Last Updated: 2022-11-18
This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) sets out how TBWA Dublin processes your personal data in connection with agency Services, including the provision of our website at https://tbwa-dublin.com/ (“Site”) and the services we offer (“Services”).
In particular, this Privacy Notice explains our approach to any personal data that we might collect from you (i) when you use our Site or Services (ii) during any other interactions with us, or (iii) which we might otherwise process when providing Services to our clients (including the personal data we collect, why we collected it and your rights in respect of our processing of your personal data).
This Privacy Notice is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Site and our Services. Please take a moment to read and understand this Privacy Notice. It is intended to be read in conjunction with our Terms of Use and Cookie Notice.
Finally, this Privacy Notice is intended to meet the requirements of the Regulation (EU) 2016/79 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (known as “GDPR”), as well as the “UK GDPR” (as defined in the UK Data Protection Act 2018). When we say GDPR, we mean both the EU and UK versions.
This Privacy Notice only applies to the use of your personal data obtained by us, whether from you directly or from a third party. It does not apply to personal data collected by third parties during your communications with those third parties or your use of their products or services (for example, where you follow links on our Site to third party websites over which we have no control).
Further, this Privacy Notice is not intended to cover the processing of workplace personal data. Accordingly, if you are engaged as a worker for us, please see our Workplace Privacy Notice which sets out further information about how we may process your personal data in connection with your employment and/or engagement.
We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect any changes or proposed changes to our use of your personal data, or to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We may notify you by email of any significant changes to this Privacy Notice, but we encourage you to review this Privacy Notice periodically to keep up to date on how we use your personal data. If we update this Privacy Notice, we will update the effective date at the top of the page.
The Site and Services are made available by Cawley Nea Ltd t/a TBWA Dublin (“TBWA Dublin”, “we”, “us, “our”). TBWA Dublin is the data controller responsible for your personal data. TBWA Dublin is an Irish company (No: 184272) with its registered office at 41a Blackberry Lane, Dublin 6, Rathmines, DUblin, D06A2H1, Ireland.
For the purpose of this Privacy Notice and the GDPR, unless we state otherwise we shall be considered a data controller of your personal data in connection with use cases identified in this Privacy Notice.
Please note that in many cases where we process data in relation to Services that we provide, we may carry out the activities referred to in this Privacy Notice in our capacity as a data processor acting on behalf of our clients. We have made this distinction clear in the Privacy Notice.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or want to exercise your rights as a data subject set out in this Privacy Notice, you can contact us using the following methods:
| Send us an email at: hello.dublin @ tbwa.com | |
| Post | Write to us at: Kodak Building, Blackberry Lane, Dublin 6, Ireland |
| Telephone | Call us on: +353 1 496 6020 |
When we talk about personal data we mean any information which relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Individuals might be identified by reference to a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (such as an IP address) or to other factors that are specific to them, such as their physical appearance. Categories of personal data we may collect and process about you include:
| Identity Data | First name; last name |
| Contact Data | Delivery address; billing address; email address; telephone number; social media handle |
| Applicant Data | Date of birth; gender; country; nationality; CVs, work experience; any other personal data that you may provide in advance of/during your supply of services to us. Image Data Photos; video recordings |
| Image Data | Photos; video recordings |
| Financial Data | Bank account details; partial payment card details |
| Transaction Data | Details about payments made between you and us; details of services purchased from us |
| Profile Data | Interests and preferences; contact preferences; whether you have participated in any promotions or competitions; feedback and survey responses; the content of any messaging you send using any Enquiry Form or Chat function on the Site |
| Behavioural Data | Data relating to your browsing activity, obtained through the use of cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies; information about when your current or previous sessions started; details about any services you viewed or purchased through the Site |
| Technical Data | IP address; browser type and operating system; geolocation, to ensure we’re showing you the correct notices and information; any other unique numbers assigned to a device. Marketing and Communications Data Marketing preferences; service communication preferences. Publicly Available Data Information about articles (or similar) that you may have published; Information about your interests or affiliations or publicly stated positions on political matter, corporate matters and similar |
| Marketing and Communications Data | Marketing preferences; service communication preferences |
| Publicly Available Data | Information about articles (or similar) that you may have published; Information about your interests or affiliations or publicly stated positions on political matter, corporate matters and similar |
For more information about the personal data we collect please refer to section ‘HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA’ below.
