Policies and Terms

Welcome to the www.edcengineers.com website terms and conditions for use (“Terms of Use”). These Terms of Use together with our Privacy Policy govern your use of this Website and by accessing and using this Website you are acting in a way to signify your agreement to be bound by everything set out in those documents. 

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. does not warrant that the materials contained on this site will be error free, nor free of viruses, or other harmful matter.

Any reference to a linked site or third party by name does not constitute or imply its endorsement by us and you assume all risk with respect to its use. EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. accepts no responsibility for the content of any external site that links to or from our site and those other sites may collect information about you.

You agree to use this site for lawful purposes only.

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. is committed to respecting the personal data that you supply to us. We will only use personal information you send us for the purposes for which you provide it. If we wish to use it for any other purpose we will ask you first. We will only hold your information for as long as necessary for these purposes. All employees who may have access to your personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

Whenever personal data is obtained from you, you will have access to information as to how that data will be used. Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of the data we have collected about you, although we may make a charge for this and may require proof of your identity to enable us to do so.

We collect web statistics automatically about your visit to our site. This information is used to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can regularly improve our website. 

The use of our email system may be monitored and communications read in order to secure effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We will treat any personal information by which you can be identified (i.e. name, address, email) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act of 1998.

For matters relating to the collection of data and or privacy, please contact info@edcengineers.com

Please address any requests to: 

EDC HR Department
EDC Head Office.
River House
Blackpool Retail Park
Blackpool, T23 R5TF
Cork Ireland

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. may change this policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 30/04/2018

The Data Protection Act (DPA), Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which is EU wide and far more extensive, seek to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU. It should be noted that GDPR does not apply to information already in the public domain such as Companies House data.

We work primarily in the Building Services Design Industry providing M&E designs, Design & Build and BIM Modelling Services.

We may collect the following information:

• Name and job title
• Contact information, including email address
• Demographic information such as preferences and interests
• Your geolocation

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Responding to queries
• Internal record keeping
• We may use the information to improve our products and services or this website
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided and agreed to be emailed to.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Please read our cookie policy carefully so you know what cookies are used.

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer or device hard drive. Cookies are commonly used to help or personalise the users browsing experience and provide information on how users interact with our site so we can make improvements.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone through the use of Google Analytics. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website and do not collect personal information.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Below is a table of all cookies on this website – their name, type, and purpose:

Cold Fusion

CFID
CFTOKEN

These session cookies, provided by Adobe, perform session tracking required to support site functionalities such as login. See livedocs on Adobe.com for more information about sessions

Google Analytics

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These web analytics cookies, provided by Google Inc., are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

See Cookies Set by Google Analytics and Google Analytics Privacy Overview

What cookies do we use and why?

There are three types of cookies that we may use:

• Required cookies: These are cookies, also known as ‘essential’ or ‘strictly necessary’ cookies, that are required for technical reasons in order for the online Properties and Services to operate. Without these cookies, the online Properties and Services would not be able to function. We want you to understand these required cookies, and why we use them, but we don’t need to get your consent to use them on our online Properties and Services as we use these cookies only to provide you with services or information that you have requested.
• Functional cookies: These cookies may be used to enhance the performance and functionality of our online Properties and Services; to manage your preferences; to analyse and personalize your use of, or to generally help us better understand how, our online Properties and Services are being used. We think that these cookies will improve your experience when using the online Properties and Services but are non-essential to their use. As such, you may disable these cookies as set forth below, however please be aware that, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
• Advertising/ targeting cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. You may disable the use of these cookies as set forth below.

Google Analytics for Display Advertisers

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Re-target a customer with an ad through the GDN (Google Display Network) by placing a cookie on his computer. It is a way to follow-up with people that have already visited our website before.

See Google Analytics for Display Advertisers Policy

HOW TO BLOCK OR REMOVE COOKIES

You can find out more about cookies including how to disable/enable and delete them by visiting aboutcookies.org. You can block most cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the storing of all or some cookies, however, please note that some features will then be unavailable when browsing our website.

Cookies set by the website or service operator are called “first party cookies“. Cookies set by parties other than the website or service operator are called “third party cookies“. Third party cookies typically enable certain third party features or functionality to be provided on or through websites or services (such as, advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise an individual’s computer both when they visit the website or use the service in question and also when they visits certain other websites.

Should you have any queries relating to the use of cookies on this website please do not hesitate to contact us with your inquiry.

