IBI Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice applies to information gathered on this website.

Who we are

Irish Bible Institute is an interdenominational Bible college seeking to serve the church in Ireland through commitment to excellence in biblical education and leadership development. We offer a range of programmes in applied theology.

How to contact us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, the IBI Privacy Policy, or the information we collect and process, please contact IBI (Data Protection), Ulysses House, 22-24 Foley Street, Dubin 1, D01 W2T2 (tel: 01 806 9060) or email dataprotection@ibi.ie.

IBI is committed to safeguarding your personal information.

We keep our Privacy Policy and this Privacy Notice under review. In order to minimise disruptive notices, changes to both policies will be available on our website. This Privacy Notice was last updated on 22nd May 2021.

IBI’s full Privacy Policy can be found here

Information we collect and use from this website

Personal information that we collect and use includes:

information that is collected automatically, for example via cookies (see below for further details);
information collected on forms you complete, for example, your name and contact details;
information connected to any donations you might make via PayPal (this is a legal requirement of the Irish Government).

Cookies

This website uses cookies.

Cookies are small files, storing small pieces of information. There are saved on your computer, tablet, mobile device, or other devices when you visit our website.

We use cookies to help us improve your experience when you visit our website. They also let us know which pages of our website you visited and enable us to develop our website.

The IBI website uses two types of cookies:

persistent cookies; these stay valid, and will work until their expiry date (unless you delete them before they expire);
session cookies; these expire when you close your web browser.

Any information gathered from cookies on this site does not identify you personally.

Third-party cookies

We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.

This site uses Google Analytics for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience.

The cookies from Google Analytics will not identify you personally.

If you use our ‘Donate online’ facility, this will take you to either the Stripe or PayPal (USA donations) interface. Stripe and PayPal are our payment processing providers. In accordance with their respective privacy policies, Stripe and PayPal will place cookies on your device to enable you to complete any donations you choose to make. IBI has no control over this.

If you click on the links to social media from the website (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Google+), the websites you are taken to will place their cookies on your device. IBI has no control over this.

What we collect and use your information from this website for

Any personal information you provide for us on this website will only be collected and used where:

you have given us your explicit permission (consent) to send you information about IBI;
it is necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, for example, if you have enrolled for a course or signed up for an event;
it is necessary to meet our legal obligation, for example with the Revenue Commissioners;
it is in the legitimate interests of IBI, for example, to send you communications about the things you have told us you have an interest in.

Who we may share your information with

We will only share your information with third parties to allow us to perform the services you have requested.

These third parties include:

Squarespace, our website provider, so they can provide the website services you have requested and can send emails to you about these services on our behalf;
Stripe, our payment processor, to process any payments or donations you make on our website. Stripe will be unable to process payments without these details;
companies who can help us maintain contact with you: MailChimp/Sendinblue to provide us with email services and Google to provide us with both email services and data storage;
Revenue Commissioners in connection with donations (this is a legal obligation);

We will never sell your details to a third party.

How we protect your information

Any personal information which is collected, recorded, or used in any way will be subject to our data protection obligations.

How long we keep your information

We will keep your personal information as long as is necessary to provide you with the information or service you have requested. We will only keep your information after this period to meet any legal obligations.

Your rights

You have the following rights over the ways we process your personal information

(our Privacy Policy has further details of how IBI respects these rights):

Right to be informed on what personal information we process, why it is processed, and who we share it with (and why).
We do this in this Privacy Notice for the website and in our IBI Privacy Policy.
Right of access to the personal information we hold on you.
Right to have your personal information be updated/corrected or erased
Right to clear choices about how your personal information is used
Right to data portability

Contact

If you believe we have not handled your information as set out in this Privacy Notice for our website or our Privacy Policy, please contact us (dataprotection@ibi.ie ) and we will do all we can to make things right.

If you are still unhappy, you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner. Details of the process can be found on their website.

IBI Privacy Notice