Privacy Policy
IMPORTANT NOTES
You should keep a copy of this privacy policy for future reference. This privacy policy replaces all previous business and consumer privacy policies published by us. This privacy policy is a policy document only and does not form part of any contract.
1. WELCOME
Welcome to Socos Teo. This document sets out our privacy policy in relation to our processing and use of customer data. In this policy you and your refer to the person, data relating to whom we may process from time to time, being our customer or any representative of our customer, or being a visitor to our website. If you are acting through a representative (such as an employee) references to you doing anything include anything your representatives do on your behalf. If you are a representative of a customer or visitor of ours, then we may treat your data as data of the customer or visitor you are representing and process it accordingly.
2. ABOUT SOCOS TEO
Socos Teo is a company registered in Ireland, with company number 220241. Our postal address and registered office is at Coill Rua, Inverin, Co.Galway. References to Socos, we, us and our, are to Socos Teo. We are the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988 and 2003 (the "DPA").
3. TYPES OF DATA
In this policy: your data refers to any data relating to you or your representatives that we may process from time to time; personal data means your data that is personal data under the DPA; individual subscriber data means your telephone number, fax number or e-mail address, if you are an individual, partnership or an unincorporated association; and corporate subscriber data means your telephone number, fax number or e-mail address that is not personal data or individual subscriber data.
4. OUR COMMITMENT
We are committed to processing your data in accordance with this privacy policy. We are committed to processing your personal data in accordance with the DPA. We are committed to processing your individual or corporate subscriber data for marketing purposes in accordance with the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services)(Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011 (the "e-Privacy Regulations").
5. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about our processing of your data, please contact us using our postal address set out above or using any of the contact methods listed on our web site.
6. HOW DO WE OBTAIN CUSTOMER DATA?
We may obtain your data in the following ways:
6.1
Account Set-Up
When you set up an internet account with our website to shop on line.
6.2
Newsletter Registration
If you register an e-mail address with us to receive offers and newsletters
from us.
6.3
Orders and Enquiries
When you place orders with us, pay for your orders, or make enquiries with us.
6.4
Website Browsing
When you browse our site, during which time we may collect information about
you, your computer, and your use of our website. Like most websites, we use
cookies and other methods to track the way our websites are used, as further detailed
in our separate cookies policy which can be found on our website. However, we
only collect data that is directly related to your use of our websites; so, for
example, we do not record other websites that you have visited.
6.5
Credit References
To help us decide whether to accept orders from you or (where applicable) allow
you payment credit terms, we may undertake searches and enquiries and obtain
whatever references or other information we consider necessary, including
carrying out searches with credit reference agencies. You can contact us for
details of the credit reference agencies used by us. Credit reference agencies
may add to their records details of our search which will then be seen by other
organisations making searches, and may be linked to records of others
associated with you, including any person with whom you are linked financially
and members of your household.
6.6
Self-Generated Data
We may also generate data in relation to you in the course of performing your
orders and dealing with any payments, enquiries and problems concerning your
orders.
7. WHAT DATA DO WE HOLD?
In order for us to provide the best possible level of service, we gather and hold the following types of information in relation to you:
7.1
Contact Information
Contact details relating to you, including your postal, invoicing, and delivery
addresses, your telephone, mobile, and fax numbers, and your e-mail addresses.
If a business account is registered (where you are not a consumer), we will
also keep on record details of the business or other organisation, including
name and contact details of the business, and contact details of its
representatives.
7.2
Creditworthiness Information
Information obtained through searches and enquiries carried out and references
or other information obtained by us concerning your credit worthiness.
7.3 Payment Information
Orders submitted on our website are directed to PayPal for processing. We have no access to your credit card data. According to PayPal's Privacy Policy at the time of posting this page, when you visit the PayPal website or use PayPal Services, PayPal may collect data on the pages you access, your computer IP address, device identifiers, the type of operating system you’re using, your location, mobile network information, standard web log data and other information.
For further information PayPals full privacy policy can be found here: https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
7.4 Order
Information
We generate and hold information specific to your orders with us, including a
record of those orders (your purchase history), payments made, order tracking,
fulfilment, delivery, returns and refunds.
7.5 Web
Site Usage Information
We may record your usage of our website, including the products you browse and
pages you visit. As part of this, we may also collect information about your
computer, including where available your IP address, location, operating system
and browser type.
7.6
Relationship Information
We record information relating to any communications and dealings we have with
you. This includes enquiries, complaints, and credit checks.
8. WHAT DO WE USE YOUR DATA FOR?
8.1
Customer Relationship Management
Your data is used to provide you with personalised services and to correspond
with you. We use it to support and manage your customer relationship with Socos,
including to maintain your account, inform you of changes and general news in
relation to Socos, and deal with your enquiries and complaints.
8.2
Searches and Assessment
We use your data to help us decide whether to accept orders from you, trace
you, verify your ID and address, and (where applicable) to allow you payment
credit terms. We may use a credit scoring or other automated decision making
system.
8.3
Performing Contracts
We use your data for the purposes of performing, administering, enforcing and
managing your orders and their subsequent fulfilment, maintaining a purchase
history, and handling any complaints or claims.
8.4
Evidence, Security, Quality, Fraud Prevention and Training
We use your data along with other data we hold for the purposes of evidence,
security, quality control, and training.
