Privacy Policy
Plain summary
As an EU-based non-profit in the sustainability sector, we prioritise your right to privacy and security:
- We don’t use cookies or trackers to follow you around the internet.
- Our website is primarily for informational purposes and is designed to collect the bare minimum amount of data required to operate properly.
- We've shared a YouTube embed of our documentary on our website. All 8 cookies collected on this site are linked directly to YouTube. The full list of cookies and what they do is included in the full policy.
- We use built-in analytics and site health monitoring tools to ensure our website is working properly, accessible to all visitors, served to a relevant audience, and protected from attackers and other bad actors. These tools collect only the amount of data required to fulfill this purpose.
- Any personally identifiable information we collect is typically supplied by you, via third-party platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp. We don’t export or store this information anywhere else. By engaging with our pages on these platforms, you agree to their respective data processing and privacy policies. At the time of writing, these third-party platforms are not directly connected to our website, but may be in the future solely to improve your user experience.
Changes to this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 03 June 2026 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We will update our Privacy Policy at least once every twelve (12) months.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time, and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at top.of.the.city.garden@gmail.com.
The Fine Print
Owner and data controller
Top of the City Community Garden ("us", "we", or "our") operates https://topofthecitygarden.com (the "Site").
Address: St. Carthage’s Avenue, Waterford, Ireland, X91 X3TR
Contact email: top.of.the.city.garden@gmail.com
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Site collects some personal data from its users.
This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices, and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site.
By submitting personal data to us, you agree to us using your personal data as follows:
Information use, collection, and business purpose
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to usage data.
We may use your personal information to:
- ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- provide you with information, products or services that you request from us which may be of interest to you
- carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
- interact with external social networks and platforms (e.g., social media widgets and share bars)
- allow access to third party services' accounts
- monitor infrastructure
- manage hosting and backend infrastructure
- interact with live chat platforms
- display content from external platforms
- interact with support and feedback platforms
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
Information excluded from the CCPA’s and GDPR’s scope
In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from our users within the last twelve (12) months:
- Real names and aliases as they appear in online channels like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
- Information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
- Location data (at the country level) to ensure our site is served to the most relevant audience
Data storage
Your personal data is stored at a destination within the European Economic Area (“EEA”).
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this storing and processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy as well as those of our website vendors.
Lawful basis of processing personal data under the GDPR
We may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:
- users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes;
- provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
- processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.
Data retention
We process and store your personal data for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
- personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between us and the user will be retained until such contract has been fully performed;
- personal data collected for the purposes of our legitimate interests will be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes;
- we may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn;
- we may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, personal data will be deleted and some of your rights (i.e. the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability) cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period. You may find specific information regarding your rights within the relevant section of this Privacy Policy or by contacting us at top.of.the.city.garden@gmail.com.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless we provide users with advance notice.
This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users (for example, Gmail), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Full list of third-party cookies used on this website
Because we've embedded a YouTube video of our documentary on our homepage and in other relevant places on our website, YouTube collects some cookies from users who engage with the video. This table sets out which cookies are used in YouTube embeds and their purpose.
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YNID | .youtube.com | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. | 6 months |
| YSC | .youtube.com | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | session |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
| __Secure-YEC | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | past |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | .youtube.com | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. | never |
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category D: Commercial information.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Category G: Geolocation data.
- Professional service providers.
- Third parties whose services you purchase through our Site.
- Social media networks.
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: