Privacy Notice

1. Who we are:

We are Mollahan Solicitors of Main Street, Edgeworthstown, County Longford. You can contact us at this address by post or by email at aileen@mollahansolicitors.ie .

Our data protection representative is Aileen Mollahan, Principal, Mollahan Solicitors.

Mollahan Solicitors respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting your right to privacy. This statement sets out how we collect, use, process and disclose personal data that we collect from you, or that you provide to us on our website and mobile website, www.mollahansolicitors.ie

This statement should be read in conjunction with our cookie policy.

By using our website and/or subscribing for any of our publications you indicate your acceptance of this privacy statement and you consent to the collection and use of your data as outlined below.

If you do not agree with this, you should not use our website or subscribe to any of our publications.

2. Collection of personal data

We only collect personal data about you which you volunteer when you email us, when you use our Website, or when you contact us through our Website. When you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. The information which we collect and process about you is:

- your name;

- your email address;

- information that you provide in correspondence e.g. your job title, your address, telephone number and mobile number;

- the time and date of your visit to our Website;

- your IP address, the type of browser that you use and the URL linking you to our Website; and

- the areas of law in which you have expressed an interest.

We also collect personal data automatically when you use our Website, as explained in our cookie policy. The provision of this information to us is not a statutory or contractual requirement and you may refuse to provide this.

3. Uses made of your personal data

We may use personal data that you provide to us for our legitimate business interests including:

- for the purpose for which it was provided by you

- to provide you with information, products and services which you have requested

- to improve our Website and the products and services we offer

- for statistical analysis on the use of our website

- to comply with legal obligations

- to notify you about changes to our service.

We do not identify individual visitors to our Website, unless we are required to disclose such information by law. We will seek your consent by email, prior to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes and we will seek to renew this consent annually. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at aileen@mollahansolicitors.ie.

We will store your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined above and

- to provide access to our Website and related services

- to provide you with information, services and publications requested by you;

- as required by law and

- to exercise or defend any legal claims.

4. Disclosure of your personal data

We may disclose your personal data to third parties who provide a service to us (e.g., our internet service provider) and are bound by confidentiality provisions or in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or where necessary for our legitimate business interests to protect the rights, property, or safety of Mollahan Solicitors, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Communication of information via the Internet and by email is not completely secure and involves the information passing through third parties. In addition, communication of information via the Internet and by email may involve the transfer of personal data to third parties outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). To the limited extent that it is necessary, (if at all) to transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are put in place to protect the privacy and integrity of such data, this is unlikely to be necessary.

5. Your 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.

We will respond to your request in writing as soon as possible and in any event within one month of receipt of your request. We may request additional information from you to verify your identity and to enable us to respond to your request. All requests should be sent by email to aileen@mollahansolicitors.ie or by post to Mollahan Solicitors, Main Street, Edgeworthstown, County Longford. You have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner if you are unhappy with how we are processing your personal data.

6. Security

Mollahan Solicitors has security measures in place to prevent unauthorised access to, or disclosure of, your personal data. However, no data transmission over the internet can be 100% secure, and so we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us over the internet. Any transmission of such information is at your own risk such as Links to third party websites. Our Website may contain links to and from other websites. Please note that we do not accept any responsibility or liability if you follow a link to any of those websites. Please check the privacy policy of any such website before you submit any personal data.

7. 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.

8. Automated decision-making and profiling

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

9. Amendments to this statement

We reserve the right to change this privacy statement at any time. Any changes will be posted here and we will update the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of this statement. When you use our Website after any such change, you will be deemed to have consented to the current version of the privacy statement and accordingly you should check the privacy statement from time to time. Contact us if you have any questions or concerns regarding how your personal data is processed by us via our Website please contact us at aileen@mollahansolicitors.ie or by post to Mollahan Solicitors, Main Street, Edgeworthstown, County Longford.

Last updated: November 2020