Office of Government Procurement Newsletter: Data Privacy Notice

For the purpose covered by this privacy notice, the data controller is the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation.

Our purpose for processing your personal data is to provide you with news in relation to the Office of Government Procurement generally. The lawful basis we rely on for the processing is your consent in signing up for the newsletter (article 6.1 (a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).

In order to send you our newsletter we require your email address. You may also, at your discretion, provide us with information on the sector you work in so that we can tailor our content more effectively.

We collect the data from you either when you subscribe to the newsletter on our site or provide us with an email address at the time of registration to public procurement events ran by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation.

We use your data to send you our newsletter. We may also gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. We do not share your personal data with third parties.

We keep your data for the purpose of sending you our newsletter for as long as you have not withdrawn your consent or objected to such processing of your data.

Where we rely on your consent to our processing your personal data for sending you the newsletter, you have the right to withdraw your consent. If at any point you want to withdraw your consent or object to the processing, you should either follow the link by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email newsletter or send email to newsletter.subscriptions@ogp.gov.ie If you do that, we will update our records to reflect your wishes.

Other rights you have under the GDPR include:

Access to your personal data (article 15 of the GDPR). Information on how to make a Subject Access Request in respect of your personal data can be found at this web page.
The rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you (article 16 – GDPR)
In certain circumstances, the right to the erasure of your personal data (article 17 of the GDPR)
In certain circumstances, the right to the restriction of the processing of your personal data (article 18 of the GDPR)
Where relevant, the right to data portability (article 20 of the GDPR)

If you are concerned about how personal data is processed for the purposes of this newsletter, please do not hesitate to bring such concerns to our attention. To do so, you can contact the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation’s Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@per.gov.ie

The privacy policy for the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation website can be found on our data protection page.

You can also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. Their contact details are:

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

1800 437 737 / (01) 765 0100

You can contact them electronically through webforms on their website