We may collect and receive your personal data using different methods:
| Personal data you provide to us | You may give us your personal data directly, for example, when you obtain services via our Site, contact us with enquiries, complete forms on our Site, subscribe to receive our marketing communications or provide feedback to us |
| Personal data we collect using cookies and other similar technologies | When you access and use our Site, we will collect certain Behavioural Data and Technical Data. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies (see the “website insight and analysis” section below) |
| Personal data received from third parties | We may receive personal data about you from third parties. Such third parties may include analytics providers, data brokers, third party directories and third parties that provide technical services to us so that we can provide our Site and our Services |
| Publicly available personal data | From time to time, we may collect personal data about you (Identity Data, Contact Data, or Publicly Available Data) that is contained in publicly available sources (including open source data sets or media reports) or that you or a third party may otherwise make publicly available (for example through speeches at events or publishing articles or other news stories or posts on social media platforms) |
We collect and process personal data from the following people:
| Site visitors | We will collect and process your personal data in connection with your interaction with us and our Site |
| People who contact us with enquiries | If you contact us with an enquiry through our Site, submit a complaint or provide any feedback to us in our surveys and feedback forms, we will collect and process your personal data in connection with your interaction with us and our Site |
| Client personnel | We may collect and process your personal data in connection with the supply of services to you and/or your organization |
| Talent | If you supply services and/or content to us and/or work with us to provide services to our client (including featuring in content we produce), we may collect or process your personal data, such as your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, CVs in connection with such supply of services and/or content to us and our clients |
| Partner/supplier personnel | If you (or your organisation) supply products or services to us or otherwise partner with us, we may collect and process your personal data in connection with our receipt of those products and services and/or partnership. This may include personal data included in any email or telephone communications or recorded on any document relating to an order for the products or services, such as your Contact Data |
| Visitors to our offices, studios, production sites | If you attend one of our physical offices or other locations, we may process personal data that you volunteer in connection with your visit and any enquiries you make. For example, you may volunteer personal data when signing in as a guest, or when you register for and access our guest Wi-Fi network at our premises. CCTV footage may also be collected for security purposes |
| Event attendees | If you attend one of our events, we will process personal data about you in connection with your attendance at the event. For example, we may ask you to complete a registration or feedback form, or other documents relating to the event |
| Job applicants | If you apply for a job with us, whether through the Site or otherwise, we will collect and process your personal data in connection with your application |
| Members of the public | We may process your data in connection with the provision of the Services to our clients |
A: OPERATION OF SITE, PROVISION OF SERVICES AND MARKETING
I. Operation of the Site
If you browse our Site
When you browse our Site, we collect and process Behavioural Data and Technical Data to help us understand how you are using and navigating our Site. We do this so that we can better understand which parts of our Site are more or less popular and improve the structure and navigation of our Site.
Our legal basis for processing
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you for the Services, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we provide access to our Site in a secure and effective way and so that we can make improvements to our Site.
Website insight and analysis
We and our third-party partners use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and other similar technologies (which we generically refer to as “Cookies”) to collect data from the devices that you use to access our Site. The data that is collected includes Behavioural Data and Technical Data, and certain Profile Data. Please see our Cookie Notice for further information, including details of our third-party partners.
We and our third-party partners use this data to analyse how you use our Site and our Services and the effectiveness of our Site and Services, including:
Our legal basis for processing
Where your data is collected through the use of non-essential cookies, we rely on consent to collect your personal data and for the onward processing purpose. Please see our Cookie Notice for further details.
