We take the safeguarding of your data very seriously. Please read the whole of this statement carefully as it sets out what information we may collect from you, how we may use it and your rights in respect of our use and the key details of our privacy policy.

From time to time, we may need to change our privacy policy because of changes in our organisation, legislation or in our attempts to serve your needs better. We will use reasonable efforts to publish any changes to our privacy statement.

The Sales Coach is responsible for collecting, processing, storing, and safe-keeping personal and other information as part of providing a service and carrying out our regular business activities. We manage personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, implementing the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data8 and EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

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Our Privacy Statement governs any kind of processing where we are acting as a data controller or co-controller (including collection, use, transfer, storage, and deletion) of personally identifiable information (any information that may be used to identify a physical person, and any other information associated therewith) about natural persons. This statement applies to our processing of data collected through any means, actively as well as passively, from persons located anywhere in the world. We are guided by the following principles when processing data:

1. We will only collect data for specific and specified purposes; we will make it clear at the point when we request your information, what we are collecting it for and how we are going to use it;

2. We will not collect data beyond what is necessary to accomplish those purposes; we will minimise the amount of information we collect from you to what we need to deliver the services required;

3. We will collect and use your personal information only if we have sensible business reasons for doing so, such as contacting you with newsletter and relevant offers from time to time and providing you with coaching and mentoring services.

4. We will not use your data for purposes other than those for which it was collected, accepted as stated within our policy, or with your prior consent;

5. We will seek to verify and/or update your data periodically and we will accept requests from you for amendment of the data held;

6. We will apply high technical standards to make our processing of data secure;

7. Except otherwise stated, we will not store data in identifiable form longer than is necessary to accomplish its purpose or as required by law.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

The information we may collect about you could include, but is not limited to:

1. Personal details

2. Financial details

We will collect information from you when:

1. You sign up to a newsletter, mailing list or client services

2. You download an opt-in

3. You join a course or program

4. You contact us for information via our website or social media channels, by phone or email

5. You post on our social media channels, website or blog

6. You work with us in a commercial capacity

We may use the information collected to:

1. Allow you to process a booking for a product, event, or course

2. Create a profile for you on our site

3. Send you our newsletters or provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes

4. Ensure that content from our site is presented to you in the most effective manner

5. Allow you to participate in the service you have chosen to do so

6. Notify you about changes to our service

INFORMATION STORAGE
If you provide us with your email address it will be stored, along with your first name and surname in a fully encrypted instance of the Salesforce.com CRM. You can find out more here: Salesforce Privacy Centre. If you engage with The Sales Coach via a social media channel or 3rd party website, their privacy policies should be understood and will be applied accordingly.

We will never sell or share your personal information with third parties.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides that processing of your data shall only be lawful if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

1. You have consented

2. For the performance of a contract

3. For compliance with a legal obligation which we must perform

4. To protect vital interests of your or another person

5. It is in the public interest

6. It is in the legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party

We collect data for the purposes set out above. Data is managed to ensure that it is either erased from our system when it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected, retained for legal reasons, or minimised and retained.

LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Our site contains links to and from other websites which are operated by individuals and companies over which we have no direct control. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy and terms of use polices. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We advise you to check the policies for third party sites before you submit any personal data to the website.

MARKETING EMAILS
We will make it as easy as we can for you to opt out of unwanted processing, providing it does not restrict our ability to provide you with the primary service you have requested. Please note if you wish to unsubscribe from any marketing emails, you can do so by emailing info@thesalescoach.ie or by clicking the unsubscribe link on the marketing email that was sent to you. It may take 24 hours for this to become effective.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS & TARGETED MARKETING
We use website analytics to provide the best user experience and service to you and to evaluate and improve our site. We utilise third party data analytics service providers Google Analytics to improve our visibility and to monitor website browser behaviour and navigation across our site. These third-party data analytics service providers collect this information on our behalf in accordance with our instructions and in line with their own privacy policies. Our service providers may collect the following data about the way you use our site, which will almost always be anonymised and aggregated before reporting back to us:

1. Number of visitors to our site

2. Pages visited whilst using the site and time spent per page

3. Page interaction information, such as scrolling, clicks and browsing methods

4. Source location and details about where users go when they leave the site

5. Page response times and any download errors

6. Other technical information relating to end user device, such as IP address or browser plug-in

From time to time, we may use the information collected about you to present you with targeted advertisements using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and/or Instagram.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY & FUTURE PROCESSING
We do not intend to process your personal information except for the reasons stated within this privacy notice. If this changes, this privacy notice will be amended and placed on our website at www.thesalescoach.ie

POLICY DETAILS
We continually review our privacy practices and may change our policy and privacy statement from time to time. When we do this an amended privacy statement will be placed on our website at www.thesalescoach.ie This privacy notice was published on September 2023. If you are concerned about how we are collecting, using and/or sharing your personal information, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at info@thesalescoach.ie

COOKIE POLICY

This Site uses cookies; small files of letter and numbers that are automatically placed on your machine – if you agree - to help our Site provide a better user experience. Cookies do not typically include identifying personal information but cookies may also be linked to personal information which is stored about you. We use cookies to retain your user preferences, store information from elements of our Site such as shopping carts, and to provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications such as Google Analytics. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We have no control over third party cookies. In general, cookies should make your browsing experience better. You may prefer to disable cookies for this Site which you can do by disabling cookies in your browser. We suggest following the steps via the ‘Help’ tool of your browser. Please note that if you change your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access some or all of our Site. Except for essential cookies, all cookies expire within a reasonable period of time. Cookies are used to track visits to the website, we use Google Analytics for this service. You can control how your computer accepts cookies by adjusting setting on your own computer. Cookies are used for website and system administration, product & service research and development. You can see Google’s privacy policy with regards to how it uses data collected by Google Analytics here: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

WEB & EMAIL MARKETING

We use email and web forms to collect:

Name
Telephone number
Email address
Role & Company (always optional)

This data is used to contact visitors in response to their queries & follow up queries at a later date and added to our mailing list, from which you can unsubscribe from our Mailing List. The Sales Coach has a strict policy of never giving personal details to any third party, unless expressly requested by the person giving personal details or as requested by the Coach for their accreditation as expressed once under coaching contract.

Opting Out:

If you wish to opt out or have any concerns regarding the data held about you by The Sales Coach please contact us at info@thesalescoach.ie