Privacy Policy

Dawn Horizon ("Dawn Horizon", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data with care, transparency, and in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018, and related law.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect through our website at dawn-horizon.com, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, and the rights you have over it.

1. Who we are

Dawn Horizon is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy.

• Controller: Dawn Horizon Limited
• Address: 61 Balreask Village, Trim Rd, Balreask Old, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 C7Y2, Ireland
• Email: contact@dawn-horizon.com
• Telephone: +353 87 153 0447

For any question about this policy or about how we handle your personal data, please contact us at contact@dawn-horizon.com.

We have not appointed a statutory Data Protection Officer, as we are not required to. Privacy enquiries are handled directly by Dawn Horizon's leadership.

2. Scope

This policy covers personal data collected through our website and through direct contact with us by email, telephone, our online booking facility, or in the course of providing our advisory, delivery, and training services. It does not cover third-party websites we may link to, such as LinkedIn, which operate under their own privacy policies.

3. The personal data we collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:

• Contact and enquiry data: your name, email address, telephone number, organisation, role, and the content of any message you send us through a contact form, by email, or by telephone.
• Booking data: information you provide when scheduling a consultation through our online appointment facility, such as your name, email address, and any details you choose to share about your enquiry.
• Engagement data: information exchanged in the course of a professional engagement, proposal, or speaking enquiry.
• Limited technical data: when you visit the site, our hosting provider may process basic technical data such as your IP address and browser type, solely to operate and secure the website. We do not use website analytics or tracking technologies.

We do not intentionally collect special categories of personal data through the website, and we ask that you do not send us such data through web forms or email.

4. How we collect your data

We collect personal data when you:

• complete a contact or enquiry form on our website;
• book a consultation through our online scheduling facility;
• contact us by email or telephone;
• engage us for advisory, delivery, or training services.

5. Why we use your data, and our lawful basis

We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so under Article 6 of the GDPR. The main purposes and bases are:

Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests are operating and growing our professional advisory practice and communicating effectively with clients and prospective clients, balanced against your rights and freedoms.

6. Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only where necessary, with:

• Service providers acting on our behalf (processors). We currently use Lovable to host our website, and Google (Gmail and Google Calendar) for email correspondence and for scheduling consultations. These providers process data under our instructions and appropriate contractual safeguards.
• Professional collaborators, where an engagement is delivered jointly and you have been informed, under appropriate confidentiality and data protection terms.
• Regulators, authorities, or advisers, where we are required to do so by law or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

7. Cookies and tracking

We do not use cookies to track you, and we do not use analytics or advertising technologies on our website. Any cookies set are strictly necessary for the website to function and security. We do not build profiles of visitors or monitor your browsing.

8. International transfers

We aim to keep personal data within the European Economic Area wherever possible. Some of our service providers, including our website host (Lovable) and our email and scheduling provider (Google), may process limited personal data outside the EEA. Where that happens, we rely on an appropriate safeguard so that your data continues to receive an equivalent level of protection, such as a European Commission adequacy decision, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, or Standard Contractual Clauses.

9. How long we keep your data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, including to meet legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements.

• Enquiry and contact data that does not lead to an engagement is retained for up to 24 months and then deleted.
• Data relating to a professional engagement is retained for the duration of the engagement and for 7 years afterwards, in line with our legal and professional obligations.

When personal data is no longer required, we securely delete or anonymise it.

10. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you;
• request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
• request erasure of your data in certain circumstances;
• restrict or object to our processing in certain circumstances;
• request portability of data you have provided to us;
• withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent, without affecting prior processing.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@dawn-horizon.com. We will respond within one month, as required by the GDPR. There is normally no charge.

11. How to complain

If you have a concern about how we handle your personal data, we would welcome the opportunity to resolve it directly, so please contact us first. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish supervisory authority:

Data Protection Commission

21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland

Website: www.dataprotection.ie

12. How we protect your data

We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, or disclosure, proportionate to the nature of the data and the risks involved. Governance and information security are central to our work, and we hold ourselves to the standards we advise our clients to meet.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. The current version will always be published on this page, with the "Last updated" date revised accordingly.

14. Contact

Dawn Horizon

Email: contact@dawn-horizon.com

Telephone: +353 87 153 0447

Address: 61 Balreask Village, Trim Rd, Balreask Old, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 C7Y2, Ireland