Privacy Policy

We are Galway based Dog Rescue and Rehoming Charity (Registered Charity No 20072698), our shelter is based in Camus, Connemara and we also run two charity shops in Furbo and Moycullen. This Privacy Notice is primarily directed to individuals who wish to avail of our services in either adopting or fostering a dog from MADRA or taking part in any volunteering with MADRA through our many fundraising events or at the kennels in Connemara.

If you wish to contact us on any issue regarding your data protection, the following are the contact options.

Post: MADRA Head Office, Furbo, Galway, H91 XY97.
Phone: 091 577 813
Email: info@madra.ie

This Privacy Statement sets out how MADRA uses and processes any information that you give to us. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, transfer, process, use and disclose your data and sets out our security practices.

Our website address is: https://www.madra.ie

We collect personal information (PI) that you provide to us, which is information that identifies you as an individual. We only do this when you have provided us with the information and you have given your consent that we can use it in your interest for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement

Any personal data you volunteer will be used for the purpose for which you supply it and will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with General Data Protection Regulations. MADRA collects and uses your personal information (PI) to deliver the most suitable or related services you have requested. Your information will only be used for matching your home with the right dog and will not be passed on to any third party or otherwise.

By providing your PI, and where you have agreed to receiving communications from us, we may use the information:

• to consider your application for any adoption or fostering of a MADRA dog
• to register your information with microchip registration database (Animark, FIDO)
• to notify you of any suitable dogs in the future
• to maintain relationships with donors and supporters, including processing tax relief information for donors
• to send out information about upcoming events for volunteers
• to improve on the level of service that we provide

The legal basis for processing your personal information is that you have explicitly given your consent to us. This consent can be given at the time of initially seeking our services or having read the company’s Privacy Statement providing explicit consent to our continuing use of the personal data you have supplied us.

We collect data for the following:

Questionnaire /Contact us form

Personal information collected may include your name, address, email address, phone number and details about the home environment in which you live that will help MADRA find the most suitable dog for you and your home.

Newsletter

MADRA retains users’ email addresses for your newsletter to keep informed on new products, special offers and upcoming events. This is only done when you have given consent.

You can unsubscribe by clicking on Unsubscribe 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media & Plugins Used

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

All plugins used to add a specific feature to the website have GDPR compliant settings appropriately set to comply.

Our hosting service is from Siteground, which is also GDPR compliant.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Google Analytics

In order to ensure that the content on the website remains up to date, user oriented, comprehensive, the site employs Google Analytics enabling website optimisation.

Google analytics uses cookies that track your preferences during the visit to our websites. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. The information that is generated in this process (including the IP address) is anonymized, making personal identification impossible.

As a user of our website, you will always have the option of disabling cookies in your browser settings.You can prevent Google’s acquisition and processing of the information that is generated by the cookie concerns of your activity on the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing a browser plug in.The link is https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Further information on the terms and conditions of use and the privacy options of Google are available on: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

You are also encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for additional information.

What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. On one hand, cookies serves the user friendliness of websites, on the other side of the spectrum, cookies serves the purpose of collecting statistical information for marketing purposes. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. 

Disabling Cookies
You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of the Site.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. To disable cookies in User browser, please click on the following link based on the different browser options
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How to disable cookies in User browser – Firefox, Disable third-party cookies in Firefox to stop some types of tracking by advertisers, Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop

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MADRA – Mutts Anonymous Dog Rescue & Adoption will disclose your personal information to third parties only to the extent necessary to process your payment, to enforce and fulfill the purchase agreement, to comply with legal and administrative obligations, or to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to the use of the Software. MADRA – Mutts Anonymous Dog Rescue & Adoption will not disclose your personal information to any third parties for marketing and advertising purposes without your explicit consent.


Any personal data you volunteer will be used for the purpose for which you supply it and will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with General Data Protection Regulations. MADRA collects and uses your personal information (PI) to deliver the most suitable or related services you have requested. Your information will only be used for matching your home with the right dog and will not be passed on to any third party or otherwise.

