Privacy

This privacy notice is issued by McCann FitzGerald LLP (all references to "we", "us" or "our" in these terms refer to McCann FitzGerald LLP). The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the data relating to you that we collect and use in connection with this website and the uses (including disclosures to third parties) we make of such data. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any linked sites.

This notice only sets out details of our processing of personal data in connection with your use of this website. If you are a client or business contact, please click here to view our GDPR Privacy Notice for Clients and Business Contacts.

If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com.

Personal Data that we Collect

We collect and process the following personal data relating to you in connection with your use of this website:

  • Information relating to you that you choose to provide to us, such as your name, email address, employer, role etc.;
  • Information that is generated in connection with your use of our website by our analytics tools, such as which pages you visit, how long you stay on them, and any previous website address from which you reached us, including any search terms used;
  • Technical information that is used to assist in providing the website and our services to you, such as your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device etc.; and
  • Information about other websites that you may have visited.

In certain circumstances the information that is collected above is aggregated and anonymised. This aggregated and anonymised data does not contain personal data in relation to you, and may be used by us for various purposes in connection with the website and our business.

We use cookies to facilitate the use of our website and collect some of the information set out above. For more information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookies Policy.

Purposes of Processing and Legal Basis

We will use personal data relating to you for the purposes of:

  • providing you with our services;
  • communicating with you, either in response to correspondence that you send to us via the website, or where you have signed up to receive updates from the website;
  • operating advertising campaigns, including working with third parties to display adverts to you on those third party websites on the basis of your use of our website and to track the effectiveness of the advertisements;
  • running our recruitment processes;
  • improving and developing our website;
  • generating and analysing statistics regarding usage of our website, including the frequency of use of individual pages (where possible, personal data will be anonymised before being used for this purpose);
  • carrying out research and customer satisfaction surveys; and
  • establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

The legal bases on which we process your personal data are:

  • where you have consented to our processing of your personal data;
  • to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you or to perform a contract with you;
  • our legitimate interests in conducting our business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner, including to develop and market our business and to understand how our clients and prospective clients use our services. We will not process your personal data for these purposes if to do so would constitute an unwarranted interference with your own interests, rights and freedoms; and
  • that this is necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Consent

Where we process your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.  You can withdraw your consent by contacting us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com.

Recipients of Data

We may disclose your personal data to other organisations in connection with the above purposes, including:

  • to affiliates of McCann FitzGerald LLP, including MCF Legal Technology Solutions Limited, MCF Digital Services Limited, HMP Secretarial Limited and McCann FitzGerald Listing Services Limited;
  • to third parties who we engage to provide services to us in connection with this website, such as outsourced service providers, IT services providers, professional advisers and auditors;
  • to third party advertisers to assist in the display of advertisements on third party sites and tracking the effectiveness of our advertisements; and
  • to competent regulatory authorities and bodies as requested or required by law.

Retention

We will not hold your personal data for longer than is necessary. We retain your personal data for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this privacy notice, or to comply with our obligations under applicable law and, if relevant, to deal with any claim or dispute that might arise between you and us.

Requirement to Provide Personal Data

You are not under a statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with any personal data in connection with your use of the website.

Transfers Abroad

In connection with the above we might transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, including to a jurisdiction which is not recognised by the European Commission as providing for an equivalent level of protection for personal data as is provided for in the European Union. If and to the extent that we do so, we will ensure that appropriate measures are in place to comply with our obligations under applicable law governing such transfers.  These may include entering into a contract governing the transfer that contains the ‘standard contractual clauses’ approved for this purpose by the European Commission or, in respect of transfers to the United States of America, ensuring that the transfer is covered by the EU-US Privacy Shield framework. If you would like to receive further details of the measures that we have taken in this regard, please contact us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com

Your rights

You have the following rights, in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:

  • the right to access your personal data;
  • the right to request the rectification and/or erasure of your personal data;
  • the right to restrict the use of your personal data;
  • the right to object to the processing of your personal data; and
  • the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com.

Updates

We may occasionally update this notice. We encourage you to periodically review this notice for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Complaints

If you are not happy with the way we are using your personal data or how we facilitate your rights or comply with our obligations under applicable data protection law, you have the right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission by emailing info@dataprotection.ie.

GDPR Privacy Notice for Clients and Business Contacts

McCann FitzGerald LLP, as a law firm with its principal place of business at Riverside One, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland, including its affiliates1, takes its responsibilities under applicable data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and implementing legislation (“Data Protection Law”) very seriously.  The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the data relating to you that we may collect and use and the uses (including disclosures to third parties) we may make of your data, which includes the provision of legal advice and business services and sending you briefings and invitations to events, training programmes and lectures.  

McCann FitzGerald LLP  is the controller in respect of the data we collect and we take all reasonable steps to ensure the safety and privacy of all information and, where appropriate, enter into contracts with any third party processors to protect the privacy of any personal data processed by us.

1. What information do we collect

We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us, for example when you communicate with us via email, when you sign up for or ask us to send you newsletters, briefings, or other materials and when you sign up for an event. Such data may include:

1.1  your name, job title and name of employer and any personal data you send to us to provide you with legal services;

1.2  your contact details, including your home address (where you have provided this to us), business address,  email address and telephone number;

1.3  recordings and transcripts of meetings generated from AI transcription tools;

1.4  records of invitations and briefings sent to you and of your attendance at McCann FitzGerald  LLP events;

1.5  special dietary requirements and the name of your spouse or partner (in limited circumstances);

1.6  on occasions where public health concerns warrant it, and you are visiting our offices or attending an event hosted or organised by us, information about your exposure to particular diseases and viruses; and

1.7  information relating to particular areas that may be of interest to you.

