Thank you for your interest in the information provided by Circet Ireland & UK.

Respecting your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy informs you how and under what circumstances we collect, use and, in certain cases, disclose your personal data.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy before you submit any information.

By using this website, you acknowledge that you understand and accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Our website contains links to third-party websites. These third-party websites may collect personal data on visitors to their sites, in accordance with their own privacy policies.

DATA CONTROLLER

The Data Controller responsible for processing all your personal data collected on this site is the company: Circet Ireland & UK (hereafter referred to as “CIRCET”), whose registered office is at GHQ, Cloverhill Industrial Estate, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland.

European Regulation n° 2016/679 related to personal data protection

In accordance with European regulation n°2016/679 related to the protection of personal data (known as “GDPR”), you have the right to object (Art. 21), to access (Art. 15) and rectify (Art. 16) your personal data. Thus, you may require that any inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, out of date or prohibited retention of your information may be corrected, completed, updated, or deleted.

In accordance with European regulation n°2016/679 related to the protection of personal data (known as “GDPR”), you may at any time modify or delete your registration information. You can exercise this right directly by contacting us at our registered office mentioned in Article 8 of this policy.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER (DPO)

CIRCET’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted about any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information to dpo(at)circet.ie

More information on data privacy rights is available directly from the website of the Irish Data Protection commissioner https://www.dataprotection.ie/ or the Information Commissioners Office in the United Kingdom https://ico.org.uk/ .

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Use of the website

While you are visiting the website, CIRCET collects, automatically saves, and temporarily stores the following information about your computer and your visit:

  • The domain and host from which you access the internet

  • The address of the website that linked you directly to the CIRCET website, if applicable

  • The date and time you entered our site, how many times you have visited the site and the pages you have viewed

  • Your IP (Internet Protocol) address

  • The operating system and browser on your computer

This information is used to enable you to access our website, as well as for statistical purposes. The processing of this information is therefore in line with Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the ‘GDPR’), under which the processing is lawful if it is in the legitimate interest of the Data Controller.

Job advertisements

When you apply for a job in response to an advertisement on our careers website (https://careers.circet.ie/) we collect your surname, first name, and email address via the online form, as well as the personal data given in your CV, your covering letter and the message accompanying your application.

We use your personal data to manage your application. This processing is in line with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, under which the processing is lawful if the data subject has consented to it.

You can withdraw your consent at any time and object to this use of your data by contacting us at the address given in Article 8 of this document.

Unsolicited applications

When you send us an unsolicited job application via our website, we collect your surname, first name, email address, profession, region, town or city, line of business and educational qualifications via the online form, as well as the personal data given in your CV, your covering letter and the message accompanying your application.

This processing is in line with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, under which the processing is lawful if the data subject has consented to it.

You can withdraw your consent at any time and object to this use of your data by contacting us at the address given in Article 8 of this document.

Contact form

If you send us a message via the contact form, we will use the personal data you provide to respond to your inquiry.

The following personal data are collected: your surname, first name, position, the company you work for, your address, postal/eir code, town or city, region, country, telephone number, email address and the personal data given in the subject line, the message and the file accompanying your inquiry.

This processing is in line with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, under which the processing is lawful if the data subject has consented to it.

You can withdraw your consent at any time and object to this use of your data by contacting us at the address given in Article 8 of this document.
 

RECIPIENT OR CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS

Your data is intended for CIRCET. It may be necessary for us to share your personal data with other members of the CIRCET group of companies and with our service partners in order to respond to your inquiries or to requests concerning our services. Your data may also be shared with the CIRCET DPO and any external advisors and auditors.

In addition, we may use third parties acting as processors in order to provide you with our services and manage your data. This includes processors located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, in which case we will ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect your personal data, in particular using European Union standard contractual clauses (SCCs) agreed between us and the processor.

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

This website uses cookies to track usage and help improve features and services of the site. Statistical and analytical information from cookies provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who return to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page in the site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the site’s capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.

Analytic cookies

Every time a user visits our website, web analytic software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only.

Turning off Cookies

Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this, please look up the help menu on your browser. However, switching off cookies may restrict your use of the website and/or affect the way in which the website operates. Also, if you do this you may not be able to use all services on our website now, or in the future.

Find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.cookiecentral.com

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Circet may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access these links, you will leave this website. Circet is not responsible for the content of external websites. We would advise you to review the privacy policies of any sites you visit before you supply any personal information to them.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access, rectify or erase and the right to restrict the processing of your personal data.

  • If the processing is based on CIRCET’s legitimate interest, you also have the right to object to it.

  • If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the option to withdraw your consent at any time, without this affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal of your consent.

In accordance with Article 12(5) of the GDPR, CIRCET may refuse to comply with your request if it is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority as defined in the GDPR and the applicable laws if you consider that your personal data have been processed in breach of that regulation. To do this, you can contact the competent supervisory authority in the EU Member State which is your habitual place of residence or the EU Member State which is the location of the alleged breach.

Our supervisory authority is the Irish Data Protection commissioner and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Its contact details can be found at: http://www.dataprotection.ie or https://ico.org.uk/

WHO TO CONTACT TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

To exercise your rights, you can contact us:

By email: dpo(at)circet.ie

By mail: FAO: Data Protection Officer, Circet GHQ, Cloverhill Industrial Estate, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland

 

RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL DATA

Personal data collected by CIRCET are retained for a period that is no longer than necessary for the purposes for which they are collected. Some data may be archived beyond this period for evidentiary purposes in accordance with statutory limitation periods. Archiving means that these data will be extracted and retained on a separate, secure medium.

 

Amendments to the Privacy Policy

CIRCET reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time.

If this website’s Privacy Policy changes, the revised statement will be displayed here. This Privacy Policy was updated in June 2023.