Introduction

We respect your right to privacy. CCS Consultants (“we”, “our” or “us”) will collect and process your Personal Data and other information relating to your interactions and dealings with us on our website www.ccsconsultants.ie (“Website”) or otherwise. This Privacy Statement explains how we will manage your Personal Data, why we use it, and how you may contact us.

This privacy policy sets out how CCS Consultants use any personal information we collect from you, including our use of cookies on this website.

CCS is committed to respecting the privacy of visitors to our website and users of our services. We process personal data in accordance with the GDPR. As such we ensure that any personal data which we process shall be;

a. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;

b. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;

c. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

d. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;

e. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.”



We respect the right of individuals whose personal data we process which are;

1. The Right to be informed – this privacy notice describes how personal data is processed.

2. The Right of Access – please contact us if you wish to have access to personal data held about you.

3. Subject Access Requests: We will fully cooperate with our contracting companies and organisations in relation to any such request and process requests in a timely manner. No charge is applied for such information.

4. The right to rectification – we will take all necessary steps within our control to ensure that any personal data processed by us will be complete and accurate and will comply with any requests to rectify.

5. The right to erasure – we will comply with requests to have data deleted. Such requests may be denied if the data is required for the exercise or defense of legal claims.

6. The Right to restrict processing – We will store only the data necessary to ensure that the restriction can be applied, and further processing of that data will not take place.

7. The right to portability – Personal data will be held in a format which permits easy transfer from one IT environment to another.

8. The right to object – We respect the individual’s right to object to our processing of their personal information and will cease to do so upon request by that individual except where there is a compelling legitimate ground which for processing the data which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the individual or where the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

9. Rights relating to automated decision making – CCS Consultants do not operate such systems.

We cooperate fully with our client organisations in meeting requirements relating to these rights.

Our website may include links to third-party websites. If you choose to click on these links, you may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Such websites are not within our control.

As a provider of a range of organisational services to charitable, community & voluntary and statutory organisations, CCS Consultants is a data processor as defined in the GDPR. When undertaking such services for organisations, we will, as part of our contractual arrangements, operate within the contracting organisation’s/company’s data protection policy.

We keep this privacy policy under regular review, and we invite you to read it carefully and contact us if you have any queries.

What information do we collect?

In the course of providing our professional services, we may process personal information such as contact information - name, telephone number and email address. Should you complete our ‘Contact us’ form on our website, or contact us by any other means, you will provide this information to us. Additionally, in the course of performing our contracts we may obtain other personal data which is transferred to us for the purpose of undertaking these contracts. Such data may consist of human resource management or service-related data.

Our website is not intended for children and we do not process data relating to children.

What legal basis do we have for processing personal data?

We will only process your personal data when we have a legal ground for doing so. These are;

Contract: For the purpose of undertaking and fulfilling contractual obligations in relation to the services we provide including managing our relationship with our clients.

Legitimate Interests: We need to process personal data in the legitimate interests of the company.

Consent: When processing personal data, we may seek your consent to do so at the point of obtaining the data from you such as when you provide personal data through our contact form or email. This consent may be withdrawn by emailing us at info@ccsconsultants.ie

Legal Obligation: We may need to process your personal data if legally obliged to do so.

When do we share personal data?

We will treat personal data confidentially and will only share data when necessary to do so for the operation of our business or where there is a legal requirement for us to do so. We do not sell personal data to third parties.

How do we secure personal data?

All personal data is processed securely and is stored on encrypted IT equipment. Physical security measures are in place to ensure data is stored safely.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

Personal data is stored for the duration required for the performance of contracts. Such data is returned to contracting organisations or irretrievably disposed of. Contact information held for marketing purposes will be retained for as long as consent is in place.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service 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 analyse our Service.

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 Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices, your personal information or if you wish to file a complaint please contact us on Tel: 0872290624, email: info@ccsconsultants.ie, Post: 14 Buenos Aires Drive, Strandhill, Co Sligo.