By using this website and by disclosing your personal data to us, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, use and disclosure of your data as described in this Privacy Statement. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with or are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Statement your only remedy is to discontinue to use this website.
In this statement we use the terms “us”, “we” and “our” to refer to Kane Tuohy Solicitors.
WHO WE ARE
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller of this website is Kane Tuohy Solicitors and our address is the 19-26 Hambleden House, Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Should you have any queries about this Privacy Statement, or wish to exercise your rights as set out in herein, please email us on mbarron@kanetuohy.ie.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The personal data that Kane Tuohy collects about you may include the following:
WHAT WE DO WITH THE DATA WE GATHER
Where we collect your personal data, we use it for the following reasons:
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
When we rely on legitimate interests as a legal justification for processing your personal data, we must consider whether those legitimate interests are overridden by your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms.
Where we have considered these matters and we believe that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms. If this were to change and if we think that there is a risk that one or more of your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms may be affected, then we will not use your personal data unless there is another legal basis for us to do so (for example by obtaining your consent).
What Happens if You Do Not Want to Provide us with Your Personal Data
If you do not want us to process your personal data or if you request (see your rights) that we stop processing your personal data, then we cannot respond to queries that you raise through our website or send you email alerts that you had requested us to send you.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use our website and when you contact us through the “Contact Us” section of our website, we may share your personal data with our IT service providers, practice management system provider, our email service providers, document processing and translation services, document storage providers and confidential waste and shredding disposal providers.
We may disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligations and in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Engagement.
We may also share your information with selected third parties including:
Our agents and contractors as set out above are restricted from using your data in any way other than to provide services for us. We require that all such agents or contractors enter into contractual agreements in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.
The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). You understand and accept that countries outside the EEA may not have laws which provide the same level of protection to your personal data as laws within the EEA.
Where we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we or they will impose contractual obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your personal data to the standard required in the EEA. In the case of transfers by us, we may also transfer your personal data where:
DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Depending on the nature of the information we hold and the purposes for which it is processed, this will determine the number of years we need to retain your personal data in our system. It is our policy to retain documents in hardcopy and electronic form in accordance with any retention period required by law or to the end of the period in which litigation might arise from our engagement. The data will then be destroyed without further notice or liability.
YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT
You have the following rights under GDPR, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exemptions, in relation to your personal data;
Please note that some of these rights may be limited where we have an overriding interest or legal obligation to continue to process the data, or where data may be exempt from disclosure due to reasons of legal professional privilege.
If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your rights above, please contact us by post or email:
Email: mbarron@kanetuohy.ie
Post: Data Protection, Kane Tuohy, 19- 26 Hambleden House, Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
As a resource to visitors of our website, our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over those other websites and cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Statement.
COOKIES
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want your browser to accept cookies you can turn off this functionality in settings but this may prevent this website or other websites from functioning properly.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may makes changes to this statement from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
This statement is effective from the 25th May 2018.