In certain circumstances, we may rely on another lawful basis when we use your personal data collected via the use of cookies. For example, where we use personal data collected through the use of analytics cookies to analyse how you use our Site, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal data in such a way to improve our Site and Services.
II. Provision of our Services
Content creation and managing talent
As part of our content creation services to clients, we maintain talent databases which includes Identity Data, Contact Data, Applicant Data and Publicly Available Data as well as biography and personal preferences of individuals we may use for a particular campaign. We use this information for the purpose of selecting talent for a particular campaign and working with that talent. We may obtain this information directly from the individual, via third party recruiters or agents, or publicly available sources.
As part of creating the content featuring the talent, we will process their Image Data as well as Identity and Applicant Data.
Our legal basis for processing
It is in our legitimate interests (or those of our client) to process talent personal data in this way to enable us to provide our services.
Where we process special category data in connection with this purpose that was collected from you directly, we will only do so with your explicit consent. Where we obtain this special category from publicly available sources, we will rely on the fact that the individual made such information manifestly public. Where we do this on behalf of our clients as a data processor, we do not require a legal basis for such processing.
Client data insight and analysis
We may, acting on our own behalf and on behalf of our clients, collect data about you in connection with the provision of our Services to carry out insight and analysis on an anonymised and/or aggregate basis so that we can improve our services and help our client to better understand their own customers’ interests and improve their products/ services. The data that is collected includes Behavioural Data and Technical Data, and certain Profile Data.
Our legal basis for processing
To the extent the above involves personal data, it is in our legitimate interests (or those of our client) to process personal data in this way to enable us to provide our services. Where we do this on behalf of our clients as a data processor, we do not require a legal basis for such processing.
Where your data is collected through the use of non-essential cookies, we rely on consent to collect your personal data and for the onward processing purpose. Please see our Cookie Notice for further details.
Please note that often such services will relate to anonymous data sets (aggregated data sets, statistical data sets and similar) and are used for high-level market analytics or understanding macro consumer habits (amongst other things). When we do this, we and our clients are not processing personal data.
III. Marketing and Media Enquires
Marketing
We may use your Identity Data, Contact Data and Marketing and Communications Data to send you (or the organisation you represent) marketing communications by email or via phone. Our marketing will include press releases and information about us.
Our legal basis for processing
It is in our legitimate interest to use your personal data in this way to ensure the promotion of our services is tailored and/or appealing to you and/or the organisation you work for.
Media and informational inquiries
We may collect personal data (including Identity Data, Contact Data and Publicly Available Data) about journalists, client contacts or industry contacts for interviews requests, for media questions, or requests for information about TBWA Dublin. We may also provide individuals with the opportunity to sign up for newsletters or to receive copies of blogs and other information that we make available. Where an individual signs up to receive such information, Contact Data may be requested in each case, together with details of other personal data that is relevant to these inquiries. This information is used in order to enable us to respond to individual requests or media requests.
Our legal basis for processing
It is in our legitimate interests (and those of our clients) to process personal data in this way to ensure we provide the services requested by our clients in an effective and efficient way and that we provide the right information to those who request it.
B: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FINANCIAL AND LEGAL
Receipt of services
If we have engaged an organisation to provide us or our client with services (for example, IT support or financial advice), we will collect and process your personal data (including Contact and Identity Data) if you are a contact within the relevant organisation in order to manage our relationship or our clients with the organization, to receive services from the organisation and, where relevant, to provide our services to others including our clients.
Our legal basis for processing
It is necessary for us to use personal data in this way to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with the organisation, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we have an effective working relationship with the organisation and are able to provide our services to others in an effective way. Where we do this on behalf of our clients as a data processor, we do not require a legal basis for such processing.
