Last updated: 23 September 2026
Summary: Rankdough Digital Ltd runs rankdough.com. We collect the details you send us, basic website usage data, and advertising data from Google, Meta and LinkedIn. We use it to reply to you, deliver our services and measure our marketing. We do not sell your data. You can ask us to see, correct or delete it at any time by emailing info@rankdough.com.
Who controls your data
Rankdough Digital Ltd (trading as Rankdough and Fortunata) controls the personal data described in this policy.
- Registered in Ireland, company number 785905
- Registered address: 10 Ard Breeda, Loughrea, Co. Galway, H62 A611, Ireland
- Email: info@rankdough.com
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer. Our size and activities do not require one. Send any privacy question to the email above.
What personal data we collect
- Contact form: your name, email address and message when you use the form on our contact page.
- Email and calls: your name, email address, job title, company and anything you tell us when you contact us or book a call.
- Website usage: your IP address, browser, device, pages viewed and referring site, collected through cookies and similar technology.
- Advertising data: information about how you interact with our ads on Google, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and LinkedIn, and details you submit through a LinkedIn or Meta lead form.
- Business contact data: work name, job title, company and work email address of people we contact about our services. See “How we contact businesses” below.
- Client data: billing contacts and invoice details for our clients.
We do not ask for special category data (such as health or religion). Please do not send it to us.
Why we use your data and our legal basis
| Purpose | Legal basis (GDPR Article 6) |
|---|---|
| Replying to your enquiry and preparing a proposal or audit | Steps before entering a contract, or our legitimate interest in answering enquiries |
| Delivering services to clients | Performance of a contract |
| Invoicing, bookkeeping and tax records | Legal obligation |
| Analytics and advertising cookies | Your consent |
| Following up leads from LinkedIn or Meta lead forms | Your consent, given when you submit the form |
| Contacting businesses about services relevant to their role | Our legitimate interest in growing our business |
| Keeping our website and systems secure | Our legitimate interest in protecting our business |
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have weighed them against your rights. You can object at any time.
Cookies and tracking on this website
Cookies are small files your browser stores. We use two kinds.
- Essential cookies: WordPress and our site builder use these to make the site work and to stop spam on our forms. They do not need consent.
- Analytics and advertising cookies: we load these through Google Tag Manager. They include Google Analytics 4 and the Meta Pixel. They show us which pages people visit and let us measure and retarget our ads. We only set them if you accept them in our cookie banner.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through our cookie banner settings, or by clearing cookies in your browser. Our site also loads fonts from Google Fonts, which passes your IP address to Google so the fonts can display.
LinkedIn and Meta advertising
We run ads on LinkedIn and on Meta platforms. When you see or click our ads, those platforms process your data under their own privacy policies. They give us aggregated reports, such as the number of clicks, and do not identify you to us.
If you submit a lead form inside LinkedIn or Meta, the platform sends us the details you chose to share, such as your name, email, job title and company. We use them to reply to your request and to follow up about our services. You can ask us to stop at any time.
- LinkedIn privacy policy: linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Meta privacy policy: facebook.com/privacy/policy
- Google privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
How we contact businesses
We sometimes email or message people at companies we think could use our services. We only use work contact details: name, job title, company and work email address.
- We find these details on company websites, professional networks such as LinkedIn, and B2B data providers.
- We keep messages relevant to your role and include a way to opt out in every email.
- If you opt out, we add your address to a suppression list so we never contact you again. We keep only the details needed to honour that request.
Data we handle for our clients
Our clients sometimes give us access to their analytics, search console or website systems. Any personal data in those systems belongs to the client. We process it only on their instructions and under our client agreement. If you are a customer of one of our clients, please contact that business about your data.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell your data. We share it only with service providers who help us run the business:
- Google Workspace (email and documents)
- Bluehost (website hosting)
- Google (Tag Manager, Fonts, Analytics and Ads), Meta and LinkedIn (advertising and measurement)
- Smartlead (business email outreach)
- Our accountant and bank (billing and tax)
We may also disclose data where the law requires it, for example to Revenue or in response to a court order.
International transfers
Some of our providers store data outside the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States. Where that happens, we rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses to protect your data.
How long we keep your data
- Enquiries that do not become clients: 24 months from our last contact
- Client and invoice records: 6 years after the end of the financial year, for tax purposes
- Business outreach contacts: 12 months from our last message, unless you reply
- Opt-out and suppression records: for as long as we send outreach, so we can respect your choice
- Cookie data: see the retention periods in our cookie banner
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- get a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- correct data that is wrong or incomplete
- ask us to delete your data
- ask us to restrict how we use your data
- receive your data in a portable format
- object to our use of your data, including for direct marketing
- withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting earlier processing
Email info@rankdough.com to use any of these rights. We reply within one month. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.
How to complain
Please contact us first so we can put things right. You also have the right to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission:
- Website: dataprotection.ie
- Online form: forms.dataprotection.ie/contact
- Post: Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland
If you live in another EU country or in the UK, you can also contact your local data protection authority.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our tools or practices change. The date at the top shows the latest version.
