Privacy & Cookie Policy

Smart Driving Academy is a driving instruction business based in Dublin, Ireland. We are the data controller for any personal data you provide through this website. If you have any questions about how we handle your data, please contact us at info@smartdrivingacademy.ie.

When you submit the booking enquiry form on this website, we collect your full name, phone number, email address, preferred training type, preferred area, and your requested date and time slot. We do not collect or store any payment card details. There is no account registration system on this website.

We use the information you provide solely to respond to your lesson booking request, confirm your appointment and follow up on your training enquiry. We do not sell, rent or share your personal data with any third parties for marketing purposes or any other purpose not described in this policy.

We process your personal data on the legal bases of legitimate interest and contract performance under Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). When you submit a booking form, we have a legitimate interest in processing your details to respond to your request and, if you proceed, to perform the contract for driving instruction services.

Booking enquiry data is retained for up to 12 months from the date of your enquiry, after which it is deleted. If you have completed a course of lessons, we may retain minimal records for up to 2 years for accounting and administrative purposes. You can request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us at info@smartdrivingacademy.ie.

Under GDPR you have the following rights in relation to your personal data: the right to access a copy of your data; the right to have inaccurate data corrected (rectification); the right to have your data deleted (erasure); the right to restrict how we process your data; the right to data portability; and the right to object to processing. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@smartdrivingacademy.ie. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission Ireland at dataprotection.ie.

This website uses only essential functional cookies. We do not use tracking cookies, advertising cookies or analytics cookies. The only value stored in your browser is your cookie consent preference, saved in localStorage under the key sda_cookie_consent. This value is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to any server. No third-party cookies are set by this website.

This website loads fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). When your browser requests a font file, your IP address is shared with Google's servers. Google's privacy policy applies to this data transfer. No other third-party services process your personal data through this website. We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other tracking service.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the way we handle your data, please contact us by email at info@smartdrivingacademy.ie or smartdrivingacademy@icloud.com. You can also call us on 087 394 8102.