Website Privacy Policy
Introduction
We at Grennans of Rath respect your privacy and comply with our obligations under the
Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to outline
how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting our Site.
By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this 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 sites.
Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information from visitors to our Site:
1. “Personal Data”: This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact
you and may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and
birth date. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us,
for example, through our “Contact Us” email facility or by completing one of our online
forms.
2. “Non-Personal Data”: Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our site. 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, browser types and
other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Site.
Purposes for which we hold your Information.
Non-Personal Data:
(I) 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.
(ii) Cookies
The Site uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by your
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 don’t have
to re-enter them each time you connect to the Internet. 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 the Site.
(iii) Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:
(a) to provide you with information about the services of
(b) to contact you if required in connection with your enquiry or to respond to any
communications you might send to us;
Any communications submitted online or by email will be subject to the same terms and
conditions as those completed by hand in paper form. If any online application forms
are included in the Site, you will be notified of any additional specific data protection
provisions at the time you complete the relevant application form.
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 Site. For example, we might inform
third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our Site, the demographic
breakdown of our community users of our Site, or the activities that visitors to our Site
engage in while on our Site. The third parties to whom we may provide this information
may include our web site design, development and hosting contractors.
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties outside of the company unless
you have consented to this disclosure or unless the disclosure is required in order to
process an application or other communication from you or to perform the services you
have applied for. We will however 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 valid legal process.
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 Privacy Policy.
Security
Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet Service Provider.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. As a result, while we will take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data,
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. We do not currently seek your bank
account or credit card details on the Site or via email and you should not send us such
data by email unless expressly agreed in person with an authorised individual in this
company.
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, email us at
sales@grennagri.com Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
You can ask us at any time to stop or change the methods by which we may send you
marketing materials. This can be done free of charge by emailing us at sales@grennagri.com
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site 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 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 Privacy Policy is published by Grennans.ie and was last updated on 12th September 2011