Privacy notice

Last updated: October 2026

Who we are

Éire Láidir ("we", "us") is the data controller for personal data collected through this website. You can contact us about anything in this notice at eirelaidir123@gmail.com.

We are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer at our current size. Our party officers are responsible for data protection within the party, and you can reach them at the email address above.

What we collect

• Join form: your first name, surname, email address, county or constituency, how you would like to get involved, your consent choices, and the date and time you sent the form. Your mobile number is optional.
• Email updates: your email address, only if you tick the optional updates box.
• Donations: if you donate, our payment provider Stripe gives us your name, email address, billing address, the amount and date, and your answers about eligibility. Stripe handles your card details; we never see them.
• Website visits: our hosting provider keeps short-term technical logs (such as IP address and browser type) to keep the site secure and working.

Telling us you want to join, volunteer or stand for Éire Láidir reveals your political opinions. The law treats this as a special category of personal data, and we protect it accordingly.

Why we use it and our legal basis

• To contact you about joining or helping the party: your explicit consent, given on the Join form (GDPR Articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a)).
• To manage your membership once you become a member: our legitimate activities as a not-for-profit political body, with appropriate safeguards, and only for members and people in regular contact with us (GDPR Article 9(2)(d)). Membership terms will explain this in full.
• To send email updates: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email.
• To accept and record donations: to meet the legal obligations on political parties under the Electoral Act 1997, which require us to identify donors, check that donations are allowed, and report some donations to the Standards in Public Office Commission (GDPR Articles 6(1)(c) and 9(2)(d)).
• To keep the website secure: our legitimate interest in protecting the site and its visitors (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).

We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we never sell it or share it with other parties or organisations for their own use.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of service providers who process data only on our instructions, under a data processing agreement:

• Netlify hosts this website and receives Join form submissions.
• HubSpot (EU data hosting) stores supporter and member records.
• HubSpot sends email updates to people who have opted in.
• Stripe processes donations. Stripe also has its own legal duties for payments, described in its privacy policy.

Where a provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, we rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses, as applicable to each provider.

We may also disclose data where the law requires it. This includes reporting donations over €1,500 in a year to the Standards in Public Office Commission, which publishes donation statements.

How long we keep it

• Join form submissions held by our website host: up to 30 days, while they are moved to our supporter records.
• Join form enquiries that do not lead to membership or volunteering: 12 months from your last contact, then deleted.
• People interested in standing for election who are not selected: 12 months after the selection decision.
• Members: for the length of your membership and 12 months after it ends.
• Volunteers: while you are active and 12 months after your last activity.
• Email updates: until you unsubscribe. We keep a record of your unsubscribe so we do not contact you again.
• Donation records: 6 years after the end of the year of the donation, as the Standards in Public Office Commission advises.
• Records of your consent: for as long as we hold your data and 2 years after, so we can show what you agreed to.

Your rights

You can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or send it to you in a portable format. You can object to how we use it and withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect what we did before you withdrew it.

To use any of these rights, email eirelaidir123@gmail.com. We will reply within one month. There is no charge.

Making a complaint

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission, 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, or online at forms.dataprotection.ie/contact.

Young people

The Join form is for people aged 16 or over. If we learn that we hold details sent by someone younger, we will delete them.

How we protect it

Access to supporter and member records is limited to people in the party who need it, protected by strong passwords and two-step sign-in. The website uses an encrypted (HTTPS) connection.

Cookies

This website does not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers, and it does not load fonts or scripts from other companies. Because of this, we do not show a cookie banner. If we add anything that needs your consent, we will ask first and update this notice.

Changes to this notice

We will post any changes on this page and update the date at the top.