Privacy, and Terms of Service – Ireland

Last updated: August 2026

1. Who we are

BreezyCV is a business established in Northern Ireland, UK that provides CV-writing services to jobseekers in Ireland.

The data controller responsible for your personal information is:

Legal name: Thomas Brian Bailie
Trading name: BreezyCV
Email: tom@breezycv.com

“BreezyCV”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the business identified above.

2. Information we collect

Depending on how you use BreezyCV, we may collect:

Your name, email address, telephone number and general location.
Your employment history, education, qualifications, skills and achievements.
Information about the roles, employers and sectors you are targeting.
Job advertisements or job descriptions you send to us.
Your existing CV, cover letter or other documents you upload.
Your responses to our CV questionnaire.
Correspondence, feedback and revision requests.
Order, payment and transaction records.
Technical information needed to operate and protect the website, such as browser, device, security and basic usage data.
Any other information you choose to provide for your CV.

Please do not provide information about another person unless you have their permission and it is genuinely needed for your CV.

3. Sensitive information

A CV does not normally need to include information about health, disability, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, trade-union membership, sexual orientation or other particularly sensitive matters.

Please do not provide this information unless it is genuinely relevant and you want it considered. If processing sensitive information is necessary, we will identify an appropriate lawful basis and, where required, ask for your explicit consent.

Do not include full referee contact details unless we specifically request them.

4. How we use your information

We use your information to:

Assess your request and take steps towards providing a CV-writing service.
Research the roles or sectors you are targeting.
Analyse, structure, write, check and format your CV.
Prepare and provide your preview.
Make requested corrections or agreed revisions.
Deliver your final documents if you decide to purchase them.
Communicate with you about your request or order.
Process payments and maintain transaction records.
Respond to questions, complaints and data-rights requests.
Protect the website and service against fraud, misuse and security threats.
Meet our legal, tax and accounting obligations.

We will not sell your personal information.

We will not use the personal information in your CV or questionnaire to train general-purpose artificial-intelligence models.

5. Our lawful bases

We process personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018 of Ireland.

Depending on the purpose, we rely on the following lawful bases:

Taking steps before entering into a contract and performing a contract
We use the information you provide to prepare the preview you request and, if you purchase the service, to supply your final CV and related services.

Legal obligation
We retain and use certain transaction, accounting and business records where Irish or European Union law requires us to do so.

Legitimate interests
Where appropriate, we use limited personal data to operate and protect our website, prevent misuse, maintain appropriate business records and improve the reliability of our service. Before relying on legitimate interests, we consider whether our interests are outweighed by your rights and interests.

Consent
We rely on consent where it is required, including for optional electronic marketing and certain uses of special-category personal data. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Where we process special-category personal data, we will also identify an appropriate condition under Article 9 GDPR.

6. Use of technology and artificial intelligence

BreezyCV uses technology, which may include artificial-intelligence tools, to help analyse the information you provide, research target roles, organise content and prepare draft wording.

Your information is not submitted to an ordinary public chatbot account.

If every CV receives human review:
A suitably experienced person reviews every CV before the preview is provided. The reviewer checks the document for accuracy, relevance, structure, clarity and natural language. Technology supports the writing process; it does not replace our responsibility for the service.

If the process is not always human-reviewed:
Some stages of the service are automated. You will be told clearly before submitting your information whether your chosen service includes human review.

BreezyCV does not make automated decisions about your eligibility for employment, credit or any other matter producing legal or similarly significant effects.

You remain responsible for checking that your completed CV accurately reflects your experience, qualifications and achievements before sending it to an employer.

7. Service providers and sharing

We use carefully selected service providers to operate BreezyCV. They may process information only as needed to supply their services to us.

We may also disclose information:

To professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
To regulators, courts, law-enforcement bodies or public authorities where required by law.
In connection with a sale or restructuring of the business, subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection measures.

We do not share your CV with recruiters or prospective employers unless you separately ask us to do so.

8. Transfers outside the EEA

Some of our service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred to a country covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, we may rely on that decision.

The European Commission currently recognises the United Kingdom as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred under the GDPR.

Where no adequacy decision applies, we use an appropriate safeguard where required, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. We also assess whether supplementary safeguards are needed for the particular transfer.

You may contact us at hello@breezycv.com for information about the safeguards applying to your personal data.

