Who operates Homegrown.ie?
Homegrown.ie is operated by Brian as a self-funded commercial pilot in Ireland. For privacy questions or requests, email hello@homegrown.ie.
What we collect
For growing-space requests and offers we collect your name, email, optional phone, county, approximate area, space requested or offered, optional notes, confirmation that you are 18 or over, matching consent, the privacy-notice version and consent time. Hosts also confirm that they own the land or have authority to offer it. Please do not submit an exact address at the first stage.
For the Ireland Grows petition we collect your name, email, county, confirmation that you are 18 or over, your express petition consent and the consent time. Campaign-update consent is separate and optional.
Newsletter or campaign consent is optional and separate from consent to assess a match. We use a hashed abuse-prevention identifier for up to seven days. We do not retain raw IP addresses or user-agent strings in lead or operational logs.
Why we use it and our legal basis
- To receive, administer and acknowledge your request: steps you ask us to take before a possible service and our legitimate interest in operating a secure pilot.
- To assess and propose a specific introduction: your explicit matching request and our legitimate interest in providing the requested service.
- To send a newsletter or campaign update: consent, which you may withdraw at any time without affecting matching.
- To record and submit petition support: your express consent. Your name and county may be included in a petition submission to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or another relevant public body. Your email address is retained privately for validation and is not included in the petition submission.
- To prevent abuse and maintain records: our legitimate interest in security, accountability and defending legal claims.
Who receives it?
Brian and authorised service providers used for hosting and transactional email may process the minimum data needed to run the service. We do not sell contact details. We share a grower's or host's contact details with the other person only after both approve that specific proposed introduction. Petition names and counties may be sent to the public bodies identified above; petition email addresses remain private. We may disclose data where required by law.
How long we keep it
Unmatched leads are retained for up to 12 months. We will then request renewal or delete them. Petition signatures are retained until submission and reasonable follow-up are complete, for no longer than 24 months; after that Homegrown may retain only anonymised aggregate totals. A record may be closed, withdrawn or deleted earlier on request, subject to limited records that must be retained for security or legal reasons. Hashed abuse-prevention identifiers expire after seven days. Delivery and consent evidence is retained only as long as needed to demonstrate what happened.
Your rights
You may ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability where applicable, and may withdraw optional marketing consent at any time. Email hello@homegrown.ie. You may also complain to Ireland's Data Protection Commission.
International processing and changes
If a service provider processes data outside the EEA, Homegrown will use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism and update this notice. Material changes will receive a new version date; existing consent will not silently be treated as consent to a materially different purpose.