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PRIVACY STATEMENT
Privacy Statement
Introduction
We respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under
the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002. The purpose of this Website
Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you
provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not
happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website
Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly
identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the
privacy policies of these other websites.
Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
“Personal Data”
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact
you and may include your name, address, email address, user IP addresses
in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised,
telephone number, birth date and billing and credit card information.
Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it
to us.
“Non-Personal Data”
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our
website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be
used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information
regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped
or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data
involving the use of our website.
Purposes for which we hold your Information
Non-Personal Data:
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an
aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come
from and to help us better design and organise our website.
Cookies
This website uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is a little piece of
text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our
server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests
and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter
them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not
available to other websites. Our cookies will record the following: your
IP gateway address, the point of entry to the site, search terms used,
your navigation through the site and other information that helps us
make the site more accessible. You are always free to decline our
cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate
when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your
computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask
for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your
ease of use of this website.
Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following
purposes:
(a) to provide you with the goods or services you have ordered;
(b) to contact you if required in connection with your order or to
respond to any communications you might send to us;
(c) to send you further information about goods or services that you buy
from us
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such
information is combined with similar information of other users of our
website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number
of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our
community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our
website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may
provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers,
providers of advertising services (including website tracking services),
commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar
parties
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have
consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to
fulfil your order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by
similar data protection requirements). We will disclose your Personal
Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in
order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a
court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal
Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation,
receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of
our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms
of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only
uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You
will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be
afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
Security
Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by [our Internet
Service Provider]. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot
guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us
via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps
(including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect
your Personal Data.
Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in
accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and
2002 we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find
out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data
updated, amended or removed from our database, please email us with a
request to the email address at the foot of this site. Any such data
subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this
website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any
time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different
from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed
to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and
you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
the new manner.
This site was last updated
05/29/09
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