9. How long we keep information

Our standard retention periods are:

Incomplete questionnaires: 30 days after the last activity.
Completed questionnaires and previews that are not purchased: 90 days after the preview is delivered or the customer declines.
Purchased CV files and related correspondence: 12 months after final delivery, unless a longer support period has been agreed.
Customer-service and complaint records: 12 months after the matter is closed.
Payment, invoice and accounting records: 6 years, or another period required by law.
Website security records: 12 months.

After the relevant period, information is securely deleted or anonymised unless it must be retained for a legal claim, regulatory matter or another documented legal reason.

These periods must be changed if they do not match BreezyCV’s actual systems and deletion procedures.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration and disclosure.

These measures include access controls, multi-factor authentication, encryption, restricted staff access, and provider due diligence.

No internet service can guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a personal-data breach, we will assess it and notify affected individuals and the Information Commissioner’s Office where the law requires us to do so.

11. Customers under 18

BreezyCV services are intended to be purchased by people aged 18 or over.

If a CV is required for someone under 18, a parent or legal guardian must place the request, act as the customer and confirm that they are authorised to provide the young person’s information.

12. Electronic marketing

We send electronic marketing only where we have consent or another lawful basis permitted by Irish and European Union law.

Marketing consent is optional and is not required to request a CV preview or purchase a service.

Every marketing email will provide a straightforward way to unsubscribe. You may also withdraw marketing consent by contacting hello@breezycv.com

Communications that are necessary to prepare or deliver your requested service are service messages, not marketing messages.

13. Cookies and analytics

BreezyCV uses cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to operate and secure the website.

We will ask for consent before placing analytics, advertising or other non-essential cookies on your device. You may refuse non-essential cookies without losing access to the core website.

You can accept, reject or change your preferences using our cookie controls.

14. Your data-protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

Obtain confirmation that we process your personal data and receive a copy of it.
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Ask us to erase personal data.
Ask us to restrict processing.
Object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
Receive certain personal data in a portable format.
Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
Lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.

These rights are subject to the conditions and exemptions contained in applicable law.

To exercise a right, contact hello@breezycv.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

Complaints to the Data Protection Commission

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, you can complain to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission:

Contact the Data Protection Commission

Data Protection Commission
6 Pembroke Row
Dublin 2
D02 X963
Ireland

Telephone: 01 765 0100 or 1800 437 737
Email: info@dataprotection.ie

We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concern first, but you do not have to contact us before exercising your right to complain to the Data Protection Commission.

15. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice when our service, providers or legal obligations change.

The latest version will be published on this page with its revision date. If a change materially affects how we use information already supplied, we will provide additional notice where required.

Terms of Service

Last updated: August 2026

1. About these terms

These terms apply when a consumer in Ireland asks BreezyCV to prepare a CV preview or purchases a CV-writing service through breezycv.ie.

They explain:

What BreezyCV will provide.
What information we need from you.
How the preview and payment process works.
How corrections and revisions are handled.
Your cancellation and statutory consumer rights.

Our legal identity, geographical address and contact information are provided at the beginning of our Privacy Notice.

2. The BreezyCV service

BreezyCV creates personalised CVs using information supplied by each customer.

The description shown for the selected service will state:

What is included.
The total price in euro, including VAT where applicable.
Any optional additional charges.
The expected preview turnaround.
The document formats supplied.
The included correction or revision allowance.

We will not charge an additional fee unless you have been told the amount in advance and expressly agreed to it.

3. The free-preview process

Starting or completing a BreezyCV questionnaire does not oblige you to buy a CV.

The process is:

You provide the information reasonably needed to prepare your CV.
BreezyCV prepares a preview based on that information.
We send you watermarked read-only pdf copy of your CV.
You review the preview and decide whether to purchase the final documents.
If you decline, you owe nothing.
If you accept and pay the displayed price, we provide the final Word and PDF documents without the preview restrictions.

No payment-card details are required to request a preview.

Submitting information authorises BreezyCV to use it to prepare the requested preview, but it does not create an obligation to purchase.

4. Information you provide

The quality and accuracy of the CV depend partly on the information you provide.

You agree to take reasonable care to provide accurate information about:

Employment and dates.
Education and qualifications.
Skills and professional memberships.
Responsibilities and achievements.
Target roles and job requirements.

You must not knowingly provide false or misleading information or material that infringes another person’s rights.

