Personal Data Protection Notice

Purpose(s) for processing

Legal Basis for Processing

• To register you as a new website user.
• To notify you about changes to our Data Protection Notice.
• To ask you to take a survey.

The processing is necessary to perform a contract or enter into a contract with you.

The processing is necessary to support our legitimate interests in managing our business (to keep our records updated and to study how website users use our services) provided such interests are not overridden by your interests and rights.

• To manage our relationship with you which may include:
• To contact you in relation to on-line /offline applications for financial assistance.
• To facilitate providing training programs and online training resources;
• To facilitate applications for loans to Micro Finance Ireland.
• To facilitate trade missions, trade events, buyer introductions through the Enterprise Ireland Irish and overseas office network;
• To participate in EU Funded programs / international standard bodies e.g. ENN, NSAI, European Commission, participation on programs with Inter trade Ireland;
• To participate on our Student Enterprise programmes;
• To share information with government departments and semi state agencies for jointly run events, e.g. Enterprise Ireland, IDA etc.;
• To act as advisor on expert panels or mentoring to clients.

The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of an official authority vested in us

• To comply with our regulatory (for example disclosing tax data to the office of the revenue commissioners) and professional requirements;
• To prevent and detect fraud, money laundering or other offences; and
• To exercise our right to defend, respond or conduct legal proceedings.
• The processing is necessary for us to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
• To carry out direct marketing;
• To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about events hosted or co-sponsored by us or about events we feel may interest you;
• To send you email alerts and newsletters that you have opted-in to receive by filling in our online forms or contacting us by email or by other means;
• To contact clients regarding business opportunities.
• To contact you regarding the services provided by us.

Where you have given consent to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing - which you may withdraw at any time.

Where your consent is not required and you have not objected, the use of the data is necessary for our legitimate interest in managing our business including legal, personnel, administrative and management purposes provided our interests are not overidden by your interests.

To customise your experience on our website, or to serve you specific content that is relevant to you.The processing is necessary to support our legitimate interests in managing our business (to define types of client companies for our services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) provided such interests are not overidden by your interests and rights.

Your Right

What this means

Right to withdraw consentIf we are processing your personal data on the legal basis of consent, you are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time. However, the withdrawal of your consent will not invalidate any processing we carried out prior to your withdrawal and based on your consent.
Right of Access You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to RectificationYou have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you and complete any personal data where this is incomplete.
Right to Erasure ('Right to be Forgotten’) You have the right to request that your personal data be deleted in certain circumstances including:
• The personal data are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were collected;
• You withdraw your consent (where the processing was based on consent);
• You object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds justifying us processing the personal data (see Right to Object below);
• The personal data have been unlawfully processed; or
• To comply with a legal obligation.
However, this right does not apply where, for example, the processing is necessary:
• To comply with a legal obligation; or
• For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to Restriction of ProcessingYou can ask that we restrict your personal data (i.e., keep but not use) where:
• The accuracy of the personal data is contested;
• The processing is unlawful but you do not want it erased;
• We no longer need the personal data but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
• You have objected to the processing and verification as to our overriding legitimate grounds is pending.
We can continue to use your personal data:
• Where we have your consent to do so;
• For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• To protect the rights of another; or
• For reasons of important public interest.
Right to Data PortabilityWhere you have provided personal data to us, you have a right to receive such personal data back in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format, and to have those data transmitted to a third-party data controller without hindrance but in each case only where:
• The processing is carried out by automated means; and
• The processing is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract with you.
Right to ObjectYou have a right to object to the processing of your personal data in those cases where we are processing your personal data in reliance on our legitimate interests, for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of our official authority. In such a case we will stop processing your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds which override your interests and you have a right to request information on the balancing test we have carried out. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Automated Decision-MakingYou have a right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you other than where the decision is:
• Necessary for entering into a contract, or for performing a contract with you;
• Based on your explicit consent – which you may withdraw at any time; or
• Is authorized by EU or Member State law.
Where we base a decision solely on automated decision-making, you will always be entitled to have a person review the decision so that you can contest it and put your point of view and circumstances forward.
Right to ComplainYou have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of an alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.