The email address you provide is an important element in the volunteer registration and vetting system and in principle it should not be changed.
In order to exchange personal data securely with our volunteer registration system (which is stored on Google Drive) during the vetting process, you will also need to have a personal Google Drive account.
It makes sense therefore to provide a current email address linked to Google Drive, to ensure that you can receive and respond to relevant emails promptly.
Google Drive is a free cloud storage facility which comes with the standard Google account. Many vetting applicants will already have a personal Google account (e.g. an email address such as another@gmail.com) on their smartphone or computer, and so will already have Google Drive.
If you don’t already have a Google account, you may either –
- Link your existing email address, e.g., another@mycompany.org or myname@hotmail.com, to a new Google account,
OR- Create a new Google account, with a new email address (see Google account creation).
In either case, you should use the Google Drive of that email account for the purposes of the vetting application and to ensure the privacy of personal data shared with the Garda Vetting Officer of the Prelature in Ireland.
