Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Denis McSweeney Solicitors (“DMCS”) fully respects your right to privacy. DMCS will not collect any personal information about you on its website without your clear permission. Any information, which you submit via DMCS websites will be treated with the highest possible standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

DMCS reserves the right to amend the scope of the privacy statement at any time which may include or exclude other sites.

Identity and the contact details of the controller

The Data Controller is Denis McSweeney Solicitors, 40 Upper Grand Canal Street, Dublin 4;

info@denismcsweeney.com; 01-6766033

Purposes and legal basis for the processing

DMCS will not collect any personal data about you on its website, apart from information, which is submitted via web forms, or information volunteered via email. We process your data to respond to your query when sent through our ‘contact form’. Any information provided in this manner, is not made available to any third parties, and is used by DMCS solely for the purposes for which it is provided. 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.

Technical details of your visit to the DMCS website including IP addresses, browser details and web search terms, are recorded. This information will only be used for statistical and site management purposes.

Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data

Any Personal data collected by DMCS is only used internally by DMCS staff in order to provide and/or improve its services to the public and to you. Sometimes personal data is required in order to provide services to you, please see our Data Protection Policy for more information. Our website is hosted in Ireland. Cookie data is analysed using Google Analytics, which use cookies to track performance and enhance web application services. These cookies and the data they collect are detailed on our Cookies page.

Retention periods

Any personal data collected by DMCS will be retained by DMCS in accordance with the periods set out in our Data Protection Policy.

Website analytic data is currently stored indefinitely, you can opt out of analytic cookies using our cookie configuration tools.

Obligation to provide personal data

In order to provide certain services to you, DMCS requires your personal data, and cannot provide the services without this data. Where DMCS requires this data it will be made clear to you on application for these services, what personal data will be required to be held and processed by DMCS.

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. You can download our Data Protection Access Request Form here

  • 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.

Right to Complaint

If you have any concerns or complaints about the processing of your personal data or DMCS’ responses to you regarding your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the Office of Data Protection Commissioner via email at info@dataprotection.ie

Automated decision-making and profiling

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

Glossary

Web Browser - Software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera.

IP Address - The identifying details for your computer (or your Internet company’s computer), expressed in "Internet protocol" code. Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.

Cookies - A cookie is a block of data that a web server places on a user’s PC. Typically, it is used to ease navigation through the site. However, it is also a useful means for the web site identifying the user, tracking the user’s path through the site, and identifying repeat visits to the site by the same user (or same user’s machine). This can then lead to a web site owner being able to profile an individual users browsing habits – and all potentially done without the knowledge, or consent, of the user.