The Youth Assembly will be made up of a diverse range of young people. We want to recruit young people from varied backgrounds and identities. The personal information you provide to us will help us shape the membership of the Youth Assembly to look like the youth population of Northern Ireland.
We are setting up a group called the Youth Assembly Consultation Forum (YACF). Anyone who applied to be a Youth Assembly member but was not selected will be eligible to join the YACF. We plan to contact YACF members occasionally to find out what you think about issues that the Youth Assembly is working on.
We will use your contact details to get in touch with you to let you know about the recruitment process. Even if you are not appointed to the Youth Assembly, we still want to keep you up to date on its work
Data will be processed using the consent of the data subject.
All personal information is collected from application forms completed by the data subject.
Name, Age, Date of Birth, Gender, Disability, Religious Belief, Ethnic Origin, Sexual Orientation, Care Experience or Caring Responsibilities, Entitlement to Social Benefits and Contact Information.
Personal data will be held securely by Assembly Commission staff solely for the purpose of the Youth Assembly Initiative.
This data will not be transferred to other countries.
We will retain your data for a period of 3 years.
If you are unhappy with how any aspect of this privacy notice, or how your personal information is being processed, please contact the Data Protection & Governance Officer at:
Information Standards, Room 241, Parliament Buildings,Ballymiscaw,Stormont,Belfast, BT4 3XX
Email:dpo@niassembly.gov.uk
Tel: (028)90 521147
If you are still not happy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House,Water Lane Wilmslow,Cheshire,SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
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The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation.
The information below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration for which the cookie is retained |
| CookieControl | This cookie is used to remember your choice about cookies on kess.org.uk. | 90 days |
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| Cookie Name | Description | Duration for which the cookie is retained |
| _utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 1 year |
| _ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds |
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| _utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | session |
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If you visit a page containing a YouTube video and are logged in to a YouTube or Google account, Google may use cookies for security purposes, remember your preferences, and receive information about the videos you watch for analytics and advertising purposes cookies and collect data linked to your Google account. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expires |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie | 6 months |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
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| Example cookies | Purpose | Expires |
| _cf*, _ga*, _gid, _uet*, _builderSessionid, language, Optanon*, sd_client_id, vimeo*, vuid | We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. We have recently started embedding these videos using Vimeo’s Do Not Track setting. You can read about this on Vimeo’s embedding videos page. Vimeo may use cookies to enable the video to play, remember your preferences and maintain the security of its service. If you visit a page containing a Vimeo video and you are logged in to your Vimeo account or if you’ve visited the Vimeo website before the NI Youth Assembly website, Vimeo may use cookies eg to keep you logged in, for analytics and advertising purposes, and collect data linked to your Vimeo account. For more information, see the Vimeo cookies policy. Please note that videos embedded before 2024 have not been embedded using Vimeo’s Do Not Track setting. | Between 0 and 400 days |
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