Last updated: 19 May 2026
Cork Demolitions provides safe, controlled and reliable demolition services for residential, commercial and industrial projects across Cork City and within approximately a 30 km radius.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Cork Demolitions”, “we”, “us” and “our” means:
Business name: Cork Demolitions
Trading as: Blackwater Property Investment
Registered address: 12 Cook Street, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353 87 254 7125
Email: info@corkdemolitions.ie
We are the controller of the personal data we collect and use through our website, enquiries, quotations, projects and customer communications.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you:
visit our website; contact us by phone, email, form or social media; request a quotation or site visit; engage us for demolition-related services; work with us as a supplier, contractor or business partner; or interact with our social media pages, including Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Instagram.
This policy does not apply to third-party websites or platforms. If you click links to social media pages or other third-party websites, their own privacy policies will apply.
We may collect the following types of personal data.
This may include your name, phone number, email address, address, project location, enquiry details and any message or documents you send to us.
Where relevant to a quote or job, we may collect property address, access details, photographs, videos, site notes, project requirements, safety information, planning or permit-related information, waste details, and communications with you or relevant third parties.
This may include quotations, contracts, invoices, payment records, VAT or accounting information, service history, complaint records and correspondence.
When you use our website, we may collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, approximate location, referral source, cookie preferences and analytics information.
If you follow, message, tag, comment on or interact with Cork Demolitions on Facebook, X, LinkedIn or Instagram, we may see your profile name, public profile information and the content of your interaction, depending on your privacy settings and the platform rules.
We use personal data for the following purposes.
| Purpose | Examples | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Responding to enquiries | Replying to calls, emails, contact forms or social media messages | Legitimate interests / steps before entering a contract |
| Providing quotes and site visits | Assessing your project, arranging inspections, preparing estimates | Contract / steps before entering a contract |
| Delivering demolition services | Managing works, access, safety, subcontractors, waste and project communication | Contract / legitimate interests / legal obligations |
| Health, safety and environmental management | Risk assessments, method statements, emergency planning, site safety and legal compliance | Legal obligations / legitimate interests |
| Accounts and administration | Invoicing, payment, bookkeeping, VAT and tax records | Contract / legal obligations |
| Customer support and complaints | Handling queries, disputes, quality issues or insurance matters | Contract / legitimate interests |
| Website operation and security | Keeping the website secure, preventing misuse and improving performance | Legitimate interests |
| Analytics and marketing cookies | Understanding website usage and improving marketing, where consent is required | Consent |
| Marketing communications | Sending updates, service information or promotional content where permitted | Consent / legitimate interests where legally allowed |
| Legal claims and compliance | Protecting our rights, responding to insurers, regulators, professional advisers or authorities | Legal obligations / legitimate interests |
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies. Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website.
We may use the following categories of cookies:
| Cookie type | Purpose | Consent required? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary cookies | To make the website work, remember essential settings and provide security | Usually no |
| Analytics cookies | To understand how visitors use the website and improve performance | Yes, where required |
| Marketing cookies | To support advertising, remarketing or campaign measurement | Yes |
| Social media or embedded content cookies | To enable embedded posts, videos, maps or social media features | Yes, where required |
You can manage cookie preferences through our cookie banner or your browser settings. If non-essential cookies are used, they should not be set unless you give appropriate consent.
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We may share personal data with trusted third parties where necessary and lawful, including:
employees, workers and authorised team members; subcontractors and specialist contractors; skip, recycling, waste and disposal providers; asbestos, engineering, surveying or safety specialists where required; website hosting, IT, email, cloud storage and security providers; analytics, cookie consent and marketing service providers; accountants, bookkeepers, insurers, solicitors and professional advisers; payment providers or banks; local authorities, regulators, emergency services, utility companies or other public bodies where required; and any other party where disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect safety, property or legal rights.
We do not sell your personal data.
Some service providers may store or process data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, we will take steps designed to protect your personal data, such as using appropriate contractual safeguards or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, insurance, safety and dispute-resolution purposes.
Typical retention periods are:
| Data type | Typical retention period |
|---|---|
| General enquiries that do not become projects | Up to 24 months after last contact |
| Quotations and project records | Up to 6 years after project completion, or longer if required for insurance, legal or safety reasons |
| Invoices, tax and accounting records | Usually 6 years, in line with Irish tax record-keeping requirements |
| Health, safety, waste and compliance records | As required by law, contract, insurer or project risk |
| Marketing consent records | Until consent is withdrawn, plus a suppression record where needed |
| Website analytics data | According to the settings of the analytics/cookie tool used |
| Complaint or dispute records | For the duration of the complaint and any relevant limitation period |
Revenue states that business tax records must generally be kept for six years, which is reflected in the accounting retention wording above.
We use reasonable organisational and technical measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure. These may include access controls, password protection, secure storage, staff awareness, data minimisation and appropriate supplier controls.
No website, email system or internet transmission is completely secure. Please avoid sending highly sensitive information unless necessary.
Subject to legal conditions and exemptions, you may have the right to:
access a copy of your personal data; ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data; ask us to delete your personal data; restrict how we use your data; object to certain processing; request data portability; withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.
To exercise your rights, contact us at:
Email: info@corkdemolitions.ie
Phone: +353 87 254 7125
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a data request.
We will only send marketing communications where we have a lawful basis to do so. You can opt out of marketing at any time by contacting us at info@corkdemolitions.ie or using any unsubscribe option provided.
Service-related communications, such as quote updates, booking confirmations, project notices, safety information and invoice reminders, are not marketing and may still be sent where necessary.
We may take project photographs or videos for quoting, project management, safety, record-keeping and quality-control purposes.
We will not intentionally publish photographs that identify a private customer, private address, vehicle registration, person or sensitive site detail without appropriate permission. Where possible, project images used for marketing or portfolio purposes will be edited or selected to avoid unnecessary personal data.
Our services are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children through our website.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our website with a new “last updated” date.
For privacy questions or data requests, contact:
Cork Demolitions
Email: info@corkdemolitions.ie
Phone: +353 87 254 7125
Address: 12 Cook Street, Cork, Ireland