Privacy Policy for www.retailnews.ie

At Retail News, accessible from www.retailnews.ie, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Retail News and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us by email at info@retailnews.ie

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Retail News. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

If you subscribe to our print edition, digital edition or newsletter, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Should you subscribe to our newsletter, digital edition or print edition, we will be using this information to communicate with you to send whichever product above that you have selected, and to give you updates on these services. We may also send you surveys on these services in order to improve them. If we receive notification through our distribution partners of a return or bounce of one of the products above, we may contact you in order to make sure that the information we have is correct and whether you would like to continue receiving one of the above products.
• To find and prevent fraud.

Sharing of your information

Retail News will not share your information with anyone, with the following exceptions:

• Where necessary to distribute the newsletter, digital edition or print edition that you have opted in to. In the case of newsletters and digital editions, the information that you provide to us will be stored in a Mailchimp database. Please see the Mailchimp privacy policy for more information https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
• We will disclose your personal information if required by law or if we, as a company, reasonably believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our company’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process. However, we will do what we can to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
• Some of our advertising partners may ask us to implement a tracking pixel or tag to gauge the performance of their advertisement on our website. For more information, please see below
• AUDITING: Our digital and print circulation is audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Digital subscribers may opt to have their information excluded from audit at sign-up. You may revoke your consent at any time by emailing info@retailnews.ie  For more information please see the Audit Bureau of Circulation at https://www.abc.org.uk/privacy-policy

Log Files

Retail News follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Retail News uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read https://www.privacypolicyonline.com/what-are-cookies What Are Cookies" from Cookie Consent

Our Advertising Partners

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.

We implement these through Google Analytics. Please see below for more information. 

https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Retail News, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.

Note that Retail News has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Retail News's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. 

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. 

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

For more information please see https://ec.europa.eu/info/

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Retail News does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.