This is the privacy policy of o’donnell+co Chartered Accountants. In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to o’donnell+co Chartered Accountants.
Our registered office is at 24, Barrington Street, Limerick, Ireland.
Our registered company number is 389882.
1. Firstly, this privacy policy informs you about how we process information that we record about you, whether provided by you, or by another person or organisation. It applies to information that could identify you as an individual (“personal information”) and information that does not, including that which relates to your business. To clarify, in the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
2. Secondly, we are committed to the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We recognise that you are entitled to know that your data will not be used for any unintended purpose, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
3. Most importantly, we undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us and hope that you reciprocate.
4. In addition, we have in place procedures and training for data protection, confidentiality and information security. These are regularly reviewed to ensure that they remain effective.
5. Our privacy policy complies with the Data Protection Act 2018 (Act) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
5. Consequently, the law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at Know Your Privacy Rights
7. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.
8. Data we process
We provide a range of services to businesses and personal clients. We aim to process data, whether personal data or not, only to the extent necessary for us to provide our clients with our services and for other agreed purposes.
Therefore, we may often aggregate information in a general way and use it to provide class information. Certainly, if we use it for this purpose, you as an individual will not be personally identifiable.
If you are a personal client, personal data that we may process may include contact information, information about your business activities, information about your family members, and financial information such as that relating to your income, expenses, taxation and investments. In addition, some of our services may also require us to process information deemed to be “special category” information, such as your race or ethnic origin, information about your health and medical history, information about your sexual life and orientation, criminal records, and information about your political, religious or philosophical beliefs.
In most cases, your personal data will have been provided to us by you. However, with your consent, or if it is necessary in order to provide you with our services, we may have obtained your personal data from a third-party source.
We may process your personal data if you have a personal or business connection with any of our clients or suppliers. For example, you may be a family member, business partner, another adviser, supplier or transaction counterparty.
In addition, the data we process may include contact information, information about business activities, information about partners, directors, employees, information relating to employment remuneration and payroll, and financial information such as that relating to income, expenses, taxation and investments.
Moreover, we may be given your personal data by our clients or suppliers, or by third parties acting on the instructions of a client or a supplier.
Consequently, we ask our clients and suppliers to bring this privacy policy to your attention as soon as they become aware that we process your personal data.
If you supply our business with goods or services, including subcontracted services that we supply to our clients, then we may process your personal information. However, we do so only to the extent necessary to contract with you.
Similarly, your personal data will have been provided to us by you in most cases. However, sometimes we use third parties such as credit rating agencies to make decisions regarding our relationship.
To clarify, the law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal information and notify you of the basis for each category.
However, if the basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.
On the other hand, if the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.
We may process personal information when a contract has been formed with our business and processing is necessary to carry out our obligations under that contract, or when processing personal data is necessary in order to form a contract.
We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.
Only when you have given us explicit permission to do so, do we process your personal information under the basis of consent.
For example, you might have agreed that we may pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.
We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us at info@odonnellaccountants.ie. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.
We may process information on the basis that there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.
Likewise, where we process your information on this basis, we do after having given careful consideration to:
For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:
Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.
For example, we may be required to give information to legal or tax authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
This may include your personal information.
When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.
Likewise, we record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.
Moreover, we keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high-quality service.
When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.
Therefore, we use that information to resolve your complaint.
If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. However, we do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.
Likewise, if the complaint relates to information on our website and we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the information while we investigate.
Above all, if we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.
Most importantly, we may compile statistics from information relating to complaints to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.
If you visit our office you will be required to sign in at reception. We keep a record of your visit in order to maintain the security of our premises, your safety and the safety of other visitors.
We keep the record of your visit only for as long as necessary, and in any case, for up to 12 months.
We may use a customer relationship management (CRM) system to process personal data.
Data subjects include existing, former and prospective clients and their agents and representatives.
For example, personal data that we process includes the name of the person, information about his or her employer and job position, and contact information.
We process this data on the basis of consent for purposes that include:
Above all, we do not sell or share any personal data with third parties unless we have explicit consent to do so from the data subject.
If you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to three years in case we decide to contact you at a later date.
If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout the period of your employment. To clarify, this information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. However, after your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.
Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.
Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.
Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.
When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. Certainly, if you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.
If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.
To clarify, we use cookies in the following ways:
6.1 to track how you use our website
6.2 to record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website
6.3 to keep you signed in our site
6.4 to record your answers to surveys and questionnaires on our site while you complete them
6.5 to record the conversation thread during a live chat with our support team
Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.
In addition, we record information that could identify your location, such as your IP address. Moreover, we also record information reported by the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.
Consequently, we use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the web pages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you.
If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website. However, our policy is not to use such data for the purpose of personal identification.
Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.
For instance, we may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.
Disclosure and sharing of your information
Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third parties whose services we use.
However, no such information is personally identifiable to you.
Our website is hosted in Ireland.
We may also use outsourced services in countries outside the European Union (EU) from time to time in other aspects of our business.
Similarly, data obtained within Ireland or any other country could be processed outside the EU.
Most importantly, we use safeguards with respect to data transferred outside the EU.
For example, these include:
If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information, you may contact us at info@odonnellaccountants.ie.
However, this may limit the service we can provide to you.
When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.
Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.
Lastly, we may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.
In conclusion, if you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at info@odonnellaccountants.ie.