This privacy statement was last updated in September 2023.
About Fáilte Ireland
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority, and it is the statutory body established by the National Development Authority Act, 2003 whose principal place of business is at 88-95 Amiens Street, Dublin 1 (also referred to as “Authority”, “we”, “our”, “us”) is the Data Controller when you provide your personal data to us.
Our role is to support the tourism industry and work to promote Ireland as a tourist destination.
Fáilte Ireland fully respects your right to privacy. Fáilte Ireland is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and we wish to be transparent on how we process your data. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we treat it.
Table 1: Purpose of CCTV
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Lawful Basis |
Retention |
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CCTV may be specified as security control resulting from insurable risk assessment which, in turn, informs the terms of Failte Ireland’s Insurance Policy. In this event, the purpose of using CCTV is to uphold the Insurance Policy by deterring and evidencing fraud, theft, accident, damage and crime; including where CCTV is required by a landlord as part of a property lease agreement
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Purpose of a Contract
There is a contract between Fáilte Ireland and our Insurance Provider. It is required to uphold the terms and conditions as stipulated in the Contract and securing the assets with CCTV controls.
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Recorded images will be stored for a period of 1 month, following which they will be deleted, except in a case where the recording forms part of a report made to the Health and Safety Authority following the occurrence of a reportable accident or dangerous occurrence in the workplace, in which case the recording will be retained for a period of 10 years |
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Safeguard employees, contractors and visitors to Fáilte Ireland premises where so ever identified in a health and safety risk assessment. Risk assessments are carried out by a Competent Person as per the Health and Safety Statement.
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Legal obligation
Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005 Fáilte Ireland has a duty of care to its employees, contractors and visitors to its premises.
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CCTV will not be used by Fáilte Ireland for any other purposes other than those outlined in the Table 1. When more purposes for the use of CCTV images are proposed, these must be approved in advance by Fáilte Ireland’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) and, if necessary, by the Data Protection Commission (DPC). Those accepted purposes will be listed in this procedure.
Table 2: CCTV will not be used for
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For the avoidance of doubt, CCTV monitoring/profiling of an individual based on any of the following characteristics is prohibited by this policy;
Monitoring based on the characteristics and classifications contained in equality and other related legislation e.g., age, civil status, family status, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, membership of the Travelling Community, etc.,
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Monitoring the attendance of employees. |
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Archiving in the public interest, for scientific or historical research or for statistics. |
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Recording audio or facial recognition |
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CCTV will not be located in areas where staff and the public would expect privacy such as break rooms, changing rooms, showers and toilets.
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We do not engage in automated decision-making/profiling |