Privacy Notice

Who we are:

We are Frank Nyhan & Associates of 11 Market Square, Mallow, County Cork. You can contact us at this address by post or by email at [email protected] Our data protection representative is Cormac Nyhan ([email protected]).

Types of information we may collect from you:

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:
Information you supply to us. You may supply us with information about you by filling in the contact form on our website. The information you give us may include your name, e-mail address and any other information you choose to supply us with in the Contact form.
Information our website automatically collects about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect information including the following:
• technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform.
• information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit, what you click on, documents downloaded and download errors.

How we use the information we collect:

For people who view and interact with our website:
• 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 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 no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and in line with our file retention and destruction policy.

For our potential clients, we process data in order to market the firm or to provide you with legal services for which you have instructed us.

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 and providing you with legal services.

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 or contact us directly if not available on the advertisement and we will provide a copy of same.

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.

We will retain this data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Transfers of data outside the European Economic Area

We do not transfer personal data relating to you outside the European Economic Area.

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.

1. 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 or assess your suitability for a role within our firm.

2. Automated decision-making and profiling

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