Raglan Street Private Privacy Statement
Raglan Street Private is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We wish to be transparent
on how we process your data and show you that we are accountable with the GDPR in relation to not
only processing your data but ensuring you understand your rights.
For the purposes of the GDPR the data controller is Raglan Street Private.
When we refer to we/us, we mean Raglan Street Private
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully as this sets out the basis on which any personal data, we collect
from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
Who are we?
Raglan Street Private is a financial advisory firm that provides professional financial planning services to
clients and their families. We provide advice and arrange transactions on behalf of clients in relation to
life/pension/investment and protection products/policies.
Our GDPR Owner can be contacted directly here:
Michael Keyes
Email address: michael@raglanstreetprivate.ie
Phone number: 0868564520
How do we collect your information and what information do we collect?
The personal information we collect varies depending upon the nature of our services. We will
endeavour to provide you with an overview of those categories of personal data our organisation
collects and our purpose for using that data.
Our organisation collects personal data in the following ways, if you:
request a service from us such as, Investment advice, pension planning or protection advice.
register with or use our website
use our website and it installs cookies or other tracking technologies onto your device.
contact us with a complaint or query;
apply for a position with us
What information do we collect?
The information we collect about you includes the following:
1. Contact and Identifying information, e.g., name, address, contact details; email, mobile,
landline
2. Unique identifiers e.g.
PPS number – the reason why we collect your PPS number, where relevant, is for
the purposes of pension applications
Pension scheme reference number- the reason why we collect this is pension
planning advice/applications
Insurance policy numbers -the reason why we collect this is to obtain full
information where required
3. Demographic details, age, gender, marital status, lifestyle, and insurance requirements;
date of birth, dependents, photo ID, as well as collecting personal information about you,
we may also use personal information about other people, for example family members
you wish to insure on a policy. E.g., your children/spouse
4. Family and Beneficiary Data, e.g., dependants, next of kin or nominated beneficiaries,
Power of Attorney, Enduring Power of Attorney. Details of Solicitor/Tax
Advisor/Accountant.
5. Employment information e.g., role, employment status (such as full/part time, contract),
salary information, employment benefits, and employment history.
This information is necessary for our Fact Find with our clients.
6. Publicly available sources: e.g., Information about you in the public domain such as
Director information from the Companies Registration Office.
7. Health information such as information about your health status, medical records and
medical assessment outcomes; We collect medical information relating to personal habits
(e.g., smoking and consumption of alcohol), medical history. We may also process certain
special categories of information, for example disability information. – This information is
required for protection advice and applications e.g., life cover, health insurance.
8. Pensions and Insurance Benefits information such as current benefits, pension entitlement
information, date of retirement and any relevant matters impacting your benefits such as
voluntary contributions & Pension Adjustment Orders.
9. Financial details e.g., bank account details, details of your credit history and bankruptcy
status, salary, tax code, third-party deductions, bonus payments, benefits and entitlement
data and national insurance contributions details.
10. Marketing preferences: we will only send you direct marketing if you explicitly consent &
this will be via email.
11. Online information: e.g., information about your visits to our websites; see cookie policy
www.raglanstreet.ie
12. Criminal records information e.g via adverse media internet searches
13. Searches that we undertake in relation to sanctions, money laundering and credit checks
(where required) via Vision Net & BIS Platform
When our organisation collects sensitive personal data as defined within the GDPR we will ensure that
we require this information, and we have your explicit consent and/or authorisation prior to our
collection. Please see the further information contained in this Privacy Notice that outlines special
categories of personal data.
Information we automatically collect.
We sometimes automatically collect certain types of information when you visit our website and
through e-mails when we communicate with you. Automated technologies may include the use of web
server logs to collect IP addresses, "cookies" and web beacons. Other cookies such as functional cookies,
marketing cookies and analytical cookies will only be used with your expressed consent. Further
information about our use of cookies can be found in our Cookie Notice at the footer of our web page.
www.raglanstreetprivate.ie
How do we use your personal data?
