Smart Light and EEW Ltd. are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This statement (together with our terms of use of our website
www.smartlight.ie Terms & Conditions and any other documents referred to
on 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.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 (the "Act"),
the data controller is EEW Ltd. of Old Dublin Road, Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our
site www.smartlight.ie ("our site"). We may also ask you for information when
you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by EEW
Ltd., and when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Information which you provide to us for the purpose of seeking employment with EEW Ltd
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not
limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your
computer, including where available your IP address, operating system
and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate
information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our
users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any
individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general
internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive
of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to
your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to
deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on
your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However,
if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of
our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our
site.
Where we store your personal data
EEW Ltd. will take all steps reasonably necessary
to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this
privacy policy. The data that we collect from you may be transferred
to, and stored at, an encrypted and secure destination within the
European Economic Area ("EEA"). By submitting your personal data, you
agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps
reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in
accordance with this privacy policy.
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.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
- To provide you with information on products or services
available in EEW Ltd. stores where you have consented to
be contacted for such purposes.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To publicise the winners of competitions where you have entered such a competition .
The information held about you may also be used to provide you
with details of products, services, contests, competitions or promotions
being provided or run by EEW, Smart Light or any other of its
associated companies or any third party which we may select and which we
think may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your data
in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which
we collect your data.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- If EEW Ltd. 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 of use Terms & Conditions and other
agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of EEW Ltd., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of
fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
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 smartlightcarlow@eew.ie.
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.
Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in
providing you with details of the information we hold about you. You
have the right to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.
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.