--- title: Privacy Policy description: How Irish Accounting Partner handles personal information submitted through the website. canonical: https://irishaccountingpartner.com/privacy-policy last_updated: 2026-08-12 content_type: legal_page primary_entity: Privacy policy audience: Website visitors --- # Privacy Policy Effective date: 12 August 2026 This policy explains how Irish Accounting Partner collects, uses, shares and protects personal data through this website. ## Controller and contact details Irish Accounting Partner is the data controller. The legal and trading name is Irish Accounting Partner. The business is based in Dublin 8, Ireland and provides services across Ireland. - Email: ray@irishaccountingpartner.com - Phone: +353 89 967 2774 - Postal location: Dublin 8, Ireland No Data Protection Officer has been appointed. Privacy questions and rights requests should be sent to the business email above. ## Personal data collected The website may collect names, work email addresses, phone numbers if provided, company names, service interests, enquiry messages and correspondence. Enquiry submissions also include the source page, referring page and campaign parameters. After analytics consent, Google Analytics may collect IP-derived approximate location, browser, device, page, session and conversion-event information. The website also stores the visitor's analytics choice and the date of that choice. ## Purposes and legal bases - Responding to enquiries and arranging consultations: steps requested before a contract and the legitimate interest in responding to genuine business enquiries. - Preparing a proposal and establishing an engagement: steps before a contract and performance of a contract. - Operating and securing the website: the legitimate interest in maintaining a secure, reliable service. - Measuring website use: consent. - Maintaining records and handling legal matters: legal obligations and the legitimate interest in establishing, exercising or defending legal claims. ## Forms and communications Enquiry data is processed through Cloudflare infrastructure and delivered by Resend to the business inbox. Phone, email and WhatsApp providers may process routing, account, device and communication information under their own policies. Visitors should not submit passwords, banking credentials, complete accounting records, identity documents or other highly sensitive information through the public form or WhatsApp. ## Cookies and analytics Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-Z24N21D56F, loads only after analytics consent. It may measure page visits, devices, approximate location, enquiry submissions, phone clicks and WhatsApp clicks. The first-party cookies `_ga` and `_ga_Z24N21D56F` are configured to expire after up to six months. Visitors can change their choice through Cookie settings in the footer. ## Recipients and international transfers Recipients may include Cloudflare for hosting and security, Resend for enquiry-email delivery, Google Analytics after consent, Meta or telecommunications providers when chosen by the visitor, professional advisers and public authorities where legally required. Personal data is not sold or used for third-party advertising. Some providers or subprocessors may process personal data outside the European Economic Area. An applicable safeguard is required, such as an adequacy decision, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful mechanism. ## Retention - Enquiries that do not become engagements: normally up to 24 months after the last meaningful contact. - Client and proposal records: for the engagement and the period required by legal, contractual and professional obligations. - Security records: only as long as reasonably necessary to investigate misuse or incidents. - Google Analytics user-level and event-level data: no longer than 14 months. - Cookie preference: up to six months unless changed or cleared earlier. Information may be deleted or anonymised earlier when it is no longer needed. ## Rights Subject to applicable conditions and exemptions, individuals may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability, object to certain processing, withdraw consent and complain to a supervisory authority. Requests can be sent to ray@irishaccountingpartner.com. Irish Accounting Partner may request information needed to verify identity and normally responds within one month. Individuals may also contact Ireland's Data Protection Commission at 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, Ireland or through https://www.dataprotection.ie/. ## Other information Irish Accounting Partner does not currently operate a general marketing mailing list through this website. The website does not use personal data for solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. It is a business-services website and is not directed to children. Proportionate security controls are used, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. ## Related pages - [Services](https://irishaccountingpartner.com/services.md): Review the complete accounting and finance service range. - [How we work](https://irishaccountingpartner.com/how-we-work.md): Understand scoping, delivery and engagement formats. - [Contact](https://irishaccountingpartner.com/contact.md): Send an enquiry or call the team.