1. Introduction
We at
TrySwitch.ie respect your right to privacy and comply
with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts
1988 and 2003. The purpose of this Website Privacy
Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal
data you provide to us while visiting this website.
Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website
Privacy Policy you should not use this website.
By visiting
this website, you are accepting the terms of this
Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other
websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are
not responsible for the content or the privacy
policies of these other websites.
2. Types
of Information Collected
We retain
two types of information:
2.1
“Personal Data”
This is
data that identifies you or can be used to
identify or contact you and may include your name,
address, email address, user IP addresses,
telephone number, birth date, and, where relevant,
billing, credit card and/or direct debit
information. Such information is only collected
from you if you voluntarily submit it to
us.
2.2
“Non-Personal Data”
Like
most websites, we gather statistical and other
analytical information collected on an aggregate
basis of all visitors to our website. This
Non-Personal Data comprises information that
cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as
demographic information regarding, for example,
user IP addresses where they have been clipped or
anonymised, browser types and other anonymous
statistical data involving the use of our website.
3. Purposes
for which we hold your Information.
3.1 Non-Personal
Data:
We use
the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to
our website in an aggregate form to get a better
understanding of where our visitors come from and
to help us better design and organise our website.
3.2 Personal
Data
We will
process any Personal Data you provide to us for
the following purposes:
(a)
to provide you with the services you have requested;
(b)
to respond to any communications you might send to us;
(c)
to provide you with information you may request with
respect to services provided by telecommunications
service providers; and
(d)
to contact you, if requested, in connection with your
use of the Website e.g. in relation to your request to
switch telecommunications service provider.
4.
Disclosure
of Information to Third Parties
We may
provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such
information is combined with similar information of
other users of our website. For example, we might
inform third parties regarding the number of unique
users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown
of our community users of our website, or the
activities that visitors to our website engage in
while on our website. The third parties to whom we may
provide this information may include
telecommunications service providers on foot of a
request from you to switch service providers.
We will not
disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless
you have consented to this disclosure or unless a
third party is required to fulfil your switch or other
request (in such circumstances, the third party is
bound by similar data protection requirements). We
will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good
faith that we are required to disclose it in order to
comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search
warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other
statutory requirement.
5. Sale
of Business
We reserve
the right to transfer information (including your
Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a
sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of
all or substantially all of the assets of our company
provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the
terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that
the third party only uses your Personal Data for the
purposes that you provided it to us. You will be
notified in the event of any such transfer and you
will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
6.
Security
Your
Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by
DiscountASP.net. The nature of the Internet is such
that we cannot guarantee or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us via the
Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will
take all reasonable steps (including appropriate
technical and organisational measures) to protect your
Personal Data.
7.
Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may
inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in
accordance with our obligations under the Data
Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 we will update or delete
your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what
Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal
Data updated, amended or removed from our database,
please complete email us at [admin@tryswitch.ie].
Any such data subject requests may be subject to the
prescribed fee (which will not exceed €6.34).
8.
Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes
to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this
website so you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to
use Personal Data in a manner significantly different
from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or
otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was
collected, we will notify you by email, and you will
have a choice as to whether or not we use your
information in the new manner.
