Customer Privacy Policy
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it sets out how Kingspan Holdings (Irl) Limited and its affiliates, (“Kingspan”) use your personal information. This policy applies to personal information we collect and process in the course of our commercial relationship with you as a customer. For information about how we process personal data collected through our websites (including kingspan.com and divisional subdomains), please see our Website Privacy Policy.
At Kingspan, we are committed to processing personal information about our customers in ways that comply with our legal obligations as well as being clear with our customers about what we do with their personal information. We share your concern about the protection of your personal information and are committed to safeguarding your privacy.
We will be the “controller” of the personal information which you provide to us or which we collect from you.
What is personal information?
Personal information is information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This document covers information we collect about you.
Some of the key points of Kingspan’s privacy statement are:
· We will never sell your data to third parties
· We will make it easy for you to manage your information, and you can change your communication preferences at any time
· do use data to help us provide great customer service, which includes tailoring the information we share with you to help ensure that it’s relevant, useful and timely
1. Personal information that we collect
During your dealings and interaction with Kingspan we process personal information to allow us to complete our service and commitment to you as a customer.
The types of personal information we may process include, but are not limited to:
· Identification data e.g. name
· Contact details e.g. postal address, telephone/email, job title, company name, company type, your role
· Project details e.g. project name, project address, project type, size of opportunity
· Website usage data - for more detail on how we process data collected through our websites, please see our Website Privacy Notice Marketing preferences and communication with you for marketing purposes as well as information we infer when we combine information to determine how best to interact with you (please see our email marketing privacy notice)
· Surveys you have completed
· Any other personal information that you choose to provide to us when you complete our online contact forms or otherwise contact us
There may also be situations where we collect information that reveals your gender.
2. How we use your personal information
· We use your personal information as follows:
· To comply with our legal obligations;
· To investigate and respond to potential violations of law or of our website policies as well as to potential breaches of our or relevant third parties’ systems and networks;
· To identify you and communicate with you;
· To keep internal records;
· To develop products and services; occasionally we may contact you with service and product surveys. We may contact your company and individuals within your company to complete a survey.
· To fulfil your requests and answer your queries or complaints;
· For market research and to assess marketing strategies and campaigns;
· If you already are a customer or other contact of ours, to update our information about our contact with you on our customer relationship management system;
· To deliver our own products and services to you;
· To market our own products and services to you; through means such as newsletters and invitations to events; and
· You acknowledge and confirm your acceptance for Kingspan to process your personal data for the purposes listed above.
The Kingspan entity that you deal with commercially will be the data controller for the processing described in this notice. Kingspan Group and each Kingspan affiliate are separate, independent data controllers. If you are unsure which Kingspan entity is your data controller, please contact us using the details in Section 11 below
3. Marketing
We would like to provide you with information about Kingspan’s products and services, and other information from Kingspan, which we think you may find interesting. We may send you such information by post, email, and/or telephone if you agree we can or unless you have asked us not to do so (see below).
We do not provide your personal information to external organisations (i.e. to contractors, merchants, distributors and retailers, which are outside of Kingspan) for their own direct marketing in relation to Kingspan products and services without your explicit consent.
If at any time you do not want your information used for direct marketing purposes by a Kingspan company, please contact the relevant Kingspan company from which you have received marketing so that they can unsubscribe you from their marketing lists. If you have received email marketing from a Kingspan company and decide that you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from them, you will be able to opt out of receiving further email marketing from them by following an unsubscribe link in the email, or by such other means as we may communicate to you, including but not limited to telephone and post.
Please note that as we do not as a group operate a global marketing database which means we are unable to unsubscribe you from marketing from all Kingspan companies centrally.
For information about cookies, retargeting and other online marketing activities, please see our Website Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
4. How we share your personal information
In addition, we may share your personal information with:
· Third party providers in order for us to process payments that are due to us, in doing so we provide bank card details to such providers;
· Licensed credit reference agencies, debt collection agencies and lawyers when we carry out credit checks, to report on your payment performance and/or or seek to recover debts due to us;
· Our accountants, auditors, lawyers or similar advisers when we ask them to provide us with professional advice;
· Emergency services in the event that we need to report accidents or incidents or request emergency assistance;
· Any Government Department, public body or other third party where we believe in good faith that the law requires this; in the interests of public health and safety; or in order to protect the rights, property, or safety of Kingspan, its employees or others;
· Kingspan Holdings (Ireland) Limited and its affiliates (including Kingspan Group entities and business divisions) may share your personal data with each other where necessary to fulfil our obligations to you or for internal administrative purposes. All such sharing is subject to our data protection policies;
· We may transfer your personal data to Kingspan group companies and service providers outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom. Where the destination country is not subject to an adequacy decision, we use appropriate safeguards;
· We may use artificial intelligence (AI) to support our services, but we do not train or fine‑tune our models using personal data. Where AI is used, we apply data minimisation and anonymisation and appropriate safeguards to prevent personal data from being used to develop or improve models;
5. How long we keep your personal information
We retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information is collected, taking into account, but not limited to, any legal obligations we have to retain data for certain periods of time, in order to fulfill warranty/product guarantee obligations. Thereafter we will erase your information securely once it is no longer needed.
6. Legal basis for processing personal information
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Mostly, however, we process contacts information for our legitimate business interests in the context of providing or receiving services to customer or from our service providers or in the case of partners, for the collaboration or partnership. If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on anything other than our legitimate interests, we will make clear to you at the relevant time. For example, if we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “Contact us” heading below.
7. Security
Kingspan is 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 where relevant to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
8. Your rights
You have the right to be informed that we hold your personal data, the right of access to that data we hold, the right to rectification of any errors in that data, the right to erasure, sometimes referred to the right to be forgotten, the right to restrict how we process your data, the right to data portability and the right to object to how we process your data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact the Kingspan entity you deal with commercially, or contact Kingspan Group using the details in Section 11 and we will direct your request to the relevant data controller
These rights can be exercised at any time. They are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions and/or qualifications.
9. About Us
Kingspan Holdings (Ireland) Limited ("Kingspan Group") and its affiliates operate globally. The Kingspan entity that you deal with commercially will be the data controller for your personal information under this notice. Kingspan's business divisions may also process your data where relevant to your commercial relationship.
For information about how we process personal data collected through our websites, please see our Website Privacy Policy.
10. Updating this notice
We review our privacy practices from time to time. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page for updates to our Privacy Notice
11. Contact us
For further information regarding these rights, about this Privacy Policy generally or to make a complaint please contact us by calling +353 429698000. A list of Kingspan data controllers and their contact details can be found here. This notice was updated April 2026.
Before assessing your request, we may request additional information in order to identify you. If you do not provide the requested information and, as a result, we are not in a position to identify you, we may refuse to action your request.