We may ask questions where information is unclear, incomplete or contradictory. A stated delivery period will not begin until we have enough information to proceed.

BreezyCV will not knowingly invent qualifications, employment, achievements or experience.

5. Turnaround

We normally provide the first preview within two working days after receiving all information reasonably required for the selected service.

“Working day” means Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in the Republic of Ireland.

If information is missing, unclear or contradictory, we may contact you before work continues. The stated turnaround will not begin until we have enough information to prepare the CV.

If we cannot meet an expressly agreed deadline, we will tell you as soon as reasonably possible and provide a revised estimate.

If meeting an expressly agreed deadline was essential and we cannot provide the service within that period, you may have the right to cancel the contract and receive any refund required under Irish consumer law.

6. Reviewing the preview

Please check the preview carefully, including:

Names and contact details.
Employment dates and job titles.
Qualifications and memberships.
Achievements, figures and factual claims.
The role or sector being targeted.

If we have misunderstood, omitted or incorrectly stated information you supplied, tell us and we will correct it without charge.

Unlimited reasonable rounds of corrections and wording feedback is included before you make your purchase decision. A revision does not include changing to an entirely different target occupation or adding substantial information that was not included in the original request.

Additional work outside the included revision may require a new quotation. We will tell you before carrying out any chargeable work.

7. Satisfaction and the decision to purchase

The phrase “see your CV before you pay” means that you may review the described preview before deciding whether to buy the unrestricted final documents.

You are free to decline the preview without giving a reason and without paying a fee.

If you decline:

You will not receive an editable or unrestricted version.
You must not remove or attempt to bypass any watermark or preview restriction.
You must not use, publish, submit or reproduce the preview as a finished CV.

If you decide to purchase, the applicable price will be the price shown when you submitted your request, unless you subsequently asked us to provide additional work and agreed a revised price.

8. Payment and delivery

All prices on breezycv.ie are displayed in euro and include VAT where it applies, unless the page clearly states otherwise.

Payment is requested only after you have received the described preview and chosen to purchase the final documents.

Payments are securely processed by STRIPE. BreezyCV does not receive or store your complete payment-card details.

After payment is confirmed, we will supply the final Word and PDF documents to the email address you provided, normally within 12 hours.

Before payment, you will be shown:

The total price
The service and documents included.
Any agreed additional charges.
The delivery arrangements.
The applicable cancellation information.

9. Your right to cancel

You may withdraw your preview request at any time before payment. You will not be charged.

When you purchase a service online, Irish consumer law will generally provide a 14-day cancellation period beginning on the date the service contract is agreed, subject to applicable exceptions.

If you ask BreezyCV to begin or complete the paid service during this cancellation period, we will ask you to expressly request immediate performance.

Where the service is fully performed during the cancellation period, we will also ask you to acknowledge that your cancellation right may end once full performance has taken place.

If you cancel after expressly requesting that a service begin during the cancellation period but before it has been fully performed, you may be required to pay a proportionate amount for the service already supplied, where Irish law permits.

To cancel, you may:

Email hello@breezycv.com; or
Send another clear written statement giving your name, order reference and decision to cancel; or
Use the model cancellation form below.

You do not have to use the model form.

Where a refund is due, we will provide it without undue delay and normally within 14 days after being informed of the cancellation. The refund will ordinarily be made using the original payment method unless another method is expressly agreed.

Nothing in this section limits any right provided by Irish consumer law.

Model cancellation form

To: BreezyCV, hello@breezycv.com or 9 Ballygelagh Road, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland BT221JQ

I give notice that I wish to cancel my contract for the following service:

Service:
Order reference:
Ordered on:
Customer name:
Customer address:
Customer email:
Date:

Signature: Only required if this form is sent on paper.

10. If the service does not conform to the contract

BreezyCV will provide the service:

In accordance with the service description and anything else expressly agreed.
With the necessary skill and reasonable care.
In compliance with applicable law.
Within the agreed period or, if no period was agreed, within a reasonable time.

If the service does not conform to the contract, contact us at [CUSTOMER-SERVICE EMAIL].

Where required under the Consumer Rights Act 2022, we will bring the service into conformity:

Free of charge.
Within a reasonable time.
Without significant inconvenience to you.

Depending on the circumstances, you may instead be entitled to a proportionate reduction in price or to terminate the service contract. This may apply where correction is impossible, is not completed appropriately, the same problem reappears or the lack of conformity is sufficiently serious.