Recruitment
If individuals apply for a job with us or otherwise express an interest in working for us, we will collect contact details and CV or resume information from the individual. We use such personal data for the following purposes: a) to assess the individual’s suitability for any position for which they applied (or future positions for which we think the individual may be suitable) including employment or freelancer positions, summer placements or internships and also any business support or services role whether such application has been received by us online, via email or by hard copy or in person application; b) to take any steps necessary to enter into any contract of employment (or otherwise) with the individual; c) to comply with any regulatory or legal obligations in relation to any such application; and d) to review our equal opportunity profile in accordance with applicable legislation. We do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability or any other basis covered by local legislation.
Our legal basis for processing
Where we use personal data in connection with recruitment and talent management it will be in connection with us entering into a legal contract with them or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we can make the best recruitment and talent management decisions for TBWA Dublin, or it is our legal obligation to use such personal data to comply with any legal obligations imposed upon us. We will not process any special data except where we are able to do so under applicable legislation or with the individual’s explicit consent.
Visiting our premises, studios or production sites
If an individual visits any of our premises, studios and/or production sites we may collect personal data including Identity or Contact Data as part of our sign in process. We may also capture their image on our surveillance camera or CCTV.
If an individual registers as a guest user for free Wi-Fi access at any of our premises, we may collect personal data including Identity and Contact Data as part of the registration process. We may also process Behavioural and Technical Data in connection with any use of this free Wi-Fi service for monitoring and record-keeping purposes, including to identify the source of service requests, optimise and maintain performance of the Wi-Fi service, and investigate and prevent system abuse.
Our legal basis for processing
It is in our legitimate interests to process personal data in this way for security reasons.
Where we process personal data in connection with providing access to our free Wi-Fi service, it is in our legitimate interests to process personal data in this way to provide the service. Where we monitor use of our free Wi-Fi service to ensure proper use of the system, we process personal data for monitoring and record-keeping purposes based on guest user consent.
Business administration, finance, and legal compliance
We may use an individual’s personal data (including Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Transaction Data, Publicly Available Data) for the following business administration and legal compliance purposes:
Our legal basis for processing
Where we use personal data in connection with a business transition, to enforce our legal rights or to protect the rights of third parties, it is in our legitimate interest to do so. For all other purposes described in this section, we will rely on our obligation to comply with law (including any court order) to process such personal data.
We will not process any special (or sensitive) categories of personal data or personal data relating to criminal convictions or offences except where we are able to do so under applicable legislation or with the individual’s explicit consent.
Where we are required by law to collect your personal data, or we need to collect your personal data under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that personal data when we request it, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. This may apply where you do not provide the personal data we need in order to provide the Services you have requested from us or to process an application for employment with us. In this case, we may have to cancel your application or the provision of the relevant Services to you, in which case we will notify you.
We only share personal data with others when we are legally permitted to do so. When we share personal data with others, we put contractual arrangements and security mechanisms in place to protect the personal data shared and to comply with our data protection, confidentiality and security standards and obligations.
We are part of the Omnicom Group of marketing and PR firms and (subject to the above) may share data within Omnicom Group companies, Omnicom Networks, or with our partner agencies. For more information about the Omnicom Group, please see here: Advertising and Marketing Agencies | Omnicom Group
Further (again subject to the above) we may share your personal data with third parties, as set out in the table below. This list is non-exhaustive and there may be circumstances where we need to share personal data with other third parties.
