Last Updated: 01/01/2022
dulann respects your right to privacy and take seriously our responsibilities in relation to the processing of personal data. We do not collect or process personal data unnecessarily. We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive information from children.
This privacy notice will come into effect on the 25th May 2018. And applies to any Website, Learning Management System, Contractor Management System, application or service operated by dulann, which references this privacy notice.
Please read this privacy notice carefully as it describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of your personal information.
Who we are
dulann is a limited company incorporated in Ireland with company registration number 528615. Our registered office address is Strandfield Business Park, Kerlogue, Wexford, Co.Wexford, Ireland. This document also applies to products and services provided to you through our network of affiliates, training partners and franchisees.
dulann’s services comply with the EU and Ireland’s Data Protection Act 1998 and 2003 Amendment Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
When it comes to your privacy, we follow 3 main principles
This Privacy Notice also describes dulann’s privacy practices in relation to individuals’ choices regarding use, access, correction and deletion of personal information.
Depending on your relationship with us, we will be what’s known under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) as either the “controller” and/or “processor” of the personal data provided to us or uploaded to the systems we operate.
Where you interact directly with our websites dulann.com, dulannexpress.com or portal.dulann.com, we are both the controller and the processor of your data within the meaning of the GDPR.
Where you interact with a third party who has entered into a contract with us to subscribe to dulann services, we are the processor within the meaning of the GDPR. In this case we collect, hold or process personal information on behalf of someone else.
There are a number of grounds (Lawful Bases) under which we collect and process your data. These are:
Contractual – where we need the information to perform our contractual obligations to you or an external data controller.
Legal – where we are legally required to collect and process your data in connection with any of our services.
Legitimate interest – We may process your information to achieve our identified legitimate interests, while applying appropriate safeguards that protect your privacy.
Consent – where you have given us consent to store and process your data (e.g. to market to you).
Please note: we may process your personal data based on any of the above grounds without your prior knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law. If we process your personal data without your explicit consent, we will notify you of this and will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
We collect information about you and any other party whose details you provide to us when you:
From time to time, a data controller may pass your information to us to process it. We will process this data to fulfill a contractual relationship that we have with them, including producing and communicating to them training records, training certificates etc.
We may also collect your information where you only partially complete and/or abandon any information inputted into our website and/or other online forms and may use this information to contact you to remind you to complete any outstanding information and/or for marketing purposes.
To help keep our databases current and to provide you the most relevant content and experiences, we may combine information provided by you with information from third party sources (such as social media sites), in accordance with applicable law.
We do not collect sensitive information (also known as special categories of information) about you, except when you specifically and knowingly provide it and have consented to this. Examples of sensitive data relates to information concerning an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, or details of criminal offenses, biometric or genetic data.
Providing us with Information about others
If you provide us with personal information about someone else (e.g. when you share personal data with us under a contractual arrangement or when you make a purchase on someone else’s behalf), you are responsible for ensuring that you comply with any obligation and consent obligations under applicable data protection laws in relation to such disclosure. In so far as required by applicable data protection laws, you must ensure that you have provided the required notices and have obtained the individual’s explicit consent to provide us with the information and that you explain to them how we collect, use, disclose and retain their personal information or direct them to read our Privacy Notice.
The impact of this will depend on what information you withhold, but the main impacts may be:
From time to time, we may decide to process your data for a purpose that is different from the original purpose the data was collected for, but only if this is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get information as to how this processing is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at info@dulann.com.
Sharing with other Data Controllers
We may share your personal information with the dulann family of companies for the purposes identified previously. The types of third parties your information may be shared with include, our clients, our resellers, our franchisees and other sales and advertising partners.
Sharing with Data Processors
We will also share your personal information with companies that help us to run our business by processing personal information on behalf of dulann for the purposes identified above. Such companies may include providers of payment processing services, fraud monitoring and prevention, customer relations services, email, social media, and other marketing platforms and service providers, and web hosting services.
Business Partners
From time to time, dulann may partner with other companies to jointly offer products, services, or programs. If you purchase, specifically express interest in, or register for a jointly–offered product, service, or program from or through dulann, we may share the data you have provided in connection with your purchase or your expression of interest with our partner(s).
dulann does not control our business partners’ use of the Data about dulann Customers that we collect, and their use of the information will be in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may opt not to purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly offered product or service.
Other Information Sharing
dulann may also share your personal information:
dulann primarily stores the data we collect from or hold about you in data centres in Ireland. Depending on the service you use, your personal information may be stored on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Blacknight Web Services, dulann’s own servers and/or the servers of other companies we may have contracted to provide services to us. Depending on the service, dulann may transfer your data to servers that are located outside the EU.
We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organizational measures against its unauthorized or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will do our best to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of your information which is transmitted to our website, applications or services or to other website, applications and services via an internet or similar connection. If we have given you (or you have chosen) a password to access certain areas of our websites, applications or services please keep this password safe – we will not share this password with anyone.
If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us at info@dulann.com.
From time to time, we may use your information to contact you with details about our applications, products and services which we feel may be of interest to you.
