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Rights of a data subject

  1. Overview
  2. Right to information
  3. Right to access information
  4. Right to rectification (correction) of personal data
  5. Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
  6. Right to restriction of processing
  7. Right to data portability and to object to processing
  8. Right not to be subject to automated individual decision making, including profiling

Right to access information

You are entitled to obtain the personal data that we hold about you except in certain circumstances. These are detailed in Section 851B(5) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. You can request a copy of your data by either letter or by email. This is under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

You are entitled to the following information:

  • why we are processing your personal data
  • what categories of data we hold about you
  • who we are sharing your data with
  • where we originally obtained your data
  • how long we will keep it 
  • how you can request rectification (correction) of your personal data
  • how you can request erasure (deletion) of your personal data
  • whether we use automated decision-making in relation to your personal data
  • whether we profile you based on your personal data
  • how you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission. 

Full details are outlined in Personal data processed by Revenue and in our Record retention policy and schedule.  

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Published: 10 July 2020 Print this page

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