Privacy policy
Privacy Notice for the General Data Protection Regulations
1. Who we are:
We are O'Brien Building Solutions,6 Crossroads, Shantraud, Killaloe, Co. Clare. V94 W2FV - Ireland. You can contact us at this address by post or email at willie@obbs.ie. Our data protection representative is Willie O'Brien.
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 deal with any matters you instruct us regarding following such query.
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in the administration and operation of our services as well as our legitimate interest in marketing and promoting our firm’s services. You can always 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 to provide us with their services, and no other purpose.
We will retain this data for as long as we are legally obliged to retain same, in most cases for a minimum of six years, and will destroy such personal data usually after seven years, but in some cases, we may be obliged to retain such personal data for a longer period and even in limited circumstances, indefinitely.
B. For our potential clients, we process data to market the services of our firm.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is necessary for the legitimate interests of our firm in promoting our services. You can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.
We share information such as your name and email address with our newsletter services provider who sends out our newsletters. This provider is not permitted to use this data other than on our behalf.
We will retain this data for no more than six years.
3. Your rights relating to personal data:
You have the following rights under the GDPR, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exemptions, about 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. It also does not prevent the retention of such personal data as we may be required to retain for our legitimate interests or as may be required by law.
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.
4. 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, liaise with you on client matters or assess your suitability for a role within our firm.