Privacy Policy for McGowan Consulting
At www.mcgowanconsulting.ie, accessible from https://mcgowanconsulting.ie/, your privacy is a main priority. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect and record, and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or need more information about our Privacy Policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us at hello@mcgowanconsulting.ie.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information.
McGowan Consulting’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the specific context in which we collect the information and the data itself:
- To perform a contract with you: For example, when you book a diagnostic call or engage our consulting services.
- You have given McGowan Consulting explicit permission to do so: For instance, by consenting to a recorded call.
- Processing your personal information is in McGowan Consulting’s legitimate interests: Such as analyzing website trends to improve our services.
- McGowan Consulting needs to comply with the law: Fulfilling legal obligations.
McGowan Consulting will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you, or if you want it removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent.
Information We Collect
Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us
In addition to information collected automatically, we also collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you interact with our website or services:
- When you book a Business Diagnostic Call via Calendly: We collect your name and email address through our scheduling tool, Calendly, to facilitate the booking and communication related to your call. If you provide additional details in custom fields, we collect those too.
- When you contact us via email: If you send us an email to hello@mcgowanconsulting.ie, we collect your email address and any other information you choose to provide in your message to respond to your inquiry.
This information is used to schedule and conduct your diagnostic call, respond to your specific inquiries, provide you with our business consulting services, and manage our client relationships.
Call Recording and Transcription
For accuracy and to ensure we capture all key details of our discussions during diagnostic or consulting calls, we may use a recording and transcription service. Your explicit verbal consent for this will always be confirmed at the very start of our meeting. If you do not consent, the call will not be recorded.
Log Files
www.mcgowanconsulting.ie follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of this information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, www.mcgowanconsulting.ie uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize your experience by customizing our web page content based on your browser type and/or other information.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To learn more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, you can find it at the browsers’ respective websites.
Third-Party Service Providers
McGowan Consulting’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We utilize trusted third-party service providers to facilitate our operations. For instance, we use Calendly for scheduling appointments. When you book a call with us, your name and email address are processed by Calendly. We encourage you to review their privacy policy to understand their data practices: [Insert exact link to Calendly’s Privacy Policy here, e.g., https://calendly.com/legal/privacy].
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
www.mcgowanconsulting.ie does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collected in www.mcgowanconsulting.ie. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
