Privacy Notice
Effective Date: August 1, 2014
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Digital Trawler and our website; http://www.digitaltrawler.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:
- What information we collect;
- With whom it is shared;
- How it can be corrected;
- How it is secured;
- How policy changes will be communicated; and
- How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill requests.
We may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy and you will always have the option to opt-out
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.
Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Please note that you can block or allow cookies. Our entire website would be still accessible if cookies are blocked. To learn how to enable and disable cookies, please visit your browser’s website:
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
How Digital Trawler uses Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to track the use of our website as well as how you found our website. Once you leave our site it does not track any information once you have left the website www.digitaltrawler.com. We do use cookies on the site that will identify actions taken by you on the site but these are not personally identifiable. We have enabled remarketing which allows cookies to be placed on your browser to target adverts after you have left our site. You can delete these cookies by following the instructions on your browser.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Hot Jar
Hotjar is a heatmap application that allows us to monitor website user experience. It does not track personal information however your session is given a unique ID.
You can opt out of tracking here: https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out/. You can learn more about Hotjar’s terms (https://www.hotjar.com/terms) and privacy policy (https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/) as well as their policy on data safety, privacy and security (https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/sections/115003180467-Privacy-Security-and-Operations).
Mail Chimp
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
You can request at any point to have any identifiable personal data to be removed at any time by contacting [email protected]
Notification of Changes
Whenever material changes are made to the privacy notice the changes will be made on this page.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 00353 (0)61 503 112 or via email at [email protected].