By providing your PI, and where you have agreed to receive communications from us, we may use the information:

• to consider your application for any adoption or fostering of a MADRA dog
• to register your information with the microchip registration database (Animark, FIDO)
• to notify you of any suitable dogs in the future
• to maintain relationships with donors and supporters, including processing tax relief information for donors
• to send out information about upcoming events for volunteers
• to improve on the level of service that we provide

The legal basis for processing your personal information is that you have explicitly given your consent to us. This consent can be given at the time of initially seeking our services or having read the company’s Privacy Statement providing explicit consent to our continuing use of the personal data you have supplied us.

This will vary depending on the purpose for which we received your personal information. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. MADRA will only hold this data for as long we deem necessary when full consent is received whether you might be a volunteer, donor, fosterer or adopter. These time limits are listed below.


Legacies; For Supporters who have pledged a gift in their will to MADRA and want to maintain a lifelong interest to ensure their wishes are fulfilled in support of MADRA.

MADRA Adopters; these are supporters who have given a MADRA Rescue Dog a new home and to give us the chance to maintain contact throughout the life of the dog.

MADRA Fosterers; For our supporters who offer our dogs the temporary care they need to get them ready for their new permanent homes. To maintain this relationship, we would need to hold your contact information if you wish to be on the foster list and considered for future fostering opportunities.

Volunteers; For supporters of MADRA who volunteer their time at fundraising events, at the charity shops and at our kennels in Camus. We intend to hold this contact information for as long as any MADRA volunteer is willing to offer their help once consent is given.

Donors; For supporters of our charity who have helped us with financial gifts. In line with tax relief guidelines for charities such as ours we would like to hold your information for period of 5 years to ensure we can get the most of your generosity and support.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

• Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you in accordance with Section 86 of the Data Protection Act 2018;
• Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete in accordance with Section 87 and Section 89 of the Data Protection Act 2018;
• Right to erasure – in certain circumstances, you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records in accordance with Section 87 and Section 89 of the Data Protection Act 2018;
• Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing in accordance with Section 87 and Section 89 of the Data Protection Act 2018
• Right of portability – subject to certain restrictions, you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation where we hold it in electronic form. This right of data portability applies to: (i) personal data that we process automatically (i.e. without any human intervention); (ii) personal data provided by you; and (iii) personal data that we process based on your consent or in order to fulfil a contract.
• Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
  All of the above requests can be directed to the MADRA contact points listed in this Statement.

If you wish to contact us on any issue regarding the above requests, the following are the contact options. Please do not hesitate to contact us by Post: MADRA Head Office, Furbo, Galway. Phone: GDPR 091 584274 or Email: GDPR@madra.ie

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do not share your data for any other third party reasons other than those stated above.

If you wish to contact us on any issue regarding your data protection, the following are the contact options.
Post: MADRA Head Office, Furbo, Galway.

Phone: GDPR 091 584274
Email: GDPR@madra.ie or info@MADRA.ie

This Privacy Statement sets out how MADRA uses and processes any information that you give to us. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, transfer, process, use and disclose your data and sets out our security practices.

How we protect your data

MADRA will take appropriate legal, organisational, and technical measures to protect your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your PI from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet or a mobile phone network connection is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your PI, we cannot guarantee the security of the PI you transmit to our website. Any transmission is at your own risk. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur during transmission, once we have received your information, we will employ appropriate technical security measures to protect your data.

MADRA takes its obligations very seriously and adopts the strongest line in relation to the misuse of customer information by any of its staff. Any breach of trust regarding the confidentiality of information is treated as serious misconduct under the Disciplinary Code and can lead to sanctions up to and including dismissal.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Step 1: Identification and initial assessment

Step 2: Containment and Recovery

Step 3: Risk Assessment

Step 4: Notification

Step 5: Evaluation and Response

We endeavour to report personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority, where the breach presents a risk to the affected individuals. We plan to do this within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach. 

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We have no automated decision making process in place to affect user data