Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.

This notice explains how we use data, where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

It applies to clients, sub-contractors, clients, customers, contractors, employees, suppliers and network contacts.

We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.

This notice applies to clients, sub-contractors, clients, customers, contractors, employees, suppliers, network contacts. This notice does not form part of any contract.

It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information.

In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Lambay Professional Services Limited.

2. Data Protection Principles

We comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any
    way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely.

3. What Data Do We Collect About You, For What Purpose and On What Grounds

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Coachee Data that includes signature, name, email, telephone number, psychometric assessment or 360 reports results related to work. We process this data to supply services that you or your employer has purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you or your employer and us and/or taking steps at your/their request to enter into such a contract.
  • Programme Attendee Data that includes name, email, telephone number, psychometric assessment results related to work. We process this data to supply services that you or your employer has purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you or your employer and us and/or taking steps at your/their request to enter into such a contract.
  • Communication Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
  • Customer/Client Data that includes data relating to any purchases of offline and/or online services or products, such as your name, title, billing address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and bank details. We process this data to supply services that you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract. 
  • Associate and Supplier Data that includes name, title, billing address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase/supply details and your bank details. We process this data to obtain services that you provide and keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your/their request to enter into such a contract. 
  • User Data that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our websites and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain our websites and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our websites, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our websites and our business. 
  • Technical Data that includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content to you.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
  • Marketing Data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to receive relevant notifications (promotion of webinars, events, programmes, informative reports, and/or white papers) and to deliver relevant website content to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

4. Lead Generation

We use the ScoreApp tool as a means of generating leads and customer intelligence. According to their website ScoreApp “adhere to the stringent standards set forth by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).” For information please see their Privacy Policy.

5. Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.

We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at info@lambayprofessional.com. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose, we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.

6.How We Collect Your Personal Data

We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may also collect data about you when you fill out our scorecards – which are run via www.scoreapp.com . We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.

We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU and/or the UK, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU and/or the UK, such as search information providers such as Google based outside the EU and/or the UK, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.

We may also receive data from publicly available sources such as the Companies Registration Office in Ireland or equivalent elsewhere and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

7. Marketing Communications

Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). 

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002 (ePrivacy Directive), we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time. 

Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, we will get your express consent.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out/unsubscribe links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at info@lambayprofessional.com.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases and warranty registrations.

8. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

  • Service providers who provide operational, IT, financial and system administration services
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets
  • Our Coaching Accreditation Body or supervisor as part of our coaching training or
  • accreditation.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

9. International Transfers of Your Personal Data

We are subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data.

As such:

  • We may transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
  • If we use US-based providers that are part of an EU approved privacy framework, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or
  • Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the EEA, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by EU regulators which give personal data the same protection it has in the EEA.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

10. Data Security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they must keep it confidential.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

11. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our clients (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being clients.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

12. Your Rights

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

You can see more about these rights here.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at
info@lambayprofessional.com.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish supervisory authority for data protection issues. If you are elsewhere within the EU or the UK and are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the data protection authority of the country in which you are based. We would be grateful if you would contact us first if you do
have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you
.

13. Third Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications (for example video platforms). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

14. Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

15. What cookies do we use?

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a)   necessary – we use cookies to ensure the correct functioning of our website in order to personalise the website for you. We also use these cookies to ensure website security is not compromised. Cookies used for this purpose are:

wfvt_{hash}: used by the WordPress Content Management System to remember a user’s submitted web form data when a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto-populate form fields for subsequent comments, in order to save time for the user.

cookie_notice_accepted: used to keep track of GDPR-related data consents as set by the user.

wordpress_test_cookie: used to test cookie functionality in the browser.

wordpress_{hash}: used to store settings from the current user’s browsing session (within our website only).

WordPress_logged_in_{hash}: used to identify whether the current user has administrative rights to the website CMS.

(b)   performance – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services. Cookies used for this purpose are:

_ga and _gid: used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use our website.

_gat: used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate to their system.

collect: used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour.

16. Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies, and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

17. Managing Cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a)    https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b)    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c)    http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d)    https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e)    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f)    https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

18. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

We will notify you of any such changes to this policy that will impact your rights under current and applicable privacy laws and regulations.

19. Contact Details

Full name of legal entity: Lambay Professional Services Limited

Name of Data Controller: Lambay Professional Services Limited

Email address: info@lambayprofessional.com

Postal address: 5, Mountfield Park, Seamount, Malahide, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at info@lambayprofessional.com

This privacy policy was updated in August 2023.

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