PawsAbilities fully respects your rights to privacy and is committed to strict adherence to GDPR, which came into effect fully on 25th May 2018, as well as the provisions of the Data Protection Act, 2018.

This privacy notice is directed toward individuals who wish to register for Stay-At-Home Daycare or training services with PawsAbilities.

How to contact us

If you wish to contact us on any issue regarding your data protection, please do so immediately:

Email: info@PawsAbilities.ie

Or through social media messaging.

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.

What data do we collect?

We collect personal information 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. We collect information such as name, contact details, including address, email address, and phone number, financial information including your bank account details, credit card details or other payment details.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

• Web pages you view while on this website.

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited.

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

How do we collect your data?

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive for storage.

We also collect your personal information from through your attendance or interactions about a service or when you provide us with information regarding a service you use.

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

•  Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

• Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

• Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share.

• Your IP address

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third-party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

How will we use your data?

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.

PawsAbilities collects and uses your personal information to deliver the most suitable or related services you have requested. By providing your personal information, and where you have agreed to receiving communications from us, we may use the information:

• to communicate with you regarding events or services offered by PawsAbilities

• to register you as a participant in training, Stay at Home daycare services, group classes or workshops.

• to communicate scheduling information

• to otherwise provide you with services, products, or information that you have requested.

• to register and book your place on any service provided by PawsAbilities.

• to send you course information and materials to facilitate you implementing training advice.

• to contact you about late-notice cancellations, postponements or otherwise

• to notify you of services or events provided by PawsAbilities in the future

• to improve on the level of service that we provide

• to communicate as necessary regarding materials, resources, and training service resources and information

• to provide further information about our services, where necessary, and only where you have provided your consent to receive such information.

• to answer queries and communicate with you in general.

• to administer activities of PawsAbilities, including our website, and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner.

• to audit and administer our accounts.

• to satisfy legal requirements

• We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

• We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

• You’ve created a customer account.

• Your customer account password has been reset or updated.

• You’ve made a purchase.

• Your order has shipped.

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact      information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it.

• Your IP address

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 PawsAbilities’ Privacy Statement providing explicit consent to our continuing use of the personal data you have supplied us.

How do we store your data?

This website is hosted on the Squarespace platform, which provides an online platform for selling products and services. Data may be stored through Squarespace's data storage, databases, and general applications. Data is stored on secure servers behind a firewall.

How long do we keep your Data?

This will vary depending on the purpose for which we received your personal information. PawsAbilities will only hold this data for as long we deem necessary when full consent is received.

Our standard retention period is one calendar year, for on-going clients e.g. Stay-At-Home Daycare, we will keep your personal information for as long as deemed necessary to continue providing you with a high-quality service.

What are your data protection rights?

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 to fulfil a contract.

Right to Object: you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.

How do we protect your personal information?

PawsAbilities 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 personal information 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 Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of the Personal Information 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.

PawsAbilities 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 removal from office.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties? 

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. Currently, we disclose your Data to the following providers: Squarespace.com, Stripe payment processor & Google Drive. 

For information on how Squarespace handles visitors' data please review sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 12 of Squarespaces’ Privacy Policy
Stripe Privacy Policy Please see here .

Google Drive please see here

What are cookies, how do we use them and what types do we use?

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

• _acloggedin

• ACUITY_CART

• _client_acloggedin

• _dd_cookie_test

• _dd_s

• _dd_site_test

• _grecaptcha

• _ssid

• CART

• CHECKOUT_WEBSITE

• client_username

• clientUser

• Commerce-checkout-state

• Crumb

• hasCart

• Locked

• orderStatusSessionToken

• PHPSESSID

• RecentRedirect

• remember_client

• siteUserCrumb

• SiteUserInfo

• SiteUserSecureAuthToken

• squarespace-announcement-bar

• squarespace-likes

• squarespace-popup-overlay

• squarespace-video-player-options

• ss_performancecookiesAllowed

• ss_marketingcookiesAllowed

• ss_sd

• Test

• TZ

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. They are used to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

• ss_cid

• ss_cpvisit

• ss_cvisit

• ss_cvr

• ss_cvt

You can choose to accept or decline cookies by.

• Choosing to accept all cookies on the cookie banner on our website.

• Choosing to decline all cookies or manage your cookie preferences through the cookie banner on our website.

• Modifying your browser setting to decline cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored if you prefer.

If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website.

Privacy policies of other websites

Our website may provide links to or embed third-party websites. This Privacy Statement does not apply to those websites. If you choose to enter such a linked site, you agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such websites and do not review or endorse and shall not be liable, directly, or indirectly, for

• how these websites treat your Personal Information

• the content of such websites

• the use that others make of these websites.

Please ensure you check the legal and privacy statements posted on each website or mobile application you access before entering any Personal Information.

Changes to our privacy policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Statement. If the changes we make are material, we also may post a notice regarding the changes on our website. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the Personal Information we collect.

How to contact the appropriate authorities?

If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by us or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority:

Data Protection Commissioner:
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois, R32 AP23, Ireland. Phone +353 (0761) 104 800 | LoCall 1890 25 22 31 | Fax +353 57 868 4757 | email info@dataprotection.ie