Effective Date: July 06, 2026
This privacy policy for Hosford Property Consultants ("We", "Us" or "Our") tells you how we may collect, use and share your information when you visit our website hosford.ie.
We appreciate your decision to use our website hosford.ie and to trust us with your valuable personal information. In this document, we seek to explain in the clearest terms possible our privacy practices. We strongly encourage you to read this document (and any other related documents) carefully before using the website. If there are any terms or conditions in this document that you do not agree with, please do not use the website, or in case you are already using it, please discontinue the use immediately. By using the website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
When we collect information, we do so to ensure that you get to experience our service seamlessly. For that, we collect the following information. Some are your personal information and some are your sensitive personal information.
The personal information that we collect about you are the following:
We may use any of the following three ways to get information about you.
Before going into the reasons why we collect the information that we do, we want you to understand what the above three terms mean.
a. The information that you give us
When you sign up for an account to use our service/product we will ask you certain questions like your name or email address. These are the information that you give us. This may not be limited to what we have mentioned and can change according to the nature of the service/product that we provide.
b. The information that we automatically collect from you
When you access our service from a device, we may automatically collect information from your device, such as through the use of cookies. You will know more about automatic collection of personal information in the next section.
c. Information that we collect from third parties
These third parties can be data aggregators, online directories, data marketplaces or exchanges, etc from where we may collect information about you.
Cookies are small packets of information that are placed on your device, so that we can retrieve the information about you, such as your login information, your choices on our websites and other information.
For more information about cookies and similar technologies, please visit our cookie policy.
We respond to "do not track" requests in the following manner:
Hosford does not apply any specific policy or mechanism to alter browser default handling of Do Not Track requests
We collect information about you for a variety of reasons. It helps us, among other things, to serve you better. The following are the ways in which we use the information that we collect about you.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice requires us to retain your personal information for longer than the period during which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
We may share your information with third parties in the following ways:
We sell or share the information we collect from our users. For details, see below
The categories of personal information that are sold or shared with third parties are as follows:
Buyer and Seller information may be shared with relevant parties including solicitors as essential to complete buy and or selling processes only. Information is not shared with any other party without explicit request and/or consent
The categories of third parties to whom the information is disclosed are as follows:
Solicitors Property Agents Financial Institutions Governing Bodies
The user has the right to review and change their information by:
contact info@hosford.ie
We use automated processing of the personal information we collect to personalise our services for you and others.
The General Data Protection Regulation requires us to identify and set out the legal basis, or in other words, the legal justification, for processing your personal information. The following are the legal bases on which we process your personal data.
Consent: We may process your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy with your consent.
Performance of a contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may use the personal information collected from you to fulfil the terms of that contract.
Legal obligations: We may disclose information where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable laws, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal processes, such as responding to a court order or a subpoena (including requests from public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
In accordance with Articles 12 to 23 of the General Data Protection Regulation, the data subject, that is you, has the following rights.
To exercise any of the rights mentioned above, you may use the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.
We require your consent to collect information in order to provide our services to you seamlessly. However, you may refuse consent. Please note that refusing consent may have consequences, including limited access to our services and reduced features on the website.
We do not knowingly provide our services to children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child has provided us with information without your consent, please contact us. Upon verification that we have collected such information without parental consent, we will remove the information from our database.
We take reasonable measures to ensure that the information we collect from you is stored securely and protected to the best extent possible. However, no method of internet transmission or digital storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. While we use commercially reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect your information, we cannot promise that it will be 100% secure.
On our website, we may provide links to external websites, apps, or services. These are not operated by us and therefore are not governed by our Privacy Policy or practices. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policies of such websites or services before engaging with them to ensure that you do not provide personal information that you do not wish to share.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law or our privacy practices. We recommend that you review this privacy policy periodically to ensure it remains in line with your expectations.
The privacy policy will be effective from the date it is posted on this page.
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, or to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us using the following details:
DPO: info@hosford.ie
Address: Strand Rd, Burrow, Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, D13 VH00
Email address: info@hosford.ie
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