Privacy Policy

1. General

This website, hfofreearctic.org is owned by Seas at Risk, hereafter referred as to SAR.

If you have any requests concerning your Personal Information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact [email protected]

In this Policy, and in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the term “Personal Information” refers to any information regarding you personally, such as your name, address and email address. Personal information submitted through the forms on this site is held only in a SAR database. SAR will not share the information you give to us on this website with any other organization outside of SAR unless you have specifically given us permission to do so. SAR does not collect any personal information about users, except that which is knowingly and specifically supplied to us by the user.

Please read through this Policy before submitting any of your personal information to us. You do not need to submit any of your Personal Information when browsing our Website. If you do not want us to process your Personal Information, please do not submit any of your Personal Information on this Website.

2. When do we collect data?

We collect Personal Information from you through the use of online forms and every time you email us your details.

3. What personal information do we collect form you?

We collect the following Personal Information from you when you register to our Newsletter or contact us via the contact form:

  • Name;
  • Email address;
  • Your IP address during the registration and logging-in

You don’t have to disclose any of this information if you do not wish to.

4. Where will the information be held?

Personal information submitted through the forms on this site is held only in a SAR database stored on servers we rent. Our servers are hosted at

Unit 12A
Barrowside Business Park
Sleaty Road
Graiguecullen
Carlow
Ireland
R93 X265

5. Who do we pass your Personal Information to?

We do not share your Personal Information with any any other organisation outside SAR unless you have specifically given us permission to do so. We may however share Personal Information with external service providers which we engage to process data on our behalf (e.g. a hosting service provider or service providers in the context of our activities. Such service providers will always be bound by data processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 GDPR. We will only disclose Personal Information to government bodies and law enforcement agencies, if required by law or to comply with judicial requests.

6. Information from under 18s.

None of the contents or functions of this website is meant to be targeting users under the age of 18. If you are under 18, be sure to obtain your parent’s or guardian’s permission before you send any information about yourself (your name, address, e-mail address, etc.) to us or anyone else over the internet. We encourage parents to get involved with their children’s use of the internet and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

7. Linking to other websites

The Website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These websites have their own privacy policies and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of Personal Information you submit whilst visiting these websites.

We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

8. Security

We maintain safeguards to protect the Personal Information you provide to us through this Website against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration, or destruction. Please note, however, that perfect security does not exist on the Internet. Therefore, while we endeavour to protect your Personal Information, when data is transferred over the Internet it may potentially be accessed and used by unauthorised parties.

9. Your rights

You have the right to access and request a copy of the Personal Information that we hold on you and to request the correction or deletion of your Personal Information.

Please address your request to [email protected]. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete Personal Information about you on our files.

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