Privacy Notice

Last updated 16 June 2026

PlanningLeads compiles construction-lead intelligence from public records and serves it to business customers. This notice explains what personal data we process, why, and the rights you have under the GDPR.

Who we are

PlanningLeads is the data controller for the lead database. Contact us about anything in this notice at privacy@planningleads.ie. Our customers are independent controllers for what they choose to do with a lead after retrieving it.

What we process, and what we don’t

Most of our data is about companies and other registered entities — which is not personal data. Where an applicant is a private individual(for example a homeowner applying for an extension), our policy is deliberately restrictive:

We do not enrich or sell personal phone numbers or email addresses for private individuals.
We classify organisation vs individual fail-safe — anything ambiguous is treated as an individual.
The public planning record (which may name an applicant) is shown only on our highest tier, and exports mask individuals.

Where the data comes from

All from public sources: the national planning system and local-authority registers, the Building Control Management System, An Bord Pleanála, the Companies Registration Office, EU tenders (TED), and public business listings (used only to enrich organisations). Re-used under Ireland’s open-data / PSI licence.

Lawful basis

For organisation data we rely on legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)) — providing business-to-business construction lead intelligence from public records — balanced against the limited impact of processing already-public business information, and the restrictions above for individuals.

Your rights

You can ask us to give you access to, correct, or erase your personal data, and to object to our processing. Email privacy@planningleads.ie. On an erasure or objection request we add you to a permanent suppression list: your personal data and any enriched contact stop being served immediately, everywhere, and survive our weekly data rebuild. You may also complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie).

Retention

Our lead database is rebuilt weekly from the public sources rather than accumulated indefinitely; individual contact details are never stored; and suppression records are kept permanently so a “do-not-process” request always holds.