Privacy Notice
How LIOSA collects, uses and protects personal data.
Last updated: 11/06/2026.
1. Who we are
LIOSA is an independent peatland site screening project operated by James Hayes in Ireland. For anything about your personal data, contact jamesdhayesyvc@gmail.com. LIOSA is the person responsible for ("controller" of) the personal data described here.
2. What personal data we collect
- Enquiries. When you use our contact form we collect your name, work email address, organisation, and anything you write in the message field. Submissions are received by our website hosting provider (Netlify), which stores them and notifies us by email.
- Technical data. When you visit, our website hosting provider may process your IP address and basic request logs to deliver the site securely. The interactive maps load map tiles from OpenStreetMap; to display the map, your browser's IP address is shared with that map provider.
3. Why we use it and our legal basis
- Responding to your enquiry and providing any screening pack you ask for — legal basis: our legitimate interest in replying to people who contact us, and/or taking steps you have requested before any agreement (Art. 6(1)(b)/(f) GDPR).
- Running and securing the website — our legitimate interest in operating a safe site.
We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we will not send you marketing unless you have separately asked us to.
4. Cookies and local storage
We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and there is no cookie banner because none
is required. The site does store small items in your browser's local storage to make features
you have used work: liosa.recent (sites you have recently viewed) and
liosa.boundary.* (a site boundary you have edited). These stay on your device, are not sent
to us, and you can clear them in your browser at any time.
5. Who we share it with
We do not sell your data. It is handled only by the services that help us run LIOSA — our website hosting provider (Netlify, which also receives contact-form submissions on our behalf under its data-processing agreement), and the OpenStreetMap map service noted above. If we add any other service that handles your data, we will update this notice.
6. International transfers
If any provider we use processes data outside the EU/EEA, we rely on appropriate legal safeguards (such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses) to protect it.
7. How long we keep it
We keep enquiry emails for as long as we need to deal with your request and for up to about 24 months afterwards, then delete them. Security logs are kept only for a short period.
8. Your rights
Under the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to our processing of your data, and to data portability. To exercise any of these, email jamesdhayesyvc@gmail.com. Because we rely on legitimate interests, you can object to that processing at any time.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the Irish supervisory authority, the Data Protection Commission (21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28; info@dataprotection.ie).
9. Changes
We may update this notice; the date at the top shows when it last changed.