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. is committed to the promotion of Health and Safety (H&S) within all of its business activities. EDC regards the continued improvement of H&S performance as a mutual objective of all employees.

Download a copy of this policy here.

EDC is committed to providing a quality service to our clients in the field of Mechanical, Environmental & Electrical Engineering Design. We are also fully committed to operating and continuously improving a quality management system in accordance with the requirements of the International Quality System Standard ISO 9001:2015.

Download a copy of this policy here.

EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. actively promotes inclusion across the practice to enable every individual to reach their full potential. This begins with a fair and inclusive recruitment process which focuses on skills, competencies and experiences in relation to the role.

EDC is proud to have a diverse range of professionals working across all our offices working together to develop innovative solutions to todays issues. 

We are always looking for new talent to join our growing teams.. However, if you’re a recruiter, we’d like to point out that we don’t accept speculative CVs from agencies not already signed up to our preferred supplier list.. We do this to be fair to those agency partners we are working with and to maintain those strong relationships.

In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a CV or candidate without a previously signed agreement, EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of EDC.

If you would like to discuss the possibility of becoming an EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. agency partner, or have an exceptional candidate profile to bring to our attention, please contact us in the first instance and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. recruitment@edcengineers.com

EDC Engineering Design Consultants, EDC Engineering Design Consultants Ltd. ( together referred to as “EDC”, “us” or “we”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. EDC is a personal data controller. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. This notice is aimed at informing you of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, and how long it will be retained for. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) and the local data protection law. 

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES  

We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
• Accurate and kept up to date.
• Maintained only for as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about, i.e. in relation to the recruitment exercise.
• Kept securely and protected against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against loss or destruction using appropriate technical and organisational measures.

THE KIND OF DATA WE HOLD ABOUT YOU  

In connection with your application, we will collect, use and store the following categories of personal data about you:

• The data you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae (CV) and the personal data contained in your covering letter.
• The data you have provided on our application form, including name, title, home/term address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, gender, employment history, qualifications, nationality, visa status, social media accounts, profession, professional memberships, educational achievements, diplomas, transcripts, languages, computer skills, national service completion (if applicable), identification number and any data you provide us during interviews at our premises.
• Any personal data provided to us about you by your referees [ if applicable].

HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?  

We collect personal data about candidates from the following sources:

• You, the candidate.
• Your named referees, from whom we collect the following categories of data: full name, periods of previous employment, performance during previous employment.
• From publicly accessible sources, such as LinkedIn, etc., where we collect your full name, email, work history, and other data included on your profile.

HOW WE WILL USE DATA ABOUT YOU  

We will use the personal data we collect about you to:

• Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role.
• Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
• Keep records related to our hiring processes.
• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to the role since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint a suitable candidate to that role.

We also need to process your personal data to decide whether to enter into a contract with you.

Having received your CV and covering letter and the results from any tests you took, we will then process that data to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is suitable to invite you for an interview. If we decide to call you for an interview, we will use the data you provide to us at the interview to decide whether to offer you the role. If we decide to offer you the role, we may then take up references and/or any other check before confirming your appointment.

If you fail to provide personal data

If you fail to provide personal data when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we may not be able to process your application further. For example, if we require references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further. 

HOW WE USE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA  

We will use your sensitive personal data only in so far as we are permitted by Law to do so :

• We will use data about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during a test or interview.
• We will use data about your nationality or ethnicity, to assess whether a work permit and a visa will be necessary for the role.

AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING  

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making. 

DATA SHARING  

We will only share your personal data with the following third parties for the purposes of processing your application: EDC Hiring Managers and HR Partners. All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Our Current Third Party Service Provider of our Applicant Tracking System is BambooHR 

DATA SECURITY  

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal data on our specific instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so. 

DATA RETENTION  

We will retain your personal data for a period of 12 months after your last application date. We retain your personal data for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. We further retain such personal data in case a similar role becomes vacant for which you will be a fitting candidate. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our data retention policy. 

RIGHTS OF ACCESS, CORRECTION, ERASURE, AND RESTRICTION  

Your rights in connection with personal data

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data corrected.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.

If you want to review, verify or correct your personal data, or if you wish to request erasure of your personal data or object to the processing of your personal data, please send an email to recruitment@edcengineers.com.  

ADDRESS DATA PROTECTION QUERIES  

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal data, please contact our head office +353 21 428 0476 or at privacy@edcengineers.com. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to Irish Data Protection Commission or the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK.