Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

P. Nihill Engineering is the data controller responsible for your personal data. Our registered address is Derryvinnaan, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, you can contact us at info@pnihillengineering.ie or by phone at +353 87 7679782.

2. Purpose and Legal Basis for Data Processing

We process personal data for the following purposes:

To respond to enquiries submitted through our contact form, email, or phone (legal basis: legitimate interest)
To provide quotations, services, and customer support (legal basis: performance of a contract)
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations (legal basis: legal obligation)

We only process personal data where we have a valid legal basis to do so in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

3. Contact – Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

For this purpose we collect the following personal data:

First and last name
Email address
Telephone number
IP address
General location data (if applicable)

Basis on which we process this data:
We process this data in order to respond to enquiries and provide requested information (legitimate interest). Where our services are requested, processing may also be necessary for the performance of a contract.

Retention period:
We retain personal data submitted through our contact form, by email, or by phone for up to 12 months after the last contact, unless a longer retention period is required to provide our services, manage an ongoing customer relationship, or comply with legal obligations.

4. Third-Party Service Providers

We use trusted third-party service providers to operate our website and deliver our services. These providers may process personal data on our behalf where necessary. These include:

Website hosting provider – to host and maintain our website
Email provider (Irish Domains) – to manage and send communications
Google Analytics – to analyse website usage and improve performance
Google Ads – to measure advertising performance and deliver relevant advertising

These providers may process data such as IP addresses, usage data, and contact information where applicable. Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses. We ensure that all third-party providers process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws and only on our instructions.

This privacy statement was last updated on July 19, 2024 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via pnihillengineering.ie. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

5. Purpose, data and retention period

We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)

6. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

7. Disclosure practices

We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.

If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.

We have concluded a data Processing Agreement with Google.

8. Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

9. Third-party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

10. Amendments to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

11. Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person.

12. Submitting a complaint

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we handle (a complaint about) the processing of your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Data Protection Authority.