Privacy Policy

Last update June 2019

At Connelly Partners in Boston, Dublin, and Vancouver we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement will let you know how we look after your personal data with regard to your use of this website and in the context of receiving marketing communications from us. It also informs you as to our obligations and your rights under data protection law.

Who is responsible for your personal data?

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 679/2016) (the “GDPR”), Connelly Partners is the data controller with regard to the personal data described in this Privacy Statement. “Data controllers” are the people who or organisations which determine the purposes for which, and the manner in which, any personal data is processed, who/which make independent decisions in relation to the personal data and/or who/which otherwise control that personal data. If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or about our data protection compliance please contact us at connect@connellypartners.com.

What personal data do we collect?

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data can be factual (for example, a name, address or date of birth) or it can be an opinion about that person, their actions and/or behavior. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, job title, copies of personal identification and date of birth.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Client Data includes information you provide to us which is relevant to the advice/service which we are providing you with, and/or that you are providing us with.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website and other web properties owned and/or controlled by Connelly Partners Dublin.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

How do we collect your personal data?

We collect your personal data as follows:

• We collect information from you when we are setting you up as a new client of the agency which can include company documentation, identifying information and financial data.
• We collect certain personal data through our website through use of contact forms, cookies, etc. Our cookies policy can be found here.
• We collect personal data and other information from you during the course of providing you with services.
• We may also receive your personal data from publicly available sources such as the Company Registration Office.
• We may collect your personal data at client events or seminars.

For what purposes do we process your personal data?

• Providing advice and any other service which you have requested.
• Administering billing, processing payments, etc. in connection with the services we provide.
• To provide you with information on events we are running, agency updates and general marketing news which we think you may be interested in.
• For any purpose which may arise as necessary during the course of our providing services to you.

What are our legal bases for processing?

For the purposes set out at 1(i) and (ii) above we rely on your consent, the legitimate interests of Connelly Partners Dublin and our clients and/or that certain processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with you. For the purpose set out at 1(iii) we rely on the legitimate interests of ourselves and our clients and/or on your consent. For the purpose set out at 1(iv) we may rely on your consent, our legitimate interests, the fact that such processing is necessary for the purposes of performing our contract with you and/or that the processing is necessary for the purposes of complying with a legal obligation to which we are subject. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. This includes where you wish to unsubscribe from any marketing communications you receive from us. We use cookies to facilitate the use of our website. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our cookie policy here.

Do we share your personal data with anyone else?

We may share your personal data with the following parties in connection with our processing of your personal data. These will include email service providers, experts or as may otherwise arise in the course of our providing our services to you. We use data processors for storage, analytics and communications, such as, but not limited to, Pantheon which provides hosting services for our website, Google Mail which provides our email services, Poppulo and MailChimp that provide our email newsletter service and Google Analytics and Hotjar which provide website traffic statistics and analysis. We require all third parties to enter into a data processing agreement with us which complies with our obligations under the GDPR. This agreement requires third parties to have appropriate security systems in place and only to use your personal data on our instructions and in accordance with data protection law.

Keeping your personal data secure

We take appropriate security measures against unlawful or unauthorized processing of personal data, and against the accidental loss of, or damage to, personal data. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents and other third parties who are required to have access to your personal data and where they have agreed that they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures and technologies to maintain the security of all personal data from the point of collection to the point of destruction. We have procedures in place to deal with actual and suspected data breaches which include an obligation on us to notify the supervisory authority and/or you, the data subject, where legally required to do so.

Transferring personal data abroad

There are circumstances in which we will have to transfer your personal data out of the European Economic Area for the purposes of carrying out the services we provide to you. Where the need for such a transfer arises, we will always ensure that there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your personal data such as:

• the European Commission has issued a decision confirming that the country to which we transfer the personal data ensures an adequate level of protection for the data subjects’ rights and freedoms;
• appropriate safeguards are in place such as binding corporate rules (BCR), standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, an approved code of conduct or a certification mechanism;
• you have provided explicit consent to the proposed transfer after being informed of any potential risks; or
• the personal data is being transferred to a company in the US which has self-certified its compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield which has been found by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection to the personal data of EU residents.

For how long do we keep your personal data?

Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer reasonably required for the purposes described above or you withdraw your consent (where applicable) and we are not legally required or otherwise permitted to continue storing such data. Even though data might no longer be required in relation to the performance of the contract, it may be kept longer for related reasons such as to make- or defend against legal claims. Where you ask to be unsubscribed from marketing communications we may keep a record of your email address and the fact that you have unsubscribed to ensure that you are not sent any further emails in the future.

Your data protection rights

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

• Request information about whether we hold personal information about you, and, if so, what that information is and why we are holding/using it.
• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Object to automated decision-making including profiling, that is not to be the subject of any automated decision-making by us using your personal information or profiling of you.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request transfer of your personal information in an electronic and structured form to you or to another party (commonly known as a right to “data portability”). This enables you to take your data from us in an electronically useable format and to be able to transfer your data to another party in an electronically useable format.

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Connelly Partners Dublin, or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority who can be contacted as follows https://www.dataprotection.ie/

Contact Us

You can contact us with any queries, complaints or requests to exercise your data protection rights using the details below:

Connelly Partners
Email: connect@connellypartners.com
Dublin Address:
1st Floor, Portview House, Thorncastle Street, Irishtown, Dublin,
D04 V9Y9
Phone: +353 1 6680755

Data Protection Commissioner
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
Address:
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois R32 AP23
Phone: +353 57 8684800 / +353 761104800

Cookies Policy

We may update our Cookies Policy to reflect any changes in technology or data protection legislation. Any updates or changes that may affect how we use cookies or how you as a user can manage cookies will appear on this page.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files sent from a website that a website can use in order to recognise visitors who revisit a site so as to facilitate their ongoing access to and use of the site. Cookies enable usage behaviour to be tracked and aggregate data to be compiled that would facilitate more targeted advertising and improved content. Typically, cookies involve the assigning of a unique number to the visitor. More information about cookies can be found on www.aboutcookies.org & www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookies on Connelly Partners Dublin website

Connelly Partners set the following types of cookies on your device when you visit our website.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies are used to collect statistical information about visitors of the website and the pages they view. Connelly Partners Dublin set Google Analytics cookies to gather this statistical information.

Other third party cookies

Some cookies that have been set on our website are not related to Connelly Partners Dublin. When you visit a page with content embedded from a third party such as YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third party website for more information about these cookies and the cookie policy of these third parties.

Controlling and disabling cookies

One simple way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. For more information on how to manage cookies, including opt-out of performance cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org For more information on how to opt out of Google Analytics please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

List of Cookies set on Connelly Partners website and newsletters

• ‘__utma’
  This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. This cookie is what’s called a “persistent” cookie. This cookie does not expire unless removed by the user.
• ‘__utmb’ and ”_utmc’
  The B and C cookies are brothers, working together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes and then it expires. This cookie waits 30 minutes before expiring.
• ‘__utmz’
  Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. This cookie expires after 6 months.

Language

Languages keeps track of language preferences while navigating the website. This cookie expires at the end of a session.

Policy

The policy cookie is used to remember cookie policy permissions.
This cookie will expire after 2 years.

Updates to this Privacy Statement

Our Privacy Statement may change from time to time, and any changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted on the website and will be effective when posted. Please check back regularly.