Privacy Policy

At TheIrishPlace.com we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

If there are updates to the details of this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in technology or data protection legislation, then those changes will be made, and the revision date at the bottom of this document updated. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes that have been made to this policy.

Collecting personal information
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

  1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths (“usage data“);
  2. information that you provide to us when registering with TheIrishPlace.com, including your name and email address (“account data“);
  3. information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website including information relating to any purchases you make (“transaction data“);
  4. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters;
  5. information relating to any purchases you make of our goods / services / goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website (including your name, address, telephone number and email address);
  6. information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, your profile picture and the content of your posts); and
  7. any other information that you choose to send to us.

Cookies and Web Beacons
TheIrishPlace.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

TheIrishPlace.com uses third-party companies including Google and Amazon to serve advertisements on the web site. Cookies and Web Beacons may be used by these companies to collect non-personally identifiable  information  about your visits to TheIrishPlace.com and other web sites. The information collected is used to measure and research the effectiveness of advertisements, to track page usage and paths followed during visits, and to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may provide this data to us, but only in aggregate form.

We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website. For more details about your choices, and not having this information used by these companies, please view our Cookie Policy.

Using Personal Information
Personal information submitted to TheIrishPlace.com will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or on the relevant pages within the website.

We may use your personal information to:

  1. administer the website;
  2. for improving your browsing experience by personalising the website;
  3. enable your use of the services available on the website;
  4. send you goods purchased through the website;
  5. send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
  6. send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
  7. send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  8. send you our email newsletter and other marketing communications (relating to TheIrishPlace.com which we think may be of interest to you), where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
  9. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;
  10. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
  11. keep our website secure and prevent fraud; and
  12. verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

Disclosing personal information
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

If you are in the European Union, information which you provide may be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area. You expressly agree to such transfers.

Security of personal information
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

Your rights
Your principal rights under data protection law are:

  1. the right to access;
  2. the right to rectification;
  3. the right to erasure;
  4. the right to restrict processing;
  5. the right to object to processing;
  6. the right to data portability;
  7. the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
  8. the right to withdraw consent.

You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:

  1. consent; or
  2. that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,

and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by email to [email protected].

Third party websites
TheIrishPlace.com includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Last revised on May 23, 2018