Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last updated: 31-05-2024
Welcome to POWERCABS Ireland Limited (https://powercabs.ie). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://powercabs.ie as well as your rights in relation to that information.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you: a. Personal Data:
• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Address
• IP address
• Payment information (where applicable)
Non-Personal Data:
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring site
• Pages visited on our site
• Time and date of visit
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
• To provide and manage our services
• To process transactions and send you related information
• To personalize your experience on our site
• To respond to your comments, questions, and requests
• To send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages
• To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services
• To comply with Irish legal obligations
Cookies
A cookie, is a small piece of data stored on the user’s computer or end user device by the web browser while browsing the website. Under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the use of customer cookies is subject to stringent rules designed to protect user privacy and ensure that individuals have control over their personal data. Cookies serve various purposes, including:
- Session Management: Cookies help websites keep track of users as they navigate through different pages. For instance, they enable users to remain logged in as they move from one page to another.
- Personalization: Cookies store user preferences and settings, allowing websites to provide a more personalized experience. For example, they can remember language preferences, themes, and other customizable elements.
- Tracking and Analytics: Cookies are used to gather data about user behavior, helping website owners understand how their site is used. This information can be used for improving website functionality and performance.
- Advertising: Cookies are often used by advertising networks to track users across different websites. This tracking allows advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on users’ browsing history and interests.
Cookies come in three main types:
- Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and are deleted once the user closes their browser. They are mainly used to manage sessions and are not stored on the user’s device long-term.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on the user’s device for a specified period or until they are manually deleted. They are used for functions like remembering login details or user preferences over a longer period.
- Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies to help us make our users experience even better for those who visit them regularly. This type of cookie helps us to further understand how individual visitors use our on-line services and allows us to improve the overall service.
Consent Requirements
- Informed Consent: Powercabs obtain explicit, informed consent from users (ACCEPT ALL) before placing any cookies on their devices, except for those that are strictly necessary for the website to function.
- Granular Consent: Users are able to give consent for different types of cookies separately. For example, they can consent to analytical cookies but reject marketing cookies.
- Easy Withdrawal: Users are be able to withdraw their consent (REJECT ALL)
Social Media Presence
When entering Powercabs Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram via link from Powercabs website or directly through the social media’s own sites, we would like to inform you that you use these social media channels and its functions and its functions on your own responsibility. This especially applies for the use of the interactive functions (e.g. comments, sharing, rating). During your visit to our social media presence, Powercabs basically processes personal data only if you interact with us via the page, e.g. when leaving a comment, press a like-button or sending us a message. The legal basis for this processing depends on the way you use the page. Legal basis for this kind processing is the user ‘s consent according to GDPR policy. The processing is performed due to a legitimate interest in public relations and communications.
- For Facebook https://www.facebook.com/powercabs.ie/
- For Instagram https://www.instagram.com/powercabs.ie/
Powercabs store all the data with a cloud service provider within Ireland or in IT infrastructures and systems (employee computers) at our sites within the Ireland. We do not sell any personal data to third parties. However, we do reserve the right to disclose information about you if we are legally obligated to do so or if we are asked to surrender it by administrative or law enforcement bodies (e.g. police or state prosecutors).
Data Security & Storage
We have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data against access by third parties, as well as accidental or intentional modification, loss or destruction. Such measures are reviewed periodically and adapted in line with the GDPR and Privacy policies.
The data provided by you to us is only stored for as long as is required to perform the respective purpose for which you have transmitted your data, or in as much as it is required for conformity with statutory or official requirements.
Your Rights
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed by us. Where this is the case, we will give you access to the personal data and the information as per GDPR policy.
Managing Cookies
Most modern browsers provide tools for managing cookies. Users can:
- View Cookies: See which cookies are stored on their device.
- Delete Cookies: Remove unwanted cookies.
- Block Cookies: Prevent cookies from being set.
- Customize Preferences: Set preferences for different types of cookies, allowing some while blocking others.
We retain the right to modify this Cookies policy at any time in the future in accordance with the applicable data protection and company’s regulations.