Last updated: 8 October 2026
DesignRoom Construction Ltd (“DesignRoom”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal data when you visit designroomconstruction.ie, contact us, or use our design and construction services. We process personal data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988–2018.
1. Who we are
We are the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please contact us using the details above.
2. The information we collect
Information you give us
- Enquiries: your name, email address, phone number and the details of your message when you use our contact form, email us, call us or message us on WhatsApp.
- Project information: your property address or Eircode, site details, photographs, drawings, planning information and your requirements for your project.
- Client records: contract, quotation, billing and payment details if you become a client.
Information collected automatically
- Technical data: IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited and how you use our website, collected through cookies and similar technologies (see section 9).
3. How we use your information
- To respond to your enquiry and arrange consultations and site visits.
- To prepare designs, quotations and planning documentation.
- To carry out and manage your project, including communication with you throughout the build.
- To issue invoices, take payments and keep accounting records.
- To comply with our legal, tax, health & safety and building-regulation obligations.
- To maintain, secure and improve our website.
4. Our legal basis for processing
- Contract: where processing is needed to provide a quotation or carry out works you have asked us to do.
- Legal obligation: where we must keep records for tax, accounting or regulatory purposes.
- Legitimate interests: to run and improve our business and website, and to respond to enquiries, provided your rights do not override those interests.
- Consent: where you have agreed to it, for example ticking the consent box on our contact form or accepting non-essential cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time.
5. Who we share your information with
We never sell your personal data. We only share it where necessary with:
- Architects, engineers, surveyors and planning consultants working on your project.
- Trusted subcontractors and suppliers involved in your build.
- Local authorities and regulatory bodies, for example in connection with planning applications.
- Our IT, website hosting, email and software providers, who process data on our behalf.
- Our accountants, insurers and professional advisers, and Revenue or other authorities where required by law.
6. International transfers
Some of our service providers may store data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, we make sure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as an EU adequacy decision or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
7. How long we keep your information
- Enquiries that do not proceed: kept for up to 24 months, then deleted.
- Client and project records: kept for as long as needed to meet our contractual, warranty, tax and legal obligations, typically up to 7 years after the project is completed, and longer where required by law.
8. Your rights
Under GDPR you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Ask us to delete your data, where there is no reason for us to keep it.
- Restrict or object to how we process your data.
- Receive your data in a portable format.
- Withdraw your consent at any time, where processing is based on consent.
To exercise any of these rights, email info@designroomconstruction.ie. We will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission at www.dataprotection.ie.
9. Cookies
Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to make the site work and to understand how it is used.
- Essential cookies: needed for the website to function and for security. These cannot be switched off.
- Analytics cookies: help us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it.
- Third-party content: embedded YouTube videos, Google Maps and our WhatsApp chat may set their own cookies when you interact with them.
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.
10. Security
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse and unauthorised access. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us online.
11. Links to other websites
Our website may link to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices, so please read their privacy policies.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date it was last updated.
