Inishbofin Island Hostel ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use and safeguard any personal data you provide to us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018.
Data Controller:
Inishbofin Island Hostel,
Inishbofin, Co. Galway, H91 TW97, Ireland.
Email: info@inishbofin-hostel.ie
Phone: +353 95 45855
Booking enquiries: When you contact us by phone or email to make a booking, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, postal address, group size, and any dietary or accessibility requirements you share with us.
Website analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data about how visitors use our website. This includes your IP address (anonymised), browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring website. This data is collected using cookies.
Third-party services: Our website uses the following third-party services which may process limited data:
We use the data we collect for the following purposes:
We process your personal data on the following legal grounds:
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. We use the following cookies:
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use this website.
Booking enquiry data is retained for up to 2 years after your last stay or enquiry. Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months. We review our data retention regularly and delete data that is no longer necessary.
We do not sell, trade or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share your data only with Google (via Analytics) as described above. Some data may be transferred to servers outside the European Economic Area (EEA) by these third-party services, subject to appropriate safeguards.
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. Our website uses HTTPS encryption to secure data transmitted between your browser and our server.
You have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@inishbofin-hostel.ie.
If you are not satisfied with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) at www.dataprotection.ie.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page. This policy was last updated in March 2026.