This is the serious stuff folks.
We take our visitors online privacy very seriously, and our privacy policy sets out how we, Ollie’s Petcare uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
We (Ollie’s Petcare) are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page now and again to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
This policy is effective from 24th May 2018. Last updated on 07th March 2024.
1. ARE YOU AGED 16 OR UNDER?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to our Site. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
Ollie’s Petcare (“we”) (“us”), (“Ollie’s Petcare”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy (together with any documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.olliespetcare.ie or sub sites (together “Site” or “Sites”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Policy.
This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Cookie Policy and site Terms of Use. For the purpose of the data protection laws the data controller is Ollie’s Petcare with it’s office at Buncrana, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
2. ARE YOU COMMUNICATING WITH US FROM A BUSINESS?
Where we collect and use your personal data from a corporate perspective (i.e. where we are contracting with you as a sole trader or partnership, or contracting with the business you are employed / contracted by) this will be done in accordance with the relevant parts of this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact us at privacy [at] olliespetcare [dot] ie or by speaking with your usual contact at Ollie’s Petcare.
3. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information you give us: you may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you contact us on the website, meet us, or enter a competition or promotion. The information you give us may include your name, address, contact information, details about your pet(s) and home including access details.
Information we collect about you: with regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect:
• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information we receive from other sources: we may work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks and analytics providers) and may receive information about you from them.
4. COOKIES
Our site uses cookies to: distinguish you from other users of our site, website performance, advertising and analytics. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them please see our Cookie Policy.
5. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
Information you give to us: we will use this information:
• to provide visitor support e.g. responding to your enquiries;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us;
• for internal record keeping;
• to improve our Site services;
• to customise our site according to your interests;
• to provide you with information about other goods and services we feel may be of interest to you where you have consented (in accordance with the “Consent” section below (“Using your information in accordance with data protection laws”), including in each case competitions or promotions);
• to send you a welcome email, to verify your newsletter subscription when you sign-up with the site and other emails for the purposes of providing any services to you, including in relation to account management or system maintenance;
• to notify you about changes to our Site or services;
• to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
Information we collect about you: we will use this information:
• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our site, when you choose to do so;
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• in accordance with the “Consent” section below (“Using your information in accordance with data protection laws”) to deliver (whether directly or indirectly via third parties) effective and personalised marketing material and content of Ollie’s Petcare and other companies within our group and to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of advertising, marketing material and content, our services and the sites; and
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
Information we receive from other sources: we may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
6. USING YOUR INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA PROTECTION LAWS
Data protection laws require that we meet certain conditions before we are allowed to use your data in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. We take our responsibilities under data protection laws extremely seriously, including meeting these conditions. To use your personal data, we will rely on the following conditions, depending on the activities we are carrying out:
Compliance with legal obligations: As an entity established under the laws of Ireland, Ollie’s Petcare is obliged to comply with Irish laws and guidance provided by Irish regulatory bodies.
Consent: We may send you marketing messages by email and targeted ads about us, our Sites, our services and/or our partners where you have not unsubscribed. We provide easy ways to stop our marketing, and you can opt out at any time in every mail out.
In each of the situations above, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and can object to processing of this nature. Where you consent to us sending you marketing information will retain your information for as long as your subscription/blog article is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Legitimate interests: To use your personal data for any other purpose described in this Privacy Policy, we will rely on a condition known as “legitimate interests”. It is in our legitimate interests to collect your personal data as it provides us with the information that we need to provide our services to you more effectively. Effectively, this requires us to carry out a balancing test of our interests in using your personal data (for example, in order to provide you with the information and services that you request from us), against the interests you have as a citizen and the rights you have under data protection laws (for example, to not have your data sold to third party marketing companies without your knowledge, or not store your personal data in insecure or unstable countries or regions). The outcome of this balancing test will determine whether we can use your personal data in the ways described in this Privacy Policy (except in relation to certain marketing activities, where we will always rely on your explicit consent). We will always act reasonably and give full and proper consideration to your interests in carrying out this balancing test.
7. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR
When your data is no longer required for the purposes listed above, we will delete it within the periods set out below:
• Internal records including name, address, contact details, pet details & home access details will be kept for 1 year from ceasing services.
• Newsletter consents will be kept as long as your subscription is active;
• Comment consent will be kept as long as the article is still active;
8. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with any member of our group (which means our subsidiaries Ollie’s Pet Boutique & Ollie & Penny).
We will only share your personal information with other members of the group and third party service providers if it is necessary or reasonably required for any of the purposes listed above/ below.
We will only disclose your information to:
• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and other selected third parties; and
• your employer, educational institution (e.g. school, college or university), email or internet provider, parents (if you are under the age of 18) or law enforcement agencies, or other appropriate third parties, where we consider your behaviour to be unlawful, offensive, inappropriate or objectionable at an event, or on our site.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation;
• in the event that we consider selling or buying any business or assets or merge or enter into a joint venture with another business entity in which case we will disclose your personal data to any prospective sellers or buyers of such business or assets;
• in the event of an insolvency situation;
• in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or other agreements; or
• to protect our rights, our property, our visitors, or others.
9. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or (in the case of payment information) those of our secure payment provider. Internal records are kept in our secure home office under lock & key with no connection between name, address and keys. Where our suppliers are based outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, or stored at, a destination outside the EEA. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Where you have chosen a password to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
10. YOUR RIGHTS
You have a number of rights under data protection law in relation to the way we process your personal data, although these are not absolute and in some instances we may be unable to accept your request, in which case we will respond to you to explain why. These are set out below. You may contact us using the contact details below to exercise any of these rights and we will respond to any request received from you within one month from the date of the request.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
NUMBER | DESCRIPTION OF RIGHT |
Right 1 | A right to access personal data held by us about you. |
Right 2 | A right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal data held by us about you. |
Right 3 | A right to require us to erase personal data held by us about you. This right will only apply where (for example): we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for; or where you withdraw your consent if we are using your personal data based on your consent; or where you object to the way we process your data (in line with Right 6 below). |
Right 4 | In certain circumstances, a right to restrict our processing of personal data held by us about you. This right will only apply where (for example): you dispute the accuracy of the personal data held by us; or where you would have the right to require us to erase the personal data but would prefer that our processing is restricted instead; or where we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for, but you require the data for the purposes of dealing with legal claims. |
Right 5 | In certain circumstances, a right to receive personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format. This right will only apply where the processing is based on consent or a contract (see above) and the processing is carried out by automated means. You also have the right to require us to transfer this personal data to another organisation, at your request. |
Right 6 | A right to object to our processing of personal data held by us about you where the processing of such data is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, unless we are able to demonstrate, on balance, legitimate grounds for continuing to process personal data which override your rights or which are for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. |
Right 7 | A right for you not to be subject to a decision based solely on an automated process, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you. |
Right 8 | A right to withdraw your consent, where we are relying on it to use your personal data (for example, to provide you with marketing information about our services or products). |
11. CONTACT
If you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us in the first instance. Questions and comments regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed. Additionally, if you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, please don’t hesitate to contact us in the first instance. Queries, comments, complaints and requests should be sent to privacy [at] olliespetcare [dot] ie
If you have concerns regarding our processing of your personal data or are not satisfied with our handling of any complaint or request by you in relation to your personal data, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Their details are: 21 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland, Telephone: 1890 252 231, Email: info@dataprotection.ie
12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will take reasonable care to keep your information secure and to prevent any unauthorised access or use of it. We process all information in accordance with applicable Irish data protection legislation. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and the change will take effect once the revised Privacy Policy is available on this Site. Therefore, please refer to this Policy each time you submit your personal information.
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.