8.5
Business and Service Improvement
We use your data along with other data we hold, to carry out assessment,
analysis and research in relation to our business, products, services, websites
and customers, including: to assist in the provision of services and products
to you; to facilitate reviews, developments, personalisation and improvements
of the services and products offered to you; to improve our websites, including
to improve the layout and design of our site, and to ensure that that content
from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your
computer; and to enhance your user, browsing and purchasing experience,
including to provide you with a more personalised service which is tailored to
suit your needs. The information we gather is analysed either in the aggregate
or at a customer level as appropriate.
8.6
Advertising
We use your data along with other data we hold for the purposes of assessing
the effectiveness of and managing advertising by us on our sites.
8.7
Marketing (Individuals, Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations)
With respect to personal data and individual subscriber data, if you have
consented, we may use your data to send marketing communications to you from
time to time with advertisements, offers and promotions relating to Socos and
the products and services we offer for sale (including our regular email
newsletter service, which brings to you details of special offers and product
promotions as well as information on new products). You are free to opt-out of
our newsletter and other marketing communications at any time by contacting us,
or changing any settings in your account on our website, or using any
unsubscribe link in any marketing e-mail we send to you.
8.8
Marketing (Corporate Data)
Subject to any applicable legal restrictions, if you are not an individual,
partnership or unincorporated association, we may use your contact data
(including contact data of your individual representatives, and corporate
subscriber data), to send marketing communications to you from time to time
with advertisements, offers and promotions relating to Socos and the products
and services we offer for sale (including our regular email newsletter service,
which brings to you details of special offers and product promotions as well as
information on new products), and relating to products and services offered for
sale by third parties.
8.9 Legal
We may use your data for the purposes of enforcing any orders from you, and for
the purposes of dealing with fraud and complying with any legal obligations
applicable to us.
9. WHO DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR DATA TO?
9.1
General
We do not share your data with any third parties except as provided in this
policy or as required or permitted by law or as consented to by you. Were we
share your data with third parties, such sharing will be limited to such data
as is appropriate to the purpose indicated below.
9.2 Order
Performance
We may disclose your data to third parties such as credit and debit card
processing companies, outside suppliers, distributors and delivery companies,
in order to perform your orders, collect payment, deal with returns, and
provide you with a service, or send any communications to you.
9.3
Searches
We disclose your data to credit reference agencies and other third parties in
connection with any searches, enquiries, references and other information we
wish to obtain, to help us decide whether to accept orders from you, trace you,
verify your ID and address, and (where applicable) allow you payment credit
terms.
9.4
Security, Quality Control and Training
In order to improve security and quality, and carry out training, we may
disclose your data to our staff and to third parties providing services to us
in that regard.
9.5
Marketing
With respect to personal data and individual subscriber data, we will not share
that data with third parties for use in direct marketing by those third parties
for their products and services.
9.8 Legal
We may use and disclose to third parties any data we hold about you and your
payment record for the purposes of administration and enforcement of any sale
contracts with you and for other related purposes. We may also supply your data
to relevant authorities and other third parties where legally required or
reasonably required in connection with any legal process, or any legal
obligations binding on us.
10. DATA SECURITY
10.1
Security Measures
We are firmly committed to data security and we aim to follow good industry
practice in relation to the prevention of unauthorised access to your data
stored in our systems, including using password-protected servers. Please see
our Security Policy for further information about the online and offline
security measures we adopt to protect your data against unauthorised processing
and against accidental loss, destruction or damage.
10.2
Internet Security
Please note that the transmission of information via the internet can never be
completely secure. Although we aim to follow good industry practice in relation
to the security measures we adopt on our website for the encryption of data for
transmission between our website and your computer, we do not guarantee the
effectiveness of such encryption methods or the security of your data during
transmission or on your computer.
11. WHERE WE STORE DATA ABOUT YOU
Your personal data, 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 may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By placing an order with us, you consent to the processing of your personal data outside the EEA.
12. ACCURACY AND UPDATING INFORMATION
If you have registered an account with our website, you can check the information we store for your account by visiting our website and logging-in. You can amend any inaccuracies through this facility or by phoning our customer care team on 091-593301. Alternatively, you can contact us by post or email or using any method set out on our website requesting that we update, modify or delete any account information that is no longer accurate or up-to-date.
13. RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS
By law individuals have the following rights in relation to their personal data under the DPA. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, then please contact us using the contact information set out above.
13.1
Access to Your Data
The law gives you a right to be told what personal data we hold about you,
subject to certain limitations. We may charge you a fee in accordance with the
DPA in dealing with your request.
13.2
Stopping Marketing
If we are sending you marketing communications using your data, the law gives
you a right to ask us to stop doing this.
13.3
Damage and Distress
The law gives you a right to ask us to stop using your data for any purpose,
where that purpose is causing you unwarranted substantial damage or distress;
and the law gives you a right to claim compensation for damage suffered if we
breach the law.
13.4
Changes to Your Information
You have the right to ask for the rectification, erasure or blocking of any of
your data which is inaccurate.
14. VISITING THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties, including 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 and cookies policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for any data which those websites may obtain from or in relation to you. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.
15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this privacy policy at any time and from time to time and will update this page accordingly. You should therefore periodically visit this web page to check our current policy.
16. LEGAL STATUS OF THIS POLICY
This document is not intended to and does not create any contractual rights. This document not affect your rights at law, including under the DPA and the e-Privacy Regulations.