Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 August 2026
My Sacred Purpose respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used and protected, and the rights available to you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable laws.
1. Who We Are
My Sacred Purpose is the trading name used by Ann Dressah, based in County Kildare, Ireland.
My Sacred Purpose provides trauma-informed, non-clinical education, coaching, breathwork experiences, digital programmes, workshops, resources and related services designed to support embodied self-leadership, voice reclamation and personal development.
For the purposes of data-protection law, Ann Dressah, trading as My Sacred Purpose, is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
You can contact us at:
Email: [CONTACT EMAIL]
Contact page: https://mysacredpurpose.com/contact
2. Personal Data We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
• Your name, email address and telephone number
• Information you submit through our contact forms, Priority List, applications, questionnaires or booking forms
• Your communication and marketing preferences
• Details relating to enquiries, appointments, purchases and participation in our services
• Information you voluntarily provide during consultations, programmes, workshops or other communications
• Payment and transaction information
• Technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited and interactions with the website
• Audio, video or chat contributions from online sessions, but only where recording has been clearly disclosed in advance and the appropriate permission has been obtained
• Wellbeing, accessibility or safety-related information that you voluntarily provide when it is relevant to your participation in a service
Please do not submit confidential health information, detailed trauma histories or other sensitive personal information through the general website contact form unless we have specifically asked you to provide it through an appropriate process.
We do not normally receive or store your complete payment-card details. Card payments are processed securely by the relevant payment provider, such as Stripe. The payment provider processes your financial information under its own privacy and security terms.
3. How We Collect Your Information
We may collect personal data when you:
• Visit or interact with our website
• Join the Priority List or subscribe to email communications
• Complete a contact, application, enquiry or booking form
• Purchase or enquire about a programme, session, workshop, course, book or digital resource
• Attend or participate in an online session or event
• Contact us by email, telephone, social media, online chat or another communication channel
• Provide feedback or a testimonial
• Interact with website cookies or similar technologies
We may also receive limited information from the service providers involved in processing bookings, payments, email communications or website activity.
If you communicate with us through a social-media platform, that platform will also process your information under its own privacy policy.
4. Why We Use Your Personal Data and Our Lawful Bases
We will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis for doing so.
To respond to enquiries and communicate with you
We use contact details and the information contained in your message to respond to enquiries, provide requested information and discuss potential services.
Our lawful bases are taking steps at your request before entering into a contract and our legitimate interest in responding to genuine enquiries and operating our business.
To manage the Priority List and email communications
If you join the Priority List or specifically subscribe to updates, we use your name, email address and communication preferences to send the information you requested, including relevant programme news, launch announcements and related offers.
Our lawful basis is your consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link in an email or contacting us directly.
To provide programmes, sessions, products and services
We process information needed to manage registrations, bookings, payments, participation, service delivery, customer support and access to purchased materials.
Our lawful basis is the performance of a contract with you or taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
To process payments and maintain financial records
We use transaction information to process or confirm payments, issue receipts, manage refunds and maintain accounting and tax records.
Our lawful bases are the performance of a contract and compliance with legal obligations.
To support appropriate and accessible participation
Where relevant, we may ask for limited information concerning accessibility, wellbeing, safety or suitability so that we can consider reasonable adjustments, communicate the scope of our services and support participation appropriately.
For ordinary personal data, our lawful basis is the performance of a contract or taking steps before entering into a contract. Where this involves special-category data, such as health information, we will normally rely on your explicit consent.
To operate, improve and protect our website and services
We may use technical and usage information to maintain the website, understand how it is used, troubleshoot problems, protect accounts, prevent misuse and improve our services.
Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in operating, securing and improving our website and business. Where cookies or similar technologies require consent, we will rely on your consent instead.
To comply with legal requirements or protect legal rights
We may process or disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, tax or accounting obligations; respond to lawful requests; establish or defend legal claims; or protect the rights, safety and security of My Sacred Purpose and others.
Our lawful bases are compliance with a legal obligation and, where appropriate, our legitimate interests in protecting our legal rights and maintaining the security of our services.
5. Special-Category Personal Data
Because of the nature of some of our services, you may voluntarily provide information relating to your physical or emotional wellbeing, accessibility or personal history. This may constitute special-category personal data under the GDPR.
We will only request such information when it is relevant and proportionate. Where required, we will ask for your explicit consent before processing it.
You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn. It may, however, affect our ability to provide a particular service safely or appropriately.
My Sacred Purpose provides non-clinical education and personal-development services. We do not require detailed medical records or complete trauma histories through the website.
6. Session Recordings
Private or group sessions will not be recorded without advance notice and an appropriate lawful basis.
