I. Who We Are
Dublin Inquirer Ltd, The Digital Hub Development Company, The Digital Hub, Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland, CRO #559820, dublininquirer.com.
1. Hosting and subscribers
Our website is hosted on the Ghost Pro platform. We also use Outpost to help us optimise the Dublin Inquirer experience. Learn more about the Ghost privacy policy here https://ghost.org/privacy/. Learn more about the Outpost privacy policy here https://outpost.pub/privacy/.
- Basic account information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up a free account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a Dublin Inquirer account to provide an email address — and that’s it.
- Public profile information: If you have an account with us, we collect the information that you provide for your public profile.
- Communications with us: You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys or reporting call-outs, communicate with us about a support question, post a comment, or sign up for an event. When you communicate with us via form, email, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.
B. Cookies used for this process
Name of cookie | Duration | Third party or First party | Reason for usage |
ghost-members-ssr | 6 Months | First Party | User account - Used by Ghost to remember that you are logged in as you navigate our website. |
ghost-members-ssr.sig | 6 Months | First Party | User account - Used by Ghost to remember that you are logged in as you navigate our website. |
2. Payment processing
We use Stripe as our payment processor. Stripe processes subscriptions on our behalf. Stripe uses some cookies and local storage items to achieve this, these cookies are outlined below. To learn more visit the Stripe privacy policy page here https://stripe.com/ie/privacy and cookie policy here https://stripe.com/ie/legal/cookies-policy.
- Payment and contact information: If you become a paid subscriber or buy something from us, we’ll collect information to process those payments and contact you, including your name, credit card information, and contact information. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made for tax and accounting purposes.
B. Cookies used for this process
Name of cookie | Duration | Third party or First party | Reason for usage |
__Host-LinkSession | 1 Year | First Party | Payment processing - Used by Stripe to store consumer credentials to provide a one click payment experience at checkout |
m | Session | First Party | Payment processing - Used by Stripe to test whether sessionStorage is available in the browser or whether fallback mechanisms are needed for basic functions. |
__stripe_mid | 1 Year | First Party | Payment processing - Used by Stripe for fraud prevention purposes and helps Stripe assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction. |
__stripe_sid | 30 Minutes | First Party | Payment processing - Used by Stripe for fraud prevention purposes and helps Stripe assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction. |
3. Analytics
We use Plausible to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. Plausible does not use cookies and does not collect any personal data. We use Plausible to better understand what stories and features are popular with website visitors. To learn more, please read the Plausible privacy policy here https://plausible.io/privacy.
- Usage information: We collect anonymous information about usage of our website. For example, when you use our services (e.g., page views). We use this information to, for example, provide our services to you, get insights on how people use our services so we can make our services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.
- Location information: Our publishing system may attempt to determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate roughly how many people visit our services from certain geographic regions.
On occasion we will embed third party tools into our articles such as YouTube videos, Spotify music clips, interactive maps, and Google Forms. These will utilise various tracking technologies such as cookies and local storage to collect information when these embeds are interacted with. To protect your information we have categorised these embeds accordingly.
IV. What rights you have over your data
If you have created an account, or purchased a subscription, you can ask to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.