| Our clients | We may share personal data with our clients for the purposes of providing them with Services |
| Our specialist suppliers/partners | We use various specialist suppliers and/or partners in order to provide our services including print, audio, video, media, technology, digital |
| Third-party IT suppliers | We may share personal data with third parties who support us in providing our Site and help provide, run, and manage our internal IT systems. Such third parties may also include, for example, providers of information technology, cloud-based software-as-a-service providers, identity management, website design, hosting and management, data analysis, data back-up, security, and storage services. The servers powering and facilitating that cloud infrastructure are located in secure data centres around the world, and personal data may be stored in any one of them. We may also share your personal data with third-party service providers to assist us with insight analytics. These providers are described in our Cookie Notice |
| Payment providers and banks | We may share personal data with third parties who assist us with our invoicing and/or making/receiving payments |
| Recruitment agencies and related organisations | We may share personal data with external recruiters, third-party providers that undertake background checks on our behalf and other entities within our group of companies for recruitment purposes |
| Auditors, lawyers, accountants and other professional advisers | We may share personal data with professional services firms who advise and assist us in relation to the lawful and effective management of our organisation and in relation to any disputes we may become involved in |
| Law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies and bodies | We may share personal data with law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or other third parties as required by, and in accordance with, applicable law or regulation |
| Other third parties | Occasionally, we may receive requests from third parties with authority to obtain disclosure of personal data, such as to check that we are complying with applicable law and regulation, to investigate an alleged crime, or to establish, exercise or defend legal rights. We will only fulfil requests for personal data where we are permitted to do so in accordance with applicable law or regulation |
We may transmit personal data outside the UK and the EEA to certain categories of third parties (as listed above in SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA and more specifically to: (1) our headquarters in New York, USA (“US”); (2) our different offices in the United States and other locations globally; (3) Omnicom Group entities, networks or partners agencies in the United States or in other locations globally.
Non-EEA countries do not have the same data protection laws as the UK and the EEA. In particular, non-EEA countries may not provide the same degree of protection for your personal data, may not give you the same rights in relation to your personal data and may not have a data protection supervisory authority to help you if you have any concerns about the processing of your personal data.
However, when transferring your personal data outside the UK or the EEA, we will ensure that, where required by applicable law, at least one of the following safeguards is implemented: (1) we will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Government or the European Commission; or (2) where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the UK Government or the European Commission referred to as the “Standard Contractual Clauses” or “SSCs” which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK and EU.
To find out more about the SCCs we use, please see: Standard contractual clauses for international transfers | European Commission (europa.eu) or please email us at hello.dublin @ tbwa.com.
Where our use of your personal data requires your consent, you can provide such consent:
Please note that if you specifically consent to additional uses of your personal data, we may use your personal data in a manner consistent with that consent.
We are committed to keeping the personal data you provide to us secure and we have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data under our control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. In addition, all our employees and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal data on our behalf) are obliged to respect the confidentiality of the personal data of all users of our Site and those who purchase our Services.
You have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you under certain circumstances:
Data subjects may exercise these rights verbally or in writing using our contact information provided in the section below entitled “how to contact us” above. We will endeavour to promptly respond to your requests. Where you ask us to provide a copy of your personal data we are legally obliged to respond within one month of such request. If your request is denied, we will inform you about the reasons for denial.
Please note that in order for you to assert these rights, we may need to verify your identity to confirm your right to access your personal data. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. In order to verify your identity, we may need to gather more personal data from you than we currently have.
To opt-out of any future promotional or marketing communications or any other commercial communications from us, you should send a request to us at the contact information in the section entitled “how to contact us” above.
This Site contains links to third party websites and services. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Site to another website or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Notice no longer applies to these third-party websites and third-party service providers unless we are acting as joint controllers in respect of your personal data with such third party.
Your browsing and interaction on any other websites, or your dealings with any other third-party service provider, is subject to that website’s or third-party service provider’s own rules and policies. We do not monitor, control, or endorse the privacy practices of any third parties.
We retain personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, after which it is deleted from our systems.
If any personal data is only useful for a short period (e.g. for a specific event or marketing campaign or in relation to recruitment), we will delete it at the end of that period. Please note that if you are an unsuccessful candidate we may keep your information for a short period.
If you have opted out of receiving marketing communications from us, we will need to retain certain personal data on a suppression list so that we know not to send you further marketing communications in the future.
Our Site is not intended for use by, or targeted at, minors (individuals under the age of 18) and we do not knowingly collect personal data of minors. However, due to the nature of our organisation and the Services we provide, we may from time to time collect and process personal data relating to minors. If we do collect personal data of minors, we will comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the processing of personal data of minors.
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