Terms & Conditions
4, Quayside Business Park,
Mill St,
Marshes Lower,
Dundalk,
Co. Louth
b) To comply with our legal obligations.
We are required to process your personal information to comply with certain legal obligations to which we are subject, including:
Providing information to An Garda Siochana, the Revenue Commissioners and other enforcement agencies under various pieces of legislation which apply to us.
To verify your personal information provided to us and to meet our legal and compliance obligations, including detecting and preventing money laundering, tax avoidance and financing of terrorism.
c) For our legitimate business interests.
Where we process your information for our legitimate interests, we ensure that there is a fair balance between our legitimate interest and your fundamental rights and freedoms.
We may use your personal information to manage our everyday business needs including accounting, internal reporting needs, market research, to progress and respond to legal claims, to ensure appropriate IT security and to prevent fraud, in our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is the effective management of our business.
We may use your personal information to update you on legal developments, firm developments or to invite you to events that we feel may interest you in our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is to connect with our clients and to update our clients on services which we provide. We may monitor whether such emails have been opened by you.
d) For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
We sometimes process your personal information, including sensitive personal information, such as information concerning health, trade union membership and criminal convictions/offences where it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Consequences of failing to provide information.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract/retainer with you and you fail to provide that data when requested we may not be able to perform the contract/retainer we have or are trying to enter in to with you. For example we may require certain information from you in order to fulfil our requirements under both Irish and European Anti-Money Laundering Legislation before carrying out certain legal services. As such we may not be able to carry out those legal services absent that information but we will notify you of this at the time if this is the case.
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Address, email address, telephone numbers |
We use this information to carry out instructed legal work, to send you information about legal developments and services and to respond to your queries.
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Name, date of birth, PPSN, marital status, nationality, driving licence, passport |
We use this information to carry out instructed legal work and to verify your identify and to comply with our obligations under anti-money laundering legislation
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Occupation and income details such as employer name, employment status, your salary, other incomes, expenses.
Information concerning marital and family status.
The activity and balances on your bank accounts. |
We use this information to carry out instructed legal work.
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Interactions with our staff and partners |
Interactions withWe use this information to keep a record of your interactions with us, to monitor and train our staff or to provide you with legal services.
our staff and partners |
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Information on your physical or mental health, trade union membership, criminal offences/convictions |
We use this information for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or to provide you with legal advice.
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Images from CCTV camera in and around the Oliver Matthews & Company Solicitors |
We use these images for security purposes
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