Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2 August 2026

Beara Partners respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you:

  • Visit bearapartners.ie

  • Submit an enquiry through the website

  • Contact us directly

  • Subscribe to newsletters or other communications

  • Interact with cookies and analytics technologies used on the website

1. Who we are

Beara Partners provides business consultancy and advisory services, primarily to organisations operating in Ireland.

For data-protection purposes, the data controller is:

Beara Partners
Email: connect@bearapartners.ie

In this policy, “Beara Partners”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the data controller identified above.

2. Personal data we collect

We may collect personal data that you provide directly and certain technical information generated when you use the website.

Information you provide

When you submit an enquiry, contact us or subscribe to our communications, we may collect:

  • Your name

  • Your email address

  • Your telephone number, where provided

  • Your company name

  • Your job title, where provided

  • The contents of your enquiry or message

  • Your newsletter and communication preferences

  • Any other information you choose to provide

Please avoid submitting confidential, sensitive or special-category personal data through the website unless it is necessary and we have agreed to receive it.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, we or our website service providers may collect:

  • Your IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • General geographic location

  • Referring website or source

  • Pages viewed

  • Actions taken on the website

  • Date, time and duration of your visit

  • Cookie identifiers

  • Website performance and diagnostic information

Some of this information is collected through cookies and similar technologies.

3. How we use personal data

We may use your personal data to:

  • Respond to enquiries and requests

  • Understand your business requirements

  • Assess whether our services may be suitable for you or your organisation

  • Arrange meetings or calls

  • Prepare proposals

  • Take steps towards entering into a business relationship

  • Provide consultancy or advisory services

  • Manage client and prospective-client relationships

  • Send newsletters, insights or business updates where you have consented

  • Operate, maintain and secure the website

  • Understand how visitors use the website

  • Improve the website and our services

  • Maintain appropriate business, accounting and administrative records

  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims

  • Meet legal, tax, regulatory and professional obligations

We do not sell your personal data.

4. Legal bases for processing

The legal basis we rely on depends on the reason we are processing your personal data.

Steps taken before entering into a contract

We may process your personal data when you:

  • Enquire about our services

  • Ask us to arrange a meeting

  • Request further information

  • Request a proposal

  • Take other steps towards engaging Beara Partners

Performance of a contract

Where you become a client, we may process your personal data as necessary to:

  • Deliver the agreed services

  • Communicate with you

  • Manage the engagement

  • Administer payments and records

  • Meet our contractual obligations

Legitimate interests

We may process personal data where reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, including:

  • Responding to business enquiries

  • Developing prospective-client relationships

  • Managing our business

  • Improving our services

  • Operating and securing the website

  • Preventing fraud, misuse or security incidents

  • Protecting our business and legal rights

We will consider the potential effect on your interests, rights and freedoms before relying on legitimate interests.

Consent

We rely on your consent where required, including for:

  • Sending newsletters or promotional email communications

  • Placing non-essential analytics cookies on your device

  • Using optional tracking or similar technologies

  • Other processing activities for which consent is appropriate

You can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

Legal obligations

We may process or retain personal data where necessary to comply with:

  • Tax and accounting obligations

  • Regulatory requirements

  • Court orders

  • Law-enforcement requests

  • Other applicable legal obligations

5. Business enquiries

When you submit an enquiry through our website, we use the information you provide to:

  • Review and respond to your message

  • Contact you about the subject of your enquiry

  • Assess whether Beara Partners can assist you

  • Arrange a meeting or consultation

  • Prepare a proposal where appropriate

  • Maintain a record of relevant business communications

Submitting an enquiry does not create a contractual or advisory relationship between you and Beara Partners.

6. Newsletters and marketing communications

Where you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise provide valid consent, we may send you:

  • Business insights

  • Service updates

  • Articles or publications

  • Invitations

  • News from Beara Partners

  • Other relevant professional communications

You can unsubscribe at any time by:

After you unsubscribe, we may retain limited information on a suppression list so that we can respect your preference and avoid sending further marketing communications.

Unsubscribing from marketing will not prevent us from sending necessary administrative, contractual or service-related communications.

7. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can be used to:

  • Enable essential website functions

  • Remember visitor choices

  • Maintain website security

  • Understand how visitors use a website

  • Measure website performance

  • Support embedded or third-party services

Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

Similar technologies, such as pixels, local storage and tracking tags, may perform comparable functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

8. Cookies used on this website

Our website is hosted using Squarespace.

The cookies used on the website may depend on:

  • Squarespace’s website functionality

  • The features enabled on the website

  • Your cookie preferences

  • Analytics services

  • Newsletter or contact-form functionality

  • Embedded content or third-party integrations

The main cookie categories used or potentially used on the website are described below.

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website to operate.

They may be used for:

  • Website security

  • Network management

  • Form functionality

  • Session management

  • Fraud prevention

  • Remembering your cookie preferences

  • Delivering content and website features you request

Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function, they cannot ordinarily be disabled through our cookie-consent tool.

You may be able to block them through your browser, but parts of the website may not operate correctly as a result.

Analytics and performance cookies

With your consent, analytics and performance cookies may be used to help us understand:

  • How many people visit the website

  • How visitors reach the website

  • Which pages are viewed

  • How long visitors spend on particular pages

  • How visitors navigate the website

  • Whether users encounter technical problems

  • How effectively the website is performing

We use this information in aggregated form to evaluate and improve the website and our communications.

Analytics cookies are non-essential and should not be placed on your device unless you consent to them.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies may support additional features and remember choices you make.

These may include:

  • Remembering website preferences

  • Supporting newsletter forms

  • Enabling embedded content

  • Providing enhanced website functionality

Some functional cookies may be essential to a feature you have requested. Others may require your consent.

