Privacy Policy

Barkeeper.ie Privacy Statement

Barkeeper.ie knows that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This notice describes the privacy policy of Barkeeper.ie.

By visiting Barkeeper.ie, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Overall privacy statement

We take your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to Barkeeper.ie.

1. What information does Barkeeper.ie collect?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Because we derive revenue mainly from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services affordable to users.

We collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you subscribe for an e-mail newsletter or when you register to use certain services. One of the services that we offer on our sites, downloads, requires registration as a condition of use. Once you register with Barkeeper.ie you are no longer anonymous to us. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

This personally identifiable information is limited t

1. First and last name
2. Occupation
3. Address, including street name and city (or your location)
4. E-mail address
5. Telephone number
6. Age
7. Credit card information in the event a user purchases products or services online

2. What is Barkeeper.ie’s practice regarding cookies?

Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected.

We also use technologies, including electronic images known as Web bugs—sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or beacons—that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or services, the information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

• Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites;
• Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage;
• Determining which features our overall user population likes best;
• Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites;
• Displaying the most appropriate advertising based on your interests.

We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on our sites and, sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking technology on your computer. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Unless you visit the Web site of these companies and provide them with personally identifiable information about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers nothing about who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.

3. How does Barkeeper.ie use the information?

We use the information we gather for four general purposes:

• To customize the advertising and the content you see;
• To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you;
• To fulfil your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in paid services, and competitions;
• To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

4. How does Barkeeper.ie share the information?

Personally identifiable information

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:

• We have your consent to share the information;
• We have engaged companies to work with us or on our behalf to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements;
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Barkeeper.ie’s Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

Aggregate information

We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Business transfers

If we sell our business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

5. What are my options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.
We also give users the following options:

• Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the contact pages on the website or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
• Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site, provided, however, that you may not be able to use some of our products or services without providing us with certain information.

6. How can I review and update my personally identifiable information?

You can review, correct, or change the information collected during registration for our site. The instructions for doing this can be found in our member-services areas. Users may change information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page. Currently, we do not offer users a way by which to completely delete personal information established at the time of registration.

7. How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
• We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
• We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
• It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

Questions, Comments

Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our network of Web sites should be sent via e-mail to info@barkeeper.ie or to our offices at No 1 Kingsvalley, Merlin Park, Dublin Road, Galway, Ireland. Attention: Legal Department. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.

Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions

If you choose to visit Barkeeper.ie, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Notice and our Terms & Conditions, including limitations on damages and application of the laws of Ireland & the UK.

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice and the Terms & Conditions will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

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