Privacy Policy

This Data Protection Notice is issued by Metro Dublin, Block 3, 104 Parkgate Place, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, D08 KX30 . The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the data relating to you that we may collect and use in connection with Metro Dublin and the uses (including disclosures to third parties) we may make of such data.

Metro Dublin is the controller of such personal data. If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer: C. Rabbitt, Metro Dublin, Block 3, 104 Parkgate Place, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, D08 KX30. Email: info@MetroDublin.ie

Personal Data that we Process +

We may collect and process some or all of the following personal data in relation to you in connection with the Scheme: your contact details – e.g. your name, address, telephone number, email address; details in relation to your property including property records (e.g. from the Land Registry and the Registry of Deeds), survey records, photos of the property (both internal and external), property agreements (e.g. legal agreements) and details such as whether you are the property owner or tenant; personal data relating to you in connection with our contacts with you such as via email or postal correspondence, face to face conversations and telephone calls with you; sensitive personal data relating to your health (if you voluntarily provide us with details of any health issues in communications with us); any other personal information that you have provided directly to us, including, for example, through the public consultation process. We may collect the data described above directly from you (e.g. where you contact us with queries in relation to the Scheme) or from public registers such as the Land Registry and the Registry of Deeds.

Purposes of Processing and Legal Basis +

The personal data that is referred to above will be processed for the purposes of: contacting you in order to provide you with updates in relation to the Scheme, including in relation to any development works which might affect you / your property; generally managing our relationship with you; managing issues in relation to properties along the emerging preferred route, including any planning or Health and Safety issues, any complaints, claims or litigation; generally ensuring that the Scheme is managed in accordance with Metro Dublin's functions under statute. Our legal basis for collecting and using this information is that such processing is necessary for us to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and for us to carry out our tasks in the public interest and/or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Further, in the unlikely event that we are required to process any special category of personal data in relation to you (such as data relating to your health) we will do so either on the basis of your consent, if you volunteer the information to us, or on the basis that our processing of such data is necessary and proportionate to the performance of our functions.

If we collect and process such special category of personal data in relation to you, we will retain such data only as long as required, and ensure that it is securely deleted once there is no further need for us to keep it.

In addition, where we contact you with updates and information in relation to the Scheme, we do so on the basis of your consent.

Recipients of Data +

We may disclose your personal data to various recipients in connection with the above purposes, including to: third parties who we engage to provide services to us in connection with the Scheme, such as professional advisers, auditors and outsourced service providers; appropriate public authorities and bodies as requested or required by law. In addition we may, from time to time, be required to disclose your information to our construction contractor in order to ensure that any works that may impact on you or your property are appropriately managed. However, we shall only do so strictly to the extent required for such purposes.

Retention +

We will retain your personal data for the duration of the Scheme and for such a period of time after the Scheme ends as is necessary to comply with our obligations under applicable law and, if relevant, to deal with any claim or dispute that might arise in connection with the Scheme.

Security of Your Information +

Metro Dublin has adopted appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your information from unauthorised access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will also ensure that our agents or third party service providers who process your data are required to keep your data safe and secure.

Your Rights +

You have the following rights, in certain circumstances, in relation to your personal data:

  • the right to access your personal data
  • the right to request the rectification and/or erasure of your personal data
  • the right to restrict the use of your personal data
  • the right to object to the processing of your personal data
  • the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machinereadable format or to require us to transmit that data to another data controller.

In order to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Data Protection Officer at C. Rabbitt, Metro Dublin, Block 3, 104 Parkgate Place, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, D08 KX30. Email: info@MetroDublin.ie

Please contact us at the following email address if your contact details change - info@MetroDublin.ie

Complaints +

If you are dissatisfied with the way we have used your information or addressed your rights, you have the right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner by emailing info@dataprotection.ie

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