Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice

Parte and Associates Solicitors fully respects your right to privacy. We will not collect any personal information about you on our website without your clear permission. Any information, which you submit via the Contact Us page on our website 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).

1. Who we are:

We are Parte and Associates of 17 Upper Baggot Streeet, Dublin 4. You can contact us on 01 6608353, at this address by post or by email at bernadette@parte.ie

2. 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 as well as our legitimate interest in marketing and promoting our firm’s legal services. We always include an unsubscribe button 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 as long as necessary to enable us to provide all necessary services and/or as long as required by the applicable law at any given time.

For our potential clients, we process data in order to market the services of our firm and 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 button in our communications, so you can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.

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

For solicitors and barristersthat 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 as long as necessary to enable us to provide all necessary services and/or as long as required by the applicable law at any given time.

3. 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 third parties including hospitals, the Health Service Executive, the Mental Health Commission, banks, the Property Registration Authority, Revenue Commissioners, the Courts Service and/or other State bodies.

4. 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.

5. 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 send you our newsletter, 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.

6. Automated decision-making and profiling

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