Privacy notice

Short version: we hold an email address, a county and an optional town, we use it to send you flood alerts, and one click removes you.

What we collect

• Your email address - the only way we can alert you.
• County and, if you give it, town/townland - to pick the right alerts.
• Optional extras: name and Eircode, only if you type them, used only to make alerts more local.
• Consent and confirmation timestamps - our record that you asked for this.
• Delivery log: when we emailed you, the alert subject and whether it sent. No opens, no tracking pixels, no click tracking.

We do not collect IP addresses, device fingerprints, or browsing behaviour, and there are no third-party analytics or advertising cookies on this site.

Double opt-in

Signing up does not add you to the alert list. We send one confirmation email and nothing else until you click the link in it. If you never click, you receive no alerts and your unconfirmed entry stays inert. This prevents anyone signing up an address that is not theirs.

Who processes it

Email is delivered by our transactional mail provider, acting as a data processor: they carry the message and hold delivery records on our behalf. Data is stored on our own servers in Ireland. We do not sell, rent or share your address with anyone else, and we do not use it for marketing of any kind.

How long we keep it

These are hard limits, applied automatically by a retention job that runs after the daily alert check - not a promise to tidy up eventually:

• Signups that never confirm: deleted 7 days after signup.
• Active subscribers: kept only while you are subscribed.
• After you unsubscribe: the record is deleted 30 days after you leave (the gap is only so a mis-click can be undone by signing up again).
• Delivery log (when we emailed, the subject, whether it sent): kept 90 days, then deleted.
• Lookup caches (town/Eircode geocoding, flood-zone lookups): deleted after 30 days.

Deletion is a real delete from the database, not a hidden "inactive" flag. If you ask us to erase your data we do it immediately rather than waiting for the next retention run.

Your rights and how to use them

Under GDPR you can access, correct, export, restrict or erase your data, and withdraw consent at any time.

• Unsubscribe / withdraw consent: the one-click link at the bottom of every alert email, or the unsubscribe page.
• Access, correction or erasure: email hello@rennwick.com and we will action it. No forms, no hoops.

If you are not satisfied you can complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28; dataprotection.ie).

Lawful basis and controller

Lawful basis: your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)), recorded at sign-up and confirmed by the double opt-in click.

Data controller: Rennwick, Meenagh, Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim, F91 FX05, Ireland - hello@rennwick.com, 085 224 2648.

FloodWatch is a free public service. This notice covers the alert list only.