Quake Shake Privacy Notice
Introduction
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) maintains the Quake Shake website, www.quakeshake.ie. This Privacy Notice provides you with information about how DIAS processes your personal data when you visit our website or otherwise make your data available to us in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018.
Who are we?
Quake Shake is an earthquake outreach programme co-funded by the Geophysics Section in DIAS, the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). DIAS are the Data Controller for your data, and does not share your personal data with GSI or SFI.
For more information on DIAS, see DIAS’s Privacy Notice here.
Full company of DIAS are as follows:
Name: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Address: 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, D04 C932
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices, please email DIAS at dpo@dias.ie.
Purpose of Processing and Legal Basis
DIAS processes data to collect information about earthquakes in and near Ireland. As part of this, DIAS collects the following data from you:
| Purpose | Categories of Personal Data | Lawful Basis |
| To allow you to subscribe to our newsletter | Email address | Consent |
| To enable you to become a Community Seismologist | Name
Email address Information collected through queries and other email exchanges |
Consent |
| To distribute and recall seismometers | Name
Phone number Email address Home address |
Contractual obligation |
| To enter your details in a raffle or other competition | Name
Email address Phone number Home address |
Consent |
| To respond to any questions or queries, or to provide technical support with your seismometer | Name,
Contact Details, Details of your Query |
Legitimate Interest – to provide you with support |
| To ensure the security of our website through the use of cookies | IP address,
Browser Type, Operating System, Device Type |
Legitimate Interest – for the purposes of ensuring network and information security |
| To optimise website functionality through the use of cookies | IP address,
Browser Type, Operating System, Device Type |
Consent |
Disclosure of your information
If you hold a Raspberry Shake device, you will be required to provide personal data to the device developer, Raspberry Shake. Raspberry Shake are an independent controller, and as such, are ultimately responsible for how your data is collected and used. Raspberry Shake’s privacy notice is available here.
DIAS also shares your personal data with third-party service providers, such as our website developers. We will only permit our service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Only the minimum personal data necessary will be shared.
We do not share your personal data with GSI and SFI.
Do we transfer your information outside of EEA?
In limited and necessary circumstances, your information may be transferred outside of the EEA or to an international organisation to comply with our legal or contractual requirements and only where we have determined that individuals have an adequate level of protection over their personal data.
Data Retention
We retain your information in accordance with our Data Retention Policy. Subject to your rights, we will ordinarily process your personal data throughout the course of your relationship with us and will then retain it for a period after that. The precise length of time will depend on the type of data, our legitimate interests and other legal or regulatory rules that may require us to retain it for certain minimum periods.
In determining the appropriate retention period for different types of personal data, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data in question, as well as the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of that personal data, the purposes for which we need to process it and whether we can achieve those purposes by other means are considered.
Cookies
Cookies are a form of technology used in the delivery and analysis of a website. When you visit a website, small text files are placed on your device temporarily. DIAS only use cookies on quakeshake.ie for the purposes outlined in the table above.
Data security and storage of personal data
We use a range of physical, electronic, and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your personal data secure, accurate and up to date. These measures include education and training to relevant staff to ensure they are aware of our data protection obligations when processing personal data, administrative and technical controls to restrict access to personal data to a need to know basis, technological security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and anti-virus software; and physical security measures, such as restricted access to the building and locked cabinets and doors.
Your Rights as an Individual
Under certain circumstances, you may have the following rights over your data:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of your personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to the processing of personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party
- Withdraw your consent
If you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 18, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Supervisory Authority at dataprotection.ie or by post to 21 Fitzwilliams Square, Dublin 2, D02 RD28.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at dpo@dias.ie. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within one month (subject to any extensions to which we are lawfully entitled). Any request to access personal data will be dealt with free of charge unless it is considered excessive in which case, we may charge a reasonable fee.
Automated decision making
We do not engage in fully automated decision making which has significant or legal effects on you in the provision of our services.
Data Protection Officer
If you have any queries or concerns you can contact us at dpo@dias.ie or by mail at Data Protection Officer, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, D04 C932.
Change to this Privacy Notice
We may update this notice from time to time. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here and update the ‘Last Updated’ date at the bottom of this Privacy Notice
Last Updated: 10/07/2024
