Last updated June 3, 2013
This privacy statement applies to www.fliesofireland.com and other technology resources owned and operated by Flies of Ireland such as mobile applications, social platforms, chat rooms, blogs and the like (“Tech Resources”). This privacy statement describes how Flies of Ireland (“Flies of Ireland”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Tech Resources. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

What personally identifiable information is being collected?
When you visit or make use of Flies of Ireland’s Tech Resources, you may be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information in order for us to provide you with the products or services that you have requested. For example, when you order a product, we may ask you to become a registered user of our web site, during which you will be asked for your name, shipping and billing addresses, your e-mail address, and your credit card number or other payment-related information. If you request one of our newsletters or send an inquiry to one of our customer service representatives, we will also store a record of your request along with your e-mail address. In addition, our Web servers track various technical details about your visit, such as you computer’s IP address and which pages you visited, however that information does not typically contain any personally identifiable information about you. We use this information to monitor and improve our Tech Resources as well as personalize your experience with Flies of Ireland through direct on-line advertising.

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer’s name. We do obtain the customer’s consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.

Our web site includes links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Flies of Ireland. If you submit personally identifiable information to any of those web sites, your information is governed by their privacy statement. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any web site you visit.

How is the personally identifiable information being used?
The personally identifiable information we collect is used to provide the products and services that you have requested or that we think you might have an interest in. It is also used to improve the content of our web site, to notify you of problems with your requests, or to update you about changes to our web site.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

With whom do we share your personally identifiable information?
We never share your personally identifiable information with anyone. Ever.

How do I access, update, or delete my personally identifiable information?
If you are a registered user of the web site, you can manage many aspects of your registration information. For security reasons, however, some parts of your personally identifiable information may not be changed online and may require you to call or write to us in order to verify your identity before such changes can be made. To request that we no longer use your information to provide our services, the removal of your testimonial, or the removal of your information from a blog or public forum, please contact us via our Customer Service e-mail address.

The online registration area will also permit you to exercise control over the use of your e-mail address, allowing you to opt-out of future e-mail messages from this web site. Unfortunately, due to various legal and recordkeeping requirements, we may be required to maintain records about your purchases or other activities on this web site. However, you will always be permitted to opt-out of any marketing uses of information stored about you. If you prefer to manage your personally identifiable information via other means, you may contact us by postal mail at:

What information will be disclosed if required by law?
If required by law, we may provide any and all information we have about you to law enforcement or other government agencies, pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction. In all cases, we will require written documentation of the request, proof of the identity of the law enforcement official making the request, and we will take steps to authenticate the validity of the request. Any law enforcement or government agency request submitted with less than a court-issued order will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the need and urgency, as well as the particular law enforcement agency making the request. If Flies of Ireland is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.

What are cookies and how do we use them?
A cookie is a block of text placed in a file on the user’s hard drive by a web site you’ve visited. These types of cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically, such as by name or address, unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information such as online registration. Flies of Ireland uses cookies to observe visitor’s navigation throughout our web site. This helps us identify ways to improve the shopping experience, personalize our web site, and collect anonymous information to provide direct online advertising.

Flies of Ireland also uses a session cookie, which is a piece of identification between your browser and our server, which helps to do things like keep track of the items in a user’s shopping cart, and other information. The shopping cart cookie is saved for a designated period of time in case the users’ session expires or they return to complete a purchase within that time frame. For the convenience of our users, we also place a cookie on the users’ computer when they log in to our talk forums. This gives the advantage of not having to log back in when moving between the talk forums and the rest of the web site. We do not link cookies placed through our web site to Personally Identifiable Information.

The use of cookies and clear gifs, a tiny graphic similar in function to cookies, by our partners and service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these technologies. Our partners and service providers use cookies and clear gifs to assist us with analytics and marketing activities.

Opting Out of Online Advertising
All direct online advertising is owned, managed, and processed by Flies of Ireland, and includes appropriate functions to manage subscriptions and/or unsubscribe.

Children
In accordance with international law, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13 without the verifiable permission of a parent or guardian. If you are under age 13, you are welcome to browse our Web site. However you are not permitted to use any of the features of our site that require the collection of any personally identifiable information. If we determine that we have erroneously collected a child’s information, we will immediately undertake to delete that data from our records.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.