Privacy Policy

Cunningham Gilbourne Solicitors are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and complying with all applicable privacy laws. The objective of this Notice is to inform you on how we handle your personal data. Please read through our Privacy Notice together with our Disclaimer and Terms of Use as it contains important information about how we will use your personal data. Each time you access the Cunningham Gilbourne Solicitors website you agree to the Disclaimer, Terms of Use and PrivacyNotice.

Acceptance of Privacy Notice

By using this website, you signify acceptance of this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of the Privacy Notice, your only remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice at any time. Your continued use of any portion of this website following any such changes will constitute your acceptance of those changes. Therefore you should check this Privacy Notice each time you visit the website to make ensure you are aware of most up to date version which applies.

1.Who we are:

We are Cunningham Gilbourne Solicitors of Church Place , St. Ita’s Road, Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick.  You can contact us at this address by post or by email at info@mcgsolicitors.ie

Our data protection representative is Michelle Gilbourne Solicitor, info@mcgsolicitors.ie.

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

A. For people who view and interact with our website, we process data:

• to respond to your query when sent through our ‘contact us’ form
• to sign up to our newsletter when you request subscription through our website

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.

B. For our potential clients, we process data:

• in order to market the services of our firm
• to provide you with legal updates and newsletters to which you have subscribe

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.

C. For solicitors and barristers that 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.

D. 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. Please see the privacy notice in the job advertisement for further information about how we process applicant data.

We share the information you provide in your application with our contracted recruiter in order to make a shortlist of candidates. This recruiter is not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf. We may also send you emails about your application through our email service provider.

3. Retention of Data

Regarding personal information we have processed as part of providing the Services to any client, we will retain relevant personal information for at least six years from the date of our last interaction with that client and in compliance with our obligations under the EU General Data Protection Regulation or for longer where we are required to do so according to our regulatory obligations or professional indemnity obligations.

If personal information is only useful for a short period e.g. for specific marketing campaigns

4. Information received from third parties and the source of that data

We collect Other Data through a variety of sources. One of our sources for Other Data is cookies and other technologies that record Data about the use of our websites, websites that implement our Services, and the use of our Services generally. Other Data that we may collect include:

Browser and device data, such as IP address, device type, operating system and Internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, plug-ins, add-ons and the version of the Services You are using; and

Cookie and tracking technology data, such as time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data.

We process all data that is necessary for the purposes of providing or obtaining legal advice or for the purposes of, or in connection with, legal claims, prospective legal claims, legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, or is otherwise necessary for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.

5. 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.

6. 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 your 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.

7. Automated decision-making and profiling

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