Privacy Policy

Kerr’s Bookshop respects your privacy. We ensure that your privacy is protected when using our website. Kerr’s Bookshop provides you with goods and services and is the data controller of the personal data that you provide when you order goods.

The Data Protection Officer for Kerr’s Bookshop can be contacted via email at bookshop@kerr.ie. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit kerrsbookshop.ie.

Personal data we collect:

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what and which websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
• “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

How do we use your personal information?

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us to improve and optimise our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing your personal Information

We may share information with service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations. Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own or any additional benefit.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant and/or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Transferring Information Internationally

We may transfer information collected about you to third parties acting on our behalf that may be located in countries outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or countries deemed by the European Commission to have satisfactory data protection. These other countries may not offer the same level of protection for the information collected about you, although we will at all times continue to collect, store and use your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection legislation. We will ensure we share data only with those organizations that satisfy an adequate level of data protection in line with applicable data protection legislation and that satisfactory contractual agreements are in place with any such parties.

Your rights

If GDPR is applicable to you, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be amended, updated, or deleted, you have the right to ask for the ceasing of processing of your data, object to profiling activities and solely automated processing, request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, and/or request that your data be transferred to a third party (data portability) under certain circumstances. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data at any time if the processing is based on your consent, and can do so by contacting the DPO at the address provided.

If you would like to exercise any of your rights set out above, you can contact us via email at bookshop@kerr.ie.