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About Us About Into Kildare

Supported by Kildare County Council, Into Kildare is the official tourist board for County Kildare. Working with over 100 tourism and hospitality businesses across all sectors of the industry, Into Kildare promotes the county to domestic and international markets to make Kildare a destination worth visiting.

What We Do

Into Kildare is a not-for-profit membership association, supported by Kildare County Council and is the voice of tourism representing the interests of the industry at national and international level. Tourism is an important contributor to job creation and makes a positive impact to the economic and social wellbeing of the County. Into Kildare contributes to and influences the long-term strategic development of County Kildare and engages with stakeholders in order to drive tourism growth.

As the official tourist board, Into Kildare has a remit to

“build an exciting, sustainable tourism industry in County Kildare where stakeholders work together to design and deliver quality experiences for domestic and international visitors, create jobs, boost local economies and protect the natural environment.”

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Strategic Plan for Tourism

in County Kildare 2022-2027

The Strategic Plan for Tourism in Kildare 2022-2027, was launched by Minister Catherine Martin TD on 17 November 2021. The strategy seeks to maximise the tourism potential of County Kildare to achieve the vision by building on strengths and opportunities using a framework guided by six goals and six strategic priorities.

Vision for Kildare Tourism

Kildare, a rural escape close to the city, is recognised worldwide for exceptional thoroughbred experiences, a place to engage with rich culture, picturesque landscapes, and a warm welcome. A sustainable ethos based around low impact regenerative tourism is at the heart of what we do. Our county is a place apart, with a blend of fascinating history and modern vibrancy; a place to reconnect and indulge with friends and family; where reviving and recharging is a racing certainty.

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Together the tourism stakeholders in Kildare will work collaboratively with a common vision, striving for a united and competitive destination, with a stronger and more effective governance model, and appropriate resourcing.

The Kildare tourism industry will become increasingly resilient through digitisation support to support a smart tourism approach, support for a low carbon transition, enabling of networking opportunities and by targeted capacity building.

Innovative world class visitor experiences will be created that provide an immersive, compelling reason to visit Kildare and motivate more overnight stays with an emphasis on regenerative tourism.

A reimagining of the way in which visitors can access County Kildare will focus on new transport links, signage, universal design, and a wider range of visitor accommodation.

Key market segments among domestic and international visitor will be targeted to raise awareness of Kildare as a rural escape with exceptional experiences through a range of digital and print media, events, packaged offers and itineraries.

A smart destination approach will drive collation and analysis of a range of tourism data to inform decision-making and to benefit Kildare communities.

Framework for Kildare Tourism

There are six strategic priorities with clear objectives for Kildare tourism to enable compelling and high-quality visitor experiences, with an increasingly resilient, competitive and innovative industry that provides local economic benefit to the communities of Kildare. One that is based on principles of sustainable and regenerative tourism, leaving places better than they were before

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Our Board of Directors

David Kelly, Chairperson,

Brian Fallon, Hon Treasurer

Alan Dunney, Director

Veronica Cooke, Hon Secretary

Cllr Suzanne Doyle, Director

Mary Fennin, Director

Kevin Kenny, Director

Evan Arkwright, Director

Ted Robinson, Director

Brian Flanagan, Asst Hon Treasurer

Jackie McNabb, Director

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Privacy Overview

IntoKildare.ie

Last updated: February 2026

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://intokildare.ie. IntoKildare is operated as a community and events information platform serving County Kildare, Ireland. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us via the contact form on our website.

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, including the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

When visitors or users submit a contact form, we capture the following data for the purpose of responding to your enquiry and for spam protection:

  • IP address
  • Email address
  • Name
  • Any other information you choose to provide in the message field

Contact form submissions are retained for 30 days and are not used for marketing purposes.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics

This site may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use the website. Analytics data is collected anonymously and used solely to improve the website's performance and content. Users may opt out of analytics tracking through their browser settings or by using browser extensions that block tracking scripts. Please refer to your analytics provider's privacy policy for further information.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Events Information

Through the use of The Events Calendar plugin, information relating to events, venues, and organisers may be collected and stored within the website's database, including:

  • Venue information: name, address, city, country, province, postal code, phone, website, geographical coordinates
  • Organiser information: name, phone, website, email
  • Event information: website, cost, description, date, time, image

This information is retained in the local database and is used solely for the purpose of displaying event listings on the website.

Forms, Polls, and Quizzes (Forminator)

This website uses Forminator to manage forms, polls, and quizzes. By default, Forminator captures the IP address for each form submission for spam protection. Other personal data such as your name and email address may also be captured depending on the form fields presented. Form submission data is retained for 30 days.

For polls, we capture the IP address for spam protection and to set voter limitations. Poll IP address data is retained for 30 days and then anonymised.

For quizzes, no personally identifiable information is captured by default.

3. Who We Share Your Data With

By default, WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone. However, this website makes use of certain third-party services, and data may be shared as follows:

  • Gravatar (Automattic): Anonymised email hashes may be shared to display profile pictures on comments. Privacy Policy
  • Akismet Anti-Spam: We use Akismet for spam protection. Information collected includes commenter IP addresses, user agents, referrers, and site URLs. Privacy Policy
  • Google reCAPTCHA: Used on forms for spam protection. Privacy Policy

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

4. How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Contact form submissions are retained for 30 days. Form, poll, and quiz submission data is retained for 30 days. Events and venue data is retained indefinitely unless otherwise deleted.

5. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left a comment, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Irish Data Protection Acts, you have the following rights:

  • The right to access your personal data
  • The right to rectify inaccurate personal data
  • The right to erasure ('the right to be forgotten')
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object to processing of your personal data

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via the contact form on our website.

6. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet), which is operated by Automattic Inc., based in the United States. Automattic complies with EU data protection standards, including through the use of Standard Contractual Clauses.

Analytics data, if collected, may be processed by service providers outside the European Union. Where data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with GDPR requirements.

7. How We Protect Your Data

We take the security of your personal data seriously. This website implements the following measures to protect your data:

  • SSL/TLS encryption for all data transmitted to and from the website
  • Secure storage of payment keys and sensitive credentials using encryption
  • Regular software updates and security patches applied to WordPress core, themes, and plugins
  • Spam protection via Akismet and reCAPTCHA to prevent malicious submissions
  • Access to the website's administration area is restricted to authorised users only

8. Data Breach Procedures

In the event of a personal data breach, we will notify the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of Ireland without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, where the breach is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals. Where the breach is likely to result in a high risk to individuals, we will also notify those affected directly.

9. Contact Information

For any privacy-related questions, data subject requests, or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us using the contact form available on our website at https://intokildare.ie.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of Ireland if you believe your data has been processed unlawfully:

Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2, D02 RD28
Ireland
Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie
Phone: +353 (0)761 104 800

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was last updated in February 2026. We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.