1. Introduction
Smallwares.ie is owned by Smallwares Limited, a company registered in Ireland. We at Smallwares Limited respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this website cookies and privacy policies is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide us with whilst visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with our cookies and privacy policies you should not use this website.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this website cookies and privacy policies. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or cookies and 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 name, email address, address, telephone number and user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted. 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 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.
Smallwares Limited uses Google Analytics to track anonymised usage statistics for this website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall view of website use, and is never identified individually or personally. Google Analytics is only used to identify ways to further improve this website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about Google Analytics, and the cookies it sets, please visit: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
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
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 of 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 our manufacturer’s, commercial partners and similar parties.
We will not disclose your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil your order. 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 this 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 our internet service provider, Blacknight. The nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information that 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 2003 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 contact us at info@smallwares.ie Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
8. Changes to our Cookies and Privacy Policies
Any changes to this website cookies and privacy policies will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstance, 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’s cookies and privacy policies, 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 this manner.