Personal Websites Privacy Notice

Our application form requests your name, email address, professional area and a short description of what you want your website to showcase. You may optionally supply an existing LinkedIn or portfolio URL. The form also requires you to confirm that you are at least 18 and acknowledge the programme terms and privacy notice. A separate, optional checkbox records whether you opt in to email updates and offers from Technaaf.

Providing the required details is not a legal obligation, but we cannot assess an application without them. Please do not provide identity documents, special-category data or sensitive information in the initial application.

Submissions pass through our Cloudflare-hosted form endpoint, where Cloudflare Turnstile helps detect abuse, and are forwarded to the Google Apps Script endpoint configured for our application-handling process. Application information is used to review suitability, communicate selection outcomes and, where selected, prepare the agreed website. Access is restricted to authorised people handling the programme.

Receiving and reviewing an application and delivering a selected website generally involves steps requested before entering a contract or performance of an agreement (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)). Preventing abuse and securely managing submissions relies on our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), subject to your rights.

Selection is reviewed by people, not decided exclusively through automated processing producing legal or similarly significant effects.

Selected applicants may supply a biography, professional experience, skills, projects, photos, relevant links and revision feedback. We use these materials to build and deliver the requested website files. Only content agreed for publication should be included in the finished website.

After receiving the files, an applicant who independently publishes or hosts their website is responsible for the privacy obligations related to that independently operated site.

Unsuccessful applications: We retain application information for no longer than 180 days after we decide not to select an applicant or close the relevant application round, unless a specific legal obligation or dispute reasonably requires longer retention.

Selected applications and delivered files: We keep project content and correspondence while needed to prepare, review and hand over the agreed website, and for reasonable post-delivery follow-up or the handling of claims. We then delete or anonymise information no longer needed, subject to applicable legal obligations and backup deletion schedules. The precise post-delivery retention period should be communicated in the project handover arrangements.

Technical and security information follows the retention criteria explained in the main Privacy Policy.

Applying does not subscribe you to marketing emails. Only if you actively tick the separate, optional checkbox may we use your email address to send occasional email updates and offers from Technaaf, based on your consent under GDPR Article 6(1)(a). Leaving it unchecked does not affect your application or selection. We record the opt-in choice, the wording presented, its source and the submission time.

You can withdraw marketing consent at any time by following an unsubscribe instruction in a marketing email or contacting [email protected]. We will stop using your address for marketing after withdrawal, subject to keeping a minimal suppression or consent record where legally necessary. Marketing preferences are handled separately from unsuccessful application records and their 180-day deletion period. We do not sell application data.

For data access, correction, deletion, objection and other applicable rights, and how to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission, see the main Privacy Policy. You can contact us at [email protected] or withdraw your application at any time.