Nothing in these terms restricts a consumer remedy available under Irish law.These remedies are in addition to your statutory consumer rights.

11. Changes of preference

CV writing involves professional choices about wording, order, emphasis and style. A preference for different wording or presentation does not necessarily mean that the service fails to conform to the contract.

However, this provision does not apply where:

BreezyCV introduced a factual error.
Information you supplied was materially misunderstood or omitted.
The CV does not match the agreed service description.
The service was not provided with the necessary skill and reasonable care.
Another requirement of Irish consumer law was not met.

Reasonable corrections and revisions will be handled under the revision policy shown before purchase.

12. No employment guarantee

A professionally written CV can improve the clarity and presentation of an application, but BreezyCV cannot guarantee:

An interview.
A job offer.
Employment within a particular period.
Success with an Applicant Tracking System.
A particular decision by a recruiter or employer.

Recruitment outcomes depend on factors outside our control, including the vacancy, eligibility requirements, the accuracy of the information supplied and the strength of other applicants.

Any examples or customer stories describe individual experiences and are not guarantees of future results.

13. Applicant Tracking Systems

BreezyCV uses straightforward formatting and role-relevant language intended to be readable by commonly used Applicant Tracking Systems.

Different employers configure their systems differently. We therefore do not claim that a CV is guaranteed to pass every automated screening process or achieve a particular ATS score.

14. Your final documents

After payment, you may use and edit the final Word and PDF documents for your own job-search and career purposes.

You may:

Send the documents to employers and recruiters.
Upload them to job-search platforms.
Print them.
Update them as your career develops.

You may not:

Resell the BreezyCV service.
Sell substantially unchanged BreezyCV documents as a commercial template.
Copy or represent BreezyCV’s proprietary systems or internal materials as your own commercial service.

Nothing in this section prevents you from using your own personal information or career history elsewhere.

15. Our responsibility

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.

In particular, these terms do not restrict BreezyCV’s responsibility to:

Supply the service with the necessary skill and reasonable care.
Ensure that the service conforms to its description and the agreed contract.
Provide remedies available under the Consumer Rights Act 2022.
Comply with other rights that cannot legally be excluded.
Accept liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence.

BreezyCV is not responsible for recruitment decisions made by employers or for problems caused by materially inaccurate or incomplete information supplied by the customer.

We are responsible for loss or damage that is a foreseeable result of our breach of contract or failure to exercise reasonable care and skill.

16. Events outside our reasonable control

We are not responsible for a delay caused by an event outside our reasonable control, provided that we:

Take reasonable steps to minimise the delay.
Tell you as soon as reasonably possible.
Provide a revised delivery estimate.

If a substantial delay prevents the service from meeting an expressly agreed essential deadline, you may cancel and receive any refund required by law.

17. Complaints

If you have a concern about the service, contact:

Email: hello@breezycv.com

Please provide your name, order reference, date of purchase, a description of the problem and the resolution you are seeking.

We will acknowledge your complaint within [TWO] working days and aim to provide a substantive response within [TEN] working days.

For independent information about consumer rights, you may contact the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission:

CCPC consumer information and contact details

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Bloom House
Railway Street
Dublin 1
D01 C576
Ireland

Consumer helpline: 01 402 5555
Email: ask@ccpc.ie

The CCPC provides information and may receive reports about consumer-protection issues, but it does not ordinarily decide individual disputes.

If a dispute cannot be resolved directly, you may be able to use an authorised alternative-dispute-resolution body or Ireland’s Small Claims Procedure, subject to its eligibility requirements.

Information about Ireland’s Small Claims Procedure

Do not claim membership of an ADR scheme unless BreezyCV has formally joined it.

18. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland.

The courts of Ireland will have jurisdiction over disputes relating to these terms. Nothing in this section deprives a consumer of any mandatory protection or right to bring proceedings available under applicable Irish or European Union law.

19. Changes to these terms

The version displayed when you submit your request will apply to that request and any resulting purchase.

We may update these terms for future requests. We will not retrospectively make a material change to an existing agreement without an appropriate legal basis and notice.

20. Contact

Questions about the service or these terms should be sent to:

hello@breezycv.com, or use the contact form below.

Contact

If you have a question about your order, these terms, or your personal information, please get in touch