How we protect and process your personal data in compliance with GDPR
Last updated: July 24th, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how BL Digital Studio ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our website and services. We specialize in providing website design, hosting, maintenance, and compliance services specifically for Irish solicitors, barristers, and legal professionals.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the highest standards of data protection, particularly given our work with legal professionals who handle sensitive client information. We fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Irish Data Protection Act 2018, and all applicable data protection laws.
Data Controller: BL Digital Studio is the data controller for all personal information collected through our website and services.
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
Processing necessary to provide the services you have requested, including website development, hosting, maintenance, and compliance services.
Operating and improving our business, ensuring website security, preventing fraud, and providing relevant compliance updates to legal professionals.
Marketing communications, non-essential cookies, and any optional data processing where you have given specific consent.
Compliance with tax laws, data protection laws, and other regulatory requirements.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in specific circumstances with trusted service providers:
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill our service obligations and comply with legal requirements:
Retained for 2 years from last contact to provide ongoing support and service follow-up.
Retained for the duration of our service relationship plus 7 years for legal and tax compliance purposes.
Automatically deleted after 26 months in accordance with Google Analytics data retention settings.
Maintained for 90 days for security and recovery purposes, then automatically deleted unless required for ongoing service delivery.
Retained for 7 years in compliance with Irish tax and business record requirements.
Under GDPR and Irish data protection law, you have comprehensive rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to facilitating the exercise of these rights:
Request a copy of all personal data we hold about you, including how it's being processed.
Correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
Request deletion of your personal data (subject to legal retention requirements).
Receive your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
Limit how we process your data in certain circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@bldigitalstudio.ie or use our contact form. We will respond within 30 days.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission if you believe we have not handled your data appropriately.
We implement comprehensive technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information, reflecting our expertise in legal website security:
Given our specialization in serving legal professionals, we maintain security standards that recognize the sensitive nature of legal practice data, even though we do not process client-lawyer privileged communications directly.
We prioritize keeping your data within the European Economic Area (EEA) and have structured our operations accordingly:
Your personal data is primarily stored and processed on servers located in Ireland and other EU member states, ensuring full GDPR protection.
Some service providers (such as analytics tools) may process data outside the EEA. All such transfers are protected by:
Our services are designed for legal professionals and are not directed toward children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.
If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will take immediate steps to delete such information from our systems.
We review and update this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure it remains current with our practices and applicable law. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy indicates when the most recent changes were made.
Continued use of our services after policy updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms, unless the changes require explicit consent under applicable law.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data protection rights, or need to report a privacy concern, please contact us:
Email: privacy@bldigitalstudio.ie
General Contact: info@bldigitalstudio.ie
Website: www.bldigitalstudio.ie
Response Time: We aim to respond to all privacy inquiries within 2 business days
If you are not satisfied with our response to your privacy concern, you have the right to lodge a complaint with:
Data Protection Commission (Ireland)
Website: www.dataprotection.ie
Phone: +353 57 868 4757
Email: info@dataprotection.ie
Recognizing our specialization in serving Irish solicitors and barristers, we maintain additional privacy and confidentiality commitments:
We understand the importance of client confidentiality in legal practice and ensure our data handling practices support these professional obligations.
Our team stays current with LSRA, Law Society, and Bar Council requirements that may affect data processing in legal websites.
In the unlikely event of a data breach, we prioritize notification to legal professionals to help them meet their own client notification obligations.
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