Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28th October 2026

Garvey Building (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, share and safeguard your personal data when you visit garveybuilding.ie, contact us at [email protected], make an enquiry or send us information about a project.

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1. Definitions

Controller: Garvey Building

Service Provider: A third party that processes personal data on our behalf.

Personal Data: Information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

Processing: Any operation performed on personal data, including collecting, storing, using or sharing it.

Consent: Freely given, specific and informed agreement to process personal data.

2. Information We Collect

• Identity Data: Your name and company name, where provided.
• Contact Data: Your email address, phone number, postal address or project address.
• Enquiry and Project Data: Information you provide in an enquiry, contact form or project discussion. This may include project details and files you choose to upload or send to us, such as architectural drawings, plans, specifications, reports, photographs, videos or images of a site, building or land. These files may contain personal data, including names, addresses, signatures, faces, vehicle registrations or other identifying details.
• Technical Data: Your IP address, browser type, device information and website log data.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited, time spent and referral source.
• Marketing Data: Your communication preferences and marketing consent, where applicable.

Please avoid including personal data in an uploaded file unless it is relevant to your enquiry or project. If a file contains personal data about another person, please make sure you are entitled to share it with us.

3. How We Use Your Information

Purpose	Data Collected	Legal Basis
Respond to enquiries, review proposed work and prepare quotations	Identity, Contact, Enquiry and Project	Steps taken at your request before entering into a contract and legitimate interests
Plan, manage and carry out contracted building services	Identity, Contact, Enquiry and Project	Contractual necessity
Communicate with you about an enquiry or project	Identity, Contact, Enquiry and Project	Contractual necessity and legitimate interests
Send marketing communications	Contact, Marketing	Consent, where required
Maintain and improve our website	Technical, Usage	Legitimate interests
Comply with legal, tax, accounting, insurance and regulatory obligations	Identity, Contact, Enquiry and Project	Legal obligation and legitimate interests

4. Legal Bases for Processing

• Contract: Where processing is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to fulfil a contract with you.
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is reasonably necessary to operate our business, assess enquiries, manage projects or protect our legal interests, provided those interests do not override your rights.
• Consent: Where you have given clear permission for a specific use of your data.
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share relevant personal data with:

• Service Providers: Providers of website hosting, customer relationship management, email, cloud storage, file transfer, IT support and other systems used to operate our business.
• Project Professionals and Contractors: Architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers or other project partners where sharing is necessary to assess, plan or carry out the work.
• Professional Advisers: Lawyers, accountants, auditors and insurers.
• Public and Regulatory Authorities: Where disclosure is required by law or regulation.
• Business Transfers: A buyer, successor or adviser involved in a sale, merger or reorganisation of the business.

We only share information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

6. International Transfers

Some service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, we use an appropriate safeguard recognised under data protection law, such as an adequacy decision or approved standard contractual clauses.

7. Data Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or disclosure. These measures include secure website connections, access controls and authentication. Access to project files is limited to people who need the information for a legitimate business or project purpose.

8. Data Retention

We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to meet legal, tax, accounting, insurance or contractual requirements.

Enquiry details and uploaded project files may be retained while we assess or quote for proposed work. If a project proceeds, relevant records may be retained for the duration of the project and afterwards where required for warranties, insurance, legal claims or record-keeping obligations. Files that are no longer required will be deleted or securely disposed of.

9. Your Privacy Rights

Under the GDPR and Irish data protection law, you may have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data
• Request deletion of your personal data
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Receive certain data in a portable format
• Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent
• Lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission

These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise a right, contact [email protected]. You can also contact the Data Protection Commission through www.dataprotection.ie.

10. Cookies and Tracking

This section forms both our Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy.

10.1 What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They can help a website function, remember preferences and provide information about how the site is used.

10.2 Do We Use Cookies?

At present, we only use cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function securely and correctly. We do not use analytics, advertising or targeting cookies unless you consent to them in the future.

10.3 Types of Cookies

• Strictly Necessary: Essential for basic site functions such as security and navigation. These cannot be switched off.
• Performance (optional): These would collect information about how visitors use our website. They are not currently in use.
• Functionality (optional): These would remember user preferences such as language or region. They are not currently in use.
• Advertising/Targeting (optional): These would support personalised advertising or measure campaign performance. They are not currently in use.

10.4 Cookie Table

Cookie Name	Purpose	Duration	Provider
-	No non-essential cookies currently in use.	-	-

10.5 Third-Party Cookies

If we add third-party services such as video players, social media content or analytics, those services may set cookies. Where required, we will provide information about them and request consent through our cookie banner before non-essential cookies are used.

10.6 Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may affect how the website functions.

10.7 Consent to Cookies

If non-essential cookies are introduced, we will provide controls that allow you to accept or reject them and update your preferences.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when our services, systems or legal obligations change. The latest version will be posted here with an updated date.

12. Contact Us

If you have a question about this policy or how we use your personal data, contact:

Data Protection Contact
Garvey Building
Email: [email protected]
Website: garveybuilding.ie