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This Privacy Policy explains how Gym Cork collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects personal data in connection with the website gymcork.ie.
Gym Cork is operated by Cork Circle, a Cork-based project operated by a sole trader in Ireland.
For privacy queries, data protection requests, or correction requests, please contact: team@gymcork.ie
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to Gym Cork, Cork Circle, applicable law, or the way personal data is processed.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data processed when a person:
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites linked from Gym Cork. Those websites are responsible for their own privacy practices.
Gym Cork is a Cork gym comparison and information website.
Gym Cork may publish information about gyms, including facilities, prices, opening hours, equipment, classes, access details, user-submitted ratings, community feedback, and other information relevant to people comparing gyms in Cork.
Information may be collected from public sources, gym websites, gym representatives, users, and other lawful sources.
Gym Cork seeks to limit the amount of personal data collected and does not request email addresses for general gym ratings, reviews, or correction submissions.
Depending on how the website is used, Gym Cork may process the following categories of personal data:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| User-submitted gym feedback | Ratings, comments, correction details, facility feedback, crowding observations, time-of-day feedback, and other information voluntarily submitted |
| Website and technical data | IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referral source, timestamps, approximate location derived from IP address, cookie identifiers, and similar online identifiers |
| Direct contact information | Email address, name, message content, and any other information provided when contacting Gym Cork directly |
| Gym representative information | Name, role, business email address, phone number, gym details, requested updates, and related correspondence |
| Public business information | Gym name, address, website, public contact details, opening hours, facilities, prices, class information, and other publicly available business details |
Where information relates to an identified or identifiable individual, it is treated as personal data.
Gym Cork may allow users to submit ratings, reviews, corrections, and feedback about gyms.
General user submissions do not require an email address.
User submissions may relate to areas such as:
Gym Cork may use this information to update gym listings, calculate community ratings, summarise user experience, improve the website, and help users compare gyms.
User submissions may be published in edited, anonymised, summarised, or aggregated form. Submission of information does not guarantee publication.
Gym Cork may review, edit, summarise, anonymise, decline to publish, or remove user-submitted content.
Content may be moderated where it contains, or appears to contain:
Gym Cork may retain a record of submitted information where necessary for moderation, accuracy, abuse prevention, legal protection, or website administration.
Users should not include unnecessary personal data, sensitive personal data, or personal data relating to third parties when submitting forms, ratings, reviews, corrections, or other content through Gym Cork.
Users should not submit:
Where unnecessary personal data is submitted, Gym Cork may delete, edit, anonymise, restrict, or decline to publish that information.
Gym Cork may collect, organise, and publish publicly available information about gyms and fitness facilities.
This may include information from:
Public gym information may include gym name, address, website, public phone number, public email address, opening hours, membership prices, facilities, classes, equipment, access details, parking information, and publicly available images or links.
Gym owners or representatives may contact Gym Cork to request corrections, updates, additions, or removal of inaccurate information.
Gym Cork may process personal data for the following purposes:
| Purpose | Description |
|---|---|
| Website operation | To operate, maintain, administer, and secure gymcork.ie |
| Gym listings | To create, update, correct, and maintain gym listing information |
| Community ratings | To receive, review, aggregate, and publish gym ratings and user feedback |
| Accuracy and quality control | To identify missing, outdated, incorrect, duplicate, or misleading information |
| Moderation | To review submissions and prevent publication of unlawful, harmful, misleading, or inappropriate content |
| Communication | To respond to direct enquiries, correction requests, business enquiries, and gym owner requests |
| Abuse prevention | To detect spam, fake submissions, duplicate entries, manipulation, unauthorised access, or misuse |
| Analytics and improvement | To understand website usage, improve content, fix errors, and improve performance |
| Legal compliance | To comply with applicable legal obligations and respond to lawful requests |
| Legal protection | To establish, exercise, or defend legal rights where necessary |
Gym Cork processes personal data only where a lawful basis applies. Depending on the circumstances, the lawful bases may include:
| Lawful basis | Where it may apply |
|---|---|
| Consent | Optional cookies, marketing communications, optional submissions where consent is requested, or other consent-based processing |
| Legitimate interests | Operating Gym Cork, maintaining accurate listings, reviewing submissions, preventing abuse, securing the website, responding to enquiries, and improving the service |
| Legal obligation | Processing required to comply with applicable law, regulation, or lawful requests |
| Contract or pre-contractual steps | Processing relating to gym owner enquiries, business enquiries, supplier arrangements, or requested services |
Where Gym Cork relies on legitimate interests, those interests are assessed against the rights, freedoms, and interests of affected individuals.
