
3. Children and Young People
If you are under 18 years old, please ask a parent or guardian to contact us or submit an enquiry on your behalf.
Where we run activities involving children or young people, we may ask for relevant parent or guardian contact details and any information needed to manage the activity safely and appropriately.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data only where necessary and appropriate. This may include:
- Responding to your enquiry, feedback, or complaint
- Managing workshop, event, exhibition, or activity bookings
- Contacting you about an event, workshop, or activity you have registered for
- Keeping internal records of enquiries, bookings, or participation
- Managing health, safety, access, or safeguarding requirements where relevant
- Meeting legal, insurance, administrative, or regulatory obligations
We do not sell your personal data.
We do not use your personal data for marketing unless you have clearly agreed to receive marketing or updates from us.
5. Our Lawful Basis for Using Your Data
We process your personal data under one or more of the following lawful bases:
- Legitimate interests, where we need to respond to enquiries, manage our activities, keep appropriate records, and operate Tipperary Arts in a responsible way.
- Consent, where you have clearly agreed to receive updates, marketing, or certain types of communication from us.
- Contract or pre-contractual steps, where processing is needed to manage a booking, workshop, exhibition, or event you have asked to take part in.
- Legal obligation, where we are required to keep or use certain information to comply with the law.
6. How Long We Keep Your Data
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected.
General enquiries are kept only for as long as needed to respond and manage any follow-up. Booking, event, workshop, complaint, financial, insurance, or administrative records may be kept for longer where required for legal, accounting, insurance, safeguarding, or organisational record-keeping purposes.
Where possible, reporting on enquiries, events, or participation will be anonymised.
7. Keeping Your Information Safe
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data. This includes using secure systems, limiting access to those who need it, and following appropriate data protection procedures.
8. Sharing Your Information
We do not share your personal data with third parties unless it is necessary, appropriate, or required by law.
For example, we may use trusted service providers to help us manage email, bookings, forms, website hosting, or administration. Where this happens, they may only process personal data on our behalf and in line with data protection requirements.
Your personal data will never be:
- Sold
- Used for unrelated marketing
- Shared unnecessarily
- Passed to another organisation without a valid reason
9. Your Rights
Under data protection law, you have rights regarding your personal data, including:
- The right to access the personal information we hold about you
- The right to request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete data
- The right to request deletion of your data, subject to legal or administrative obligations
- The right to object to or restrict certain types of processing
- The right to withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent
- The right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission
The Data Protection Commission is Ireland’s supervisory authority for GDPR and data protection matters.
You can find more information about your data protection rights at www.dataprotection.ie.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us using the details below.
10. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in how we work, how we use personal data, or changes in legal or regulatory requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” section below.
Last updated: June 2026
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we manage your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Address: Tipperary Arts, 50 Main Street, Tipperary Town, Co. Tipperary, E34 TA47
If you contact us to exercise your data protection rights, we will respond without undue delay and normally within one month. If your request is complex or we need more time, we may extend this period where permitted by law. If this happens, we will let you know within one month and explain the reason for the delay.