Privacy and Data Protection

1. Terms in this document

‘We’ or ‘Us’ refers to Atire – Contact Us.
‘You’, ‘the user’ or ‘the customer’ refers to anyone who visits or uses Atire’s website – www.atire.ie.

2. The Data Protection Act

Under the Data Protection Act, Atire has a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. Atire uses leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keeps strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.

3. What information does Atire collect?

Atire collects the following kinds of information from users via our registration and order forms:

• Contact details (such as name, email, and postal address)
• Unique identifiers (such as username and password)
• Feedback (through users emailing Atire and website forms)
• Queries and customer satisfaction survey results (via the Atire website)
• Site usage information and cookies.

4. How Atire uses your information

Contact details are used to process and ship orders, and to send information about our company. The customer’s contact details are also used to send promotional material to our customers, and to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings & telemarketing activity, and opt in to email activity.

Unique identifiers (such as username and password) are collected from website visitors to verify the user’s identity.

Information collected by Atire is also used to:

• Improve the content/layout of our website
• Tell users about updates to our website
• Contact users to respond to their queries
• Atire does not share this information with other organisations for marketing, market research or other commercial purposes.

Atire may give your contact details (such as name, email, and postal address) to reputable third parties for reasons that we regard to be commercially beneficial for you. Examples include:
(a) Prospective customers who contact us about products we cannot supply to them directly
(b) Our suppliers so they can list you on their website as a stockist of their products.

5. Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a website, which are stored in the cookies directory of your computer. Cookies are created when you visit our website. Our cookies store a random number on your computer to help us count the number of times users return to the site. The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual person.

Our website also uses cookies to store your order basket. This feature will not work if you do not allow our website to set the cookie on your computer.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you don’t know how to do this, contact your system administrator or IT advisor. Alternatively, Atire’s website team may be able to assist you.

6. What happens when you follow a link to another website?

Atire’s website may contain links to websites of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to the Atire website. When you link to another website, you should read the privacy policy on that website.

7. What happens when you come to the Atire website from another website?

When you come to the Atire website from a link on another website, Atire may get personal information about you from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of websites you visit that link you to Atire. These policies will explain how they collect and use your personal information and whether they pass this on to websites they link you to.

8. Access to your information

You have the right to access the data we hold against your records. We will supply this within 40 days of receiving your request, at a nominal charge of £10 per access request.

9. Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes, Atire will update this page. You should visit this page regularly so you know:

• What personal information Atire collects
• How Atire uses your personal information
• When (if ever) Atire shares your personal information with someone else.