Privacy FAQs

By recording your phone call with Vodafone, you will be collecting the personal data of the employee that you are speaking to and will need to notify them that the call is being recorded.

The employee will have the right (as an individual) to object to your recording of the phone call and may choose not to continue with the call.

Vodafone Ireland is part of the Vodafone Group and we use some services provided to us by other Vodafone companies for performing certain tasks (for example, customer care, administrative functions, and roaming services).

As a result, other Vodafone companies will have access to the personal data that is held by Vodafone Ireland to allow them to complete these tasks.

Vodafone Group ensures that all Vodafone companies maintain the same privacy commitment and that appropriate safeguards are in place. We also maintain intercompany agreements containing the appropriate EU contractual clauses to ensure that your data is protected.

Sometimes Vodafone will use a third party company to perform certain activities on our behalf.

If these activities are required in order to provide the service (example printing and posting your bill), then we have a legitimate business interest and do not require your permission.

If Vodafone is sharing personal data for any purpose where consent is required, we will ensure to respect your preferences.

Vodafone provide a number of choices relating to how your data is used, specifically for marketing, analysis and profiling.

Please visit your My Vodafone account or call 1800 200 234 if you want to check or change your preferences.

If you are not a Vodafone customer, please contact us at 01 2037000 or at  dataprotection.ie@vodafone.com to report any unwanted communications that you have received.

We may need to collect some information from you in order to investigate this, (for example, we may ask for your email address and information on the content of the email received).

You can request a copy of your personal data through your online account, or by contacting Vodafone by phone or in store.

You will receive a response within one month of receipt of your request.

Vodafone record some calls for quality and training purposes. Not all calls are recorded and the person with whom you speak will not be able to confirm if the call is being recorded at the time of the call.

Our sales centres record all calls which will be retained for 24 months from the date of the call for the purpose of recording the details of your contract.

You can request a copy of the call record by making a subject data request in My Vodafone.

We will include any personal data that relates to or identifies you. This will include your personal details and may include, for example, details of account notes, call recordings, live chat scripts, etc.

Please let us know if there is anything in particular that you are looking for in order to speed up your request. This can be done through your account in My Vodafone.

If you feel that you did not receive all the personal data that you expected, please refer to the Privacy Statement where you will find an overview of our data retention schedule giving details of the length of time we retain different types of personal data.

Please contact us if you have any queries about the personal data you have received.

If you are not satisfied, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer at Dataprotection.ie@vodafone.com

If you have an active account with Vodafone, we will be unable to delete your personal data. Vodafone only collect personal data that is necessary to provide you with the service you have requested and to manage your account. We have controls in place to ensure that data is deleted when it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected.

While we need to collect and store your personal data in order to manage your account, we may also use this data for analysis of how you use our products and services, and to send you tailored special offers based on your data. You have choices as to how we use your personal data for these purposes and can change your mind at any time. Your preferences can be changed through on your My Vodafone profile, through the settings on our app or by calling 1800 200 234.

If you decide to cease your service, we will retain your personal data for a reasonable period to allow us to answer any queries you might have after you close your account. We may need to extend this period if we require your data for other purposes, such as recovering any outstanding balances.

You can request to have your personal data deleted through your online account, or by contacting Vodafone by phone or in store. If you do not have an active account, or if you wish to make a request regarding specific information that you would like us to delete please email us at dataprotection.ie@vodafone.com.

You will receive a response within one month of receipt of your request.

You can update your contact information (address, email etc.) using your My Vodafone online account.

If you become aware that Vodafone may have other information that is incorrect or outdated relating to you, you can submit a request to have this rectified by emailing us at dataprotection.ie@vodafone.com.

You will receive a notification of completion of your request within 30 days.

A data portability request will provide you with an electronic file containing the personal data that you have provided to Vodafone.

This will include basic information such as name, address, email address, phone number.

You may send a data access request to obtain copies of your call records, however, this information is also available for you to download from your My Vodafone online account.

If you do send a data access request for call records, you will receive copies of the call details section of your monthly bill.

Pay as you go customers will receive a document with records of calls including time and date, and number dialled.

Vodafone will be able to advise you of the amount of your data allowance used, which will be included on your monthly bill, but do not keep a record of the content of websites you viewed or information you downloaded.

If you have a query on how your data allowance is being used, or you are using a large amount of data and are unsure how this is happening, your handset may provide a breakdown of data usage per application.

If a particular app is using a lot of data, please check the apps settings which may have options to reduce the data consumption.