Privacy Policy of Ardmore Palette
Ardmore Palette is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit or make use of our online platform and services, in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information from and about users of our online platform:
- Information you provide directly to us: This includes personal data you submit when contacting us, registering for culinary arts programmes, short-course cookery workshops, restaurant management training, or event catering services, subscribing to newsletters, or making inquiries. This may include your name, contact details (e.g., email address, phone number), and any other information you choose to provide related to our hospitality training and consultancy services.
- Information collected automatically: As you navigate and interact with our online platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to gather certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This includes details of your visits to our online platform, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the online platform.
- Information from third parties: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as business partners, or service providers, provided they have informed you that they may share your information with us.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide and deliver the services you request, such as enrolment in our culinary programmes, or consultancy services.
- To communicate with you about your account, services, and to respond to your inquiries.
- To improve our online platform, products, and services, and to develop new offerings in hospitality training and food innovation.
- For internal record keeping and administrative purposes.
- To comply with legal obligations and to protect our rights and interests.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, data analysis, and marketing services.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
4. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our online platform.
5. Your Data Protection Rights
Under GDPR, you have certain rights concerning your personal data:
- Right of Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data that we hold.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to Erasure ('Right to Be Forgotten'): You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit that data to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
6. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.
7. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us at:
Ardmore Palette
38 Ormond Quay Upper
Lower Ground Floor
Dublin, County Dublin
D07 A9EA
Ireland