Privacy Notice

Last updated: 18 October 2026

1. Who we are

Hegarty & Co. Solicitors (“we”, “us”) is the data controller for personal data collected through hegartysolicitors.com.

Hegarty & Co. Solicitors, 4 St Andrews Terrace, Newtown, Waterford X91 YC43, Ireland
Email: info@hegartysolicitors.com · Phone: 051 841577

This notice covers personal data collected through our website. If you become a client, we will give you further information about how we handle your personal data as part of your matter. Our separate Client Privacy Notice, which we provide when you become a client, explains how we handle your personal data in connection with your legal matter.

2. What we collect

• Contact and quote call forms: your name, email address, phone number, the service you are interested in, your preferred call time and your message, along with technical details recorded when you submit the form: your IP address, browser type and the page you sent it from.
• Emails and phone calls: whatever information you choose to give us when you contact us directly.
• Cookies and analytics: if you accept statistics cookies, Google Analytics collects information about how you use the site, such as pages visited, approximate location, device and browser. We do not use advertising cookies. See our Cookie Policy.
• Security logs: our security software records IP addresses and visit details to protect the site from attacks and spam.

3. Why we use it, and our legal basis

• To reply to your enquiry and, if you wish, take steps towards acting for you. Legal basis: steps taken at your request before entering into a contract, and our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries.
• To understand how our website is used (Google Analytics). Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time through the cookie banner.
• To keep the website secure. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in protecting our website and the people who use it.
• To meet our legal and regulatory obligations as solicitors. Legal basis: legal obligation.

Please do not send confidential details of a legal matter through the contact form. We will arrange a secure way to discuss your matter once we have been in touch.

4. Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal data. We use trusted service providers who process data on our behalf, under contract:

• Website hosting: 20i Ltd, which hosts our website on servers in the United Kingdom.
• Email delivery: Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES), which sends the emails generated by our website, such as contact form notifications.
• Google: Google Analytics, only if you accept statistics cookies.

We may also share personal data where the law requires us to, for example with regulators or the courts.

5. Transfers outside the EEA

Our website is hosted in the United Kingdom, and some of our service providers, such as Google and Amazon, may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, the transfer is protected by safeguards recognised under GDPR, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

6. How long we keep it

• Contact form enquiries: we keep these for 12 months and then remove them, unless the enquiry leads to you becoming a client.
• Client files: if you become a client, we keep your file for as long as required by law and professional rules. This is generally at least eight years after your matter ends, and longer for some types of matter (for example, conveyancing files are kept for 13 years, in line with Law Society guidance).
• Analytics data: kept by Google for 14 months.

7. Your rights

Under data protection law, you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you
• have inaccurate data corrected
• have your data erased, in certain circumstances
• restrict or object to how we use your data, in certain circumstances
• receive your data in a portable format, in certain circumstances
• withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent

To exercise any of these rights, email info@hegartysolicitors.com. We will respond within one month.

You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission (www.dataprotection.ie). We would appreciate the chance to address your concerns first.

8. Cookies

You can change your cookie choices at any time. See our Cookie Policy for details.

9. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page.