Met Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service, is a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and is the leading provider of weather information and related services in the State. Its mission is to monitor, analyse and predict Ireland's weather and climate, and to provide a range of high quality meteorological and related information to the public and to specific customers.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains how the Department, as the Data Controller, will process the personal data provided to it, how that information will be used, and what rights you may exercise in relation to your personal data.
The Department will use your data in order to process your application. To complete your application you will be asked to provide personal data (some fields are compulsory, others remain optional) including your name, company address, email address, and phone number.
In addition to the above mentioned categories of personal data, we may also collect information on your user activity, including your IP address, data downloaded and time spent on the Service. This data will be used exclusively for traffic analysis, monitoring, and service optimization.
The Department will not use any personal data collected from you for the purpose of automated decision making or profiling.
This processing of your personal data is lawful under Article 6(1)(b) - processing of personal data shall be lawful if it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps, at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
The Department implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your information from unauthorised access. However, despite these efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Personal data will not be used for any other purpose than processing your application, including the transfer of personal data to any third country or an international organisation, unless it is required to do so according to EU or member state law.
As long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements, including compliance with the National Archives Act 1986, where appropriate.
The Department's Data Protection Policy, which sets out how we will use your personal data, as well as providing information regarding your rights as a data subject (including details regarding right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing, and right to data portability), is available upon request.
If you require further information, or wish to access your personal data, please contact the Department's Data Protection Officer, details below.
Data Protection Officer,
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage,
Newtown Road,
Wexford,
Y35 AP90
Email: data.protection@housing.gov.ie