This privacy notice aims to give you information on how TELFORDS (PORTLAOISE) LTD collects and processes your personal data in our dealings with you, including in providing goods and services to you, and including any data you may provide through our website.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

TELFORDS (PORTLAOISE) LTD is the controller of your personal data and responsible for our website.

TELFORDS (PORTLAOISE) LTD is a subsidiary of GRAFTON GROUP PLC

Full name of legal entity: Telfords (Portlaoise) Ltd

Email address: dpo@graftonplc.com

Postal address: Grafton Group plc, 2 Wythall Green Way, Wythall, Birmingham, UK B47 6LW

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant supervisory authority.

In Ireland, this is the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office (DPC), https://dataprotection.ie

In the Netherlands, this is the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en

In the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), https://ico.org.uk

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the relevant supervisory authority so please contact us in the first instance.

CHANGES TO THE PRVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES. This privacy notice was last updated on 20/12/2020.

Our website may include links to third-party websites [plug ins and applications]. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

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Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, home address, email address and telephone numbers
• Financial Data includes payment card details and, where you or your business have or apply for a credit account with us, bank account details and information held by credit information providers.
• Transaction Data includes details about you/your business trading history, including payments from you/your business
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website/or any apps
• Profile Data includes your username and password, products/services provided to you/your business, (feedback and survey responses).
• Usage Data includes information as to how you use our website.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes [your preferences as to whether you are happy to receive marketing from us and, if so, your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

In the normal course, we will not collect Special Categories of Personal Data about you. Criminal offences may, however, appear on information gathered from our credit information providers.

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a contract you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

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We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

1. Direct interactions

   You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data) by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, via this website, apps or on social media, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you or your business:

   • Subscribe to our newsletter and/or other publications;
   • Request a brochure or other promotional or marketing materials to be sent to you/your business;
   • Apply for, or operate, a credit account with us;
   • Purchase goods [and/or services] at one of our stores;
   • Purchase goods [and/or services] via our website;
   • Enter a competition, or respond to a promotion or survey; or
   • Give us some feedback.

2. Automated technologies or interactions As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, [server logs] and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

3. Third parties and publicly available sources We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

4. Credit information providers - when you or your business in which you are a partner or a director makes an application for a credit account with us, we will or may make searches about you with credit information providers Searches are made against addresses provided, and so may also return information relating to other household members. The relevant provider will keep a record of that search, and will share information from their records with us. Should it become necessary to review a credit account, a further check with credit information providers may be made, and a record kept by them of the search.

5. Debt collection agencies, debtor tracing agencies and solicitors Where your/your business' debts are unpaid, we may share your personal information with relevant debt collection agencies, solicitors and/or debtor tracing agencies.

6. Other businesses in the same or related sectors As part of our credit referencing procedures we may make enquiries of other businesses in the same or related sectors as to your/your business' trading history with them, and may share information as to your/your business' trading history with us.

7. Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.

8. Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based [inside OR outside] the EU.

9. Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies Registration Office and County Councils (planning applications) based inside the EU.

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We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message; You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by emailing us.

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

When we refer to legitimate interests we mean the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

We do not undertake automated decision making using your personal data.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing.

Where you have agreed to receive it, we may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which goods, services and offers may be relevant for you.

We will only share your personal data for marketing purposes in accordance with your preferences/consent.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see Cookie Policy.

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us - dataprotection@gmroi.ie

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

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We may have to share your personal data with the categories of parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

• Other companies in the Grafton Group based within either the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom involved in providing goods and/or services to you, whether directly or providing underlying infrastructure services.
• Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you;
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our services and website;
• Professional advisers, including solicitors, banks, auditors and insurers;
• Revenue Commissioners, regulators and other authorities;
• Entities involved in credit checking and anti-fraud activities, crime prevention/detection, risk assessment and management and dispute resolution.
• Third parties whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

Where these third parties are our processors, we require them to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. [We do not allow our third-party processors to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.] Some of the third parties mentioned above, for example many professional advisers and the Revenue Commissioners, are controllers who, like us, are subject to specific obligations under data protection law, and who will have their own privacy notices setting out how they deal with personal data.

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We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. Processors we appoint will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

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We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Details of retention periods for different types of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by emailing us - dataprotection@gmroi.ie at any time or By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for [six] years after they cease being customers for [tax] purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see [Request erasure] below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

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Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:

• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us - dataprotection@gmroi.ie

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to enable us to deal with your request or to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or we have received a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest (or that of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following situations: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

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We may monitor and/or record:

• Telephone calls;
• Transactions (and activities at all points of contact)
• Web, traffic and activities

These are to ensure that we carry out your instructions accurately, for training purposes and to improve our services, and to ensure security and prevent fraud. For the greater security of our customers and staff, and to prevent and detect crime, we use CCTV in and around our premises. To obtain information about our use of CCTV contact us. please email us - dataprotection@gmroi.ie

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