Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Blue Dot Consulting Ltd. is an Irish company (CRO: 769206), registered in Cork, Ireland. We provide technology, project management, research, and advisory services enabling sustainable infrastructure delivery.

Blue Dot Consulting Ltd. is the data controller for personal data collected through this website. For privacy queries, please contact us.

2. What Data We Collect

We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide through our contact form:

• Full name (required)
• Email address (required)
• Message (required)

We do not collect data automatically through cookies or analytics tools at this time.

3. How We Use Your Data

• To respond to your enquiry
• To provide information about our services
• To improve our website and services

We do not sell your personal data. We do not use your data for advertising.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

• Consent (Article 6(1)(a)) — when you voluntarily submit the contact form. You may withdraw consent at any time.
• Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — to respond to business enquiries and improve our services.

5. Third-Party Processors

Your form submissions are processed by:

• Web3Forms (web3forms.com) — processes form submissions and delivers them to us via email. See Web3Forms Privacy Policy.
• Hosting provider — may log access requests (IP, timestamp) for security purposes.

We do not share personal data with any other third parties unless required by law.

6. Data Retention

• Contact form submissions: retained for up to 2 years, then deleted
• Business correspondence: duration of business relationship plus 7 years

7. International Data Transfers

Web3Forms may process data on servers outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where data is transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards are in place, including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) or reliance on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

8. AI & Automated Processing

Blue Dot Consulting uses AI tools internally for business productivity (e.g., research, drafting, software development). These tools are governed by our internal PII & LLM Usage Policy, which prohibits sending third-party personal data to AI providers that lack a Data Processing Agreement.

No automated decisions are made about you based on your personal data. Your data is not used to train AI models.

9. Your Rights Under GDPR

You have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of your personal data
• Rectification — correct inaccurate data
• Erasure — request deletion (“right to be forgotten”)
• Restriction — restrict processing
• Portability — receive data in a machine-readable format
• Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent — at any time where processing is consent-based

To exercise any right, contact us. We will respond within 30 days.

You may also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission:

10. Cookies

This website does not currently use cookies for analytics or advertising. If we introduce cookies in the future, we will update this policy and implement a consent mechanism.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.