Privacy Policy for Pods4U

Effective date: September 2022

Welcome to Pods4U, accessible at www.pods4u.ie.

Your privacy is critically important to us, and this privacy policy aims to clearly explain how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information.

1. Information Collection and Use

What We Collect:

- Personal information you provide when making an inquiry or placing an order, such as your name, email address, phone number, and address.
- Data collected automatically when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, and browsing activity.

‍How We Use Your Information:
- To process a quotation and fulfil orders that you have requested.
- To communicate with you about your order, inquiries, or our services.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
seek your views or comments on the services we provide.
- To notify you of changes to our services or maintenance updates.
- To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
- For internal analytics to improve our website and services.
- To comply with legal obligations.

2. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

- Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
- The necessity to fulfill a contract with you.
- Our legitimate interests in operating our business, provided those interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

3. Data Sharing and Transfer

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties.

We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to subcontracted groundworkers, electricians, photographers).

When we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service they are providing.

4. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

For instance, we hold information given to us to complete quotations for up to 2 years. We hold your email address on a subscribed mailing list indefinitely unless you have requested to unsubscribe.

5. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

- Access, correct, or delete your personal data.
- Object to or restrict processing of your data.
- Request data portability.
- Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing - based on consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@pods4u.ie.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. 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 site.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@pods4u.ie