This privacy policy and statement (“Privacy Policy”) describes the
information Thorntons Recycling (the “Company”) will collect from time to time
in order to accommodate the provision of our services to you, related
information requests and our intended use of that information.
The Company respects your right to privacy and will not collect any
personal information about you without your consent.
By viewing or using this website you accept and agree to all of the provisions
of this Privacy Policy.
Data Collection
For the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the Company’s waste
collection service (the “Service”), the processing of your payments for that
Service as well as any queries and/or other information requests you may have,
we will require and collect from you such personal data as your name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address and other contact and billing information.
Purpose
The personal data you provide to us will be used for the following
general purposes:
Disclosure
We may share your personal information with any member of our group,
which means any subsidiaries, any holding company and its subsidiaries, as
defined in the Companies Act 2014.
We may 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; or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions
of the Service and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or
safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
We may also share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information
and de-identified data with our partners or others.
Transfers Abroad
We may transfer and maintain your data on servers located outside of the
European Economic Area (EEA) but only in or to such countries outside of the
EEA which have been approved by the European Union as providing adequate levels
of data protection.
Security
We will take commercially reasonably efforts to ensure that your data is
held on secure servers and that it has appropriate security measures in place
to prevent unauthorised access to, or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or
destruction of, your data and against their accidental loss or destruction.
We will never ask you for financial or sensitive information. Please be
aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or
impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed as entirely
securely.
We make no representations or warranties as to the security of any
information transmitted to or by us over the Internet.
Access, Update or Delete Your Data
If you wish to access, update or delete the personal data we hold on
file about you, please contact us by e-mail at info@thorntons-recycling.ie. A request to access or obtain
details or copies of such personal data may be subject to a prescribed fee.
If your account is closed or becomes inactive or suspended, we may maintain certain information for record-keeping and analysis purposes. While we may retain information for these purposes, we may, at our sole discretion, delete it for any reason at any time and are under no obligation to maintain it.
Withdrawal of Consent
We may use and process your personal information for the following purposes where you have consented for us to do so:
To contact you via email, online or by post (as you have indicated) with marketing information about our products, events, product launches, exciting offers and services.
You may withdraw your consent for us to use your information in any of these ways at any time. Please see the ‘Access, Update or Delete your data’ section below for further details.
Right to Rectification
If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to do so as quickly as possible; unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.
If you believe that we hold inaccurate personal data about you, then you can either update this information directly by emailing info@thorntons-recycling.ie Depending on the type of personal data you believe is inaccurate, we may ask you for further proof to ensure that the personal data is being corrected properly. If we are satisfied that the personal data is inaccurate, we will make the necessary changes.
Right to Restriction
You have a right to request that processing of personal data is restricted in certain circumstances. However, we shall still continue to process the personal data for storage purposes, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or with your consent.
Right to Objection
Where we are relying on legitimate interests as a legal basis to process your data, you have a right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.
Cookies
This website uses cookies, [web beacons] and similar technologies. These
allow us to better understand the usage and traffic pattern of visitors and use
on our website and to enable certain functionality in our Service.
For more information about our use of cookies and how you can manage or
disable them, please see our Cookie Policy.
Third Party Material
We accept no liability howsoever arising for the content, accuracy or
reliability of any third party materials or websites, or any part thereof,
which may be referenced from time to time by link or other means at this
website or for the data collection and use practices or security measures
exercised by such third parties.
Assignment
We may assign or transfer information (including your personal data) to
a third party in the event of a sale, merger, insolvency, termination of
business operations, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets
and/or liabilities of the Company. In each case, such third party shall be
obliged to undertake to use your personal data in accordance with the terms of
this Privacy Policy or on such other terms as may be separately agreed between
you and that third party. All commercially reasonably efforts will be made to
notify you in the event of such a transfer and provide you with an opportunity
to opt-out.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Any changes made to this Privacy Policy from time to time will be
published at this website.