Where we rely on consent, you will be asked before recording takes place. We will explain:
• What will be recorded
• Why the recording is being made
• Who will be able to access it
• How long it will remain available
• When it will be deleted
Recordings will not be made publicly available or used for promotional purposes without separate, specific permission from the identifiable participants concerned.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential website functions, remember preferences, maintain security, understand website usage and support marketing activities.
Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent where they are required to provide a service you have requested. Analytics, advertising and other non-essential cookies will only be used where the required consent has been obtained.
You can accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies through the website’s cookie controls. You can also change certain settings through your browser.
Further information about the cookies used on this website, their purposes, providers and duration will be available in our Cookie Policy.
8. Sharing Your Personal Data
We do not sell or rent your personal data.
We may share limited personal data with trusted third parties when necessary to operate the website or deliver our services. These may include:
• Website hosting, customer relationship management and email-delivery providers
• Booking, scheduling and form providers
• Video-conferencing providers, such as Zoom
• Payment processors, such as Stripe, and relevant banks or financial institutions
• Cloud-storage and information-technology providers
• Accountants, legal advisers or other professional advisers
• Contractors who provide authorised administrative or technical support
• Regulators, public authorities or law-enforcement bodies when disclosure is legally required
Depending on the services in use, our website, customer management and email functions may be provided through GoHighLevel or a platform operating with GoHighLevel technology.
Service providers are permitted to use personal data only for the relevant service or in accordance with their own lawful responsibilities. We take reasonable steps to select providers that offer appropriate privacy and security protections.
9. International Transfers
Some of the technology providers we use may process or store personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.
When personal data is transferred internationally, we take reasonable steps to ensure that a lawful transfer mechanism and appropriate safeguards are in place. These may include:
• A European Commission adequacy decision
• European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses
• Additional technical or contractual protections where appropriate
You may contact us if you would like further information about the safeguards relevant to your personal data.
10. How Long We Keep Personal Data
We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including applicable legal, accounting, tax and reporting requirements.
Our general retention approach is:
• Priority List and marketing information: Until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent. We may retain a minimal suppression record to ensure that we respect your request not to receive further marketing.
• General enquiries: Normally for up to 12 months after the last meaningful communication, unless the enquiry develops into a client relationship or there is a legitimate reason to retain it longer.
• Programme, booking and service-administration records: For the duration of the service and for a reasonable period afterwards where needed for customer support, contractual obligations or legal claims.
• Financial and transaction records: Normally for six years, or longer where required by Irish tax or accounting law.
Wellbeing, suitability or accessibility information: Only while it remains necessary for participation and ordinarily no longer than 12 months after the relevant service ends, unless a longer period is required to address an incident, legal claim or legal obligation.
• Session recordings: For the period explained when the recording is arranged, after which they will be securely deleted unless a different period has been agreed.
• Cookie and technical data: For the period identified in our Cookie Policy or the relevant provider’s settings.
We may delete or anonymise information sooner when it is no longer required.
11. Data Security
We use reasonable and proportionate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
These measures may include access controls, secure accounts, encryption where available, restricted administrative access and the use of reputable technology and payment providers.
No online system or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. If we become aware of a personal-data breach, we will assess it and make any notifications required by law.
12. Your Data-Protection Rights
Subject to the conditions and exceptions provided by law, you may have the right to:
• Be informed about how your personal data is used
• Request access to the personal data we hold about you
• Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
• Ask us to delete your personal data
• Ask us to restrict how your personal data is processed
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Object at any time to the use of your data for direct marketing
• Request the transfer of certain data to you or another provider
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority
To exercise a right, contact us using the details at the end of this policy. We may need to request information to confirm your identity before acting on a request.
Data-protection rights are not absolute, and in some circumstances we may be legally permitted or required to retain or continue processing certain information. We will explain the reason if a request cannot be fulfilled in full.
13. Automated Decision-Making
We do not currently use personal data to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
14. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children through this website.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
15. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms or services. We are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use personal data.
We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any third-party website or platform you visit.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, technology providers or legal obligations change.
The current version will be published on this page with the date of the most recent update. Where a change materially affects how we use personal data, we will take reasonable steps to provide additional notice where appropriate.
17. Contact and Complaints
If you have a question, concern or request relating to this Privacy Policy or your personal data, contact:
Ann Dressah
My Sacred Purpose
County Kildare, Ireland
Email: [CONTACT EMAIL]
Contact page: https://mysacredpurpose.com/contact
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission:
Data Protection Commission
6 Pembroke Row
Dublin 2
D02 X963
Ireland
Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie