Why Learn Spanish - Languages Pathways

Why choose Spanish if you want to learn a language?

What is your top reason for learning Spanish?

Answer this poll and compare your answers to all other respondents!

What are your top reasons for wanting to learn Spanish?

10 good reasons

10 good reasons provided the Ministry of Education and Science

Spanish Language Statistics

Why learn Spanish?

Languages Connect answers your question

Inspirational people

Now for a few famous (or not famous) inspirational people who speak some or a lot of Spanish

Why Learn Spanish? (Video)

Most popular Erasmus destination

Find out about the most popular Erasmus destination in Spain!

Irish student’s experience

About an Irish student’s experience of learning Spanish and going on Erasmus to Spain

Privacy Overview

#LanguagesPathways is a team of language lecturers dedicated to the development, support, and dissemination of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in Ireland, and more specifically in TU Dublin. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect and process information, particularly personal data that we receive from you. Please read the following carefully to understand our approach and practices regarding your personal data and how we treat it. Please do not use our website, products or services if you do not agree with the ways in which we will process your personal data.

Topics:

What date do we collect?

How do we collect your data?

How will we use your data?

How do we share your data?

How do we store your data?

What are your data protection rights?

What are cookies?

How do we use cookies?

What types of cookies do we use?

How to manage your cookies

Privacy policies of other websites

Changes to our privacy policy

How to contact us

How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

#LanguagesPathways, depending on the particular circumstances, may collect and hold a range of different information about you. This can include:

Personal identification information (your name, date of birth (minors), address, email address, phone number, nationality (where relevant).

All personal data is relevant to the purpose for which it is collected and no excessive personal data will be collected.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide #LanguagesPathways with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Contact us with a request, a complaint or a query.

Register online for a competition or to participate in an event.

Use or view our website via your browser's cookies.

How will we use your data?

#LanguagesPathways collects your data so that we can:

Provide you with the information that you request from us

Assist you with your enquiries

Contact you in relation to your participation in competitions

How do we share your data?

Any data which you provide is not made available to any third parties, and is used by #LanguagesPathways only in accordance with the purpose for which you provided the data and will only be retained for as long as required for the purpose. By submitting personal data, you give your consent to this transfer, storing or processing of your personal data by us. We will not share, sell or distribute your personal information to third parties for advertising or marketing products or services. Personal data is not transferred outside the EU, however you should note some data is stored in Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive.

How do we store your data?

#LanguagesPathways takes its security responsibility seriously. We store your data on password protected TU Dublin Microsoft OneDrive and GoogleDrive.

#LanguagesPathways retain your personal data for so long as is necessary with regard to the purposes for which it was collected, or for so long as may be necessary in light of our legal obligations. Data may be retained for different periods of time depending on its purpose (e.g. event participation data will be deleted after the event; competition participation data depends on the time of the competition).

What are your data protection rights?

#LanguagesPathways would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. You have the right to:

Information The right to be informed about the data processing #LanguagesPathways does.

Access The right to receive a copy of and/or access the personal data that #LanguagesPathways holds about you.

Portability You have the right to request that #LanguagesPathways provides some elements of your personal data in a commonly used machine readable format in order to provide it to other organisations.

Erasure The right to erasure of personal data where there is no legitimate reason for #LanguagesPathways to continue to process it.

Rectification The right to request that any inaccurate or incomplete data that is held about you is corrected.

Object to processing You can object to the processing of your personal data by #LanguagesPathways in certain circumstances.

Restriction of processing You can request the restriction of processing of your personal data in specific situations

Withdraw Consent If you have provided consent for the processing of any of your data, you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn. This can be done by contacting #LanguagesPathways.

The right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner You have the right to make a complaint in respect of our compliance with Data Protection Law to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: [email protected]

What are cookies?

Similar to other websites #LanguagesPathways utilises a standard technology called “cookies”. Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognise the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

How do we use cookies?

Our default settings include the Necessary, Preferences and Statistics settings. By clicking them you can see which categories and domains are included. You can deny the settings by leaving the appropriate box unticked. We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our members. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our members. We use the Statistics information to determine what areas of our website are of most interest to our users.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Cookie	Description	Type
__cfduid	The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.	Necessary
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site''s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	Analytics
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category ''Necessary''.	Necessary
YSC	This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.	Performance
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.	Advertisement

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of social media platforms and other websites

#LanguagesPathways maintains a presence on social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Any information, communications or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users or platforms themselves. Your interactions with social media platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.

The #LanguagesPathways website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Tel: +353 57 868 4800 or +353 761 104 800

Changes to our privacy policy

#LanguagesPathways keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our #LanguagesPathways privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: [email protected]

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that #LanguagesPathways has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Data Protection Commission.

Office of the DPC in Ireland:

dataprotection.ie

By email: [email protected]

In writing: Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28

Tel: +353 57 868 4800 or +353 761 104 800

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Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.