Concertina.ie Privacy Policy

At Concertina.ie we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of all visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that Concertina.ie is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes. We will never do this. The below Privacy Policy, describes in detail how, why and when we collect your personal information, how we use it, and how we keep it secure. If you are really curious, grab a cup of tea and read on...

1 – About GK Web Design

GK Web Design have designed and manage this website. They are a web development company operating in Ireland.

Respecting our users privacy is our top priority. This website will not leave any cookies on your machine and does not track you across other websites.

We use Matamo, an open source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by a website administrator in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website. If you would like to see what Matomo looks like, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.cloud.

We use Web3Forms a API based form backend.A website administrator uses Web3Forms to set up Contact Forms for Static Websites. Receive form submissions directly in your email inbox without any server or back-end code. More information available at https://web3forms.com/

2 – Purpose of the processing

GK Web Design uses Web3Forms to transmint specific information via forms submitted on this website.

GK Web Design processes and transfers the following information to Concertina.ie via Web3Forms:

  • Your Name
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address

GK Web Design uses Matomo to analyse the behaviour of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated… Once the data is processed (number of visitors reaching a not found pages, viewing only one page…), Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content… etc.

GK Web Design collects the following non personal data via Matomo:

  • Date and time of website access
  • Title of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
  • Screen resolution
  • Time in local timezone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded
  • Link clicks to an outside domain
  • Pages generation time
  • Country, region, city
  • Main Language of the browser
  • User Agent of the browser
  • Form interactions
  • Media interactions

3 – The legitimate interests

Not applicable as data collected is collected for a purpose explicitly described in this policy.

4 – Recipient of the personal data

Concertina.ie is the recipient of all personal data submitted on this website. Form data is collected via Web3Forms and emailed to Concertina.ie.

5 – Details of transfers to third country and safeguards

The information you provide to Concertina.ie will never be sold or leased to any third party. GK Web Design hosts all servives in Ireland, no data is transferred outside of Ireland.

6 – Retention period or criteria used to determine the retention period

The information you provide to Concertina.ie is not stored by GK Web Design, Web3Forms or Matomo. Once a form is submitted, Concertina.ie becomes the data controller and may store the information provided for the purpose of contacting you.

7 – The existence of each of the data subject’s rights

Not applicable no personal data is collected without explicit consent of users during submission.

8 – The right to withdraw consent at any time

Not applicable no personal data is collected without explicit consent of users during submission.

9 – The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you think that the way we process your personal data with Matomo analytics or Web3Forms is infringing the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

10 – Whether the provision of personal data is part of a statutory or contractual requirement; or obligation and possible consequences of failing to provide the personal data

Not applicable no personal data is collected without explicit consent of users during submission.

11 – The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and information about how decisions are made, the significance and the consequences

GK Web Design, Web3Forms, Matomo & Concertina.ie are not doing any profiling.