Privacy Policy

Three Hills Soap is committed to respecting and protecting our customer’s privacy. We only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2003. From 25th May 2018, we are also acting in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website or shopping in our stores, you’re agreeing to be bound by our current policy. Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to [email protected] Who we are We are Three Hills Soap Registered in Ireland, no. 585273 How and when do we collect information from you? We obtain information about you when you make a purchase from our website or if you opt in to be added to our email newsletter list. When you placed an online order with us, until April 2018 at www.threehillssoap.ie you are automatically added to our customer mailing list, but may unsubscribe as soon as you receive your first newsletter. From May 2018, we will be asking that entire list if they would like to re-subscribe to our new newsletter list. Anyone who doesn’t double opt in to our new list we will not contact again. Old and new customers get the chance to opt in when they place an order online hereon in, via social media or our website. What type of information is collected from you? The personal information we collect include your name, address, email address if you opt in to the newsletter option. If you make a purchase from us, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below. How is your information used? We may use your information to: – process orders or refunds that you have submitted – deal with entries into a competition – seek your views or comments on the services we provide – notify you of changes to our services – send you communications which may be of interest to you. These may include information about new products or updates on our current product range – process a job application. We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. Mailing List Three Hills Soap holds a newsletter mailing list. We will not pass these details onto anyone else, except in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale of the company. In these circumstances, your data will continue to only be used in the same way as it is currently, and for the purpose that it was originally collected. Who has access to your information? We will not sell or rent your information to third parties, or share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. When you are using our secure online payment pages, your transaction is processed by a third party payment processor (Stripe or Paypal), who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us. We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party, or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation, or if we’re under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of use, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our staff and customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected. Your choices You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about our products and services, or be part of our loyalty programmes, then we will not sign you up to our in-store mailing list. Online, there is a box you can tick when placing an order, to choose to stay in touch with us. We will only contact you for marketing purposes (by email). You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us, by email on [email protected] How you can access and update your information The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at on [email protected] have the right to ask for a copy of the information. Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information. Because your online security is our highest priority, Three Hills Soap uses Stripe and Paypal as our payment gateway to process on-line payments, and Paypal to provide our merchant services. These are the most secure, innovative and state of the art Internet solutions provider for its clients, with its e-commerce payment and security services among the most advanced in the industry. Security includes: credit/debit card details secured within 128-bit encrypted sessions and sensitive information stored on a heavily encrypted database that is protected by multiple governments approved firewalls. Three Hills Soap does not hold sensitive information on our site. Should anyone gain unauthorised access to our database, no credit card details or other sensitive information are held on our site. For more information, please visit:   Stripe: https://stripe.com/guides/general-data-protection-regulation Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full   Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Use of ‘cookies’ Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information about how the website is used. We use the following cookies on our website: – A number of Google analytics cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports which help us to improve our website – A temporary session ID cookie is used to make the most efficient use of resources when you are browsing from page to page. The cookie is removed when you leave our website – A visitor cookie is used to monitor how long a visitor is on our site before they take an action (for example fill in one of our forms to contact us) and also to provide statistics on whether this is a visitor’s first visit to our site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, we are NOT able to identify individual users from these cookies. If you do not wish to allow this use of cookies, you can change the settings on your browser to disable them. There is more information to help you on this link: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Links to other websites Our website and blogs and social media may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website. In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site. 16 or Under We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information. Transferring your information outside of Europe As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy. If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services. Policy We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on May 24th, 2018.