If we are in regular contact with you we may collect more information about our relationship with you.  If you are an alumnus of McCann FitzGerald LLP we also process certain data about your previous employment with us, including your start and finish date, the departments you worked in and your next place of employment (if any or known to us).

2. Purpose of processing and legal bases

Your personal data is used by us and by third party service providers acting on our behalf for following purposes:

2.1  providing you with legal advice and business services;

2.2  for administration and billing purposes and for other purposes which are reasonably incidental to the services being provided;

2.3  sending or providing you with access to legal and regulatory information, and invitations to events, training programmes and lectures;

2.4  maintaining our list of contacts; and

2.5  safeguarding the health and safety of our personnel, visitors to our offices and of attendees at events hosted or organised by us.

The legal bases on which we collect, process and transfer your information in the manner described above are:

(a) For 2.1 and 2.2

    (i) your consent (where we have sought it and you have provided it to us), and in which case, you can withdraw your consent at any time;

    (ii) where any such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with us; and

    (iii) our legitimate interests in conducting our business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner.

(b) For  2.3 and 2.4

    (i) Our legitimate interest in maintaining a business relationship and communicating with you, as a business contact, about our events and providing you with information about new legal developments.

(c) For 2.5

    (i) Your consent to our use of your health data for the purposes described above.

We may process special categories of data, such as accommodating any special dietary requirements you may have for any events that you register to attend.  Any use of such information is based on your consent.

3. Sources of data

As well as collecting information from you or other professional services advisors, in some cases your personal data has been supplemented by information obtained from publically available sources, including LinkedIn and your employer’s website, for the purpose of confirming your current professional position.

4. Sharing your data

We may disclose your personal data to third party recipients acting on your or our behalf, for the purposes of providing legal advice and business services to you and for providing you with information which we believe you may be interested in.

5. Retention

We will retain your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary for us to provide you with legal advice and business services.   If you are a business contact, we will retain your personal data for as long as we consider you to be a business contact and we will give you the opportunity to unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive communications and invitations from us.

6. Security measures to keep your personal data safe

We employ appropriate technical and organisational security measures to help protect your personal data against loss and to guard against access by unauthorised persons.  We carry out risk assessments on all third party service providers to make sure the personal data they hold is secure. We regularly review our security policies and procedures to ensure our systems are secure and protected.

7. Necessity of provision of certain information and consequences

You may be required to provide us with certain information in order for us to verify your identify and carry out anti-money laundering or other checks which are required by law.  This information consists of identification and verification documentation for individuals.  If you do not provide us with such information, we will be unable to provide you with legal services.

Apart from the details mentioned above, you are not under a statutory or contractual duty to provide us with any personal data. However, there are some pieces of information that you must provide to us so that we can provide you with our legal services. We will notify you of any such required information.  If you do not provide us with this information, we may not be in a position to provide our legal services to you.

8. Transfers abroad

Where relevant and necessary for the firm’s business including our representation of you, we may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, including to a jurisdiction which is not recognised by the European Commission as providing for an equivalent level of protection for personal data as is provided for in the European Union. If and to the extent that we do so, we will ensure that appropriate measures are in place to comply with our obligations under applicable law governing such transfers, which may include (i) entering into a contract governing the transfer which contains the ‘standard contractual clauses’ approved for this purpose by the European Commission or (ii) seeking and obtaining your explicit consent to the transfer or (iii) where the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

9. Your rights and how to update your information

You have the following rights, in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:

9.1  the right to be provided with a copy of your personal data;

9.2  the right to request the rectification and/or erasure of your personal data;

9.3  the right to restrict the use of your personal data;

9.4  the right to object to the processing of your personal data, where we are processing it based on this being necessary for the purposes of our or of a third party’s, legitimate interests; and

9.5  the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller, where we are processing the data based on your consent or that this is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.

In order to exercise any of the rights set out above, or if you have any questions about how we process your personal data, you can email us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com  or  write to us at Risk & Compliance, McCann FitzGerald LLP, Riverside One, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2. Please note that the limitation or deletion of your personal data may mean that we will be unable to provide you with the communications and/or invitations described above.

We are required to keep all personal data accurate and up to date.  To assist us in doing so, we ask you to contact your usual business contact at McCann FitzGerald LLP or email dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com with any relevant changes, such as change of address or contact telephone numbers.

10. Complaints

We take a high level of care in how your personal data is handled to ensure that it is safeguarded and our legal obligations are met. If you are not happy with the way we have used your information or addressed your rights, you may contact us at dataprotection@mccannfitzgerald.com.  You also have the right to make a complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission by emailing info@dataprotection.ie.­­

11. Unsubscribe

If you no longer wish to receive further marketing communications and/or invitations from us, you can unsubscribe at any time by emailing us at events@mccannfitzgerald.com

 

[1] McCann FitzGerald LLP includes its affiliates MCF Legal Technology Solutions Limited, MCF Digital Services Limited, HMP Secretarial Limited and McCann FitzGerald Listing Services Limited.