Solas Eige SCIO (,“we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your personal information and
being transparent about what we do with it, however you interact with us. We
are therefore committed to using your personal information in accordance with
our responsibilities. As part of this, we are required to provide you with the
information in this Privacy Policy under applicable data privacy laws,
including the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, the Data
Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC
Directive) Regulations 2003 (the “Data Protection Laws”).

We won’t do anything with your personal information that youwouldn’t reasonably expect. This Privacy Policy explains how and what we do
with your personal information, why we use it and how we store it.

In this Privacy Policy when we refer to Solas Eige we arereferring to Solas Eige SCIO (which is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated
Organisation, number SC051647 ).

If you have any queries about our Privacy Policy, pleasecontact us by email at solaseige@gmail.com.

1. HOW AND WHEN WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We may collect and store personal information about youwhenever you interact with us. Examples of this include:

When you make a donation via the Website.

When you sign up for our online newsletter

When you contact us with a query, whether via email, telephone or social media.

• When you offer to volunteer for us.
• When you offer to write content for our Website.
• When you enter one of our competitions.
• When you send us a direct message on a social media platform (e.g. Facebook,
  Twitter, Instagram).

When you post or comment on a post on one of our social media groups or pages.

2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

• The types of information that we collect will be determinedaccording to the nature of your interactions with Solas Eige SCIO, as described
  more fully within section 3 below. The majority of this information will be
  personal information, such as your name, email address, postal address,
  telephone number, age, gender, social media account information, bank account
  details and any other personal information that you may choose to provide. In
  all cases we will only seek to collect information that we need.
  
• 3. WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, HOW IT ISSTORED AND OUR LAWFUL BASES FOR PROCESSING
  

We use and store your personal information in the followingways and in reliance upon the lawful bases described below, in accordance with
the Data Protection Laws:

DIRECT MARKETING

When you sign up to receive emails from us (which includeour newsletter elsewhere) your email address is stored in a mailing list using
the online program, Mailchimp. We will then send you elsewhere, which includes
information on events and Solas Eige SCIO. For more information on how
Mailchimp use and store personal information, please see Mailchimp’sprivacy policy. You can unsubscribe from our mailing list using theunsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.

When you send us a direct message on a social media platform(e.g. Facebook, Twitter or Instagram) we use any personal information provided
to respond to your message. On occasion, we may contact you via direct message
on a social media platform in order to notify you that you have won a
competition, to ask whether we can use a photo you have uploaded to the page or
group, or because we are interested in a story you have posted.

In accordance with the Data Protection Laws, our lawfulbasis for processing your personal information in this manner is that:

You have provided your consent to receive direct electronic marketing from Solas
Eige SCIO in the form of emails from us (our newsletter, event
information)

You have provided your consent to receive event-specific information by
registering to take part in an event

The processing is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest in
keeping Solas Eige SCIO members appraised of our activities.

GENERAL PROCESSING ACTIVITIES
When you make a donation via the Website, you will be takento the webpage of our payments provider stripe , where you can decide what
amount to contribute to Solas Eige SCIO. Solas Eige SCIO never has access to
your credit/ debit card details when donations are accepted in this way, with
any information being processed by PayPal. For more information on PayPal and
how they use and store personal information, please see theirPrivacy Statement.

• When you participate in an event you may be asked whetheryou agree to your personal details (name, gender, age category) when you
  register to the event.
  
• We may use event photographers at our events, who will takephotos freely throughout the event. Photos are taken at the event on the basis
  of legitimate interest and will only be taken in the context of: 1) Online
  event photo galleries; 2) Solas Eige SCIO newsletter elsewhere; 3) Solas Eige Website;
  4) Solas Eige social media; and 5) Solas Eige marketing and publicity. If you
  do not want photos of yourself used in this way please email solaseige@gmail.com
  prior to or following the event or let the event photographer know that you do
  not want to be photographed at the event.
  

When you offer to volunteer with us we need your personalinformation (name, email address, telephone number) to contact you with regards
to your offer of help. We may also need additional personal and sensitive
personal data, such as any medical conditions you have, to assign you an
appropriate volunteering role and to make sure we can support you effectively
in your volunteering role.

