The www.irishoystercollective.ie (the “Website”) is operated by An Bord Iascaigh Mhara (“BIM”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Notice provides you with information about how we process your personal data when you visit our website or otherwise make your data available to us in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Irish Data Protection Act 2018 (the “Act”).
The Oyster Collective is a group of Irish oyster farms who individually grow and pack Irish oysters. The collective is a representative group which advocates for their family businesses. The Oyster Collective is committed to highlighting the high quality and provenance of their products all farmed and sourced from Irish coastal waters.
For more information on BIM, see BIM’s Privacy Notice here.
Full contact details of BIM are as follows:
Name: An Bord Iascaigh Mhara
Address: Block 3, West Pier, Old Dunleary Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin A96 A62.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices, please email BIM at [email protected].
The website processes data to The Oyster Collective website highlights the provenance of produce from the collective group. It acts as a portal for connecting the groups individual members to customers. As part of this, we collect the following data from you:
Purpose | Categories of Personal Data | Lawful Basis | Data Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
To ensure the security of our website through the use of cookies. | IP Address, Browser Type, Operating System, Device Type. | Legitimate Interest - for the purposes of ensuring network and information security. | As defined in our cookie notice. |
Disclosure of your information
We may share your personal data with third-party service providers. We will only permit our service providers to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Only the minimum personal data necessary will be shared. We share your data with Website Analytics providers, as listed in our Cookie Notice.
We may also disclose your data to
Woodstown Bay Shellfish
Cromane Bay Shellfish
Waterford Oysters
Hartys Oysters
Cooley Oysters
Carlingford Oysters
Irish Premium Oysters
Belles Isle Oysters
Wild Atlantic Oysters
DK Connemara Oysters
Kelly Oysters
Flaggy Shore Oysters
Moyasta Oysters
Achill Oysters
In limited and necessary circumstances, your information may be transferred outside of the EEA or to an international organisation. In such cases, we apply safeguards aligned with data protection laws, including adequacy decisions and Standard Contractual Clauses.
Cookies are a form of technology used in the delivery and analysis of a website. When you visit a website, small text files are placed on your device temporarily. We track the webpages that our users visit, in order to determine what content are the most popular. This data is used to better tailor our content to you by allowing us to understand better what you are interested in.
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by clicking the cookie banner when you first visit our websites. You can view our Cookie notice here.
We use a range of electronic, and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your personal data secure, accurate and up to date. These measures include education and training to relevant staff to ensure they are aware of our data protection obligations when processing personal data, administrative and technical controls to restrict access to personal data to a need to know basis, technological security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and anti-virus software.
Under certain circumstances, you may have the following rights over your data:
Request access to your personal data
Request correction of your personal data
Request erasure of your personal data
Object to the processing of personal data
Request restriction of processing your personal data
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party
If you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 18, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Supervisory Authority at dataprotection.ie or by post to 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, Ireland
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within one month (subject to any extensions to which we are lawfully entitled). Any request to access personal data will be dealt with free of charge unless it is considered excessive in which case, we may charge a reasonable fee.
We do not engage in fully automated decision making which has significant or legal effects on you in the provision of our services.
If you have any queries or concerns you can contact us at [email protected] or by post at
Data Protection Officer, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Block 3, West Pier, Old Dunleary Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin A96 A62.
We may update this notice from time to time. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here and update the 'Last Updated' date at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
Last Updated: 16/12/2025
