At Quinn Property Sales Ltd we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy notice, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other notice referred to in it, explains how we will collect your personal data and how we use your personal data when you visit our website.
Quinn Property Sales Ltd is data controller in respect of the personal data processed when you visit our website. If you have any questions or concerns in relation to this Privacy Notice you can contact our Data Protection Officer at info@quinnestateagents.com or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Quinn Property Sales Ltd, 3 The Square, Ballynahinch, BT24 8AE
This website is not intended for children.
This privacy notice was last amended in September 2018. It supersedes any earlier version.
This website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins or applications which may allow third parties to collect or share your personal data. We are not responsible for their use of your personal data and cannot control it.
As a business we collect, use, store and transfer different types of personal data depending on who you are.
If you are purchasing, renting, selling or letting a property through Quinn Property Sales Ltd, or purchasing, renting, selling or letting a property from one of our clients, we collect and use your personal data in order for us to provide you with our services. The personal data we collect and use may include:
We also may collect and use Aggregated Data. For example, when you visit our website we may aggregate data about your usage to tell us about how certain features on our website are used. This is not usually classified as personal data as whilst it derives from personal data (in the example, it is derived from your Usage Data) it does not reveal your identity to us. If we do link this Aggregated Data to your personal information, it will be treated as personal data in line with this policy.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. You can ask us to rectify or update your personal information at any time by email to info@quinnestateagents.com or by writing to The Data Protection Officer, 3 The Square, Ballynahinch, BT24 8AE
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Third parties or publicly available source
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of payment services such as Mastercard based inside the EU.
Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators such as:
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.
In the table below we summarise the ways that we plan to use your personal data and the purposes for which we will use your personal data. We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we have collected it. If we need to process your personal data for a different purpose that is not compatible with the original purpose that we collected your personal data, we will let you know.
We may process your personal data for a different purpose and without your consent where it is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
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| To Contact You | Identity Contact Financial Transaction Marketing and Communications |
Performance of a contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, to recover debts due to us, to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
| To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide with you the information, products and services you request from us Identity | Contact Financial Transaction Marketing and Communications |
Performance of a contract with you. Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to recover debts due to us) |
| To provide you with information about other goods and services that we offer which we feel may interest you Identity | Contact Technical Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
To permit selected third parties:
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Identity Contact Technical Usage |
Consent (in relation to SMS and email marketing communications) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our service offering) |
| To assist us in the improvement and optimisation of advertising, marketing material and content, our services and the website | Identity Contact Financial Transaction Marketing and Communications |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business and provision of administration and IT services) |
| To notify you about changes to our service | Identity Contact |
Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with our legal obligations Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated) |
| To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer | Identity Contact Financial Transaction |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business and provision of administration and IT services) |
| To verify your identity | Identity Contact Financial Transaction |
Necessary to comply with our legal obligations Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to prevent fraud and money laundering) |
| As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure and to prevent or detect fraud | Identity Contact Financial Transaction |
Necessary to comply with our legal obligations Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) |
| To provide customer support | Identity Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
| To facilitate and to enable you to partake in a property viewing, open house event or visits to property marketing suites | Identity Contact |
Performance of a contract with you Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to develop and grow our business) |
| To comply with the requirements imposed by law or any court order | Identity Contact Technical Usage |
Necessary to comply with our legal obligations |
| Where you have viewed through us, we may disclose your name to a landlord or vendor where we have been dis-instructed, in order to avoid a potential commission dispute | Your Name | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to protect our entitlement to a commission and to avoid commission disputes wherever possible) |
Marketing
You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to use your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. You also have the right to withdraw consent for us to pass your information to third parties for marketing purposes. If you do withdraw your consent, this will result in us ceasing to market goods and services to you.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:
If you do withdraw your consent to receiving marketing messages, we will still process your personal data in order to fulfil our contract with you and in accordance with our legal, accountancy and regulatory obligations.
If you no longer wish to be contacted by third parties for marketing purposes, please follow the instructions in their marketing communications, or consult their privacy policies about how to unsubscribe.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of Quinn Property Sales Ltd
Cookies
The Quinn Property Sales Ltd website and applications may automatically collect data about how you use our services in order to help us improve future functionality. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google.
The cookies on the Quinn Property Sales Ltd website do not track, collect or upload data such as your name, email address or billing information, but it may collect data about your equipment and browsing activities. We may collect and report on the adoption and usage of specific features, crashes and exceptions and other useful, anonymous metrics.
Certain devices can detect your approximate location, via latitude and longitude. The accuracy of this data is not in the control of Quinn Property Sales Ltd. If this feature is requested, we will prompt you to provide your permission to access your location data for the purposes of providing you with results or directions based on your current location. You can disable location settings within your browser or app.
To read more about our use of cookies on the Quinn Property Sales Ltd website, please consult our Cookie Policy
We may have to share your personal data with third parties from time to time in order to comply with our obligations as an Estate Agent acting in both sales and rentals or for the purposes set out in the "Purposes for which we will use your personal data" table above. We have agreements in place with our third parties that restrict their use of your personal data. We only allow third parties to use your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions
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Other Third Parties |
Sometimes there may be 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 notice. |
