PRIVACY POLICY

ABOUT THIS POLICY

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible way. This policy outlines how we aim to achieve this and covers the information we may collect when you: use our website (jaimcdowallofficial.com).

DEFINITION OF PERSONAL DATA

‘Personal Data’ refers to any data which relates to an identifiable person who can be directly/indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via our website. By providing your personal data, you agree that we can use your personal data in accordance with this policy. We collect, use and retain Personal Data about you only to the extent that is reasonably required in order for us to conduct our business effectively. Please take you time to read it and ensure that you understand this policy in its entirety.

HOW DO YOU GET MY CONSENT?

When you provide us with personal information, we assume that you understand that your data must be collected to process your request, thereby you are giving consent. We will use your data for processing purposes only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will ask you directly for your expressed consent via a form checkbox.

How Do We Collect Information From You?

WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITE, WE COLLECT:

A nugatory amount of data, which is automatically collected by our web server to access log records. Access log records collect and store information based on IP addresses and access request date/time.

We use Google Analytics cookies to gather and display information relating to device type (e.g. mobile, computer, tablet) operating system browser type browser information (e.g., type, language, version) domain names access times and dates location (country + city/town) referring website addresses All data gathered, processed and displayed by Google Analytics cookies is randomised and can never be traced to an individual.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION USED?

Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests.

WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION?

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties. Any personal information we request from you will be safeguarded under current legislation. We will only share your information with companies if necessary to deliver services on our behalf.  Our website agency has access to our Google Analytics Dashboard, but no other data.

HOW AND WHERE DO WE STORE DATA?

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described in this Privacy Policy, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. 

YOUR CHOICES

We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not pass your details to any third parties for marketing purposes unless you have expressly permitted us to.

SECURITY

Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through our Site. If you provide us with your credit/debit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with an AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement generally accepted industry standards.

USE OF ‘COOKIES’

Like many other websites, we use cookies. We use them to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server which allows the website to recognise you when you visit. Cookies only collect data about browsing actions and patterns, and do not identify you as an individual. We use cookies for the following purposes: Performance and analytics: We use Google Analytic (tag manager) cookies to help us analyse how our web pages are being accessed and used. We also use cookies to provide insights such as page views, conversion rates, device information, visitor IP addresses, and referral sites.

Third Parties: Third Party services may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our services. Any third party cookie usage is governed by the Privacy Policy of the third party placing the cookie.

OPTING OUT

You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the third party services on our website.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information. This policy was last updated in May 2020.