Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 24th September 2026

Invest Wexford (“Invest Wexford”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit our website, contact us, use our services, submit an enquiry, subscribe to communications or otherwise interact with us.

Invest Wexford is a company established in Ireland and, where applicable, processes personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable European and Irish data-protection legislation.

1. Who We Are

The data controller responsible for your personal data is:

Invest Wexford

Address: Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93

Email: economic@wexfordcoco.ie

Telephone: 053 9196360

For privacy or data-protection enquiries, please contact us at:

Email: economic@wexfordcoco.ie

 

Data Protection Officer

Mr Michael Drea

Phone No: 053 91 96260

Email: foi@wexfordcoco.ie

2. What Personal Data We Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

  • Identity information, such as your name, job title and organisation.
  • Contact information, such as your email address and telephone number.
  • Enquiry information, including information you provide when contacting us or requesting information.
  • Communication information, including records of correspondence between you and Invest Wexford.
  • Website and technical information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system and information about how you use our website.
  • Event or registration information, where you register for an event, meeting, webinar or other activity organised or supported by Invest Wexford.
  • Any other information that you voluntarily provide to us.

We will only collect personal data that is relevant and necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We may collect personal data:

  • directly from you when you contact us;
  • when you complete a form on our website;
  • when you register for an event;
  • when you communicate with us by email, telephone or other means;
  • when you use or browse our website;
  • from publicly available sources where this is lawful and appropriate; and
  • from third parties where they are authorised to provide the information to us.

Where we obtain personal data from a source other than you, we will provide the information required by applicable data-protection law.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • responding to enquiries and requests;
  • providing information about Invest Wexford, our activities, services, projects and opportunities;
  • managing our relationship with you;
  • organising and administering events, meetings and other activities;
  • communicating with you about matters relevant to your relationship with Invest Wexford;
  • operating, maintaining and improving our website;
  • understanding how visitors use our website;
  • maintaining the security of our website, systems and information;
  • preventing and detecting fraud, misuse or other unlawful activity;
  • complying with legal and regulatory obligations;
  • establishing, exercising or defending legal claims; and
  • carrying out other purposes that are compatible with the purposes described above or that are otherwise permitted by law.

We will not use your personal data for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected unless permitted or required by applicable law.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

Under the GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal data.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent

Where required, we will process your personal data on the basis of your consent.

For example, we may ask for your consent before sending certain marketing communications or placing certain non-essential cookies on your device.

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.

Contract

We may process personal data where processing is necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you.

Legal Obligation

We may process personal data where processing is necessary for us to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Legitimate interests

We may process personal data where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that those interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Our legitimate interests may include operating and developing our organisation, communicating with stakeholders, maintaining website and information security, administering our activities and protecting our legal rights.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we will consider the impact of the processing on your rights and interests.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies may be used to:

  • enable the website to function properly;
  • remember preferences;
  • understand how visitors use our website;
  • improve website performance;
  • measure website traffic; and
  • support marketing or analytics activities, where applicable.

Where consent is required for a particular cookie or similar technology, we will request your consent before placing or using it.

You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie-consent mechanism or through your browser settings.

For further information, please see our Cookie Policy: https://investwexford.ie/cookie-policy/

7. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share personal data with appropriate third parties where necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

These may include:

  • website hosting and technology providers;
  • IT and cybersecurity providers;
  • email and communications providers;
  • customer relationship management (“CRM”) providers;
  • analytics providers;
  • professional advisers, such as lawyers, accountants and auditors;
  • event and communications providers;
  • government bodies, regulators and public authorities where required or permitted by law; and
  • other service providers acting on our behalf.

Where a third party processes personal data on our behalf, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the processing is subject to appropriate contractual and data-protection safeguards.

We do not sell your personal data.

8. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

We will retain personal data only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including where necessary to satisfy legal, accounting, regulatory or reporting requirements.

The retention period will depend on:

  • the nature of the personal data;
  • the purpose for which it was collected;
  • whether there is an ongoing relationship with you;
  • applicable legal or regulatory requirements; and
  • whether we need to retain the information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Where specific retention periods apply, these may be set out in our internal records-retention policies.

When personal data is no longer required, we will securely delete, destroy or anonymise it where appropriate.

9. Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously.

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access.

These measures may include access controls, authentication procedures, security monitoring, secure storage, encryption where appropriate, staff confidentiality obligations and other appropriate security measures.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. Your Rights Under the GDPR

Subject to applicable legal conditions and exemptions, you have a number of rights under the GDPR.

These may include the right to:

  • access your personal data;
  • rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
  • erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • restriction of processing in certain circumstances;
  • data portability, where applicable;
  • object to certain processing, including direct marketing;
  • withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
  • object to or request safeguards concerning certain forms of automated decision-making and profiling, where applicable.

The GDPR’s rights are set out in Chapter III, and the European Commission confirms that individuals can request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability and, in appropriate circumstances, object to processing.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to conditions or exemptions under applicable law.

11. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of your rights, please contact us using:

Email: economic@wexfordcoco.ie

Postal address: County Hall, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93

Please provide sufficient information to allow us to identify you and understand your request.

We may need to request additional information to verify your identity before responding.

We will normally respond to a valid data-protection request without undue delay and, in general, within one month of receiving the request. This period may be extended by up to a further two months where permitted by the GDPR, taking into account the complexity and number of requests.

12. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we process your personal data, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can investigate and try to resolve your concern.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection supervisory authority in the country where you live, work or believe that an infringement has occurred.

For Invest Wexford, the relevant supervisory authority in Ireland is:

Data Protection Commission (DPC)
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland

Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie/

The GDPR provides individuals with the right to lodge a complaint with a Data Protection Authority.

13. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not generally directed at children.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.

If you believe that a child has provided us with personal data improperly, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.

14. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

We do not currently use your personal data to make decisions based solely o automated processing that produce legal effects or similarly significant effect concerning you.

If this changes, we will provide appropriate information about the processing, includin the logic involved and the potential consequences, and will provide any rights required under applicable data-protection law.

15. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites.

We recommend that you review the privacy policies of any third-party websites that you visit.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, legal requirements or data-processing practices.

When we make significant changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Invest Wexford processes personal data, please contact us:

Invest Wexford
Address: Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93
Email: economic@wexfordcoco.ie
Telephone: 053 9196360

Last updated: 24th September 2026

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