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Privacy

Your Privacy  
  • Trinity College Dublin is totally committed to protecting the privacy of our site visitors and customers. We will not disclose information about our customers to third parties except where it is part of providing a service to you, e.g. arranging for a product to be sent to you, carrying out credit and other security checks and for the purpose of customer research and profiling, or where we have your express permission to do so.

Your Consent  
  • We will not sell your name, address, e-mail address, credit card information or personal information to any third party without your permission, but we cannot be responsible or held liable for the actions of third party sites from which you may have linked or been directed to the gifts.tcd.ie website. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses.

Communication and Marketing  
  • If you have made a purchase, we may occasionally update you on our latest products, news and special offers via e-mail, post and telephone. You will also be given the opportunity to receive such communications from us and selected third parties when you become a member of gifts.tcd.ie

  • All gifts.tcd.ie members have the option to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us and/or selected third parties. If you do not wish to continue to receive marketing from us and/or selected third parties, you should opt-out by visiting 'Your Details' in Your Account on the gifts.tcd.ie website. You can access Your Account once you register and login. Or click on the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in any email communications which we might send you.

Information Collection  
  • We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter or fill out a form.

  • When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address or mailing address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Use of Information  

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalise your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To process transactions
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
  • To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for order processing may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

Security  
  • We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit or access your personal information.

  • We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers’ database, to be accessible only by those authorised with special access rights to such systems, and we are required to keep the information confidential.

Cookies  
  • Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

  • We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and keep track of advertisements.

Third Party Links  
  • Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Online Privacy Policy Only  
  • This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent  
  • By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy  
  • If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date. For any questions regarding this policy, please contact us:

  • www.gifts.tcd.ie/ContactUs