Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Romanian Development Connection ("we", "us", "our") is an events and community platform supporting the Romanian community in Ireland. Our contact email is rdc.ireland@gmail.com.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Irish data protection law.

2. Data We Collect

We collect the following personal data when you interact with our website:

• Name and email address — when purchasing a ticket or signing up for our newsletter.
• Payment information — processed securely by Stripe. We do not store card details.
• Usage data — anonymised information about how you navigate our website (e.g. pages visited, device type).
• Communications — if you contact us by email, we retain that correspondence.

3. How We Use Your Data

• To process ticket purchases and send confirmation emails with your QR code.
• To send you event updates and newsletters — only if you have subscribed.
• To respond to enquiries you send us.
• To improve the performance and user experience of our website.
• To comply with legal and financial obligations.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your data under the following lawful bases:

• Contract — processing necessary to fulfil your ticket purchase.
• Consent — for newsletter subscriptions. You may withdraw consent at any time.
• Legitimate interests — to improve our services and communicate about our events.
• Legal obligation — where required by Irish or EU law.

5. Third-Party Services

We use trusted third-party services to operate our platform:

• Stripe — for secure payment processing. Subject to Stripe's Privacy Policy.
• Supabase — for secure database storage. Data is stored within the EU.
• Resend — for transactional emails (ticket confirmations).

We do not sell your personal data to any third parties.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary:

• Ticket purchase records — retained for 7 years to comply with Irish tax law.
• Newsletter subscriptions — until you unsubscribe.
• Contact enquiries — up to 2 years.

7. Your Rights (GDPR)

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right to access — request a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data ('right to be forgotten').
• Right to restriction — ask us to limit how we process your data.
• Right to data portability — receive your data in a portable format.
• Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to withdraw consent — for newsletter subscriptions at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at rdc.ireland@gmail.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission of Ireland.

8. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. All data transmissions are encrypted using HTTPS/TLS.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. Continued use of our website after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact

For any privacy-related queries, please contact us at rdc.ireland@gmail.com.