Privacy Policy of DublinDowns

DublinDowns is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and process your personal data in connection with the services we provide, which include expert guidance on selling or acquiring a business, company valuation, tax-efficient dividend strategies, holding structures, Box 2 taxation, business succession, MBO financing, and optimally extracting money from your BV for Ireland entrepreneurs and DGA’s. This policy also outlines your rights regarding your personal data.

1. Who We Are

DublinDowns, located at 1 Bianconi Avenue, Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland, is the data controller for the personal data processed under this policy. Our contact number is +353822630580.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal data that is necessary to provide our business advisory services and to improve your experience on our online platform. The types of personal data we may collect include:

• Identity Data: Names, titles, dates of birth, and other demographic information.
• Contact Data: Postal addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data: Bank account details, financial statements, tax records, and other financial information relevant to our advisory services (e.g., for company valuation, MBO financing, tax strategies).
• Business Data: Company names, registration numbers, business activities, and details of transactions related to business sales or acquisitions.
• Technical Data: IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, and other technology on the devices you use to access our site.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our site, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect data in the following ways:

• Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, Financial, and Business Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • Engage us for advisory services;
  • Request information about our services;
  • Subscribe to our newsletters;
  • Provide feedback.
• Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
• Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as business registries.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data only when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To provide our services: To deliver expert guidance on business sales/acquisitions, valuations, tax strategies, succession planning, and MBO financing. This processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
• For administrative purposes: To manage our relationship with you, which includes notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, and responding to your enquiries. This is necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services).
• For marketing: To send you information about our services that we believe may be of interest to you, where you have given consent or where we have a legitimate interest to do so. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
• To improve our online platform: To administer and protect our business and this service (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data). This is necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud).
• To comply with legal obligations: To comply with legal or regulatory obligations that apply to us.

5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Professional Advisors: Lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers located in Ireland who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
• Service Providers: IT and system administration service providers.
• Regulatory and Government Bodies: As required by law, to comply with legal processes or governmental requests.
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets: Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International Transfers

We primarily store and process your personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA). If we ever need to transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

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. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully, or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing of your personal data 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 as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on our website. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Full name of legal entity: DublinDowns
Address: 1 Bianconi Avenue, Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the DPC, so please contact us in the first instance.