About Experian

Who are we?

Experian Ireland Limited is part of a group of companies whose parent company, Experian plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN). For more information, visit the Experian group’s website on www.experiangroup.com. The Experian group of companies has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and operational headquarters in Costa Mesa, California and in Nottingham, UK. References to ‘Experian´ in this Privacy Policy are to Experian Ireland Limited. This Privacy Policy sets out the data processing practices carried out by Experian, its holding companies and its subsidiaries (together referred to in this Privacy Policy as “the Experian Group”) through your use of the Experian Ireland Company Reports website at www.experian.ie/ireland-company-reports (“this website”). Your use of this website will include where you browse this website and when you choose to provide information to the Experian Group through this website, for example, by choosing to subscribe to this website.

The word “EXPERIAN”, and the square and dots graphical device in respect of Experian are trade marks of Experian Ireland Limited and/or its associated companies and may be registered in the EU,USAand other countries. The square and dots graphical device is a registered Community design in the EU. All rights reserved.

Experian is responsible for the processing of any personal information you provide to this website and is registered as a data controller in theRepublicofIrelandunder the Data Protection Act 1988 and the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.

Links

This Privacy Policy only covers the processing Experian performs and the services Experian provides though (or connected with) this website. This website may contain links for other offers, information and/or services that we feel you may have an interest in. Any websites other than this website that are within the Experian Group are governed by their respective privacy policies. We would encourage you to review these privacy policies when visiting other websites.

Experian is not responsible for the data policies or procedures or the content of linked websites which are hosted and/or owned by companies outside of the Experian Group.

What is our commitment to you?

All information supplied by you to this website will be used and protected by us in accordance with current data protection law and this Privacy Policy.

Please take a moment to review our Privacy policy. If you have any queries about our Privacy policy or any other aspect of our website or service, please contact us by email at info@experian.ie.

What types of information do we collect about you?

The primary reason we collect personal information about you is to provide you with the products and services that you have requested.

When you choose to provide us with information through your use of this Website (for example, when you register to subscribe to the this Website, or you contact us via this website), then we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address and/or billing information (such as credit card (or other payment card) information), depending on the activity you have selected.

How do we use or share this information?
The types of information we collect, and the primary purposes for which it is collected are:

•Your name, email address, telephone number, company name and postal address

•Billing information, such as PO number (if you are paying by invoice) or credit card (or other payment card) number, and your name and billing address, is required to process the payment for the products and services you order from us. (Please note, we use third party payment processors and merchant account providers who perform payment processing services on our behalf for all services you can pay for in connection with this website. Experian requires these third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and requires that they use your data only in connection with the services they are performing on our behalf.

In addition to the primary purposes listed above we may also use the information we collect about you for the following secondary purposes:

Purposes relating to this service

• Dealing with your requests and enquiries.

• Maintaining our records and for other administrative purposes.

• Carrying out customer and market/marketing research.

• Tracking activity on this website.

• Protecting our websites and systems against unauthorised access.

• Improving the quality of our service.

IP Addresses and Cookies

Experian does not use cookies or make use of any IP addresses on this website

(Please note, other Experian on-line services available through other Experian websites may use cookies and/or IP addresses. Experian recommends you to always check the privacy policy and the cookies policy of the website you are visiting to understand what data policies and practices that website employs.)

Purposes of service improvement

• Experian may use your personal data and information collected as a result of your use of this website to improve its sites and services across the Experian Group. These uses may include performing research and analysis aimed at improving our sites, data, databases, products, services and/or technologies.

Purposes relating to Direct Marketing

• Experian will not use your details as provided to us on this website to direct market to you any other products or services of Experian or third parties.

Do we share your information with third parties?

We may pass your details on to third party organisations under the following circumstances:

• We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform services on our behalf such as credit card processors, merchant account providers or third party payment processors and data may be hosted outside the European Economic Area by such companies. (Where we use such third parties, we shall require they comply strictly with our instructions and use your data only in connection with the services they are performing on our behalf.)

Who are we?

We will hold your personal information collected from this website for as long as you remain a subscribing member of this website.

The only billing information we hold subsequent to completion of any purchase you make from this website is the minimum required for Payment Card Industry compliance, namely the payment card type and the last 4 digits only of the payment card you have used to purchase services from this website.

How do we protect your information?

We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your information. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees, and third parties, who need to know that information to provide products or services to you, or for who you have agreed can have access to your information. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal data.

Experian protects your information over the Internet by using secure web server technologies, which allows web browser programs (such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer) to interact with Experian’s web server via an encrypted session. Experian employs a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection that provides an encrypted connection between your computer and Experian. The 128 bit encrypted connection scrambles ordinary text or data into cyphertext to safeguard sensitive information during its journey across the Internet. The information is decrypted, or put back into a readable format, when it reaches its intended destination. When you visit the website you may move in and out of secured areas. Any time that you are on a part of this website that requires you to insert your personal or billing information, you will be in a secured area.

Data Transfers

Because we operate throughout the world in providing our goods and services, this may involve us transferring your personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area, whose data protection laws do not provide the same level of protection as those in the Republic of Ireland. If we do so, we will ensure that an agreement is in place in which anyone to whom we pass the information agrees to treat it with the same level of protection as if we were dealing with it.

Privacy policy changes

Our Privacy Policy will be reviewed and enhanced from time to time and we encourage you to check this page regularly to see our most up to date policy. You can see from the top of this Privacy policy the date from when it was last amended.

Your rights to access your personal information

You have the right to receive information about the personal data we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee). Please go to www.experian.ie to find out more.