Last updated: 20th April 2022
Bluescope Technologies Ltd. (“Bluescope Technologies”, “we”, “our” or “us”) considers the privacy and protection of its clients’ personal data to be of upmost importance. To ensure that you feel confident about providing us with your personal information when communicating with us and using our services, we outline below our practices in relation to the collection and use of personal data. This policy forms part of our Terms and Conditions of trading.
Through its dealings with you, Bluescope Technologies Ltd. (through its website www.scope.ie and generally) obtains information about you. By using this website and by submitting your personal information to us, you agree to the use of that information by us as set out in this policy. This policy supersedes any earlier version.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation, the data controller is Bluescope Technologies Ltd. Limited, a company registered in Ireland under company number 510934. Our registered office is at Unit 62, Eastlink Business Park, Ballysimon Road, Limerick, V94 WC95. Our VAT number is IE 9825648J.
This policy sets out:
Bluescope Technologies collects the following data:
You generally have the option of not identifying yourself or of using a pseudonym when dealing with us. However, it is not possible where the law or a court order provides otherwise.
You directly provide Bluescope Technologies with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
We may also collect personal information about you by accessing data from other sources and then analysing that data together with the information we already hold about you in order to learn more about your likely preferences and interests.
Bluescope Technologies securely stores your data processed through our website on EU servers (based in Eemshaven, Netherlands). All website data is processed using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate that is encrypted with a SHA256 RSA2048.
Any other information collected by Bluescope Technologies is stored within our Microsoft Office 365 account, with its servers stored in Dublin, Ireland. With Office 365, data is encrypted at rest and in transit, using several strong encryption protocols, and technologies that include Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL), Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
All information stored or sent from a Microsoft account is encrypted using the technologies mentioned above.
We only retain the personal information collected from a user for as long as a user’s account is active. Ad-hoc and/or Managed clients can find their data retention periods within their respective agreements. Personal information gathered from this website will be retained for 12 months or as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes for which we have initially collected it, unless otherwise required by law. We will retain and use information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Bluescope Technologies would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like. This would be performed through:
You have the right at any time to stop Bluescope Technologies from contacting you for marketing purposes.
What are your data protection rights?
Bluescope Technologies would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Bluescope Technologies for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Bluescope Technologies correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Bluescope Technologies to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Bluescope Technologies erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Bluescope Technologies restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Bluescope Technologies’ processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Bluescope Technologies transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: compliance@scope.ie
Call us at: +353 (61) 513290
Or write to us: Unit 62, Eastlink Business Park, Ballysimon Road, Limerick, V94 WC95.
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
We use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies when they advertise on our site, which also send these advertisers (such as Google, through the Google AdSense program) information including the browser you used to visit our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (e.g. showing Dublin real estate to someone in Dublin) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (e.g. showing electronic goods ads to someone who frequently visits electronics sites).
If you have any questions about Bluescope Technologies’ privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: compliance@scope.ie
Call us: +353 (61) 513290
Or write to us at: Unit 62, Eastlink Business Park, Ballysimon Road, Limerick, V94 WC95
