Last updated: 4 November 2026
The Short Version
- We collect basic information when you visit, comment, subscribe or contact us.
- Ireland Wide is funded by ads (managed by Journey by Mediavine) and affiliate links, which use cookies and similar technologies.
- We ask for your consent before setting advertising and other non-essential cookies, and you can change your mind at any time.
- We never sell your name or email address. Questions go to contact@irelandwide.com.
Who We Are
This Privacy Policy applies to Ireland Wide at irelandwide.com (the “Website”, “we”, “us”). Ireland Wide is the data controller for personal information collected through the Website. You can contact us about this policy or your data at contact@irelandwide.com or through our contact page.
Information We Collect
Information you give us: your name and email address when you leave a comment, subscribe to our emails or contact us, and anything you choose to include in your message.
Information collected automatically: your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, language, the pages you view, the website that referred you, the date and time of your visit, and identifiers stored in cookies. Your approximate location (country or region) may be worked out from your IP address.
How We Use Information and Our Lawful Bases
- Running and securing the Website, preventing spam: legitimate interests.
- Replying to your messages and publishing your comments: legitimate interests.
- Sending our emails if you subscribe: consent.
- Analytics that tell us which guides are read: consent, or legitimate interests where the law allows analytics without consent.
- Personalised advertising and affiliate tracking: consent.
- Meeting legal obligations: legal obligation.
Advertising
Ireland Wide works with Journey by Mediavine to manage display advertising. Journey and its advertising partners may use first-party and third-party cookies, tags, pixels and similar technologies to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance and, where you have agreed, show ads based on your interests.
When serving personalised ads, data collected may include your IP address, device type, operating system and version, browser type, language, and a hashed (scrambled) version of your email address if you have provided one. Advertising partners may combine this with information they have collected elsewhere to show interest-based ads across websites, apps and devices.
If you decline advertising cookies you will still see ads, but they will not be based on your interests. You can learn more about interest-based advertising and opt out through the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance and Your Online Choices (for European visitors).
Analytics
We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to understand how visitors use the Website, such as which pages are read and how people arrive. Google Analytics collects your IP address, device and browser details, and identifiers stored in cookies. You can opt out using Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Affiliate Links
Any page on Ireland Wide may contain affiliate links, including accommodation links added automatically by Stay22, and links to Amazon as part of the Amazon Associates programme. If you book or buy through one, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate partners use cookies or similar technologies to record that you arrived from the Website; they do not share your name or payment details with us. See our Affiliate Disclosure for more.
Cookies and Your Choices
When you first visit from Ireland, the UK, the EU or another region where consent is required, we ask for your consent before setting non-essential cookies. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the privacy or cookie settings link on the Website. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Our Cookie Policy has more detail.
Comments
When you leave a comment, we collect the details in the comment form, plus your IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam. If you choose, your name, email and website can be saved in a cookie for one year so you do not have to enter them again.
Embedded Content
Some pages include embedded content such as videos, maps or social media posts. Embedded content behaves as if you had visited the other website, which may collect data about you and use its own cookies.
Who We Share Information With
We share personal information only with our host and technical providers, our analytics provider, Journey by Mediavine and its advertising partners, our affiliate partners, our email service provider, and authorities or advisers where the law requires it or to protect our rights. If the Website is ever sold or transferred, information may pass to the new owner, who will be bound by this policy.
International Transfers
Some of our providers, including Google, Mediavine and Amazon, process data in the United States and other countries outside Ireland, the EU and the UK. Where information is transferred abroad, we rely on safeguards recognised by EU and UK law, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, or standard contractual clauses.
How Long We Keep Information
- Comments: for as long as the comment is published, or until you ask us to remove it.
- Email subscriptions: until you unsubscribe.
- Messages you send us: up to two years after our last exchange, unless needed longer for a legal reason.
- Analytics data: no longer than 14 months.
- Advertising and affiliate cookies: for the periods set by each provider.
Your Rights in Ireland, the EU and the UK
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR you have the right to access your personal information, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it (including for direct marketing), receive it in a portable format, and withdraw consent at any time. Email contact@irelandwide.com and we will reply within one month.
You can complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland at dataprotection.ie, the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK at ico.org.uk, or the data protection authority where you live. We would appreciate the chance to sort things out first, so please contact us before going to a regulator.
Your Rights in the United States
Depending on the state you live in (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Oregon and others with consumer privacy laws), you may have the right to know what personal information we collect and get a copy, to correct or delete it, to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information and of targeted advertising, to appeal if we decline a request, and not to be treated differently for using these rights.
Sale and sharing: We do not sell your name, email address or contact details. The advertising cookies described above share identifiers, device information and browsing activity with advertising partners, which some state laws treat as a “sale” or “sharing” for targeted advertising. You can opt out using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link on the Website. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as an opt-out for that browser.
Categories of information: In the past 12 months we have collected identifiers (such as IP address, cookie IDs and email address), internet activity, approximate geolocation, and information you provide in comments or messages, from you, your device and our advertising and analytics partners, for the purposes in this policy.
Making a request: Email contact@irelandwide.com. We may need to confirm your identity for access, correction or deletion requests, but not for opt-outs. You may use an authorised agent. To appeal, reply to our response with “Appeal” in the subject line; if you are still not satisfied, you may contact your state attorney general.
Children
Ireland Wide is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Security
The Website uses HTTPS encryption, and access to our systems is limited to people who need it. No website can be completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of information sent online.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy when our services, partners or the law change. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when it last changed.
Contact Us
Email contact@irelandwide.com or use our contact page.