Privacy Policy

Our Data Protection Officer oversees how CORU collects, uses, shares and protects your information.

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@coru.ie or by writing to them at CORU, Infinity Building, George's Court, George's Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 E98Y, Ireland.

CORU's role is to protect the public through regulating the health and social care professions listed in the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (as amended).

To regulate those professions, CORU will:

• Set the standards that health and social care professionals must meet
• Ensure that the relevant educational bodies deliver qualifications that prepare professionals to provide safe and appropriate care
• Maintain and publish a Register of health and social care professionals who meet our standards
• Ensure that registered professionals keep their skills up to date by promoting continuing professional development
• Run Fitness to Practise hearings into the conduct and competence of a registrant

When CORU processes your personal data, it does so under:

• Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (as amended)
• Statutory Instrument number 8 of 2017, European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2017
• Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016
• National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016
• Social Workers Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Social Care Workers Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Radiographers Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Dietitians Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Occupational Therapists Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Speech and Language Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Optical Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Physiotherapists Registration Board Bye-Laws
• Podiatrists Registration Board
• Data protection act 2018
• GDPR Article 6(1)(c) “processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject”
• GDPR Article 6 (1)(e); “The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller”

CORU may share your personal information with third parties in the following ways:

• We sometimes use agents and service providers to process personal information on our behalf. Where we use agents and service providers to process your personal information, we will ensure that they have adequate security measures in place and are governed by our privacy policies in respect to the use of your personal information.
• We may release your personal information when CORU is required or permitted to do so by law.
• We may release your personal information to others when you have given your consent to that release.

While browsing this website no personal information about you is available to us unless you choose to volunteer it.

This website uses 'cookie' technology. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. You may decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer.

General information such as your IP address, browser version and the number of visitors to the site is used for statistical and analytical purposes. This assists us in providing an efficient and user friendly website and does not reveal any personally identifiable information.

You have the following rights, in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:

• the right to access your personal data;
• the right to request the rectification and/or erasure of your personal data;
• the right to restrict the use of your personal data;
• the right to object to the processing of your personal data;
• the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller; and
• where our processing of your personal data is based on you having provided consent, the right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time by emailing info@coru.ie.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at DPO@coru.ie.

CORU is collecting your responses to this survey for the purpose of gathering views from the public, the profession, and other interested parties on the draft Social Workers Registration Board Approved Qualifications Bye-Law 2026. 

The controller for this data processing activity is CORU and the contact email for general queries is info@coru.ie. The designated Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be contacted at dpo@coru.ie.

The legal basis for this processing is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your participation is entirely voluntary. You may choose to provide your name or contact details, but this is optional and not required to complete the survey.

Your survey responses may be shared with relevant departments within CORU. Summary results may also be published on www.coru.ie in an anonymised format that does not identify individual respondents.

Some metadata related to your survey submission (such as IP address or device information) may be processed and stored by our service provider, SurveyMonkey, on servers located outside the European Union, including in the United States. These transfers are safeguarded by Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and by SurveyMonkey’s certification under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Personal data collected through this survey will be retained for a period of retention period 12 months and will be securely deleted once this period has ended. Anonymised data may be retained for a longer period for reporting or statistical purposes.

You have the right to access your personal data and to know how it is being used. You can also request that we correct inaccurate data or delete your data, where applicable.

You may ask us to limit how your data is used, or to object to certain types of processing, including where your data is used based on your consent.

You also have the right to request that your data be provided to you or another organisation in a portable, machine-readable format.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or to ask a question about how your data is handled, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@coru.ie.

If you are not satisfied with how your data has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission at www.dataprotection.ie.

You can exercise these rights by contacting dpo@coru.ie. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission at www.dataprotection.ie.