We may also share your information with our group companies and carefully selected third parties so that they (or we) may contact you with information about their products or services which we feel may be of interest to you.
We or they may wish to contact you for this purpose by telephone, post, SMS or email.
You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. You may also request at any time that we do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. If you wish to exercise these rights, you can do so by sending us an email to info@dulann.com. You can also unsubscribe from any email marketing using the links provided in the emails we send to you.
Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your information for other purposes. In some cases, we are able to send you direct marketing without your consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests. You have the right to opt-out of direct marketing, or profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time.
dulann Emails
Emails we send you may include a technology that tells dulann whether you have received or opened the email or clicked a link in the email. If you do not want us to collect this information, you can request not to be included in our automated processing of your data or to be removed from our database.
MailChimp Emails
We use MailChimp and other email marketing service providers.
Some of our communications may be sent by email using MailChimp. Mailchimp’s servers and offices are located in the USA so if you consent to receive marketing communications from us by email, this means that your personal data may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the USA and you consent to the transfer, storing and processing of your personal data in this way. Mail Chimp participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. A copy of Mailchimp’s privacy policy is published at Mail Chimp’s Legal Policies.
Service Messages
We may send service emails to you as part of our service administration. Service emails can include registration and payment confirmations and emails that provide useful information about how to use a service or feature when you sign up or start using it. This includes email notifications when course certificates and validations are about to or indeed have expired.
We will also send you a service email if we make a fundamental change to the website, or to our terms & conditions that we think we need to make you aware of, or to let you know important information about your account.
dulann’s Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. The information practices or the content of such other Web sites is governed by the privacy statements of such other Web sites. The Company encourages you to review the privacy statements of other Web sites to understand their information practices.
If you are resident in a member state of the EU or in the EEA, and depending on the circumstances of our data collection or processing, you have all or some of the following rights:
If you request a copy of your information, in certain circumstances, you may be required to pay an administrative fee.
If we hold any information about you which is incorrect or if there are any changes to your details, please let us know by so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date.
If you withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information for purposes set out in our Privacy Notice, we may not be able to provide you with access to all or parts of our website, applications, and services.
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. However, we will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Notice. We will always keep an updated version of this Privacy Notice on our website, so please read it when you visit the website (the ‘last updated’ reference tells you when we last updated this Privacy Notice).
Your personal data is backed up on a daily basis. Data Backups are also held in data centres that are located in the EU. Backup servers and data centres are protected by physical barriers and guarded 24/7.
If you follow a link from our website, application or service to another site or service, this Privacy Notice will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of third party sites or services or other data controllers and we encourage you to read the privacy notices appearing on those sites or services.
dulann may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms through the services offered or operated by us. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. dulann is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.
dulann posts a list of customers and testimonials on the Company’s Web sites that contain information such as customer names and titles. Consent has been sought from all individuals concerned prior to publishing their personal information.
This website uses cookies to collect information. Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our websites, applications or services and stored on your device. We use cookies to help us provide you with a personalized service, and to help make our websites, applications and services better for you.
Our cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies that identify and track users within our websites, applications or services which are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our websites, applications or services to “remember” who you are and to remember your preferences within our websites, applications or services which will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service).
Information collected
Some cookies collect information about browsing behavior by people who access this website via the same computer or device. This includes information about pages viewed and the customer journey around a website. We do not, however, use cookies to collect or record information on users´ names, addresses or other contact details. We are able to use cookies to monitor individual user browsing behavior, however, third parties are not able to identify users using cookies.
If you use our live chat
We use Parker Software’s WhosOn product to supply live chat, which we use to handle customer enquiries in real time. We will collect the name you provide, company name (optional), email address (optional) and the contents of your live chat session. This information will be retained for a maximum of 7 years and will not be shared with any other organization. You can receive a copy of your chat transcript if you provide your e-mail address at the end of the session.
Who sets the cookies
The cookies stored on your computer or other device when you access this website are set by dulann.
Cookies may also be set by third parties who participate with us in affiliate marketing programmes. None of these third parties collect any personal data from which they would be able to identify individual customers.
How can I control what cookies are set
By using our services, you consent to having the above cookies stored on your computer or device.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit All About Cookies.
Please note that if you choose to disable any or all of the cookies set by this website, some website functionality may no longer be available to you.
We will retain your personal information for the duration of our business relationship and afterwards for as long as is necessary and relevant for our legitimate business purposes, in accordance with the dulann Data Retention, Marking and Destruction Policy or as otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Where we no longer need your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner (without further notice to you).
Should you request deletion of your data, where we are legally allowed, we will delete your personal information as soon as possible after we receive your request. Please note that in certain circumstances we may not be able to delete your data, even when you request this. In any case, we will respond to your request within 30 days.
If you have any queries about how we treat your information, the contents of this Privacy Notice, your rights under local law, how to update your records or how to obtain a copy of the information that we hold about you, please write to us at Strandfield Business Park Kerlogue, Wexford, Co.Wexford, Ireland or send an email to info@dulann.com.