Gym Cork may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including website functionality, security, form operation, analytics, performance monitoring, error detection, spam prevention, and remembering cookie preferences.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used where required for the website to function.
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies, including analytics, advertising, tracking, heatmap, or performance cookies, will only be used where consent has been obtained, where such consent is required by applicable law.
Users may manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner or cookie settings tool made available on the website.
Gym Cork may use analytics or performance tools to understand how the website is used and to improve the service.
Analytics data may include pages visited, time spent on pages, referral source, approximate location, device and browser information, interactions with website features, and technical errors or performance issues.
Where analytics tools use non-essential cookies or similar identifiers, they will only be used where consent has been obtained, where required.
Gym Cork may use third-party service providers to operate and manage parts of the website. These may include providers of website hosting, forms, databases, analytics, cookie consent tools, spam prevention, security, email, cloud storage, website maintenance, and technical support.
Personal data may be disclosed to such service providers where necessary for the operation, maintenance, security, analytics, administration, or improvement of Gym Cork.
Where required, Gym Cork uses service providers subject to appropriate contractual and data protection safeguards.
Some service providers used by Gym Cork may process or store personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, Gym Cork will rely on appropriate transfer mechanisms or safeguards where required by applicable data protection law. These may include adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
Gym Cork does not sell personal data.
Personal data may be disclosed where necessary to:
Personal data will only be shared where there is an appropriate basis to do so.
Gym Cork does not add general review submitters to a mailing list.
Submitting a gym rating, review, correction, or update through Gym Cork will not result in subscription to Cork Circle marketing communications unless the user separately opts in.
Where a person chooses to subscribe to marketing communications, they may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link or instructions provided.
Gym Cork is part of the wider Cork Circle project, which creates and supports Cork-focused resources.
Gym Cork and Cork Circle may share operational tools, website infrastructure, analytics systems, forms, email systems, and administrative processes.
Where a person separately uses corkcircle.ie, subscribes to Cork Circle, or submits information through Cork Circle, that processing may be governed by the applicable Cork Circle privacy notice or privacy policy.
Use of Gym Cork does not automatically create a Cork Circle newsletter subscription.
Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
| Data type | Retention approach |
|---|---|
| User ratings and gym feedback | Retained while relevant to the gym listing, website quality, moderation, or accuracy purposes |
| Aggregated or anonymised ratings | May be retained indefinitely where individuals are no longer identifiable |
| Correction submissions | Retained while required to verify, maintain, or evidence listing accuracy |
| Direct contact messages | Retained for as long as necessary to respond and manage the enquiry, and normally no longer than 24 months after last contact unless required longer |
| Gym owner or representative enquiries | Retained for as long as necessary to manage the listing, relationship, request, or related records |
| Technical logs | Retained for a limited period for security, troubleshooting, abuse prevention, and website administration |
| Analytics data | Retained according to the settings and retention controls of the relevant analytics provider |
| Legal or dispute-related records | Retained for as long as necessary to comply with law or establish, exercise, or defend legal rights |
Gym Cork may delete, anonymise, aggregate, or restrict personal data when it is no longer required.
Gym Cork implements appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, damage, alteration, or disclosure.
Access to personal data is limited to where it is necessary for the operation, maintenance, security, administration, or legal protection of Gym Cork.
Where a personal data breach occurs, Gym Cork will assess the nature and impact of the breach and, where required, notify the Data Protection Commission and affected individuals in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Subject to applicable conditions, limitations, and exemptions, individuals may have the following rights under data protection law:
Requests to exercise data protection rights may be submitted to:
Gym Cork may request information necessary to verify the identity of the requester and to process the request. Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Individuals who have concerns about the processing of their personal data may contact Gym Cork using the contact details above.
Individuals also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission.
Gym Cork is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Where Gym Cork becomes aware that personal data relating to a child has been submitted without appropriate authority or lawful basis, appropriate steps will be taken, which may include deletion or restriction of the relevant information.
Gym Cork does not request special category personal data through general user submissions.
Users should not submit information relating to health, medical conditions, injuries, disability, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, sex life, or sexual orientation.
Where such information is submitted unnecessarily, Gym Cork may delete, edit, anonymise, restrict, or decline to publish it.
Gym Cork does not use personal data to make decisions about individuals based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Automated tools may be used to support website security, spam prevention, duplicate detection, abuse prevention, analytics, performance monitoring, and technical administration.
Gym Cork may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be published on this page with the revised "Last updated" date.
Where changes are material, Gym Cork may provide additional notice where appropriate.
Gym Cork is part of Cork Circle — a free weekly email featuring the best events, food spots and things happening across the city.