Caravan Hire is the trading name of our business, registered in the Republic of Ireland. Business number 543417.
This privacy policy notice describes how your personal information is collected and used when you visit or make a booking with www.caravanhire.ie. If we provide you with a product or service, we will use your personal information in the ways explained throughout this notice. If you choose not to give us this personal information, it may delay or prevent us from meeting our commitment to you. It may also mean that we cannot provide you with our products and services. This privacy policy is to let you know how we will look after your personal information. This includes the personal information you give us, what we learn by having you as a customer, and the choices you give us about what marketing you want us to send you.
Caravan Hire is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality and will always treat your information as confidential, even when you are no longer a customer.
As well as our Privacy Promise, your privacy is protected by law. Under Data Protection Laws we can only process your personal information where we have a proper reason for doing so. To legally collect your data, we must have one or more of the following reasons,
If you would like to make a request for any of the above, please write to us at info@caravanhire.ie
In line with Data Protection Law, we have one month to respond to your request.
When you visit www.caravanhire.ie, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and information about how you interact with the site. This automatically-collected information is known as ‘Device Information’.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
For further information on cookies, or to learn how to remove them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
When you make contact with us about a product or service you’re interested in, we collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address and phone number. When you make an order with us, we additionally collect documentary data (like copies of driver’s license), transactional information (like payment details to bank accounts, and credit card information), and any information we learn about you from agreed communications with us (emails, conversations, etc).
This information is known as ‘Order Information’.
When we talk about ‘Personal Information’ in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about both Device Information and Order Information.
Once you have given us your consent you can withdraw it at any time, unless there is a legal reason under the Data Protection Laws that allows us to process your information.
Please note that if you do withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you our products or services. If this is so, we will tell you. You can withdraw your consent at any time by getting in touch with us at info@caravanhire.ie.
Most of the data we collect is provided directly by you. We collect and process data when you:
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed with us. Additionally, we use this Order Information to communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising related to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We may share your personal information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the site. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, or to otherwise protect our rights.
We would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we believe may be of interest to you. We may do this by phone, email, or through other digital media where you have given consent to do so. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. You have the right, at any time, to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted by us, please email info@caravanhire.ie.
Please note that this does not include communications involving statements, invoices, and important information such as changes to an existing order.
When you submit an order to Caravan Hire, we need to know your name, home address, e-mail address, telephone number, driving licence details, credit or debit card details. We also need to know details of your travel arrangements, for example, arrival times and we may need to know the location where the caravan will be for the duration of hire.
We gather this information to allow us to process your order and to arrange delivery or collection. The relevant information is then used by us to confirm your order and process your payment and to communicate with you on any matter relating to your order and the provision of the caravan hire in general.
We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a customer of Caravan Hire. After you stop being a customer, we may keep your data for up to 10 years for one of the following reasons:
We may keep your data for longer than 10 years if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will make sure that your privacy is protected and only use it for those purposes.
If you are no longer a customer, and the information is no longer needed, you have the right to ask us to delete this information.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. This privacy policy was last updated on the 6th of November, 2020.
For more information on our privacy practices, if you have any questions, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email: info@caravanhire.ie
Call: 086 036 6953
Should you wish to report a complaint, or if you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioners Office.
Email: info@oic.ie
Call: 01 639 5689
Please ensure that before hire you also read our terms and conditions.