Privacy policy

Who we are

This privacy policy explains how personal information is handled on Psychodrama.ie. The website is used for information about Biggi Hofmann’s psychotherapy, psychodrama, retreats, workshops, supervision, consultancy, journal writing, and related enquiries.

The website address is https://psychodrama.ie.

Privacy questions can be sent through the contact page or by email to psychodrama.ie@gmail.com.

What information we collect

Psychodrama.ie may collect information that you choose to send through the website, including your name, email address, phone number, subject, message, and the type of enquiry you are making.

Enquiries may relate to individual therapy, couples work, psychodrama, retreats, workshops, supervision, consultancy, or a general question before deciding the right route.

If a retreat, workshop, or booking form is used, additional practical information may be requested, such as attendance details, access needs, relevant support information, emergency contact details, or other information needed to assess suitability and organise the work safely.

How we use your information

Information submitted through Psychodrama.ie is used to respond to enquiries, discuss suitability, arrange sessions or events, manage bookings, communicate about practical arrangements, and keep appropriate administrative records.

Where an enquiry relates to therapy, supervision, retreats, workshops, or group work, some of the information you choose to share may be sensitive. It is handled with care and used only for the purpose of responding appropriately, considering suitability, arranging the relevant service, or meeting professional, legal, safeguarding, or administrative obligations.

Contact forms and email

The contact form on this website is provided through WordPress and Fluent Forms. Form submissions may be stored in the WordPress dashboard and may also be sent by email notification to psychodrama.ie@gmail.com.

Comments and media

Psychodrama.ie is not intended to operate as a public comment forum. If comments are enabled on journal posts or other pages, WordPress may collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent information to help with spam detection.

If Gravatar is active, an anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Visitors are not normally expected to upload media to Psychodrama.ie. If a form ever allows image or file uploads, avoid uploading files that contain private or embedded location information, such as EXIF GPS data.

Cookies

Psychodrama.ie uses WordPress, hosting, security, cache, and form tools that may use cookies or similar technologies to keep the website working, protect the site, remember technical preferences, and process forms.

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, you may be able to opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies so that you do not have to enter those details again. These cookies may last for one year.

When authorised website users log in, WordPress sets cookies to save login information and screen display choices. If an authorised user edits or publishes an article, WordPress may save an additional browser cookie that indicates the post ID of the article just edited.

Embedded content and external links

Pages and journal posts on Psychodrama.ie may include embedded or linked content from other websites, such as images, videos, articles, booking links, Amazon book links, maps, or other resources.

Embedded content from another website behaves as if you visited that website directly. Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you are logged in to an account with that service.

Sharing and retention

Personal information is not sold. It may be processed by services used to operate the website and respond to enquiries, including WordPress, Hostinger hosting, Fluent Forms, email services, website security tools, spam protection, cache/performance tools, and backup or administration tools.

Information may also be shared where necessary for legal, safeguarding, professional, insurance, accounting, or administrative reasons. Only relevant information should be shared, and only where there is a valid reason to do so.

Enquiry information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, manage the enquiry, arrange services, keep appropriate records, and meet professional, legal, administrative, insurance, or safeguarding obligations.

What rights you have

You can ask what personal information is held about you, request a correction, ask for information to be deleted where appropriate, object to certain processing, or ask for processing to be restricted. Some requests may be limited where information must be kept for legal, professional, safeguarding, administrative, or security reasons.

To make a privacy request, contact psychodrama.ie@gmail.com. You also have the right to raise a concern with the Irish Data Protection Commission at https://www.dataprotection.ie.

Where your data is sent

Website data may be processed by hosting, email, form, security, anti-spam, analytics, backup, and administration services used to run Psychodrama.ie. Some providers may process data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area, depending on how their services are configured.

If comments are enabled, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Updates to this policy

This policy may be updated when the website, forms, services, plugins, or legal requirements change.