The purpose of this Data Privacy Statement is to explain how we at Property Partners, (hereinafter referred to as “Property Partners”, “we” or “us”) collect and use personal information in connection with our business. Property Partners is the data controller for all personal data collected from the propertypartners.ie website. Property Partners respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations in accordance with GDPR Regulation 2016/679. By visiting, and continuing to use this website, you are accepting the terms of this Data Privacy Statement. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy statements of these other websites.
Non-Personal Data
We may gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses (where they have been clipped or anonymised), browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include information such as your name, address, email address, birth date, marital status, occupation and salary range. While information such as name and email address is required by Property Partners (we need it to provide you with our services), other personal data is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.
Information You Supply to Us
You provide most of such information when you search, buy, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire or communicate with customer services. For example, you provide information when you search for a property through Property Partners or one of our third-party partners, communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise, complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form, employ other personal notification services such as Property Partners Property Alerts. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address and phone number etc. Information Automatically Collected by Us
Examples of the information we collect and analyse include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login, e-mail address, computer and connection information such as browser type and version, your operating system and platform, purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), through and from our website (including date and time), cookie number and products/services you viewed or searched for.
Non-Personal Data
We use Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.
Personal Data
We will process Personal Data that you provide to us for the following purposes:
Cookies
This website uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is a small text file stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. This website uses session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted when you close your web browser. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. Our cookies are not made available to other websites. Our cookies may be used to record the number of user sessions on this website and to track the number of users who return to the site. 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 our cookie policy page. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note: if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use and the functionality of this website. For more information on the cookies we use on our website, please refer to our cookie policy.
The length of time we will retain your personal data will depend on the purpose for which we are processing it. The following criteria will be applied: We will retain personal data for the minimum period required for the purpose(s) of processing. Personal data will be retained for a period of time subject to our data retention policy and/ or legal requirements When personal data is no longer required t be retained, it will be anonymized, to remove all personal identifiable information, or deleted in a secure
manner in accordance with our technical and organisational procedures.We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties. We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil a service you have requested (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements). Any third party we disclose your personal information to will use it for the purposes of delivering the service in question unless you have agreed otherwise. We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Statement and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet Service Provider. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data.
We may transfer your Information to a country outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), on the basis that the country to which personal data is transferred ensures an adequate level of protection for your rights and freedoms. Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, Property Partners will ensure that the European Commission has decided that the country or the organisation we are sharing your information with will protect your information adequately. If this country does not offer the same level of data protection as the European and local data protection legislation, Property Partners will take adequate measures to ensure that the collected personal data is processed in accordance with the applicable legislation relating to data protection.
Your Personal Data Rights
You can add or update certain information on the registration page. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the previous version for our records. You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under GDPR 2016/679, we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please email hq@propertypartners.ie Please note that to help protect your privacy, we take steps to verify your identity before granting access to personal data.
Opt-Out
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other correspondence from us, please send an email to hq@propertypartners.ie
This notice is governed by the laws of Ireland. If you have any concerns about data privacy at Property Partners, please send a thorough description to hq@propertypartners.ie and we will endeavour to resolve it to the best of our ability. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the response you received from Property Partners in relation to a Personal Data request, you have the right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission who may investigate the matter on your behalf.
Data Protection Commission’s contact details:
Website: www.dataprotection.ie
Phone: 1890 252 231
E-mail: info@dataprotection.ie
Postal Address:
Data Protection Commission,
Canal House, Station Road,
Portarlington, Co. Laois.
R32 AP23.
Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice may change from time to time to reflect such changes. We may e-mail you periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but we recommend that you check our website frequently for updates or changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we have about you, including your account. This privacy statement was last updated on the 1st October 2018.
For all correspondence in relation to data privacy please contact
Property Partners Head Office
Gray House, Galway Retail Park, Headford Road, Galway
hq@propertypartners.ie
T. 091 530096