Privacy Notice

1. Who we are

This website is operated by The Diamonte Group Ltd. (“Diamonte”, “we”, “us”), a private advisory practice led by Dr. James Hanners, with correspondence address 15 Seamount Village, Gorey, Ireland Y25-NV30. For any question about this notice or your personal data, contact us at james@daimonte.com. We act as the data controller for the personal data described below.

2. What personal data we collect

When you use the contact form on this website, we collect only what you choose to provide:

• Your name.
• Your email address (required so we can reply).
• Your phone number (optional).
• The subject and area of interest you select.
• The content of your message.

This website does not use analytics, advertising, marketing or profiling cookies, and does not track visitors across other sites. Only strictly necessary technical requests are made to load the page.

3. How we use your data and the legal basis

We use the information you submit solely to read your enquiry, respond to it, and, where relevant, to enter into a confidential advisory conversation with you. The legal bases under Article 6 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are:

• Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — given when you tick the consent box on the contact form.
• Steps taken at your request prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)), where your enquiry concerns a possible engagement.
• Our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) in responding to correspondence addressed to us.

4. How your message is delivered

Contact form submissions are transmitted over an encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) connection and forwarded as an email through Resend (Resend, Inc.), our transactional email provider, to james@daimonte.com. Resend acts as a processor on our behalf and processes the message only to deliver it. Depending on the routing of the email, data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area; where that happens, appropriate safeguards (such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses) apply.

5. Who can see your data

Your enquiry is read by Dr. James Hanners. We do not sell, rent or share your personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may disclose data only where required by law or to protect our legal rights.

6. How long we keep it

We retain enquiry correspondence for as long as needed to handle your request and, where a professional relationship follows, for the duration of that engagement plus a reasonable period afterwards (typically up to 24 months from the last contact) to preserve the context of our exchanges. Where an engagement gives rise to legal or regulatory retention obligations, those longer statutory periods apply. Enquiries that do not lead to further contact are deleted on request or, at the latest, when they cease to be relevant.

7. Your rights under the GDPR

Subject to the conditions set out in the GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15).
• Rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data (Art. 16).
• Erasure (“right to be forgotten”) of your data (Art. 17).
• Restriction of processing in certain cases (Art. 18).
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21).
• Data portability — receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format (Art. 20).
• Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, email james@daimonte.com. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. In Ireland, that is the Data Protection Commission ( www.dataprotection.ie ).

8. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures — including TLS encryption in transit, restricted access to messages, and vetted processors — to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss or alteration. No transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure; you send information at your own risk, though we take our responsibilities seriously.

9. Changes to this notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. The “Last updated” date above indicates when the notice was most recently revised.