Privacy Statement

Effective date: March 30, 2024

Irish Building Control Institute ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://www.ibci.ie website (the "Website").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Website and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this statement.

1. Types of data collected

1a. Personal Data

While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Cookies and Usage Data

1b. Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Website is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

1c. Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Examples of Cookies we may use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Website.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

We use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.

• Google Analytics

  Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

  You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

  
  

2. Use of Data

IBCI uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain services
• To notify you about changes to our services
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so
• To provide customer care and support
• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Website
• To monitor the usage of the Website
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

We process your personal data for a variety reasons in accordance with the following legal bases:

• To enter into and perform a contract: we process your personal data where it is necessary to enter into and perform our contract with you or your company. This includes providing and managing the provision of services.
• To comply with our legal obligations: in these circumstances we process your personal data to respond to queries from regulatory authorities, the police or other government bodies.
• For our legitimate interests: we will process your personal data if it is in our legitimate interests to do so (such as to help us manage your relationship with us, promote our products and services to you, or to protect our systems). Where we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests we will first carry out a balancing test to make sure that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not overridden.

3. Transfer Of Data outside the EEA

In certain situations we may transfer your personal data to third parties outside the EEA, however we will only do so where there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your personal data.

4. Disclosure of data

We may share your personal data with the following:

• our staff;
• our service providers (including IT service providers); and
• entities to whom we must share data to comply with our legal obligations.

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

5. Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Links To Other Sites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statement of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. Changes To This Privacy Statement

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Statement on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Statement.

You are advised to review this Privacy Statement periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Statement are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Your rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal data that we hold. Your rights are as follows:

• Right of access: you have the right to receive confirmation from us as to whether or not we process your personal data and, if we do, you have a right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: we try to make sure that your personal data held by us is accurate and we may ask you to verify that data we hold is correct. Where data is inaccurate you have the right to ask us to correct it.
• Right to erasure: where no overriding legal basis continues to exist for us processing your personal data, you may request that we delete it.
• Right to restriction: you may ask us to stop processing your personal data if: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; the processing is unlawful; we no longer need the data for the purposes of the processing but you need us not to delete it in relation to a legal claim; or you object to our processing and want to restrict the processing until a decision has been reached on whether our legitimate interests override yours.
• Right to data portability: if we process your personal data based on your consent, contractual necessity or by automated means then you may ask us to provide you or another controller with your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
• Right to object: if we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests then you may object to this. We will stop processing your personal data unless we can demonstrate that our legitimate interests override your rights.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any complaints in relation to our processing of your personal data, please email info@ibci.ie. To process your request or complaint we will ask you to provide two valid forms of identification for verification purposes. If you are not satisfied with our response you may make a complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission details of which are set out at www.dataprotection.ie.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us:

• By email:
• By post: PO Box 3667, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland