Please read the important information below about our policy in dealing with your personal information. If you access the martins.ie website (the “Website”) you will be deemed to have accepted the Privacy Policy and our use of your personal information in accordance with its terms. If you object to our use of your personal information please do not access the Website.
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
The Data Subject has the following rights:
You have the right to access the information held about you by us and to have this information amended if incorrect. If you wish to avail of these rights please contact us at info@martins.ie.
Information you have provided us with
This might be your e-mail address and name – information that is necessary for communicating directly with you if you submit a query or message. We store the information you provide us with in order to reference your query or message and communicate with you directly about this.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
When you submit a message or query to us, you provide us with some personal data such as your name, and e-mail address which we will store in order to capture your request, and contact you in relation to this. We process your Personal Data to identify you and to communicate in relation to your message or query. We will only ever use this data to communicate directly with you.
We may collect information about your site usage by analysis of customer traffic.
We may use the information to help us develop the design and layout of the Website to ensure that our site is as user-friendly as possible.
We do not share your Personal Data. Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties on the Website, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them.
When you provide us with your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. We promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
The Website uses cookies, so a cookie may be placed in your computer browser. Cookies are small text files which provide us with information about how often someone visits the Website, and what they do during those visits. Cookies do not themselves contain any personally identifying information but if you provide information to us, it may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use the following cookies: Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This cookie stores a unique client identifier, which is used by Google Analytics to record your visit to the website. All information collected is anonymous. | 2 years |
| _gid | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to record your navigation through the website. All information collected is anonymous. | 24 hours |
If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in your browser settings. For further information please refer to https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/. Disabling cookie support may prevent the Website from functioning properly and you may not be able to utilise fully all of its features and information. The third-party Google Analytics cookies allow us to measure the traffic to the website, how long users spend on the website and how many pages are viewed. This information is only used for statistical purposes and all information collected by these cookies is anonymous.
Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments in relation to data privacy or otherwise please contact info@martins.ie.
We reserve the right to access and disclose the personal information we have collected on you to comply with applicable laws and lawful government or law enforcement requests, to operate our systems properly or to protect us and/or the other users of the Website. This Website may contain links to other websites, which may be of interest. However, if you use the links to view another website, you should note that we do not have any control over that website. Therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide while visiting such websites and such websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the cookies policy applicable to the website(s) in question.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted to the Website so that you are aware of the information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Last modification was made 15th January 2021.