Third-party and embedded-content cookies

Where the website includes content or services supplied by another organisation, that provider may place cookies or collect technical information.

This may apply to features such as:

  • Embedded videos

  • Maps

  • Scheduling tools

  • Newsletter forms

  • Social-media content

  • External forms

  • Other embedded services

These third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Where such cookies are not strictly necessary, they should remain disabled until you provide consent.

9. Cookie consent

When you first visit the website, you may be presented with a cookie banner or cookie-preference control.

You can use this control to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies

  • Reject non-essential cookies

  • Review cookie categories

  • Manage your preferences

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main content of the website, although some optional or embedded features may not function.

Strictly necessary cookies may be placed without consent where they are required to operate the website or provide a service you have requested.

Accepting or rejecting cookies will not affect your ability to submit a business enquiry through the website, except where a strictly necessary technical function is required to process the form.

10. Changing your cookie preferences

You can withdraw or change your cookie consent at any time by using the Manage Cookies, Cookie Preferences or similar control displayed on the website.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

  • Review stored cookies

  • Delete existing cookies

  • Block all cookies

  • Block third-party cookies

  • Receive a warning before cookies are stored

  • Allow cookies from selected websites only

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the operation of certain website functions.

Deleting cookies may also remove your saved cookie preferences, meaning that you may be asked to make a new selection when you next visit the website.

11. Cookie duration

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration of an individual cookie depends on its purpose and the provider responsible for it.

The cookies and durations applicable to the website may change where:

  • Squarespace updates its services

  • Website functions are added or removed

  • Analytics settings change

  • A third-party integration is enabled or disabled

Where available, further information about active cookie categories can be viewed through the website’s cookie-preference controls.

12. Sharing personal data

We may share personal data with selected organisations where necessary to operate our website and business.

These may include:

  • Website-hosting and technology providers, including Squarespace

  • Business email and productivity providers, including Microsoft

  • Newsletter or email-communication providers

  • Analytics and website-performance providers

  • IT and cybersecurity providers

  • Accountants, solicitors and other professional advisers

  • Contractors and consultants supporting our business

  • Public authorities, regulators or law-enforcement bodies where required

These organisations may act as:

  • Processors handling personal data on our instructions; or

  • Independent data controllers responsible for their own processing activities

Where a service provider processes personal data on our behalf, we expect it to use the information only for agreed purposes and to apply appropriate security and confidentiality measures.

We may also disclose information where necessary in connection with a:

  • Merger

  • Acquisition

  • Business restructuring

  • Sale of assets

  • Financing arrangement

  • Similar corporate transaction

Any such disclosure will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards.

13. International transfers

Some technology and service providers may process or store personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that an appropriate legal transfer mechanism is in place.

Depending on the circumstances, this may include:

  • A European Commission adequacy decision

  • European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses

  • Additional contractual, organisational or technical safeguards

  • Another transfer mechanism permitted by applicable data-protection law

You may contact us for further information about safeguards relevant to your personal data.

14. Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Our general retention approach is as follows:

Business enquiries

Business-enquiry information will ordinarily be retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication, unless:

  • A business relationship develops

  • You ask us to delete it

  • A longer period is reasonably necessary

  • We are required to retain it for legal purposes

Client information

Client records may be retained for the duration of the engagement and afterwards for the period required to meet:

  • Legal obligations

  • Tax and accounting requirements

  • Contractual obligations

  • Insurance requirements

  • Professional responsibilities

  • Legal limitation periods

Newsletter information

Newsletter subscription information will generally be retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent.

Limited information may subsequently be retained on a suppression list to ensure that your preference continues to be respected.

Cookie and analytics information

Cookie and analytics information will be retained according to:

  • The purpose of the cookie

  • The cookie’s configured duration

  • The relevant provider’s settings

  • Your cookie preferences

Legal and compliance records

Information relevant to a dispute, complaint, regulatory matter or legal claim may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

When personal data is no longer required, we may delete or anonymise it.

15. Data security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against:

  • Unauthorised access

  • Accidental loss

  • Misuse

  • Improper disclosure

  • Alteration

  • Destruction

Access to personal data is limited to people and service providers who reasonably require it for the purposes described in this policy.

Although we take reasonable precautions, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

16. Your data-protection rights

Subject to applicable law and certain exemptions, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data

  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data

  • Request deletion of your personal data

  • Request restriction of processing

  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests

  • Object at any time to direct marketing

  • Request the transfer of certain personal data in a portable format

  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

We may need to request information to confirm your identity before acting on a request.

To exercise your rights, contact:

connect@bearapartners.ie

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission.

We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns directly before you submit a complaint.

17. Third-party websites

The website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.

Beara Partners does not control and is not responsible for the:

  • Privacy practices

  • Cookie practices

  • Security

  • Availability

  • Content

of third-party websites.

You should review the privacy and cookie policy of each external website you visit.

18. Children’s personal data

The website and our services are intended for business and professional audiences.

They are not directed towards children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children through the website.

If you believe that a child has submitted personal data to us, please contact us so that we can review the matter and, where appropriate, delete the information.

19. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy and Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to:

  • Our website

  • Our services

  • The technologies we use

  • Our business operations

  • Applicable legal or regulatory requirements

The updated policy will be published on this page, and the “Last updated” date will be revised.

Where a change materially affects how we use personal data or cookies, we may provide an additional notice or request renewed consent where appropriate.

20. Contact us

For questions about this Privacy and Cookie Policy or how Beara Partners handles personal data, contact:

Beara Partners
Email: connect@bearapartners.ie