Your Personal Data will be used to enable us to fulfil our contractual obligations in relation to your
request for insurance, investment, protection, pension products, financial advice, quotes.
1. Performing services for our clients and prospective clients – when you require
insurance/investment products, we use your data to enable us to provide the required product
2.
Statutory and other regulatory requirements – we are required to carry out various obligations
which include:
AML/Sanction checking
Knowing your customer “Fact Find”
Adherence to the Consumer Protection Code
3. Communicate and marketing to you – via email & telephone where this complies with the
Consumer Protection Code
4. Process claims – this may include requesting medical information on behalf of protection
provider
5. To contact you if required or to respond to any communications that you might send to us.
6. To administer our site including data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
7. Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us and to provide
you with the information, products and services that you request.
9. Provide professional services – this includes financial planning through the use of cashflow
modelling software.
10 Handling complaints
11 To notify you about changes to our service
Legal Basis
We need to ensure that we process your personal data lawfully. We rely on the following legal grounds to
collect and use your personal data.
Performance of a
contract
When we enter a contract with you, we will collect and use your personal data to
enable us to fulfil that service.
Legal obligation The use of some of your personal data is necessary for us to meet our legal
obligations e.g., pension contributions for Revenue Certificates, Regulatory
purposes to the Central Bank.
Consent Sometimes we may rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information.
For example, we rely on consent to collect and use personal data for any criminal
convictions or alleged offences. This is used when we need to assess risk relating to
an insurance policy for you. We share this information with other third parties
where it is necessary to manage these services provided to you – these services
include insurance underwriters, reinsurer and other insurance providers.
We may also rely on your consent to send direct marketing to you. We will ensure
that we present this to you concisely. We will also ensure that we use clear and
plain language and if you give us your consent you can withdraw this easily at any
time.
Sometimes if you refuse to provide information that we reasonably require to
provide the services, we may be unable to offer you the services and/or we may
terminate the services provided with immediate effect.
Legitimate
interests
Where we rely on this legal basis to collect and use your personal information, we
shall take appropriate steps to ensure the processing does not infringe the rights
and freedoms conferred to you under the applicable data privacy laws.
If you require further information on any of the above basis for processing your data, we can provide
you with further details.
How we share your data
When required, we may make your information available to third parties with whom we have a
relationship, where that third party is providing services on our behalf. We will only provide those third
parties (data processors) with information that is necessary for them to perform the services. We will
take measures to protect your information, such as putting in place Standard Contractual Clauses and
confidentiality agreements.
1. Insurance Partners where we need to manage the services provided to you such as Product
Providers and insurance underwriters & reinsurers. update as required. You can refer to
their privacy statements on their website for more information about their privacy
practices.
Medical professionals, e.g., where you provide health information in connection with a
claim against your insurance policy; or when we are providing a quote for insurance.
3. EU Law enforcement bodies, when required to do so by law and/or regulation, or another
legal request.
4. Public authorities, regulators and government bodies, where necessary for us to comply
with our legal and regulatory obligations, or in connection with an investigation of
suspected or actual illegal activity;
5. Third-party processors: We outsource our processing operations to suppliers that process
personal information on our behalf. Examples include accounting and payroll providers,
CRM providers.
These processing operations remain under our control and we have data processing
agreements in place with all our third party processors to ensure all processing is carried out
in accordance with our security standards and the GDPR.
6. External auditors where necessary for the conduct of company audits or to investigate a
complaint or security threat.
Transferring personal data outside of Ireland
Where we transfer personal data to a country outside of the EEA (referred to in the GDPR as ‘third
country,’) we will ensure it is done lawfully, i.e. there is an appropriate “level of protection for the
fundamental rights of the data subjects”. We will therefore ensure that either the EU Commission has
granted an adequacy decision in respect of the third country, or appropriate specified safeguards have
been put in place, (e.g., Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) or Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)).
We may share data with some providers located in the UK. The EU Commission adopted adequacy
decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK. This means that the EU accepts that the UK data
protection regime is substantially equivalent to the EU regime and allows personal data to be
transferred freely from the EEA to the UK. Therefore, the UK is not deemed a third country.
