Privacy Notice of Dónal Carroll & Co. Solicitors
(in compliance with pursuant to GDPR Regulation EU/2016/679)

Who we are:

We are Dónal Carroll & Co. Solicitors of Harmony Hill, Sligo. You can contact us at this address by post or by email at info@donalcarrollsolicitors.ie.

Our data protection representative is Dónal Carroll (Principal of Dónal Carroll & Co. Solicitors) and he can be contacted at the above contact details.

Why we process your data, the lawful basis for processing your data and who we share it with

A. For people who view and interact with our website, we process data to respond to your query when sent through our ‘contact us’ form

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in the administration and operation of our legal services as well as our legitimate interest in marketing and promoting our firm’s legal services. We always include an unsubscribe option in our communications, so you can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.

We share this data with our client relationship management system provider. They may only process this data for the purpose of providing us with their services, and no other purpose.

We will retain this data for so long as necessary to enable us to provide all necessary services and/or for so long as required by the applicable law/Law Society guidance at any given time.

B. For our potential clients, we process data:

• in order to market the services of our firm
• to provide you with legal updates.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is processing necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests of our firm in promoting our services. We always include an unsubscribe option in our communications, so you can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.

We share information such as your name and email address with our newsletter services provider who sends out our newsletters (if such a newsletter system is in use by the firm at any given time). This provider is not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf.

We will retain this data for so long as necessary to enable us to provide all necessary services and/or for so long as required by the applicable law/Law Society guidance at any given time.

C. For solicitors and barristers that we liaise with on client matters, we process data in order to liaise with you about our client matters

The legal basis for the processing of this data is processing necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our firm in representing our clients.

We share the information you provide with our practice management system in order to store your contact information with our client file. We may also send you emails through our email service provider.

We will retain this data for so long as necessary to enable us to provide all necessary services and/or for so long as required by the applicable law/Law Society guidance at any given time.

D. For job applicants to the firm, we process data:

• to recruit new employees
• to ascertain your suitability for a specific role

The legal basis for this processing is processing necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests of our firm in recruiting new staff. Please see the privacy notice in the job advertisement for further information about how we process applicant data.

We share the information you provide in your application with our contracted recruiter in order to make a shortlist of candidates. This recruiter is not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf. We may also send you emails about your application through our email service provider.

We will retain this data for so long as necessary to enable us to engage with standard recruitment processes and fill a vacancy and/or for so long as required by the applicable law/Law Society guidance at any given time.

Transfer of data outside the European Economic Area

In the unlikely event that we may be required to transfer data relating to our legal services to service providers outside the EEA, where such a transfer is required we shall put in place safeguards necessary to protect the privacy and integrity of such personal data, including standard contractual clauses under Article 46.2 of GDPR.

Information received from third parties and the source of that data

During the course of the legal services we provide for you we may need to obtain your personal data, including but not limited to your medical records, employment records, bank details and bank records, Court records from various third parties including hospitals, the HSE, financial institutions, the Property Registration Authority, the Revenue Commissioners, the Courts Service and/or other State bodies.

Disclosing Personal Information

We may be required to disclose your personal data to 3rd parties, including but not limited to:

• State bodies and/or third parties where we are required to do so by law
• A third party to whom we have a legal duty to transfer the data
• A third party where the disclosure is required to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another (natural) person

Your rights relating to personal data

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.

Requirement to process personal data

You may browse our website without providing us with any personal data and this will not affect your ability to view our website.

If you do not provide us with your information for the purposes described above, we cannot respond to your queries sent through our contact us form, liaise with you on client matters, or assess your suitability for a role within our firm.

Automated decision-making and profiling

We do not use any personal data for the purpose of automated decision-making or profiling.

Note: the privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for this website only. If you follow links to other websites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.