• Depending on how you use our Site, we may gather and store different types of information about you. We collect personal information through the Site such as your name and email address when you submit it to us for certain products and services. Your contact details are used to deliver any requested services, contact you (if necessary), perform our contractual obligations and maintain our business records. The technical data is used to analyse our Site, ensure its security, improve the functionality of our Site and the quality of our services. We process personal data in the furtherance of the legitimate interests of CRH in maintaining the functionality of our Site and the high standard of our services. Where necessary, we will seek your consent. If you do not share your personal information with us then the functionality of our Site may be affected.

    We also collect information about your computer browser, including the computer’s IP address and a person’s location, browser type, operating system, and the web pages you visit. If you access our website from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier contained in that device. This information allows us to display or format relevant content and services for that device.

  • If you are browsing our Site, we may gather anonymous information about where you are and how you navigate and use our Site (such as pages viewed, session duration, city geographical location). We will use this information to improve the functioning and user-friendliness of the Site and so that we can keep track of traffic on the Site.

  • If you visit the “Contact Us” section of our site and fill in the information requested in the “How can we help you section” we will use your information to deal with your queries and to respond to you. We may store the information you provide for future reference in order to assess how well we provide our service to you and others on an on-going basis.

    If you write to, call or email us, we will use your details to respond to you and will keep a record of your correspondence with us.

  • We may share your information with other CRH entities in order to provide information and services you request from us and in order to improve our services.

    The only third party provider that has access to users’ personal data is our bulk emailing platform provider in connection with the distribution of our news alerts. Users must sign up and confirm they wish to receive such alerts.

    If we send your information to a country that is not in the EEA, we will make sure that your information is properly protected by ensuring there is a proper legal agreement that covers the data transfer.

  • We are committed to keeping your information safe and secure and we employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent loss of or unauthorised access to your information.

    We encrypt any data transferred between the user and the server while also maintaining an industry leading Certificate, Protocol Support, Key Exchange and Cipher Strength.

  • You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

    Right of access: You can contact us any time to find out what information we hold about your or request a copy and a list of purposes for which your personal data is processed;

    Right to rectification: if you feel that our information is inaccurate or incorrect, you can notify us and we will be happy to correct it;

    Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’): you can ask us to erase your personal data from our systems;

    Right to restriction: you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;

    Right to data portability: you can ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and move that personal data to another processor;

    Right to object: you can ask us to stop processing your personal data;

    Right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw your consent where you have provided it previously; and

    Right to complaint: you can submit a complaint regarding our processing of your personal data to your local data protection authority.

    If you wish to request any of the above or if you have a question regarding our use of your personal information, you should complete our Request Form (available here) and submit it to dataprivacy@crh.com (Subject: GDPR) or post it to CRH, Re; GDPR: Stonemason’s Way, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, D16 KH51.”

  • This Site uses cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. Its purpose is to remember information about you, similar to a preference file created by a software application. Cookies perform a number of different functions. Some cookies are essential to deliver our Site and services to you. Cookies can be “persistent”, remaining on your device after you have left the Site or can be “session” cookies that are deleted when you close your internet browser. You can use your browser settings to manage your cookie preferences but please note that in doing so, some functionality of the Site might not be available or might not work as effectively.

    CRH will not personally identify visitors and will not use cookies to contact you. CRH is committed to respecting your privacy at all times.

    Should you have any questions or concerns about how we use your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us as outlined above.

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    Essential Cookies
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    CookieControl90 daysLoads the cookie side-banner for visitors - after the expiry date, visitors will be given the option to review their consent settings.
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    i18next1 yearThe cookie determines the preferred language and country-setting of the visitor. This allows website to show content most relevant to that region or language.

    Third-party cookie required for the embedded Qumu Video Player.
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    In addition to the CRH.com CloudFlare cookie - this CloudFlare cookie is a third-party cookie required for the embedded Qumu Video Player.
    KV_CLIENT_SESSION_ID1 yearThis cookie is associated with Qumu and used to deliver video content on the website.

    Third-party cookie required for the embedded Qumu Video Player.
    Performance Cookies
    _ga2 yearsThis is an auto-generated cookie by Google Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
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    Please note that CRH.com does not undertake any form of online advertising.
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    Please note that CRH.com does not undertake any form of online advertising.
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    Please note that CRH.com does not undertake any form of online advertising.
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    Information is published by us on the Site and where indicated, by certain third parties. We take every care and precaution to ensure that information published on the Site is accurate when posted and regularly updated, but we cannot guarantee its accuracy and we may change the information at any time without notice.

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    The information contained in the Site is not an invitation to invest in the shares, or any other products or services or otherwise deal in these or enter into a contract with CRH or any other company. The information provided should not be relied upon in connection with any investment decision.

    The past performance of CRH or any other company referred to on the Site cannot be relied upon as a guide to its future performance. The price of shares and the income derived from them can go down as well as up and investors may not recoup the amount originally invested.

    Any reference to any product or service which has been or may be provided by CRH or any other company does not amount to a promise that such product or service will be available at any time. Changes to or improvements in such products or services may be made at any time without notice.

    Copyright in these pages is owned by CRH. CRH owns the copyright in the content published on the website except where otherwise indicated by a third party’s proprietary notice. Images, trademarks and brands are also protected by other intellectual property laws and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of their respective owners. Unless specifically prohibited by a notice published on any page, you may make a print copy of such parts of the Site as you may reasonably require for your own personal use provided that any copy has attached to it any relevant proprietary notices and/or disclaimers. All other use is prohibited. Content and information provided by third parties other than CRH is identified clearly where it appears. We publish this content as supplied to us and are not responsible for its accuracy or timeliness. You must take appropriate steps to verify this information before acting upon it.

    We are not responsible for the content of any other Site from which you have accessed the Site or to which you may hyperlink from the Site and cannot be held liable for any loss or damage you incur as a result of your use of any other site from which you hyperlink to or from the Site.

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