Privacy policy

Who we are

NuaIrish is an independent community site for people applying for Irish citizenship. It is not a government service and is not connected to the Department of Justice. For anything about your data, email hello@nuairish.ie.

What we collect

• Your email address, to sign you in, and for the alerts you choose. If your application is in progress and you haven't updated it for 30 days, we also email a monthly “Has anything changed?” reminder (unless you chose no alerts); every one has a link to stop them, or switch them off in Settings. If you sign in with Google, Google also shares your name and profile picture; we only use your email.
• Your timeline: your situation, application route, immigration permission, when and how you applied, the dates of each stage, and your residence periods. Nationality is optional.
• Eligibility checker: if you use it while signed in, your permission dates, days abroad per year, trips, marriage date (spouse route) and whether you want a reminder. This stays private: it is never shared or used in community statistics. Signed out, the checker keeps your answers only in your browser.
• Pre-submission check: if you use it while signed in, your answers (for example which documents you plan to send). No documents are uploaded. This stays private and is never used in community statistics. Signed out, your answers stay only in your browser.
• Your choices: language, how you want alerts (phone notification, email or none, plus the address your browser gives us to deliver notifications), and which upcoming features you asked to hear about.
• Technical data: our hosting and security providers process your IP address and browser details to deliver the site and block abuse. Page-view analytics are counted without cookies and without identifying you.

How your timeline is shared

NuaIrish works because people pool their timelines. Your timeline is always included in anonymous community statistics, such as typical waiting times. Your name and email are never shown. Nationality only appears in groups of 10 people or more.

You can't opt out of this while you have an account, but you can delete your account at any time.

Why we can use it

We use your data to provide the service you signed up for (contract), and for security and anonymous statistics (legitimate interests). We don't sell your data, show ads, or use it for marketing.

Who processes it for us

• Supabase: database and sign-in, stored in the EU (Paris)
• Vercel: hosting and cookieless analytics
• Resend: sign-in emails, alerts and reminders, sent from the EU (Ireland)
• Google: only if you choose “Continue with Google”
• Cloudflare Turnstile: checks that sign-ins come from a person
• Sentry: error reports, set up to exclude personal data

Some of these are US companies. Where data leaves the EU, it is covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

Until you delete your account. Deleting it removes your account and timeline straight away; encrypted backups are kept for up to 30 days and then overwritten. Statistics that were already calculated can't identify you and may remain.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can:

• download all your data (Settings → Download my data)
• correct your timeline at any time
• delete your account (Settings → Delete account)
• object to how we use your data, or ask us anything, at hello@nuairish.ie

You can also complain to Ireland's Data Protection Commission at dataprotection.ie.

Cookies

We only use cookies that are needed to keep you signed in and remember your language. No advertising or tracking cookies.

Age

You need to be 16 or older to create an account.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that affects you, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.