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1. Introduction
We at
Claddaghringking.com 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.
2. 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 e.g. 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.
3. 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, name, address, E-mail address, IP address,
products selected and billing details of customers with registered accounts,
and product selected details of non registered people. 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 contact customer who have signed up for our newsletter about Irish
Celtic jewelry topics such as, Irish Claddagh rings, silver Celtic rings,
Celtic wedding rings, Celtic cross jewelry and very special Celtic knot
jewelry.
4. 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 fulfill 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.
5. 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.
6. Security
Your Personal Data
is held on secure servers hosted by 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.
7. 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 at [email protected].
Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
8. 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.
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