Privacy Notice
Introduction
This statement refers to personal data, which is defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) Data Protection Laws such as the General Data Protection Regulations seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU.
Weatherglaze Systems Limited is strongly committed to protecting the data protection rights of its user community. The intent of this privacy statement is to detail the information Weatherglaze Systems Limited may gather about individuals who visit its website or in day to day interactions and how that information is used. You should read this statement carefully before using the website and our services.
The Weatherglaze Systems Limited website is for use by people who are 16 years and over only. Nothing on this website is intended to capture or process special category data.
Your acceptance of these Privacy Statement Terms
By using our site or availing of our services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement.
Personal Data
Weatherglaze Systems Limited uses the information collected from you to;
- Identify you each time you visit the Web Site or wish to have a Service provided;
- Process orders or applications submitted by you;
- Improve our Services and Web Site;
- Customise your experience;
- Process Warranty information;
- Carry out research on the demographics, interests, and behaviour of our customers; and
- Send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new Weatherglaze Systems Limited products and services.
You may be asked, either when you engage with us, or at other times, for information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number. You may also be asked to share with us your interests and preferences. In addition, when you order certain goods or services from our Web Sites, we will need to know your credit/payment card number and expiration date.
You are under no obligation to provide this information, but if you don’t then we may not be able to provide you with certain services or personalise your experience and tailor our Services for you (for example, tell you about special offers on things you’re interested in).
The Purpose and Lawful Basis for Processing Your Data
Weathergalze Systems Limited collects and processes your Personal Data described below for a variety of purposes. As required by data protection laws, below is a summary of these purposes and the lawful justifications that support them:
The Performance of a Contract or entering into one;
We may process your information in order to enter into a contract with you or to provide you with a service which you have requested from us. For example, we need to process your personal information in order to manage the warranty which we have provided in respect of your product you have purchased or to provide you with a brochure or information about a product where you have requested it.
To comply with our legal obligations;
We are required to process your personal information to comply with certain legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject. For example, we are required to obtain certain business records in accordance with company and revenue law which may include your personal information. Where we are required to collect and retain personal data for the purposes of meeting various Health Dept, requirements due to Covid 19, such as return to work safely forms and contact tracing data.
For our legitimate business interests;
We may use your personal information for the purposes of carrying out activities that are in our legitimate interests (or those of a third party). Where we process your information for our legitimate interests, we ensure that there is a fair balance between our legitimate interest and your fundamental rights and freedoms. We may use legitimate interest to promote the services offered by Weatherglaze Systems Limited to prospective business clients to market the services and/or products offered by Weatherglaze Systems Limited to existing clients
With your consent;
If you use our website and consent to the use of cookies that are not strictly necessary. You can withdraw your consent at any time through the Cookie Preference Centre www.weatherglaze.ie. Where consent is required for another other purpose you can withdraw your consent at anytime by contacting us on data@weatherglaze.ie or on the contact details provided below.
To protect your vital interests;
We will in certain circumstances use your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another, for example we may contact you in the event of a safety issues with a product or service that you received from us.
Below is a summary of the purposes and the lawful justifications that support the processing of your personal data.
Purpose | Description | Lawful Basis |
Purchasing a Product or Service | Personal Data will be collected from the customer and processed to meet their requirements of the contract or where they may want to enter into a contract with us | Necessary for the Performance of a Contract |
Warranty Information | Warranty information is processed and retained for the purpose of meeting warranty requirements
and notifying the customer of any warranty issues or safety recalls |
Necessary for the Performance of a Contract
Necessary for the vital interests of the customer or a third party |
Marketing to Potential and Existing Customer | Information on our Business Customers that is collected directly from a customer or information that is acquired from 3rd party data providers | The Processing is in our Legitimate Interest and the;
customer has not objected to the processing prospect has been notified of their rights and our intention to process their data and has not objected to the processing |
CCTV | We operate a CCTV system on our premises to protect the safety and security of our staff and property and for health and safety purposes. | The processing is in our legitimate interests as a private company regarding Health, Safety and Security. |
Legal obligation | We will use your personal data to comply with various legal obligations in respect to some of the following but not limited to. Vat, Tax, AML Requirements, Covid 19 Contract Tracing Logs, Covid 19 Return to Work Safely Forms | The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject |
Website Security | To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | Processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests |
Supporting our General Business & Operational Needs | We may use your personal data to support the administration of our everyday business needs and we may share your personal data with our finance partners, vendors, accountants, consultancy firms and other professional and technical advisors | Processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests |
Cookies Policy
At Weatherglaze Systems Limited we use cookies and related technologies, such as pixels ,flash cookies and beacons (collectively, “Cookies”) to provide our services, websites and products .Cookies help us to understand how our website is used, and to provide insight on how we can improve your experience, and to personalise advertising and content based on your specific interests. You have a choice to accept cookies that are not strictly necessary, and we ask that you read this policy below to make an informed decision.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device for accessing the internet, whenever you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. We use cookies for a variety of reasons, such as to determine preferences, let users navigate between pages efficiently, verify the user and carry out other essential security checks. Some of the functions that cookies perform can also be achieved using similar technologies.
We also use ‘analytics’ cookies to help us make our website better for those who visit it regularly. They help us work out what users like and don’t like and how we can improve things for you.
