Spas in Ireland

Privacy Policy

Spas.ie respect your right to privacy and aim to comply with our obligations under the data protection legislation currently in force in Ireland and the EU. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with Personal and Non-Personal data.

We may collect data from our service users and customers who visit the Spas.ie Website, and / or communicate with Spas.ie directly. Spas.ie do not purchase Personal Data from third parties.

If you are not happy with this Privacy Policy you should not use the Spas.ie Website nor it’s services.

Types of Information Collected

Spas.ie generally retains two types of information:

1. “Personal Data”

This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, email address, physical address and telephone number. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us (for example by submitting your billing information during a purchase).

2. “Non-Personal Data”

Like most Websites, Spas.ie gathers statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our Website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example browser types, time spent on our site and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website.

Purposes for which Spas.ie hold your Information

Non-Personal Data

Spas.ie use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our Website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our Website.

Personal Data

Spas.ie will process Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:

  • to process purchases of Gift Vouchers;
  • to identify the entrants of the Spas.ie competitions;
  • to send you information you have requested or subscribed to, such as newsletters;
  • to identify the author of reviews posted on Spas.ie;
  • to inform you about changes to our service, our agreement with you or website that we believe will be of interest to you;
  • to process payments from or to you.

Direct Marketing Material

Spas.ie will only send direct marketing material to those who have consented to receiving it. We ask for your consent through relevant opt-in boxes on the Spas.ie Website. If you change your mind and no longer wish to receive direct marketing material from Spas.ie, you should amend your preference on our website ( newsletter unsubscribe option ) or by contacting us directly.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

Spas.ie will only provide Personal Data to third parties, where we have been given your consent to do so or to fulfil a specific service you have requested from our service providers.

For example, we share your Personal Data ( such as name and contact information ):

  • with the provider of a prize for a competition ran by Spas.ie so they can provide you with the prize;
  • with the provider of a prize for a competition from which you have requested to receive the said providers news and offers through an opt-in option on a competition entry form;
  • with service suppliers for whom you have requested us to organise a service on your behalf ( such as spa appointments ).

We may also share your Non-Personal Data with third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit the Spas.ie website, or the activities that visitors to the Spas.ie website engage in while using the website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, researchers and other similar parties.

Security, storage and transfer of information

We follow strict security procedures to ensure that your personal information is not damaged, destroyed, or disclosed to a third party without your permission (unless they are providing services as outlined in the 'Disclosure of Information to Third Parties' section above) and to prevent unauthorised access to it.  The computers that store the information are kept in a secure facility with restricted physical access and we use secure firewalls and other measures to restrict electronic access. If we are working with third parties we will require them to have in place similar measures to protect your information. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and any transmission is at your own risk. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the internet and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of and related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorised manner.

Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data

You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation Spas.ie will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. You may contact us to request the details of what Personal Data Spas.ie hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database.

Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and may be, where we consider it appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Privacy Policy.

Cookies and Other Technologies

Spas.ie uses cookies to deliver a better user experience throughout the site. More specifically, we use cookies for general things like helping you log in and out of your account, keeping track of your preferences, analysing user patterns in order to help us improve the service we provide. 

Cookies Categories:

Strictly Necessary
Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.

Functionality
Functionality cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website, eg. language, timezone, enhanced content.

Analytics
Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor

Advertising
Advertising cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.

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