CRH plc
Materials
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out of 100. Number 503 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where CRH plc does well
- Arbitration 1 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 4 of 20. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration clause and no class-action waiver — disputes go to Irish courts, which is standard for an Irish-incorporated company.
- The policy explicitly limits third-party access: 'The only third party provider that has access to users' personal data is our bulk emailing platform provider,' and news alerts require opt-in signup with confirmation — no data selling. The full suite of GDPR-style rights is listed (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, complaint to a regulator) with a dedicated contact, dataprivacy@crh.com. The cookie table names each cookie, its expiry, and its purpose, and the policy states plainly that 'CRH.com does not undertake any form of online advertising.' There are no accounts, subscriptions, or paid services on the site, so there are no auto-renewal or cancellation traps at all.
CRH can change the rules whenever it wants, and just by continuing to use the website you are deemed to have agreed to the new rules — no notice or click-to-accept required.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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CRH can change the rules whenever it wants, and just by continuing to use the website you are deemed to have agreed to the new rules — no notice or click-to-accept required.
We reserve the right to vary the conditions of use at any time and will post any variations here. You are advised to review the conditions of use on a regular basis as you will be deemed to have accepted variations if you continue to use the Site after they have been posted.
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Everything on the site comes with zero warranty, and CRH disclaims all liability for any loss or damage caused by inaccurate or missing information on the site.
WE PUBLISH THE SITE 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED ... NEITHER WE NOR CRH SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGE THAT MAY RESULT FROM USE OF THE SITE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ANY INACCURACIES IN, OR ANY OMISSIONS FROM, THE INFORMATION WHICH THEY MAY CONTAIN.
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Your personal data can be passed around within the CRH corporate group (a company with ~3,160 locations in 29 countries) for the vague purpose of 'improving our services' — with no limits, opt-out, or named recipients.
We may share your information with other CRH entities in order to provide information and services you request from us and in order to improve our services.
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Contact-form messages, calls, and emails can be kept indefinitely with no stated deletion schedule or retention period.
We may store the information you provide for future reference in order to assess how well we provide our service to you and others on an on-going basis. If you write to, call or email us, we will use your details to respond to you and will keep a record of your correspondence with us.
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Any dispute must be fought in the Irish courts under Irish law — no forced arbitration, but a visitor from anywhere in the world agrees to sue only in Ireland.
These conditions of use are governed by the laws of Ireland and you agree that the Irish courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.
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Even passive browsing triggers collection of your IP address, location, browser/OS details, pages visited, and a unique device identifier.
We also collect information about your computer browser, including the computer's IP address and a person's location, browser type, operating system, and the web pages you visit. If you access our website from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier contained in that device.
How these were found
All clauses read directly from the official CRH plc site at https://www.crh.com/privacy-cookies/ (page titled 'Privacy Policy & Cookies') on Oct 1, 2026 — no mirror was needed; the site did not block fetching. CRH publishes its 'Disclaimer' / conditions of use as a section at the bottom of that same page rather than on a standalone Terms of Use page (the homepage surface did not expose a separate Terms page). Neither document displays its own effective/last-updated date; the search index estimated the page was last updated ~135 days before Oct 1, 2026, but that is crawler metadata, not the document's own date. CRH is a B2B building-materials company and crh.com is an informational corporate site (no accounts, no paid consumer services, no checkout), so several sneakiness categories have nothing to bite on — the score is modest by design. A 'CRH Candidate Privacy Notice' found hosted on campbellreith.com was NOT used: CampbellReith is a separate UK consultancy, not CRH plc.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.