Privacy notice

Who we are:

We are Abbey Law, Solicitors, of 20 Old Abbey Street, Dublin 1. You can contact us at this address by post or by email at info@abbeylaw.ie.

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

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. We share this data with our website and email service providers. 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 no longer than necessary to protect our legitimate interest.

For our potential clients, we process data:

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

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 will retain this data for no longer than necessary to protect our legitimate interest.

For clients, we process data to provide you with legal services.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is performance of a contract, our legitimate interest in the administration and operation of our legal services, and compliance with legal obligations.

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. Depending on the nature of the services provided, we may also share your data with other third parties. Please refer to our ‘Client Notice’ for further details.

We will retain this data for the mandatory period required to comply with legal, regulatory, and professional obligations.

For solicitors and barristers, 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, and/or performance of a contract.

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 the mandatory period required to comply with legal, regulatory, and professional obligations.

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. We may send you emails about your application through our email service provider. This provider is not permitted to use this data for any other purpose. We will retain this data for no longer than necessary to fill the role for which you have applied, unless we have your consent to retain it for future recruitment purposes.

Transfers of data outside the European Economic Area

In some circumstances, it may be necessary for us to transfer your Personal Data to a country outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will only transfer your Personal Data where the transferee is based in a country that has been approved by the EU Commission, or where there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data.

Information received from third parties and the source of that data

 

We may receive:

    • Technical Data and Usage Data about you from analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, in respect of your visits and use of our website ;
    • Identity and Contact Data about you from professional and social media platforms, internet searches, and other publicly available sources; and
    • Non-Client Data in the course of providing our services to our clients. We receive this from our clients, other law firms, barristers, insurance companies, experts, witnesses and others that are involved in a matter in respect of which we are providing our services to our clients. In some cases, we may receive Non-Client Data from government departments, public and semi-state bodies, public registries and databases, publicly available information and internet searches
    • CCTV data, if you visit our offices at which we operate CCTV.

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, provide our legal services to you, 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.

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.