Privacy Policy Statements
Who We Are
WHAT DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVER?
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) covers our treatment of your personal information that we gather when you are using or services or when you contact us in any manner. We gather various types of information, including information that identifies you as an individual (“Personal Information”) as explained in more detail below.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION?
The information you provide to us is used by us to: (a) provide you with professional advice; (b) send you information that you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These include details about our services; (c) notify you of changes to our services; (d) seek your views or comments on our services or policies; (e) carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us; (f) improve our services that we may provide to you; (g) answer your enquiry; (h) provide other services related to or supplementary to the above; market our services directly to you to your professional or business email address; (i) where appropriate and in accordance with applicable laws and requirements, we may also use your personal data for marketing activities. Where appropriate, we will seek your consent to undertake some of these activities.We may also use the information you send to us, to communicate with you via email and, possibly, other means, regarding events we think may be of interest to you or to send you our newsletter, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. We always include an unsubscribe button in our communications, so you can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.
HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We do not share your personal information to anyone except as set out herein. We consider your data to be private and confidential. We may sometimes disclose your data: (a) to agents or service providers appointed by us, or to others who work for us in connection with the provision of our services to you; (b) to our actual or prospective professional indemnity insurers, brokers or advisers, bank and auditors or risk managers who they may appoint, or as otherwise may be required by operation of law; (c) for marketing purposes, we may wish to disclose or publish that we have advised you, in which event we may identify you by name and indicate the general nature of our advice and any details which may properly have entered the public domain. If you object to our using your name or business logo in any publication, please let us know. (d) to share information such as your name and email address with our newsletter services provider who sends out our newsletters. This provider is not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf. (e) with our practice management system provider. We may also send you emails through our email service provider. They may only process this data for the purpose of providing us with their services, and no other purpose.
IS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ME SECURE?
HOW LONG WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?
INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT:
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES:
A “cookie” is a bite-sized piece of data that is stored on your computer’s hard drive. They are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system. We use them to track your activity to help ensure you get the smoothest possible experience when visiting our website. We can use the information from cookies to ensure we present you with options tailored to your preferences on your next visit. We can also use cookies to analyse traffic and for advertising purposes.If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings.
For more information on how to manage or disable cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org and www.allaboutcookies.orgWe use cookies to:
- Remember that you have visited us before; this means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive. This allows us to make sure we have enough capacity for the number of users that we get;
- Customise elements of the promotional layout and/or content of the pages of the Site;
- Collect statistical information about how you use the website (including how long you spend on the site) and where you have come to the site from, so that we can improve the site and learn which parts of the site are most popular with visitors; and
- to speed site navigation and recognise your access rights on the site.Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser.
Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the website, you may not be able to take full advantage of the site.The cookies used by us fall into these main categories:
1. Necessary
2. Functionality
3. Performance
4. Analytics
We also may use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients. This information is used to enable more accurate reporting, improve the effectiveness of our marketing, and make our Services and Websites better for our users. We also utilise Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, to better understand your use of our Websites and Services. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Websites, what pages they visit and what other sites they used prior to visiting. Google uses the data collected to track and examine the use of the Websites, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected on the Websites to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Websites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. Google offers an opt-out mechanism for the web available here.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
HOW CAN I UPDATE AND ACCESS MY INFORMATION (EXERCISE MY DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS)?
You have the following rights under the GDPR, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exemptions, in relation to your personal data:
- right to access the data – you have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you, together with other information about our processing of that personal data.
- right to rectification- you have the right to request that any inaccurate data that is held about you is corrected, or if we have incomplete information you may request that we update the information such that it is complete.
- right to erasure – you have the right to request us to delete personal data that we hold about you. This is sometimes referred to as the right to be forgotten.
- right to restriction of processing or to object to processing – you have the right to request that we no longer process your personal data for particular purposes, or to object to our processing of your personal data for particular purposes.
- Right to data portability – you have the right to request us to provide you, or a third party, with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used machine readable format.In order to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at the contact details at the start of this privacy notice. If we are processing personal data based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing which took place prior to its withdrawal. If you are unhappy with how we process personal data, we ask you to contact us so that we can rectify the situation. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The Irish supervisory authority is the Data Protection Commission.
