Privacy Policy

Comiskey Cars Ltd are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how we will use your personal information and how you can exercise your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data controller and contact information

The data controller is Comiskey Cars Ltd. If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at:

Data Protection Officer
Comiskey Cars Ltd
75 Belfast Road
Newry
Co Down
BT34 1QH

02830 835 541
info@comiskeymotors.co.uk

Purposes and lawful basis for processing personal data

We may collect, process and use your personal data in the course of supplying vehicles, goods and services to you and to manage our relationship with you, in the following ways:

Processed under the lawful basis of Contract:

When you enquire about or purchase a vehicle, goods or services from us, we will collect personal information to enable us to respond to your enquiry and to process and complete your purchase.
When you enquire about purchasing a vehicle on finance, we will collect information to enable third parties to provide finance quotes and agreements.
We collect personal information from you when you apply for a job with us to enable us to contact you and process your application.

Processed under the lawful basis of Legal Obligation:

We collect and process your personal information for producing invoices and accounting purposes which is required to meet HMRC legislation.
We collect personal information from employees to enable us to meet employment law obligations.

Processed under the lawful basis of Consent:

If you have given consent to receive marketing communications from us, we will collect information concerning your marketing preferences and send you communications based on those preferences.

Who we share your personal data with

We do not share your data with any other third parties except:

if you have given your consent.
if it is necessary to enable the provision of third party services you have requested (for example to facilitate warranty, insurance or finance quotes or agreements).
if we are under a duty to comply with any legal obligation.

Third party recipients of your data

Data processors are third parties who provide elements of our business management services for us, who process or store personal data on our behalf. The categories of these recipients are accounting, marketing, software, and website providers.

We have contracts in place with our data processors to ensure they are looking after your data to GDPR standards, which means they cannot use, share or do anything with your personal data unless we have instructed them to do so.

Vehicle documents

Any documents which arrive with a vehicle when it is taken into stock may be shown to any potential buyers and handed to any new owner to ensure the provenance of the vehicle.

Retention periods

Unless otherwise listed below, your personal data will be kept for a period of 7 years in order to comply with HMRC requirements.

Personal data processed under consent will be kept for as long as you consent to its processing. We will seek to refresh your consent at appropriate intervals.

Your rights in regard to your personal data

You have a number of rights in regard to your personal data. These include the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of personal data we hold, or restriction of processing concerning your data, or to object to the processing as well as the right of data portability. If you wish to make any such requests please contact us in writing using the contact details at the top of this page.

Right to withdraw consent

Where we have processed your personal data on the lawful basis of consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to complain

Our aim is to provide you with excellent customer service. Occasionally, we may fail to meet your expectations, mistakes can happen, and when they do, we will try to put things right as quickly as possible. This document tells you about how we deal with any complaints you may have and aims to demonstrate our commitment to customer service.

If you have a complaint

We define a complaint as any expression of dissatisfaction, whether oral or written and whether justified or not. Your complaint will be taken seriously, and we will make every effort to resolve the problem straight away. To help us deal with your complaint as speedily as possible it would be helpful if you could provide us with as much information as possible about the regulated insurance or finance product purchased at an early stage. You can notify us of your complaint through the following channels.

In the first instance, please direct your complaint to:

Complaints Department
Comiskey Cars Ltd
75 Belfast Road, Newry, BT34 1QH

Telephone: 028 3083 5541
Email: info@comiskeymotors.co.uk

If your complaint or dissatisfaction is in relation to Regulated Finance, you can contact below:

ITC Compliance Ltd,
3 Monarch Court, Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7FH

Telephone: 0117 440 3700
Email: complaints@itccompliance.co.uk

If you are still dissatisfied

If you wish to pursue your complaint further, you can contact the Financial Ombudsman Service within six months of receiving a final response. They shall conduct an independent review of your complaint to establish if it should be upheld or rejected. The Financial Ombudsman Service is there to act as impartial adjudicator and is responsible to the Financial Conduct Authority. You can find out more about the service by contacting:

The Financial Ombudsman Service, Exchange Tower, London, E14 9SR.
Tel: 0300 123 9123.

Website: www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Provision of data

In most cases, the provision of your personal data is necessary to enter into a contract with us.

Changes to this policy

We will regularly review this privacy notice and update it where necessary. This policy was last updated in June 2026.