When we include links to other websites, they will have their own privacy and cookie policies that will govern the use of any information you submit. We recommend you read their policies as we are not responsible or liable for their privacy practices of other organisations.
We use the following Cookies on our Website
Strictly Necessary: Strictly Necessary cookies are essential to let you move around our website and use its features. These cookies allow our website to provide services at your request. Their sole purpose is to allow transmission of communication over electronic communications, and to provide the service that you have requested, say for instance records of your order in a shopping basket, and to detect any transmission errors or data loss. Strictly Necessary Cookies meet the consent exemption provision.
Performance :These cookies collect information about how you use our websites — for instance, which pages you go to most. This data may be used to help optimize our websites and make them easier for you to navigate. These cookies may not directly collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use of a selection of partners, for example, Google Analytics who help to make our websites more interesting for you. We will however request your consent to collect and use these Cookies.
Marketing Cookies: These Cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for our visitors, however these cookies are also of great interest to 3rd party advertisers and ad-tech agencies. We will request your consent to collect and use these Cookies.
Cookie Consent: We will request your consent for any statistical, tracking, profiling or marketing cookies, this consent can be revoked at any time through the cookie preference centre www.weatherglaze.ie. When you consent to these cookies on our website, we will analyse your browsing behaviour which will support in providing you with more tailored content. We use the services of a Consent Management Provider [“CMP”] Your consent will be automatically revoked after 6 months.
Cookie Description: The attached link provides details about the various cookies that are utilised on this site, their type, function, and retention period .You can also manage your consent preference here
Link to Third Party Sites
Please note that this policy applies only to the Weatherglaze Systems Limited website and not to the websites of other companies or organisations to which we provide links. Any third-party websites are viewed at your own risk.
Log files/IP addresses
When you visit our Web Site, we automatically log your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet) which is automatically recognised by our web server. We use IP addresses to help us administer our Web Site and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
Disclosure
Weatherglaze Systems Limited may on occasions pass your Personal Information to third parties exclusively to process work on its behalf. Weatherglaze Systems Limited requires these parties to agree to process this information based on our instructions and requirements consistent with this Privacy Statement and our obligations to Data Protection Laws.
Weatherglaze Systems Limited do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement without your agreement. However, we may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental request. We may also enforce our Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of our Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Weatherglaze Systems Limited, our clients and/or the wider community.
We may disclose your data if we sell our business or merge it with another organisation. Your details may be disclosed to our advisers and to a prospective purchasers or partner and their advisers. If this occurs, the new owners of the business will only be permitted to use your information in the same or similar way as set out in this data protection statement.
Retention Policy
Weatherglaze Systems Limited will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed in accordance with the Weatherglaze Systems Limited Data Retention Policy.
Data storage
Data is held in Ireland using different (multiple) servers and the web site is hosted through Hosting Ireland. Weatherglaze Systems Limited may process personal data outside the EEA via sub processors identified in the privacy statement either on consent or subject to EU adequacy decisions and/or measures such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
Every effort is taken to ensure all data us hosted in the EEA. As this website is built on the WordPress platform, this site uses plugins in order provide our web services to you. Plugins include Yoast, Contact Form 7, Google Analytics, Slider Revolution, Smush. By using our site or submitting information through our contact form you accept that statistical data and contact data may be processed outside the EEA in limited circumstances and with adequate measures in place.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst Weatherglaze Systems Limited is in possession of or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights: To enforce your rights please email data@weatherglaze.ie or contact us on the information provided below.
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
In the event that Weatherglaze Systems Limited refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.
Weatherglaze Systems Limited at your request can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed
You can request the following information:
- Contact details of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) where applicable.
- The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
- If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of Weatherglaze Systems Limited or a third party such as one of its clients, information about those interests.
- The categories of personal data collected, stored, and processed.
- Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
- How long the data will be stored.
- Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
- Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
- How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Commission).
- Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
- The source of personal data if it was not collected directly from you.
- Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
To access what personal data is held, identification may be required
Weatherglaze Systems Limited will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your national ID card, driving license, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document may be required. If Weatherglaze Systems Limited is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
Changes to Privacy Statement
Weatherglaze Systems Limited may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. It is advisable that you review this Privacy Statement regularly for any such changes.
Governing Law
This Privacy Statement is governed by the Laws of Ireland and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts.
Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a compliant about how your personal data is being processed by Weatherglaze Systems Limited or its partners, you have the right to complain to Weatherglaze Systems Limited. If you do not get a response within one month, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission.
Weathergalze Systems has retained the services of a Data Protection Officer, Ms Paula Carney-Hoffler ,IDPAA Limited. You can contact our Data Protection Officer on the address below or by emailing data@weatherglaze.ie
The details for each of these contacts are:
Weatherglaze Systems Limited
Clonattin Road
Gorey
Co. Wexford,
Ireland.
Phone: 053 9483000 Email: data@weatherglaze.ie
Data Protection Commission
Canal House, Station Road
Portarlington
Co. Laois,
R32 AP23
Telephone +353 761 104800 or email: info@dataprotection.ie
*This Statement (v2) was updated on the 8th of September 2020. Further updates may apply so please review our Privacy section regularly.*