When you contact us with a query of any kind by email (e.g.regarding our newsletter, an event, or our Website) we use the information you
have provided to respond to your initial message. We then delete any emails
considered to be solved and will not hold any information (emails or email
addresses) we deem to be no longer needed.

You may interact with us via a page, group or account on asocial media platform (e.g. Facebook, Twitter or Instagram). In these cases,
your interaction with us is stored on that page, group or account on which it
was posted. Such interactions may involve the processing of personal
information such as your name. If you would like any such interactions to be
removed please either delete the interaction yourself, send us a message on the
platform in question, or email us at solaseige@gmail.com. The personal information
stored will be determined by your privacy settings on the social media platform
in question.

You may provide content for our Website, which may includepersonal information such as your name and email address. If you would like
your personal details removed from our Website please contact solaseige@gmail.com.

We may use your personal information to record and deal witha complaint, to record a request not to receive further information and for
other essential, internal record keeping purposes. Following completion of any
such tasks your personal details will be removed from the records.

When you use our Website, user details will be collected toenable development of the Website and for usage tracking, which is undertaken
by Google Analytics. Further details of this type of data collection can be
found in the Cookies section below (Section 11).

We may use your personal information to prevent crime and tokeep our team and the public safe.

We may use your personal information where we reasonablythink that there is a risk of serious harm or abuse to you or someone else.

We may be required to process your personal information tofulfil a legal, regulatory or tax obligation.

In accordance with the Data Protection Laws, we rely uponthe following lawful bases for processing your personal information where
carrying out the processing activities described above:

you have given your consent to the processing of your personal information for
one or more of the specific purposes described above; or

the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you and
Solas Eige SCIO are party; or

the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests in
operating Solas Eige SCIO, managing Solas Eige events and/ or ensuring the
safety of all participants in Solas Eige events.

In accordance with the Data Protection Laws, where weprocess your special category personal data our lawful basis for doing so is
that you have provided your explicit consent to the processing of your special
category personal data for one or more specified purposes as described above,
namely to ensure that we are aware of any medical conditions so that we can
keep you safe during our events or in your role with Solas Eige SCIO.

• 4. HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
  
• Please refer to section 3 above for further information onhow long we may store your personal information within specific contexts. In
  addition, please note that:
  

We will keep any personal information which we havecollected for processing financial transactions, excluding your credit/debit
card details, for as long as the law requires for tax or accounting purposes
(which may be up to six years after a particular transaction).

If you have participated in an event or have been avolunteer, we will keep your personal information for three years in line with
this Privacy Policy, as is our legal obligation.

When you unsubscribe from our newsletter your personalinformation is archived by our mailing list database software, Mailchimp. If
you wish to rejoin the mailing list at any point you will need to do this via
our website sign up page.

In respect of any other personal information, we will retainit for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected,
taking into account guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

5. WHEN WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

As described in section 3 above, we may need to share yourinformation with data hosting providers or service providers, such as our
website developer, who help us to deliver our services. These providers will
only act under our instruction and are subject to universal strict data
protection clauses.

We may also share your personal information with selected third parties including:

Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and
optimisation of the Website, as described in section 11 (Cookies) below.

Where Solas Eige SCIO merge with another organisation, is acquired by another
organisation or form a new entity, in which case we may share your
personal information with the relevant organisations (including third
party purchasers).

We will disclose your personal information to third parties such as courts, regulatory or law enforcement bodies, or our professional
advisors if this is permitted by law and is necessary in order to:

Comply with any court order or other legal obligation or when data is requested
by our regulators or by government agencies or law enforcement agencies.

Enforce or apply any agreement to which we are party.

Protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our employees, or others.

• 6. PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
  

We use standard organisational safeguards to ensure thatyour personal information is secure. We limit access to information on a
strictly need-to-know basis and will continue to ensure that our team are aware
that such information is only used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We undertake at least biennial reviews of those who haveaccess to information that we hold to ensure that your information is only
accessible by appropriately trained staff and contractors.