In the event any change to this Privacy Policy results in your personal
data being used in a way which is substantially different from that disclosed
to you at the time it was collected, we will use commercially reasonable
efforts to notify you to determine whether or not we may use your personal data
in this new way.
Contact Us
Any questions or complaints relating to this Privacy Policy should be
directed to:
Thorntons Recycling,
Unit S3B Henry Road, Parkwest Business Park, Dublin 12.
D12 AC2X
Email: info@thorntons-recycling.ie
Thorntons Recycling respects the privacy of all visitors to our website.
This cookie policy (the “Cookie Policy”) outlines our policy concerning the use
of cookies, [web beacons] and similar technologies.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect any
changes in technology or legislation or our data usage policies which may
affect the way in which cookies and similar technologies are used by us and how
you as a user, can manage them.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies, [web beacons], and similar technologies are small text files
placed in your computer, tablet, mobile, or another device. They may collect
information such as your device identifier (IDFA) or IP address. This
information may be used to recognize when your device visits a particular
website or clicks on a particular link or website or when you open emails we
send you or links in them.
Cookie technology is customarily used to gather statistical information
and to analyze trends of use or access to a website. Typically, the information
generated by using cookie technology does not and cannot be used to identify
you as an individual, just the device you are using.
More information about cookies and how you can manage them can be found
at www.aboutcookies.org.
WHY WE USE COOKIES?
Cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies allow us to better
understand the usage and traffic pattern of visitors and use on our website and
to enable certain functionality on our services. Cookies also help us make your
experience on our website more efficient and more enjoyable.
WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?
The cookies, [web beacons] and similar technologies that are used in
connection with our website can be categorized as follows:
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies enable services that you have specifically
requested from us. We use a number of cookies that are essential to the
operation of certain services available via our website. For example, certain
Cookies enable you to log in to certain areas of our website or help ensure the
content of the pages you request loads quickly. Without these cookies, services
that you have asked for cannot be properly provided. We want you to understand
these are necessary cookies and why we use them; but, we do not need to get
your consent to use them on our website as we use these cookies only to provide
you with services that you have requested.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make
while on our website such as:
The aim of functionality cookies is to provide you with a more personal
experience so that you do not have to reset your preferences each time you
visit our website.
We may also use functionality cookies to enable you to comment on an
article or provide enhanced services such as enabling you to view a video on
our website. You may disable any of these functionality cookies, but if you do
so, then various functions of our website may be unavailable to you or may not
work the way they were meant to work.
Performance analytics cookies
Performance analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use
our website, for example, which pages our visitors go to most often, and if
they get error messages on those pages. Performance cookies do not collect
information that identifies you as an individual; all information they collect
is aggregated and anonymous. The information gathered is only used to improve
how our website works.]
No targeted advertising
We do not use cookies to:
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Third parties (including providers of external services like web traffic
analysis services) may also use cookies on our website, over which we have no
control. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us analyze how our
website is used. You can find out more about this website analytics tool here:
http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html. Google Analytics uses performance
cookies to track visitor interactions. By using cookies, Google Analytics can
tell us which pages our user's view, which are most popular, what time of day
our websites are visited, whether visitors have been to our websites before,
what website referred the visitor to our websites, and other similar
information. You can find out more about how Google protects your data in
Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.]
WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS
We may also use web beacons, pixels, or similar technology in our email
communications with you to determine if an email has been opened and acted
upon.
HOW YOU CAN MANAGE OR DISABLE COOKIES
[The first time you visit our website you will see a banner that asks
you to review our Cookie Policy, provides a link to this Cookie Policy and
explains that by using our website you are deemed to consent to the use of
cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.]
You can disable and/or delete all types of cookies by using your browser
settings. Cookies are generally easy to disable and/or delete but how you do so
varies from browser to browser. The "help" function within your
browser should tell you how to do it. The best way may be to close your browser
and then search for "cookie folder" or "cookie manager" or
simply "cookie".
