Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement tells you about the information JRC Bookkeeping Limited collect from you when you use our website. By collecting this information, we act as a data controller and are required to provide you with information about us, why and how we use your data, and about the rights you have over your personal data.

By using this website and by disclosing your personal data to us, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, use and disclosure of your data as described in this Privacy Statement.

Please read this statement carefully in order that you understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with any aspect of this Privacy Statement you should discontinue to use this website.

Who are we?

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller of this website is JRC Bookkeeping Limited (“JRC”) and our address is 15 Ashfield Park, Stillorgan Road, Dublin 4

If you have any queries about this Privacy Statement, or wish to exercise your rights as set out in herein, please email us on michele@jrcbookkeeping.ie

What personal data do we collect about you?

The personal data JRC collects about you includes:

Any personal data which you furnish to us via the form on our “Contact Us” page;
When you access our website, your device’s browser provides us with certain information which may be collected and used to compile statistical data. This information may be used to help us to improve our website and the services we offer.

What do we do with the data we gather?

Where we collect your personal data, we use it for the following reasons:

To respond to a query you may have submitted via the form on our “Contact Us” page
To send marketing and other emails, which may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such emails (which consent can be withdrawn at any time)
To administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, survey and training purposes
To improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device
To keep our website safe and secure

Legal basis for processing your personal data

Consent: We process your personal data where you have given your consent to the processing of your data
Legal Compliance: We use your personal data in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations (including anti-money laundering obligations), to enforce our legal rights and to protect the rights of third parties
Legitimate Interests: In most cases, it is in our legitimate interest to process your personal data for the following reasons:

To respond to any queries you have submitted through the website
To allow us to provide the services you request from us
For the administration and operation of our services, as well as for marketing and promoting our firm’s services

What if you do not want to provide us with your Personal Data

If you do not want us to process your personal data or if you request that we stop processing your personal data, then we cannot respond to queries that you raise through our website or send you email alerts that you had requested us to send you.

Disclosure of your personal information

When you use our website and when you contact us through the form on the “Contact Us” page of our website, we may share your personal data with our IT service providers, practice management system provider, our email service providers.

We may disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligations and in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Engagement.

We may also share your information with selected third parties including:

Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website.

Our agents and contractors as set out above are restricted from using your data in any way other than to provide services for us. We require that all such agents or contractors enter into contractual agreements in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Transferring your Personal Data outside the EEA

The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). You understand and accept that countries outside the EEA may not have laws which provide the same level of protection to your personal data as laws within the EEA.

Where we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we or they will impose contractual obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your personal data to the standard required in the EEA. In the case of transfers by us, we may also transfer your personal data where:

(i) The transfer is to a county deemed to provide appropriate protection of your personal data by the European Commission; or,

(ii) Where you have consented to the transfer.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Depending on the nature of the information we hold and the purposes for which it is processed, this will determine the number of years we need to retain your personal data in our system. It is our policy to retain documents in hardcopy and electronic form in accordance with any retention period required by law. The data will then be destroyed without further notice or liability.

Your rights as a data subject

You have the following rights under GDPR, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exemptions, in relation to your personal data;

A right of access to the personal data we hold about you.
A right to rectification if the data we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete.
A right to erasure, where you can ask us to delete or remove your personal data.
A right to restrict processing.
A right to data portability of your personal data.
A right to object to our processing your personal data.
A right to withdraw consent – where we process your data solely on the basis of your consent, you are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time.
A right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission.

If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your rights above, please contact us by post or email:

Email: michele@jrcbookkeeping.ie

Post: 15 Ashfield Park, Stillorgan Road, Dublin 4

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. JRC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. If you link to or visit another website, please review the privacy statement for that website.

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small files which are stored on a computer. They have designed to hold a small amount of data specific to a user and website and they help to deliver content tailored to a particular user. If you do not want your browser to accept cookies you can turn off this functionality in settings but this may prevent this website or other websites from functioning properly.

Personal data will be collected from visitors to our website such as the time and date of your visit, the pages you visit and your physical location when visiting them, and other more specific details like your IP address, the links you click and the route you take through the website, and your information if you report a problem with our website. This is in our legitimate interest to improve our website offerings and enhance your online visit to us.

Changes to our privacy statement

We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make changes, they will be posted here so that you can see what information we gather, how we might use that information and in what circumstances we may disclose it.

Each time you use this website the then current Privacy Statement will apply and you should review it each time you use the website to satisfy yourself that you are happy with it.