Privacy and Cookies

Privacy

Colman Coyle respects your right to privacy. We meet the high standard for data privacy introduced by the new European data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May 2018.

You don’t have to give us any personal information to use this website unless you would like us to contact you by providing this information via our contact forms. This data is only used by us and not passed on to third parties.

You may visit only if you fully agree to this Privacy Policy, and by accessing it, you signify and affirm your informed consent to this Privacy Policy.

Please note: you are not obligated by law to provide us with any information. You hereby acknowledge, warrant and agree that any information you do provide us is provided of your own free will and consent, for the purposes and uses described herein.

Your Consent

By using our website you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the manner set out in this privacy policy. If we change or modify this privacy policy, we shall post these changes clearly on this page.

Visitors to our website:

When someone visits our website, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

Links to other websites:

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

People who email Colman Coyle:

Both Inbound and Outbound email delivery are secured and filtered using a third-party anti-spam service. The email services uses TLS by default to encrypt the connection/session between servers. You should be aware that any emails we send or receive may not be protected in transit.

We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.

Cookies:

This website may use a “session cookie” to identify your browser session as you move between pages on the website and perform activities. The website cookie allows our website to recognise each subsequent request from your browser as being the same browser that made the initial request to our website.

By knowing that each subsequent request is related to the first, our website can track your actions as you move around the website and provide interactive features. By analysing how our website is being used in general, we can improve the website experience for future visitors.

Each page on our website is generated by a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS). This system may provide a number of interactive features. Such features require the “session cookie” to operate. As we improve our website over time, more advanced features may be added that also require a “session cookie” to operate.

How to control and delete cookies

Cookies are a very small text file that is stored on your device (for example, your PC or your phone) by your web browser. It contains a simple text code that your browser sends back to our website each time you browse to a new page. This allows the website to look up your specific session and associate data for that session with your browser. The data itself is not stored in your cookie but on the server(s) operating the website.

You may restrict or block the cookies which are set by irglobal.com, or any other website, through your browser settings. To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, visit: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this site.

The firm’s full Privacy Policy for client conduct is provided to you at your matter inception and is reviewed at least annually. A copy of the latest version of this can be found via the link below.