Data Privacy Statement

Clients and Prospective Clients

To provide our services, we may collect and process personal information. This gives you more detail
about what we do with the personal information of our clients and prospective clients.

This statement relates to the information we collect and process when:

Where the personal information comes from

The personal information we collect may have come directly from you (for example, through our on-line enquiry form, from a business card or through some other connection). In other cases, the personal information may have been gathered from someone else (for example, LinkedIn), or provided to us by the client or prospective client (e.g., your employer)

The type of personal data we may not have collected from you directly, but which we may use, includes:

What we use this information for

Business Development and Enquiries

We use your personal information to assess your likely interest in our products and services, and to contact you by ‘phone or by email to provide you with information about Derrycourt and for business development purposes.
When you make enquiries about our products and services, including through:
we will use this information, and any other information you provide as part of the request or in subsequent communications, so we can:
Your personal information is processed in this way for our legitimate interests, which means the interests of Derrycourt in conducting and managing our business, and giving you (or the organisation you work for) the best service and products we can.

How long do we keep this personal information?

If you do not become a client, we will keep this information for a period of five years after the date we first contact you.

Provision of products and services

When we provide our services, we may process personal information. This is particularly the case if you are a private client, sole-trader, or a partnership, where your personal information is required to provide our services to you.
Unless otherwise stated, any personal information you give us when providing our services to you will be used for:
Certain personal information, including contact details (such as email addresses and telephone numbers) is also used to:

How long do we keep this personal information?

Personal information that is provided to, or generated by, us during the provision of our services will be kept for a period of seven years after you (or the organisation you work for) ceases to become a client.

Products and services information

If you (or the business you work for) are (or have been) a client, we use your personal information to send you information related to:

Your personal information is processed in this way for our legitimate interests, which means the interests of Derrycourt in conducting and managing our business but, most importantly, to give you the best advice, service and products we can.

Other uses

Your personal information will also be used where necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

Legitimate interests

Where we process your personal information for purposes we consider to be in our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to this processing. You may exercise this right by writing to us at our address or by emailing us at info@derrycourt.ie. If you do object, this may affect our ability to provide our products and services to you or the organisation you work for.

Who else gets your personal information?

To help us provide our services, we may share your personal information with third parties who provide services to Derrycourt, including information technology and information services providers, professional advisers, and other service providers.

These third parties can only use the personal information we share in order to provide their services to us or to support our processing of your personal information in the manner set out in this statement.

Your personal information may be shared with third parties in accordance with your written and verified instructions, or in accordance with legal obligations imposed upon us.

Your personal information is not shared with anyone else. It is not transferred outside the European Union.

What are your rights?

You have the right to:
If you want to exercise these rights, please let us know in writing. You will need to provide sufficient information to verify and complete your request. We will complete your request within thirty days, subject to any legal or other requirements that mean we cannot to complete your request, in which case we shall inform you of this where we are permitted to do so.

Lodging a complaint

You can at any time complain about our processing of your personal information with your local data protection authority. Derrycourt’s supervisory authority is:

Data Protection Commissioner, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, R32 AP23, Co. Laois, Ireland

How do you contact us?

The data controller is Derrycourt Company LTD

You can write to us at: Century Business Park, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas, Dublin 11

You can email us at: privacy@derrycourt.ie