Privacy Policy

Welcome to Durkan

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Durkan’s Website.

Durkan is located at:

First Floor, Maple House, Lower Kilmacud Road, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, A94 E3F2, Ireland.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Company’s terms and conditions.

“The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Company. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves, or either the Client
or ourselves.

All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner, whether by formal meetings of a fixed duration, or any other means, for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services/products, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of Ireland.  Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies.  By using Durkan’s website you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with Durkan’s Privacy Policy.

Most of the modern day interactive web sites use cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit.  Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting.

Privacy Policy

What is Personal Data?

The definition of Personal Data is defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereafter known as the Data Subject or “you”).  This data includes such details as name, an identification number, location, email address, telephone number or any other relevant information that identifies you.

 Who is the Data Controller?

Durkan is the controller and is responsible for your Personal Data.

As per GDPR definition, the data controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

 Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to set out the basis of why & how we collect, store, retain, & delete your Personal Data so that you, as the Data Subject, can be assured that we are taking the necessary steps to comply with the relevant privacy and data protection legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Use of Personal Data

As part of doing business with Durkan, you will engage with us for different purposes for example, as a purchaser, tenant, sub-contractor, supplier, selling agent etc.  We will collect & use your Personal Data only for the purpose needed in order to conduct our business with you.

GDPR requires that the following processing principles be observed:

1. Personal data shall be

• Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner;
• Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
• Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation the purposes;
• Accurate and where necessary, kept up to date;
• Kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for no longer than is necessary for the legitimate purpose;
• Processed in a matter that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing;
• Kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for no longer than is necessary for the legitimate purpose;
• Processed in a matter that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing;

2. The controller shall be responsible for, and be able to demonstrate compliance with, point no. 1.

Durkan will take all reasonable actions to ensure that we comply with all of these principles both in current processing methods and any future methods of processing Personal Data.

Legal Bases for Processing Data

The law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons for which a company may collect and process your Personal Data and these are as follows:

1. Data Subject has given active consent to the processing for one or more purposes that have previously been disclosed to them;
2. A contractual obligation between Durkan and the Data Subject;
3. To satisfy a legal obligation;
4. To protect the vital interests of the Data Subject or another individual;
5. To carry out a task that is in the public interest;
6. For your company’s legitimate interests, but only after having checked that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual whose data you are processing are not seriously impacted.

Consent

For consent to be lawful, it must be:

1. Freely given;
2. Easy to withdraw;
3. Fully informed;
4. Unambiguous
5. Specific to the disclosed purpose;
6. Easy to distinguish;
7. Given in a clear affirmative action.

As a Data Subject, what are your rights?

Under the GDPR regulation, you have the following rights:

1. The right to be informed – you have the right to be informed about what information we have collected from you.
2. The right to access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you;
3. The right to rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete;
4. The right to erasure – in certain circumstances, you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records;
5. The right to restrict processing – where certain conditions apply, you may have a right to restrict the processing;
6. The right to data portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation;
7. The right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing;
8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – you have the right not to be the subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

Disclosure of Personal Data

Any information you provide to us is not made available to a third party except for the purposes discussed with you and is only used by us for these specified purposes when it was collected.

We do not collect sensitive personal information such as gender, race, religion, political affiliations etc.

We do not provide personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Retention Policy

We will keep Personal Data only for as long as the retention of such Personal Data is deemed necessary for the purposes for which it was collected unless there is an obligation for it to be otherwise held including for the purposes of satisfying any statutory, legal, accounting, insurance or reporting requirements.