Draft for the planned service. Newsletter sign-up remains closed until operator/contact details, provider and safeguards are confirmed.
Last updated: 9 November 2026.
Who is responsible?
Individual operator: William Robert Williamson. Privacy contact: privacy@ancientireland.ie.
Newsletter details
For newsletter registration, our intended profile fields are your first name (optional) and email address (required). We use these to address and deliver the Ancient Ireland Historic & Genealogy Newsletter. We do not ask for a postal address, phone number, date of birth or family-tree/DNA information to subscribe.
Consent, delivery and unsubscribe records may also be necessary to demonstrate your choices and prevent unwanted messages. They are separate from the two newsletter profile fields. We do not sell or rent the mailing list, and newsletter subscription is not required to browse this website.
Your choice and lawful basis
Newsletter emails will be based on your affirmative consent. The planned service uses a confirmation email before adding you to the active mailing list, with an unsubscribe link in every newsletter. You can withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
Service providers and security
Newsletter provider: Newsletter provider not yet selected; no subscription form is active. Subscriber storage should be in the authorised newsletter service, rather than public website files or browser storage. The operator remains responsible for selecting and configuring that service. Hosting with IONOS does not transfer all data-protection obligations to IONOS.
The planned controls are encrypted connections, restricted account access, multi-factor authentication where supported, documented processor agreements, tested backups and limited data retention. These deployment controls still require verification on the actual services; this local preview does not establish that they are active.
Hosting logs and enquiries
First name and email describe the newsletter profile, not every category of information a website service may process. Hosting/security services may process IP addresses, access times, requested pages, browser information and error logs for delivery, security and fault diagnosis. If you contact the operator, the message and your contact details may be needed to answer you. Live plugins and provider logs must be inventoried before this draft is published as the production notice.
Shop, payments and external services
When you choose to load the Printify shop, your browser connects to Printify and its partners. They may process technical information and cookies; checkout may require name, delivery address, payment and order information. These are not newsletter fields. The website does not provide its own card-entry form. The seller may have access to order information in a merchant account, so we do not promise that the operator never receives order data.
Read the service notices at the point of checkout and our shop information. Other external links have their own privacy practices.
Retention and transfers
The proposed newsletter schedule is to keep the active profile while subscribed, remove it from active marketing promptly on unsubscribe, and delete the profile within 30 days. A restricted minimum record of consent and suppression may be retained for up to 24 months, or longer where needed to meet an applicable obligation or resolve a dispute. Backup expiry and any international transfers must be confirmed with the selected provider before launch. These are proposed settings, not a claim that a provider is already configured.
Your rights
Depending on the law that applies, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your data, object to relevant processing and withdraw newsletter consent. Use the privacy contact above. You can complain to the relevant supervisory authority, including the Data Protection Commission in Ireland or the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK, where applicable.
Cookies and changes
See Cookies & External Services for the shop loading choice. Material changes to how the newsletter uses your data will be explained before that new use begins.