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Fitz-Furnitures
Cookies and Privacy Policy
1. Definitions
This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies to Fitzfurniture Limited (“us”, “our”, “we”, “Fitzfurniture”). We are a limited liability company registered in Ireland under company number XXX and have our registered office at [Please insert address]. We are the data controller of the personal information we hold about you. As a data controller, we respect your privacy and are committed to handling your personal information in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and all other applicable legislation and regulations. This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains how we manage your personal information that we collect about you. Please read this Privacy and Cookies Policy before using our website www.fitzfurnitures.com (our "website") or submitting any personal information. By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy. You are encouraged to review our Privacy and Cookies Policy whenever you visit our website to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used. If you want to contact us about any matter relating to privacy or to exercise any of your rights, please do not hesitate to do so.
2. Personal Information:
Your personal information is not collected if you only browse our website. We and/or our third party service providers may collect your personal information: (a) directly from you, (b) when you purchase a product or service from us, (c) when you register as a member of our website, (d) when you place an Order via our website, (e) when you enter a competition promoted by us, (f) where you seek employment with us, (g) where you access and interact with our website or our Customer Care Team, (h) when you ask us to email you information on product or service, (i) when you comment on or review our products and services, (j) when you fill in any forms such as an incident or accident form in store, (k) when you have given a third party permission to share with us information they hold on you, (l) when we arrange the service or repair of a product on your behalf, (m) where we have CCTV systems in operation for the security and safety of our customers and employees, (n) from other sources. The information collected may include your name, mailing or residential address, telephone number, email address and other transaction and registration details. If you choose not to provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide the information, goods or the service you may require, or to fulfil one or more other purposes of collection of your personal information. As a payment gateway provider, Stripe handles all debit card, credit card and Mastercard payments for www.fitzfurnitures.com. We do not collect your credit card or banking details as online payments are handled by Stripe.
3. Your Right to Personal Information:
You have certain rights in relation to the Personal Information we hold about you. Details of these rights and how to exercise them are set out as follows: (a) Right of Access: you have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the personal information about you that we hold, and to confirm the nature of the personal information and how it is used. Where we have good reason, and if the GDPR permits, we can refuse your request for a copy of your personal information, or certain elements of the request. If we refuse your request or any element of it, we will provide you with our reasons for doing so, (b) Right of Correction: if personal information we hold about you is not accurate, or is out of date or incomplete, and requires amendment or correction you have a right to have the data rectified, updated or completed. You can let us know by contacting us, (c) Right of Erasure: in certain circumstances, you have the right to request that personal information we hold about you is erased e.g. if the personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed or our processing of the personal information is based on your consent and there are no other legal grounds on which we may process the personal information, (d) Right to Object or Restrict Processing: in certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information by contacting us. For example, if we are processing your personal information on the basis of our legitimate interests and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for our processing which override your rights and interests. You also have the right to object to use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes. You may also have the right to restrict our use of your personal information, such as in circumstances where you have challenged the accuracy of the information and during the period where we are verifying its accuracy, (e) Right of Data Portability: in certain instances, you have a right to receive any personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You can ask us to transmit that Information to you or directly to a third party organisation. This right exists in respect of personal information that you have provided to us previously and is processed by us using automated means. While we are happy for such requests to be made, we are not able to guarantee technical compatibility with a third party organisation’s systems. You can exercise any of the above rights by contacting us and you can exercise your rights free of charge. Most of the above rights are subject to limitations and exceptions. We will provide reasons if we are unable to comply with any request for the exercise of your rights.
4. Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of text that is placed within the memory of a computer and can be later retrieved by web page servers. We use cookies to enhance your interaction and convenience with our website and do not use cookies to record any personal information. Cookies may record information about your visit, including the type of browser and operating system you use, the previous site you visited, your server’s IP address, the pages you access and the information downloaded by you. While this anonymous statistical data may be aggregated and used in broader statistical analysis by us and our web monitoring service provider to improve our services, at no time can we personally identify you as the source of that data. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue you with a cookie when you log on to our website and you are deemed to have consented to the use of the cookie. The purpose for which the cookie is used is for identification of a specific user during a session on our website e.g. when a user is logged on to the website to identify what permissions they have and what items are in their shopping basket. The cookie will be deleted at the end of the website session.
5. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information:
We may disclose your personal information to any of our related entities, which includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. You acknowledge and consent that by providing your personal information to us that we may use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes: (a) to facilitate and process your Order, (b) to carry out or respond to your requests, (c) to our third party service providers to assist us in providing and improving our services to you, and to analyse trends in sales and better understand our customers’ needs or to develop, improve and market our goods and services to you, (d) for regulatory reporting and compliance with our legal obligations, (e) to regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials and agencies to protect against fraud and for related security purposes, (f) where you have provided your consent, to include in a database compiled by us or our third party service provider for use by us or our third party service provider in direct marketing of promotions, product and services we think may interest you, (g) to seek your feedback in relation to customer satisfaction and our relationship with you, (h) to our related entities for internal accounting and administration, (i) to monitor or improve the quality and standard of service provided to you by us, (j) to our successors and/or assigns, including any party that may purchase all or part of our business, (k) to better understand your preferences.Our third party service providers are organisations that assist us with research, mail, advertising, delivery, security, professional advisory, banking, payment processing or technology services. Where we engage third party service providers to perform services for us those third parties may be required to handle your personal information. Under these circumstances those third parties must safeguard this information and must only use it for the purposes for which it was supplied. Other than the above, we will not disclose your personal information without your consent unless disclosure is either necessary to prevent a threat to life or health, authorised or required by law, reasonably necessary to enforce the law or necessary to investigate a suspected unlawful activity or any breach of any of the website terms of use or sales terms and conditions. Any permitted handling of personal information under any exemptions under the GDPR or any other applicable legislation will take priority over this Privacy and Cookies Policy to the extent of any inconsistency.
6. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information:
Under GDPR, the main grounds that we rely upon in order to process your personal information are the following: (a) Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation: we are subject to certain legal requirements which may require us to process your information. We may also be obliged by law to disclose your Information to a regulatory body or law enforcement agency, (b) Performance of Contract: we may process your personal information where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract, (c) Necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests: either we, or a third party, will need to process your personal information for the purposes of our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests, provided we have established that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms, including your right to have your Personal Information protected. Our legitimate interests include responding to requests and enquiries from you or a third party, fulfilling sales, optimising our website and customer experience, informing you about our products and services and ensuring that our operations are conducted in an appropriate and efficient manner, (d) Consent: in some circumstances, we may ask for your consent to process your Personal Information in a particular way.
7. Data Security:
We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security procedures in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Access to your personal information is limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their responsibilities. We and our third party service providers take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information where it is no longer required and to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, disclosure, loss, misuse and alteration.
8. Policy Changes:
From time to time it may be necessary for us to review and revise this Privacy and Cookies Policy. We reserve the right to change our Privacy and Cookies Policy at any time. Amendments or replacements of the Privacy and Cookies Policy will be posted on our website and where we have your email address we will advise you of material changes to our Privacy Policy. Your use of our website will constitute your acceptance of any revisions, amendments or replacements to the Privacy and Cookies Policy.