We may share your data with acountry outside of the EEA and wherethere is no finding of adequacy of
the transfer of data from Ireland to the country outside of the EEA. In the absence of an adequacy
decision the GDPR allows the transfer if the controller or processor has provided appropriate
safeguards. These safeguards include Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). We, the data controller must
abide by the SCCs as well as the Recommendations adopted by the European Data Protection Board on
measures that supplement the SCCs which will ensure the level of protection provided for within the
GDPR.
Security
The security of your personal data is important to us, we have implemented appropriate technical and
organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk. We have processes in
place to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorised access, misuse, alteration and destruction.
Retention
Raglan Street Privateshall not keep personal data in a form that permits identification of data subjects
for a longer period than is necessary.
Raglan Street Private may store data for longer periods if the personal data will be processed solely for
archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes,
subject to the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the
rights and freedoms of the data subject.
The retention period for each category of personal data will be set out in our Retention Policy along
with the criteria used to determine this period, including any statutory obligations we have. Should you
require further information we would be happy to provide.
Personal data will be disposed of securely.
Data Subjects Rights:
Raglan Street Private will facilitate your rights in line with our data protection policy & subject access
request policy. This is available on request.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have
the following rights:
Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or
incomplete.
Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be
erased from our records. (The erasure of such data will be dependent on our other legal
obligations, and whether the data is subject of legal privilege).
Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the
processing.
Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another
organisation.
Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct
marketing.
Right to object to automated processing, including profiling.
Right to make a complaint: if we refuse your request under rights of access, we will provide you
with a reason as to why.
All the above requests will be forwarded on, should there be a third party involved, as we have indicated
in the processing of your personal data.
Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Raglan Street
Private or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint with our GDPR
Owner – Michael Keyes.
You may also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland, whose details
are:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South,
Dublin 2.
D02RD28
Web: www.dataprotection.ie
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
See website for updated contact details to reach the appropriate section within the DPC.
Failure to provide further information.
If we are collecting your data for a contract and you cannot provide this data, the consequences of this
could mean the contract cannot be completed or details are incorrect.
When you fail to provide us with information we require to fulfil our obligations to you, we may be
unable to offer our services to you.
Profiling – automatic decision making.
An automated decision is when we input your personal data into a computer programme and this
programme analyses your personal data to provide us with a result. There is no human involvement in
the decision making these are listed below. If a decision is taken by automated means, you have the
right to object to this and ask us to reconsider the service you have asked us to provide. Some further
examples of automated decisions that we undertake are listed below.
The main categories are
a) Risk Profiling
To establish a customer’s attitude to investment risk (relates to pensions and investments)
advisors have automated calculators which calculate the customers attitude to various levels of
risk having answered a series of questions.
b) Establishing affordability and providing quotations for financial services products.
c) PEP & Sanction Checks
Special Categories of personal data
Special categories of data are sensitive in relation to your fundamental rights and freedoms and
therefore require specific protection when processed as these could create significant risks to the rights
and freedoms of individuals.
If we collect any special categories of personal data, such as health data, we will either obtain your
explicit consent or we will adhere to the Data Protection Act 2018. This Act allows us to process special
categories of personal data for insurance and pension purposes. We will ensure we have suitable and
specific measures in place to safeguard the rights and freedoms of you and the processing of your data.
These measures relate to the below:
a policy of insurance or life assurance,
a policy of health insurance or health related insurance
an occupational pension, a retirement annuity contract or any other pension arrangement
Contact Us
Your privacy is important to us. If you have any comments or questions regarding this statement, please
contact us on 0868564520 or email michael@raglanstreetprivate.ie
Privacy notice/ statement changes
When we update this Privacy Notice/Statement, we will post a revised version online. Changes will be
effective from the point at which they are posted. We would encourage you to review our Privacy
Notice so that you are aware of updates.
This privacy policy was last reviewed in December 2025. V1.3