Privacy Policy
McSport are committed to protecting and respecting your
privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use 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 Acts), the data controller
is McSport of Unit C Killarney Road Business Park, Killarney
Road, Bray, Co Wicklow
1. Information We May Collect From You
We may collect and process the following data about you:
1.1 Information that you provide by filling in forms on our
site www.mcsport.ie (our site). This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our site, ordering
products from us, subscribing to our service, posting
material or requesting further services. We may also ask
you for information when you enter a competition or
promotion sponsored by McSport, and when you report a
problem with our site.
1.2 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
1.3 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use
for research purposes, although you do not have to respond
to them.
1.4 Details of transactions you carry out through our site
and of the fulfilment of your orders.
1.5 Details of your visits to our site including, but not
limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other
communication data, whether this is required for our own
billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you
access.
2. IP Addresses & 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:
(a) To estimate our audience size and usage pattern and
accumulate and analyze anonymous,
aggregate statistical information
(b) To store information about your preferences, and so
allow us to customise our site according to your individual
interests and display appropriate product categories that
may be of interest to you
(c) To assess which features of our site are being accessed
so we can improve our site and better deliver content and
products of interest to you
(d) To speed up your searches.
(e) To track your return visits to our site
(f) save your user name and password so you do not have to
re-enter it each time you visit 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. Please note that our
advertisers may also use cookies, over
which we have no control.
3. 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 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
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. For privacy purposes,
all information relating to our customers is stored on a
secure server that is not accessible via the Internet. All
orders are placed through a secure portion of our website
that uses industry standard security measures known as SSL
(secure socket layer) 128 encryption. 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, 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.
4. Uses Made Of The Information:
We use information held about you in the following ways:
(a) To ensure that content from our site is presented in the
most effective manner for you and for your computer.
(b) To provide you with information, products or services
that you request from us or which we feel may interest you,
where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes.
(c) To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts
entered into between you and us.
(d) To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
service, when you choose to do so.
(e) To notify you about changes to our service.We may also
use your data to provide you with information about goods
and services which may be of interest to you and we or
they may contact you about these by email if you have
consented to this. If you want us to use your data in this
way please tick the relevant box situated on the form on
which we collect your data (for example; the order form or
registration form).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.
5. Disclosure Of Your Information:
We may disclose your personal information to any member
of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate
holding company and its subsidiaries.We may disclose your
personal
information to third parties:
5.1 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.
5.2 If McSport 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.
5.3 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 or terms and
conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect
the rights, property, or safety of McSport, our
customers, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organisations for the purposes of
fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
6. Yours 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 office@mcsport.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.
7. Access To Information:
The Acts give 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 of €6.75 to meet our costs in providing you with
details of the information we hold about you.
8. 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.
9. Contact Us:
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy
policy are welcomed and should be
addressed to office@mcsport.ie