O’Brien Murphy Solicitors takes your privacy and confidentiality seriously. You provide us with personal information and the purpose of this summary is to set out why we collect your data, what we do with it, who we share it with, why we share your data and understand your legal obligations.
This document is being provided to you in compliance with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). GDPR amends existing data protection law and places enhanced accountability and transparency obligations on organisations when using your information. GDPR also introduced changes which gives you greater control over your personal information, including a right to object to processing of your personal information where that processing is carried out for our business purposes.
Please take time to read this summary carefully. If you have any questions about how we use your information, please contact us. Likewise, if you would like any clarification on any points in this summary, please contact us.
O’Brien Murphy Solicitors is a firm of solicitors that provides legal advice in a variety of areas suited to your needs. Further details of our services are provided in our letter of engagement which we issue to all clients prior to providing a service or product.
We will hold:
Sometimes we may use your information even though you are not our client. For example, you may be a beneficiary under a trust or a will, a director of a client company, an employee of a client.
We collate information at the initial point of contact with you and aim to update this whenever you provide us with instructions or when you require a further service from us.
We collate, use and share information only where there is a legal basis for doing so. This includes where you have given us information in order to provide you with a service, or arrange a transaction on your behalf.
Typically, the legal basis for using your data is to provide a service or arrange a transaction which you have requested. The legal basis will also include complying with our legal and regulatory obligations, for example, interaction with the data protection commission or when conducting anti-money laundering checks.
While you have agreed or explicitly consented to the using of your data in a specific way, you may withdraw your consent at any time. We may use your data if necessary, to protect your “vital interest” in exceptional circumstances, for example where we suspect a fraud may be in the course of perpetration.
Data may be also used for our legitimate interests (which you may object to) such as training, quality assurance and strategic planning).
We may analyse your information using automated means:
We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the required service to be provided to you. How long we hold your data for is subject to legislation and various regulatory rules we must follow set by authorities such as the Law Society of Ireland, the Court Services and the like. Timescales may also depend on the type of service we have provided to you. Our aim is to hold your data for no longer as is necessary and subject to the time scales imposed by our legal obligations. All retained personal data is subject to the controls of our data protection policy and will be securely disposed of when it is considered to be of no further use.
If you do not provide information, we may not be able to:
It is our aim to retain any information which we hold within the EEA. However, if we are required to provide a legal service which entails dealing with third parties in non-EEA countries then that may necessitate the transfer of data outside the EEA.
Under GDPR you have additional rights in relation to how your data is used, including the rights to:
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you can contact us at the address shown.
If we are unable to deal with your request for data access fully within a calendar month, we may extend this period by a further two calendar months and explain the reason why. If you make your request electronically, we will try to provide you with the relevant information electronically.
If you are dissatisfied with our services or in relation to how we use your data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission, contact details as follows:
Address: Office of the Data Commission
Canal House
Station Road
Portarlington
R32 AP23 Co. Laois
Telephone: 076 110 4800 or LOCALL 1890 252 231
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
We will update our data protection notice – client summary and website privacy notice from time to time. You may request copies of our current Notices at any time or refer to our website.
O’Brien Murphy Solicitors
4 Arran QuayDublin 7
D07 HK38
Tel: (01) 8746959
Fax: (01) 8746958
Email: info@obm.ie
If you are dissatisfied with our services or in relation to how we use your data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission, contact details as follows: