Terms and Conditions

I consent to Morrison Estates & Lettings collecting references, and sending the information to the landlord for approval using the details set out in this form. Morrison Estates & Lettings will use the data provided for the purpose of reference checking and preparing lease documentation if your application is successful. Morrison Estates & Lettings must keep the data collected of successful applications for a period of up to 6 years. If your application is not successful the information will be destroyed. All queries in respect of information we hold about you should be directed to the Data Protection Officer, Morrison Estates & Lettings, 10 Sandyford Office Park, Sandyford, Dublin 18 D18 H5F1

Data Protection

Morrison Estates Data Protection Privacy Policy 

At Morrison Estates & Lettings Limited we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Our use of your personal information is governed by this Privacy Policy. In this statement the terms “Morrison Estates” “Morrisons”, “our” and “we” each mean Morrison Estates & Lettings, 10 Sandyford Office Park, Sandyford, Dublin 18 which may collect and use your information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. Any reference to “you” or “your” refers to anyone whose personal information we process. 

Our use of your personal data will be governed by this Privacy Notice. 

Morrison Estates is a controller for the personal information that it collects and uses about you. We will treat your personal information as confidential and in accordance with all applicable data protection regulations. Your personal information will only be shared with others in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Your privacy matters to Morrison Estates, so whether you are new to us or an existing customer, please do take the time to get to know our practices – and if you have any questions please feel free to contact us. If there are any changes to the way in which your personal information is used, this Privacy Policy will be updated. 

What is Personal Information We Collect & Why We Collect It 

Personal information definitions 

Personal information is any information that tells us something about you. This could include information such as your name, contact details, date of birth, bank account details or any information about your needs or circumstances which would allow us to identify you. 

Some personal information is classified as “special” information under information protection legislation. This includes information relating to race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data when used to uniquely identify the individual, biometric data when used to uniquely identify the individual, health data, data concerning a natural person’s sex life, sexual orientation. This information is more sensitive and we need to have further justifications for collecting, storing and using this type of personal information. There are also additional restrictions on the circumstances in which we are permitted to collect and use criminal conviction information. 

Any references to personal information in this Privacy Policy will include personal information, and where relevant, special categories of personal information. 

Personal information we collect and why we collect it 

We may collect your full name and contact details (such as phone number, email address and postal address) from you whenever you engage with us. 

In addition, if we are providing a service to you, or on your behalf, where we are required to do so by law and PSRA licensing obligations, we will collect information relating to your identity, which will be at least one form of photographic identification (such as a passport, a driving licence or an identification card) and one form of documentation with proof of your place of residence (such as a recent utility bill). 

We may also confirm whether you have any relatives or close connections working at Morrison Estates so that we can consider potential conflict of interest and, if identified how to manage this, in accordance with our statutory and regulatory obligations. 

Depending on the service that we provide to you, or on your behalf, we may also collect additional personal information. 

Buying, Selling, Letting, Renting 

If you are buying, selling or letting a property through us: 

We will collect a contact telephone number and/or an email address to get in touch with you about organising viewings and updating you on any offers received or rental applications for your property. 

Where you are not the legal owner of the property we will request details from you as to your ability to sell or let the property such as a Power of Attorney or Grant of Probate. 

Where you engage with us, we may collect information required to identify you to meet anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing requirements. If we are dealing with an entity such as a company, trust or charity, we may need to obtain personal information from the beneficiaries of the entity and those in a position of control. This will include, but is not limited to, identity and address documents. We may also need to collect information on other individuals who have an interest in the property who are not considered to be our customers. 

We will collect your bank account details to arrange onward payment of rent due to you. 

Where we are working alongside third parties such as solicitors or joint agents, we may need to share these documents on the basis of legitimate interests. 

If you wish to purchase a property we are listing for sale where you have specifically provided us with these, we will collect personal information relating to any specific access requirements you may have in relation to a property so that we can find a property that is suitable for your needs. 

If you wish to rent a property we are listing, we will collect: 

Your name, contact details and property interests, to facilitate property viewings for you. 

Your proof of ID and proof of current address for the creation of lease and tenancy details. 

Your PPSN for registration with the Residential Tenancies Board Ireland. 

Your proof of funds, and a log of previous rental transaction payments to confirm your financial ability to perform monthly rent payment transactions. 

Your previous landlord reference/s and current work reference/s in order to protect the Landlord’s own financial or property interests. 

Your bank, building society or similar account details for payment of rental payments. 

If your rental application is not successful we will delete your details from our systems and destroy any hard copy information you have provided us, unless you instruct us to hold this information for the purposes of securing another property. 

Property Management 

Where we engage with you to manage property on your behalf we will ask for additional emergency contact information in case we need to get in touch with you outside of working hours or in the event there is a matter requiring your urgent attention. 

Where you are a tenant in a building managed by Morrison Estates, we may need to share your personal information with the property owner, but will only do so where we have considered your own rights first. 

Where we may operate CCTV in a property building common area, we may capture your image which would constitute your personal data 

Investment Management 

Where you engage with us as an individual investor we will collect information required to identify you to meet anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing requirements. If the investor is an entity such as a company, trust or charity, we may need to collect personal information about the controllers and the beneficiaries of the entity. 

Other 

If you subscribe to receive research, news or other market updates from us, then in addition to the above we will collect details about the sector in which you work and the type of content that you would like to receive. 

How We Use Your Personal Information 

Our legal basis for processing information 

Under applicable data protection legislation we are only permitted to use your personal information if we have a lawful basis for doing so. We rely on the following lawful basis to use your information: 

For employment-related purposes. 

Where we need information to perform the contract we have entered into with you. 

Where we need to comply with a legal obligation. 

Where the processing is necessary for us to carry out activities for which it is in Morrison Estates legitimate interests (or those of a third party) to do so and provided that your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, including: 

Processing what is necessary for us to promote our business, brand and products and measure the reach and effectiveness of our campaigns. This will include sending you marketing information from time to time after you have engaged us to provide services or received services from us either which may be similar and of interest to you or where you have expressly indicated that you would like to receive such information. You have the right to opt out of receiving this information at any time. 

Processing what is necessary to improve our knowledge of the real estate sector. This will include undertaking market analysis and research so that we better understand trends in the property sector and provide better knowledge and service for our customers in the future. 

Processing necessary for us to operate the administrative and technical aspects of our business efficiently and effectively. This will include: verifying the accuracy of information that we hold about you and create a better understanding of you as a customer; processing for administrative efficiency purposes such as where we outsource certain administrative functions to third parties who are specialise in such services; processing for network and information security purposes i.e. in order for us to take steps to protect your information against loss, damage, theft or unauthorised access or to comply with a request from you in connection with the exercise of any of your rights outlined below. 

In more limited circumstances we may also rely on the following lawful basis: 

Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests); and/or 

Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes. 

We may process special categories of personal information and criminal conviction information in the following limited circumstances: 

With your explicit consent, in which case we will explain the purpose for which the information will be used at the point where we ask for your consent. 

Our use of your personal information 

Specific information on how your personal information will be used for the particular services you have requested from us is provided below. 

Buy, Sell, Let, Rent 

We use your personal information for the purposes of fulfilling our obligations to you to let or sell your property or, if you are a buyer or tenant, for the purposes of arranging viewings, obtaining feedback, and arranging a contract for sale or a lease for you. 

We will use your personal information to conduct due diligence in accordance with other legal or regulatory obligations. 

We will share your personal information with your appointed solicitors and the solicitors and agents acting for the other side of the deal as is necessary to facilitate the sale or purchase. We may also share your personal information with joint or multi agents or developers and their appointed contractors, as the case may. 

We will share your personal information with third party referencing agencies for the purposes of the prevention and detection of crime, fraud and/or money laundering and checking your suitability to rent that property. 

Property Management 

Where we are managing property on your behalf we may need to pass your personal information from time to time on to third party contractors whom we have engaged to carry out maintenance on your properties (i.e. contact details to organise access for maintenance checks) 

We may operate CCTV in properties based on our legitimate interest in protecting the property and ensuring the safety of visitors, tenants and clients, as well as to assist with the prevention and detection of crime. 

Investment 

Where you engage us for portfolio management services we may share your personal information with third party lenders as is necessary to allow us to fulfil our obligations to you, to raise finance for you and to properly manage and advise you on your property investments. 

Other uses of your personal information 

If we sell any part of our business and/or integrate it with another organisation your details may be disclosed to our advisers and to purchasers or joint venture partners and their advisers. If this occurs the new owners of the business will only be permitted to use your information in the same or similar way as set out in this privacy notice. 

We will share personal information with our regulators, governmental or quasi-governmental organisations, law enforcement authorities and with courts, tribunals and arbitrators as may be required from time to time in order to comply with our regulatory and legal obligations. 

Where we use third party services providers who process personal information on our behalf in order to provide services to us. This includes IT systems providers and IT contractors as well as third party referencing or screening agencies for the purposes of the prevention and detection of crime. 

We may share your personal information with any person working within for Morrison Estates on a need to know basis to ensure we are able to perform our obligations to you. 

We will hold your personal information on our client management systems and use this to provide you with marketing information about similar services offered by Morrison Estates to those which you have engaged us to provide which we feel you might find useful from time to time. You have the opportunity to opt out of receiving this information at any time. 

What happens if you do not provide the information that we request? 

We need some of your personal information to perform the services you have requested from us. For example: 

Where we are selling a property on your behalf we need to know your contact information so that we can update you with information on viewings, offers and the progress of the sale; and 

Where you have asked us to find you a property which meets certain access requirements, we may need to know some further details about your particular circumstances so that we can find you a suitable property. 

We also need some information so that we can comply with our legal obligations. For example, we may need identity documents from you to meet our obligations to prevent fraud and money laundering. 

If you do not provide the information required for these purposes, we will not be able to perform our contract with you and may not be able to provide services to you or continue to provide certain services to you. We will explain when this is the case at the point where we collect information from you. 

How long we keep your personal information 

The period for which we will keep your personal information will depend on the type of service you have requested from us. The retention period may be longer than the period for which we are providing services to you where we have statutory or regulatory obligations to retain personal information for a longer period, or where we may need to retain the information in case of a legal claim. 

The Choices We Offer & How You Can Exercise Them 

Your rights in relation to your personal information 

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information, these include: 

the right to be informed: know how we use your personal information; 

the right of access: obtain access to personal information that we hold of you; 

the right to rectification: request that your personal information is corrected if you believe it is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate; 

the right to erase (also known as the right to be forgotten): request that we erase your personal information in the following circumstances: 

if Morrison Estates is continuing to process personal information beyond the period when it is necessary to do so for the purpose for which it was originally collected. 

if Morrison Estates is relying on consent as the lawful basis for processing and you withdraw consent. 

if Morrison Estates is relying on legitimate interests as the lawful basis for processing and you can object to this processing and there is no overriding compelling ground which enables us to continue with the processing. 

if the personal information has been processed unlawfully (i.e. in breach of the requirements of the information protection legislation). 

if it is necessary to delete the personal information to comply with a legal obligation. 

the right to restrict processing: ask us to restrict our information processing activities where you consider that: 

your personal information is inaccurate. 

our processing of your personal information is unlawful. 

where you have raised an objection to our use of your personal information. 

the right to object: object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on legitimate interests or exercise of a public interest task to make the processing lawful. If you raise an objection we will carry out an assessment to determine whether we have an overriding legitimate ground which entitles us to continue to process your personal information. 

the right to data portability: request a copy of certain personal information that you have provided to us in a commonly used electronic format. This right relates to personal information that you have provided to us that we need in order to perform our agreement with you and personal information where we are relying on consent to process your personal information. 

rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: right not be subject to wholly automated decisions which produce legal effects or which could have a similarly significant effect on you. 

If you would like to exercise any of your rights, you can do so at any time, by contacting us at Morrison Estates, 10 Sandyford Office Park, Sandyford, Dublin 18. 

Please note that we will keep a record of the fact that you have made a request to exercise your rights, and our response to your request, in order to demonstrate compliance with our data protection obligations and so that we can handle any queries, complaints or claims in relation to your request. This record will be kept in accordance with our retention policies above. 

How to contact us 

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding any aspect of this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending an email to info@morrisonestates.ie or writing to the Compliance Team, Morrison Estates, 10 Sandyford Office Park, Sandyford, Dublin 18. 

If you have any concerns about the way we use your personal information please contact us and we will try to resolve the issue. If we cannot resolve any issue within the legal timeframe, you have the right to complain to the information to the Data Protection Commissioner ( www.dataprotection.ie). 

Other Important Privacy Information 

Security of personal information 

The security of information is very important to us and we have measures in place which are designed to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information including but not limited to: 

Our client files are stored on our secure client management systems. Access is restricted on our client systems to those within the business who are required to have access to your information for legitimate business purposes. 

Hard copy documentation is stored in secure offices, locked cabinets and/or off-site at our approved suppliers for long term storage. 

All information is hosted in information centres which have systems and protections in place to protect against both unauthorised access, and other external factors that could cause damage to your personal information. There are strict access requirements in place and access is restricted to those absolutely necessary. 

We ensure access to personal information is restricted to Morrison Estates employees and workers on a need to know basis. Training is provided to any of those Morrison Estates employees and workers who need access to personal information. 

Transfers outside the European Economic Area 

We may transfer, store or process your personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area. Where the laws of such countries do not afford an equivalent level of protection of personal information as the laws of Ireland, we take specific steps in accordance with data protection law to protect your personal information. 

We’ll use one of these safeguards: 

Transfer it to a non-EEA country with privacy laws that give the same protection as the EEA. 

Put in place a contract with the recipient of the personal information that means they must protect it to the same standards as the EEA. 

Transfer it to organisations that are part of Privacy Shield. This is a framework that sets privacy standards for data sent between the US and EU countries. It makes sure those standards are similar to what is used within the EEA. 

Updates to this Privacy Notice 

We recognise the importance of your privacy. We value your business and hold all information you provide us in strictest confidence. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. Please refer to our website (www.morrisonestates.ie) for the most up to date version of this document. 

Website 

Morrison Estates is the sole owner of information collected on our website. We will take all possible steps to keep your personal information collected confidential. This includes strictly limiting internal access to client information databases, and communicating our online privacy statement to all our employees. Morrison Estates will not sell, lease/rent or disclose our clients’ personal information to other companies for use in selling products or services. 

Like most websites, when you use our website, general information about your visit is collected automatically. This information is aggregated and is non-individual specific. It relates to the number of visitors to the site and what areas of our website they visit. This information is valuable to us for use to allow us understand what parts of the site are popular and what parts need to be improved. 

This website uses ‘session’ cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website. These cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you and your visit. You may choose to disable cookies in your web browser privacy settings in which case it will not affect your visit to our website. 

If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement, the practices of our website, or your dealings with Morrison Estates, please email info@morrisonestates.ie. 

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