Irish Historical Militaria (HIS) recognises and strictly abides to the long established laws relating to an individual’s fundamental right to privacy. IHS is fully committed to respecting and safeguarding your privacy. As a browser on our website, you can visit IRISH HISTORICAL MILITAIRA without revealing any information about yourself.
Based in Ireland and governed under Irish and European Union Laws, IHS adheres to our customers and users’ privacy as directed by the Data Protection Acts of 1988, and 2003 and more recently by the replacing of Directive 95/46/EU by the new EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) which became effective on 25th May 2018.
Before you place an order: should you have any concerns relating to your privacy, please contact us at IRISH HISTORICAL MILITARIA on the website home page using the “CONTACT US” form.
Purchasing item(s) from IRISH HISTORICAL MILITARIA?
If you wish to make a purchase from our website (IHS), please read below as we will require some personal information from you to process your order.
Data Limitation: IHS (the “Data Controller”) does not subscribe to the unethical or unnecessary gathering of our customers’/users personal data. IHS will only gather the basic necessary data from our customers/users for the specific purpose it is intended. In other words, we shall only gather the data necessary to process and ship an order placed on our website by a customer. This data required will be limited to:
- Description of the product(s) purchased (including product quantity, product identity number and cost)
- the customer’s name, email address, phone number and shipping address.
We will use this information to process your order. In the unlikely event of there being an issue with our order or if any clarifications are needed we may have to contact you. If we need to contact you, we will contact you via email in the first instance. If we fail to reach you via email, we will endeavour to contact you by the telephone number provided by the intended purchaser.
Purpose Limitation and Record Retention Schedule: IHS will only retain the “personal data” of the user for the time necessary to process the order and for the time thereafter should any issues such as loss of the product(s) while in transit via the postal service. Within one month from date of postage of the item(s), customer data will be permanently deleted from the website IRISH HISTOEICAL MILITARIA. Thereafter only postal tracking records (tracking number(s)) will be retained along with basic item descriptions and prices obtained (The latter being necessary for annual Revenue Tax Returns).
Technical Measures: Customer security confidence and trust is essential to us. In order to safeguard our customers’/users personal data a number of security features are in place. Passwords and access permission levels relating to the website Irishhistoricalmilitaria.com are strictly limited to the owners of IHS. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides around the clock proactive protection to block malware (harmful/malicious/intrusive software) from ever reaching the site. Our SSL use SHA-2 and 2048-bit encryption to protect all sensitive data and holds the strongest encryption levels thus protecting our customers from theft of personal data and hacking.
The sharing of your personal data with third parties:
Postal details: Irish Historical Militaria does not provide your personal date to any third parties with the exception of “An Post” which is the default Irish postal service provider we routinely use to dispatch our products to you. Should an alternative postal service provider be necessary we will first discuss this matter with the purchaser
Financial Details: The only online financial transactions processed in the purchase of goods from IHS will be through the purchaser’s personal PayPal account. Your data retention will be in line with PayPal Privacy Policy. The latter is a reputable third-party financial organisation that has strict obligations to keep your personal and financial information private.
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