Whilst we take all possible precautions to ensure yourpersonal information is safe, there are always inherent risks in sending
information by public networks or using public computers and we cannot 100%
guarantee the security of data (including personal information) disclosed or
transmitted over public networks.

Where you or we have provided a password enabling you toaccess parts of our Website or use our services, it is your responsibility to
keep this password confidential. Please choose a secure password and do not
share it with anyone else.

7. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

From time to time, we may transfer your personal informationoutside of the UK to service providers for the purposes described in this
Privacy Policy. If we do transfer your personal information, we will put in
place appropriate safeguards required by law. For example, we may use model
contracts in a form approved by regulators.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure thatyour personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this
Privacy Policy.

8. YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have rights in relation to the personal information wehold about you. These include the right to request access to your personal
information, to request that it is erased, that its processing is restricted,
or that any inaccurate personal information is rectified. You may also have the
right to object to the processing of your personal information, or in some
circumstances to obtain a copy of the personal information in machine-readable
format. If you wish to exercise these rights, please email solaseige@gmail.com.

When asking for such a procedure, you will need to providecopies of two separate identification documents, such as a passport, driving
licence, or utility bill, and any additional information that is relevant to
the nature of your contact with us. This information will help us to locate
your records. Please send these documents via email to solaseige@gmail.com.

We will respond within one month of receipt of your writtenrequest and copies of your identification documents. Where we provide personal
information to you (or someone else on your behalf), we will provide it free of
charge except in exceptional circumstances.

9. OUR POLICY FOR UNDER 18S AND UNDER 16S

To use our Website you need to be over 18 years old. If youare under the age of 18 you must have the consent of your parent or legal
guardian to use or register for any of our services.

10. EXTERNAL WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Our Website contain hyperlinks to lots of other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to our Website, so when you follow a link to
other websites from ours you should read their own privacy policies. This
privacy policy only covers the privacy practices of Solas Eige SCIO and how we
will use any information collected from our Website, mailing list and social
media pages. It does not cover how providers of social media platforms will use
your information. You should read the relevant social media site’s privacy
policies before adding any content to our social media pages, and use the
social media site privacy settings and reporting mechanisms to control the way
that your information is handled on that site.

11. COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are placed on yourcomputer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make
websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to
the owners of the site. You can find out more about the use of cookies here.
Our Website uses cookies to help provide you with the best possible user
experience.

We may use cookies to:

Identify you when you visit this Website, to keep track of your browsing patterns
and build up a demographic profile. Our use of cookies also allows
registered users to be presented with a personalised version of the
Website, carry out transactions and have access to information about their
account.

Compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our Website, what
type of technology they are using, how long they spend on the Website and
which pages they look at. This information helps us to improve our
Website. We use Google Analytics, which informs us, on an anonymous basis,
of how people reached this Website (e.g. from a search engine) and whether
they have been here before, helping us to develop our services for you.

Our Website, like most websites, includes functionalityprovided by third parties and we sometimes include content from YouTube or
Vimeo, which use cookies. Please consult the relevant privacy notice or cookie
notice of YouTube or Vimeo for further information on how they process your
cookie data.

• You can switch cookies off by adjusting your browsersettings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing this is likely to limit the
  functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies
  are a standard part of most modern websites. To opt out of being tracked by
  Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  
• If the settings on your browser are adjusted to acceptcookies we take this, and your continued use of our Website, to mean that you
  are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site
  you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our
  site will not work as you would expect.
  

12. HOW TO MAKE A COMPLAINT OR RAISE A CONCERN

If you would like more information, have any questions aboutthis Privacy Policy, want to make a formal complaint about our approach to data
protection, or raise privacy concerns please contact us by email at solaseige@gmail.com

If you would like to make a complaint, please follow theSolas Eige SCIO complaints procedure which can also be found on our blog.

13. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so pleasecheck this page occasionally to see if we have undertaken any updates and that
you are happy with them.

Next review date: 20September 2026