Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

Who we are

baabaa.ie is run by Philippe Hosey Vinchon, in Ireland. If you have a question about your data, use the Contact page.

What we hold about you

• Your email address, which you sign in with.
• Your name and phone number, if you add them on your Account page or when you apply.
• Your children's names, and each child's date of birth or due date.
• Each application you make: what you sent the childcare, when you applied, and the changes made to it since.
• If you're a member of a childcare, the childcares you joined, the invitations sent to you, and the changes you make to their applications.
• For each device you're signed in on, a record that keeps you signed in. It holds nothing about the device itself.
• While you sign in, the code we emailed you, stored as a one-way hash so no one can read it back.
• If you search while signed in, each search you make, the address Google matched it to, and where it is on the map. Searching the same thing again replaces the old one.
• If you use the Contact page, your email address and message, which reach us as an email. BaaBaa.ie doesn't store them.

Why

To sign you in, send your applications to the childcares you choose, and let childcares keep their waitlist. We need these details to give you the service you signed up for.

Who sees it

• A childcare you apply to, and the members it invites, see your application: your name, email address and phone number, your child's name and date of birth or due date, and your answers.
• The members of a childcare see each other's email address and name. If a member invites you, we email you the invitation.
• If a childcare adds your application from a phone call or paper form, the childcare decides what it records. Ask the childcare to change or delete it.

Who handles it for us

• Google Cloud runs our servers and database, in Belgium.
• Brevo sends our emails: sign-in codes, invitations and Contact messages.
• Google Maps finds the Eircode or address you search for. Our servers send Google what you typed and nothing else.
• Google Maps supplies the map. Your browser fetches the map from Google's servers, which see your IP address as any website does.
• Umami counts visits. Your browser tells it which page you open and the site that sent you there, never what you search for. It sets no cookies, and its servers see your IP address as any website does.

Childcare details

The name, address and contact details of each childcare, childminders included, come from Tusla's public registers. To change them, contact Tusla.

How long we keep it

Until you delete it. "Delete all my data" on your Account page deletes everything at once, including your applications, which leave the childcares' waitlists. Applications you added or changed for a childcare you're a member of stay with that childcare, without your name on the changes.

Your rights

You can see, correct and delete your data. Your name and phone number are on your Account page, and "Delete all my data" deletes everything. For a copy of your data, or anything else, use the Contact page. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission.