Moloney Auctioneers (“We”) are committed to protecting and
respecting your privacy.
This policy 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.moloneyauctioneers.com you are
accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller
is Moloney Auctioneers of 16 North St., New Ross, Co.Wexford , Ireland.
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 www.moloneyauctioneers.com or by
corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes
information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to
our service, participate in discussion boards or other social media
functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and
when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us
may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number,
financial and credit card information, personal description and
photograph.
– Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to
our site we may automatically collect the following information:
* 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;
* information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource
Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site
(including date and time); products 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
and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
– Information we receive from other sources. We may receive
information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate
or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you
when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and
combined with data collected on this site. We are also working closely
with third parties (including, for example, business partners, subcontractors
in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising
networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit
reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.
This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our
website and also allows us to improve our site. There are instances where we
may use cookies to gather information regarding our services in a
mathematical collection for our website and our advertisers.
Any information collected will not have any identifying data. It is statistical data
about our visitors and how they have used our site. No personal details will be
shared that could identify you.
We may assemble information about your common internet use with a cookie
file. When used, the cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically.
The cookie is stored on the hard drive, with transferred information. The data
sought by the cookie helps us improve our website and any service offered to
you.
Your browser has the ability to decline cookies. This is done by setting your
browser options to decline all cookies. Note: if you do decline the download of
cookies, some aspects of our site may not work or allow you access.
Our advertisers may download cookies to which we have no control. If used,
these cookies are downloaded by clicking on an advertisement found on our
website.
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 carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us and to provide you with the information,
products and services that you request from us;
* to provide you with information about other goods and services
we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased
or enquired about;
* to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you,
with information about goods or services we feel may interest
you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by
electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods
and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous
sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer,
and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we
(or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have
consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this
way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing
purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on
which we collect your data;
* to notify you about changes to our service;
* 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 service,
when you choose to do so;
* as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
* to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we
serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to
you;
* to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other
users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or
them.
– 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 us this information and the combined information for
the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we
receive).
Disclosure of your information
We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which
means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as
defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may share your information with selected third parties including:
– Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of
any contract we enter into with [them or] you.
– Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and
serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose
information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may
provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example,
we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their
advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate
information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to
target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal
data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our
advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target
audience.
– Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement
and optimisation of our site.
– Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit
score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
– In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case
we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of
such business or assets.
– If Moloney Auctioneers or substantially all of its assets are acquired by
a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers
will be one of the transferred assets.
– 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 www.moloneyauctioneers.com/terms-andconditions
and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or
safety of Purcell Auctioneers, our customers, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the
purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.]
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a
destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our
suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of
your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of
support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. Purcell Auctioneers will take all steps reasonably
necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with
this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment
transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology]. Where we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you 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.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing
purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend
to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at des@moloneyauctioneers.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, 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.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to des@moloneyauctioneers.com.