Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Website privacy notice

  1. INTRODUCTION

    This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site pjhegarty.co.uk

    P.J. Hegarty & Sons U.C.[are] the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

    [We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who is in charge of privacy related matters for us. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the details set out below.

    Contact Details

    Our full details are:

    Full name of legal entity: P.J. Hegarty & Sons U.C.

    [Name or title of Data Protection Officer]

    Email address: pjhuk@pjhegarty.co.uk

    Postal address: P.J. Hegarty & Sons (UK) Ltd., Waterman House, Watermans Business Park, Kingsbury Crescent, Staines, TW18 3BA, UK.

    [Telephone number:] + 44 1784 465495

    Details of our Representative:

    It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at pjhuk@pjhegarty.co.uk

  2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT

    Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.

    We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

    • performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
    • User Data that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back- ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
    • Technical Data that includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
    • We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

    Sensitive Data

    We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

  3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA [NOTE: YOU ONLY NEED TO INCLUDE THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT OBTAINED THE PERSONAL DATA DIRECTLY FROM THE DATA SUBJECT. DELETE THE SECTION IF NONE OF IT IS RELEVANT]

    We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this cookie policy.

    We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU, such as search information providers such as Google based outside the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.

    We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

  4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

    Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

    Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

    Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.

    You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time [by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences] OR [by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or] OR by emailing us at pjhdublin@pjhegarty.co.uk at any time].

    If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.

    [NOTE: UNDER PECR, UNSOLICITED MARKETING EMAILS AND TEXTS REQUIRE CONSENT, EXCEPT WHERE THEY ARE TO LIMITED COMPANIES OR THE SOFT OPT IN RULE APPLIES. HENCE THE WORDING IN SECTION 4 ABOVE. DISPLAY ADVERTISING SUCH AS FACEBOOK ADVERTS IS NOT COVERED UNDER PECR (THOUGH MAY BE IN THE NEW PECR THAT IS LIKELY TO COME INTO FORCE IN 2019) AND HENCE ARGUABLY THE LAWFUL GROUND OF PROCESSING IS LEGITIMATE INTERESTS (AND NO CONSENT IS NEEDED). SEE MY VIDEO ON THIS FOR MORE DETAILS]

  5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

    We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

    • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
    • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
    • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
    • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

    We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

  6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

    We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).]

  7. DATA SECURITY

    We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.

    We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

  8. DATA RETENTION

    We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

    For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

    In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

  9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

    Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

    You can see more about these rights at:

    https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/GDPR/1623.htm

    If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at pjhuk@pjhegarty.co.uk

    You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

    We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

    We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

    If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission authority in Ireland for data protection issues (www.dataprotection.ie). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

  10. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

    This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

  11. COOKIES

    You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see cookie policy.