Dominican Publications

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://dominicanpublications.com (the “Site”).

Please note that Dominican Publications while makes all possible efforts to protect our customers’ privacy, we would like to make customers aware that information disclosed while connected to the Internet may be transferred to the www.dominicanpublications.com servers over a publicly available telecommunications network. www.dominicanpublications cannot be held responsible, and accepts no liability, for unauthorised access to the public network beyond its control. All information provided by customers is done entirely at the customers’ own risk.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

COOKIES

Cookies allow us to give you a much more personalised shopping experience. Here is some information about cookies and ways that we and our third party providers like Shopify use them.

- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc). _shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits _shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer. cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart. _secure_session_id, unique token, sessional storefront_digest, unique token, indefinitely If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.” We do not process or collect card numbers. Cards are processed by Global Payments Inc : Realex Payments by their secured servers.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

PAYMENT:

Payments on www.dominicanpublications.com are processed through Realex Payments.

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act. Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. Including sending you early notice of our latest discounts and offers.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

This includes Facebook and other Social media ads and retargeting Facebook and Social media ads.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about discounts, early notice of our Sales, our store, new products and other updates. All of our emails include an unsubscribe button which you can use at anytime to opt out of any further emails from us.

 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

 

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

 

DO NOT TRACK (DNT)

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, Shopify do not alter their data collection and usage practices when they detect such a signal from your browser. Information is also tracked by our use of Google Analytics, should you wish to opt-out, you can do so here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

LINKS

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

Payments: When you pay us you will leave the Website and you will instruct our payment processing service providers (Realex Payments) to make a payment to us on your behalf. Please note that these providers have their own privacy policies and terms of use and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies, their terms or for the activities on those websites.

Newsletters:  If you subscribe to our newsletter or any other e-mail updates, by submitting your e-mail address on creation of a user account or through another subscribe facility on the Site, and you wish to opt-out of receiving these communications, you can opt-out by (a) following the unsubscribe link on any of the emails or b) please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Statement.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER DATA PROTECTION LAW AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM

Data protection legislation gives you the right to obtain a copy of information that identifies you from us. 

Data protection legislation also give you the following rights in certain circumstances:

  • to correct any information relating to you which is incorrect;
  • to delete such Information;
  • to restrict our use of that information;
  • to object to our use of information relating to You including when we may automatically process such information (e.g. profiling); and
  • to request that information relating to you is transferred to another data controller.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at info@dominicanpublications.com specifying the right which you wish to exercise. If you wish to make a compliant about us or the Services in respect of our collection and/or use or Your Information, you can also contact the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner directly.

 

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. We can only delete information that is not required to be kept by the laws of Ireland. Please note that, while www.dominicanpublications.com makes all possible efforts to protect our customers’ privacy, we would like to make customers aware that information disclosed while connected to the Internet may be transferred to the www.dominicanpublications.com servers over a publicly available telecommunications network. www.dominicanpublications.com cannot be held responsible, and accepts no liability, for unauthorised access to the public network beyond its control. All information provided by customers is done entirely at the customers’ own risk.

 

Privacy Statements of the Companies we work with 

Facebook  - https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Mailchimp - https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Shopify - https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Global Payments Inc : Realex Payments -  https://www.globalpaymentsinc.com/en-ie/accept-payments/ecommerce/privacy

Google Analytics – www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners

 

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

 

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have further questions, would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email to info@dominicanpublications.com or by mail at Dominican Publications, 42 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, D01 P5R7, Ireland.