Data Protection

As an Organisation we collect and process personal data to provide you with services and to effectively administer your Organisation.

We have compiled a list of data we collect, why it is collected, and our legal bases for processing the data. This list is available at APPENDIX G of the Data Protection Policy. Further details in relation to the legal bases for processing data can be found in the body of the Data Protection Policy, and there is a link to this policy on this page.

Where we process your data on the basis of consent, e.g. direct marketing by partner companies for the provision of value-added services, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You can do so by contacting our membership department at membership@inmo.ie.

We will occasionally, in the course of providing industrial, professional, or regulatory services to you, pass your information to legal advisors and insurers who are assisting us in providing services to you.

In the course of providing professional services to you, e.g. access to educational databases maintained by other professional organisations, it may be necessary to pass minimal personal data to those organisations, however, you will be specifically asked to consent to this process, and you may withdraw consent at any time.

In the course of providing value added services we may pass personal data to companies or brokers carefully selected by the Executive Council, who in turn may contact you to offer you such value added services. As this constitutes Direct Marketing, when you enter into membership you will be asked to consent to this process, and you may withdraw consent at any time.

We may transfer personal data to a contractor in the United Kingdom, which is outside European Economic Area (EEA). This occurs on the basis of an adequacy decision issued under the GDPR by the EU Commission on 28 June 2021 which determined that personal data can flow freely from the European Union to the United Kingdom where it benefits from an essentially equivalent level of protection to that guaranteed under EU law.

We have compiled a list of data we collect, security provisions in relation to processing, and the proposed retention period. This list is available at APPENDIX I of the Data Protection Policy.

We do not use automated decision making or profiling in the course of our activities.

Data Protection legislation provides you with a range of rights in relation to access and controlling the processing of your data.

In brief, those rights include:

• The Right to be Informed
• The Right of Access
• The Right to Rectification
• The Right to Erasure
• The Right to Restrict Processing
• The Right to Data Portability
• The Right to Object

These rights apply to varying degrees depending on the circumstances, and full explanation of these rights is contained in section 5.6 of the Data Protection Policy.

To access any of these rights free of charge, or to make further enquiries, please contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@inmo.ie, or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7.

Please see APPENDIX H of the Data Protection Policy where you will find our Data Subject Rights Procedure.

If you believe we have contravened Data Protection Legislation or any aspects of our Data Protection Policy please contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@inmo.ie, or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7. We will endeavour to address the situation to your satisfaction.

If we do not comply with a valid access request that you have made, or if you have another complaint in relation to our Data Protection processes, it is open to you to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.

The Data Protection Commissioner recommends that you contact us to establish the circumstances and to indicate your intention to complain to their Office, prior to doing so. Indeed, by doing so we may be in a position to correct the problem there and then.

If, having contacted us directly, you are not satisfied with our response, you may wish to raise a concern with the Data Protection Commissioner, a complaint may be made online by visiting https://www.dataprotection.ie.

For more information about your rights to information and access under the GDPR, please see the following link: http://gdprandyou.ie/gdpr-for-individuals.

Further information is also available at APPENDIX H of the Data Protection Policy where you will find our Data Subject Rights Procedure.