Last updated May 30th, 2020. Change history available further down.
With GDPR grace period now over, we are happy to inform that we have always been committed to our customers’ privacy anyway, without having to be compelled by law to do so. Thus our privacy policy remains unchanged.
Going an extra mile – beyond the GDPR
You will find our formal privacy policy further down. Here we would like to tell you what extra steps we have taken so far to limit your exposure to data collectors and what our future plans in this regard are.
Done So Far
- removed social media buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) entirely from our website’s code. It is now more difficult for those companies to track your visit to this website.
- we made our live chat load only on demand. This means the live chat company (live chat is vital to our business) cannot track users who do not use live chat. Tracking is furthermore limited only to the actual page on which the user loaded the live chat script by clicking live chat button.
- We host locally as much of javascript as possible and thus limit our visitors’ exposure to tracking by CDNs
- We keep an eye on deleting orders that are older than one year – this way should our database is ever compromised we can limit our customers’ exposure to one year’s orders.
- We keep an eye on software updates and vulnerabilities
Still To Do
- Hosting fonts locally – externally hosted fonts are convenient but not private
- Replacing current web analytics solution with privacy oriented, self-hosted one
- Replacing live chat with privacy oriented self-hosted one (tests underway)
Our Privacy Goal
Our goal is to make our website 100% private. The information about your visit to our website is very personal and we consider it sensitive. We want to arrive at the situation when this information is 100% under your control, without any third parties involved.
Our Privacy Policy
In short, the bullet points below contain the most important information.
- We do not disclose your information to any third parties
- We do not store any credit card related details – they are handled externally by PayPal and we have no access to this information
- We use your information solely for the purpose of fulfilling your order
- Any images uploaded are stored on our system for up to 48 hours
- Any information entered in our online personalisation system is stored for up to 48 hours
- Your address, email, phone number, name and personalised cards (if applicable) are stored on our system for 6 months (to facilitate re-order if needed), then deleted.
- We do use cookies in order to maintain connection between your browser and cart and products you are personalising.
- We never use real cards as samples or for advertising. All sample card photos you may see on this website use stock photographs and information on them is fictional.
Overview
Memorial Printers respect your right to privacy and comply with obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1998, 2003 and GDPR. The objective of this Privacy Policy is to outline how Memorial Printers deal with any personal data you provide when you visit this website, use our online print personalisation system or place your order.
By visiting the memorialprint.ie website, you are accepting the terms of the Privacy Policy.
Type of information we collect
We collect information from you when you fill out our contact form, personalise cards online or place an order.
When ordering, using our personalisation system or submitting a contact form on our website, as appropriate, you may be asked to provide personal details such as name, e-mail address, postal address or phone number as needed.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To process transactions: e.g. to fulfil your order, send parcel.
- To create and print personalized memorial products you ordered
- Correspondence: e.g. to respond to your query, update you about your order status (received, dispatched).
- If you use our free designs option, all the information you enter during personalization process
How long do we store your information for?
Photos you upload to this site during personalization process are stored for up to 24 hours, then they are deleted. If you finalise your order we store your name, address, email address, phone number and hi resolution pdf file(s) used to print your order. This information is stored for 12 months, then permanently deleted from our system. (including photos) is removed from our system within 24 hours.
How do we protect your privacy?
All information you exchange with our website is using https protocol. Apart from that we implement a variety of security measures to maintain & safeguard your personal information when you place an order or access your personal information.
We do not store any information related to your credit card or payment – this information is processed externally by payment gateway operators e.g. PayPal.
Memorial Printers take all reasonable steps (which includes relevant technical and organisational measures) to guarantee the safety of the data you provide to us and we will only use the data for the intended purpose.
However, the nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet will be 100% secure.
Use of cookies
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart.
This website uses Google Analytics to gather anonymous statistics about visitors to the site and which pages are visited.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. Our Store and Content Management System need to use cookies to work properly.
Disclosure to third parties
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.
Updating, verifying and deleting your personal data
You may inform us of any changes in your personal data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, we will update or delete your personal data accordingly. To find out what personal data we hold on you or to have your personal data updated, amended or removed from our database, please email it to us at memorialprinters@outlook.com Any such data subject requests may be subject to the fee prescribed under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to our web privacy policy at anytime without prior consultation; these changes will be posted on this page together with Privacy Policy modification date.
This privacy policy changes history
Jan 28th, 2015 – this privacy policy has been originally published
May 25th, 2018 – added GDPR introduction, added information about use of https throughout the website
October 1st, 2019 – wording simplified in introduction. Minor spelling amendments. Image/information storage time extended to 48 hours as more practicable. Information that we never use real cards as samples added.
May 22nd, 2020 – phone number amended to our new one, “Going an Extra Mile – beyond the GDPR” section added, order data retention time amended to 12 months.
May 30th, 2020 – spelling change in “Going an Extra Mile – beyond the GDPR” section.
Sep 14th, 2020 – removed a word (technical term) that was potentially problematic with one of the search engines – in “How do we protect your privacy?”
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
Office Address:
Memorial Printers
Old Mill Road,
Ballinasloe,
Co. Galway
Website: memorialprint.ie
Email: memorialprinters@outlook.com
Telephone: + 353 1 963 7008