We are Eason Ltd. a private limited company, registered in Ireland under company registration no. 566570, having its registered office at Eason Limited, Block 4, First Floor, Swords Business Park, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland. We supply books, magazines and newspapers to outlets and online in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
This notice sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) the data controller is Eason Ltd (“Eason”)
Our Data Protection Officer; Ray Walsh can be contacted by email at RWalsh@easons.com.
You may give us personal data by:
When you use our goods, engage with us as a franchisee or apply to work with us, we may obtain the following categories of personal data from others:
We collect the information in order to provide you with products, to market our services, to improve our website and to recruit staff.
We will use this information:
We may share your personal data with our selected business associates/suppliers and contractors to provide you with our services. For example, these business partners may include our web hosting provider and our IT service providers.
We may also share your information with selected third parties including:
The time periods for which we retain your information depends on the type of information and the purposes for which we use it. We will keep your information for no longer than is required or permitted.
You have the following rights:
Where our processing of your personal data is based on your consent to that processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time but any processing that we have carried out before you withdrew your consent remains lawful.
You may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority with respect to our processing of your personal data. The local Supervisory Authority in Ireland is the Data Protection Commission. The website is www.dataprotection.ie.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the information that you provide to Eason. We have put in place multiple technical and physical security measures in place to prevent any loss of security to your information. The collection, transmission and storage of information can never be guaranteed to be completely secure, however, we have taken steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information.
Our website is fully compliant with the requirements set out in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards version 2.0 (PCI DSS 2.0). We do not hold special category or sensitive payment data when users interact with our site.
Secure Sockets Layer, or 'SSL', is the security technology used by Eason for encrypting a link between a web server and a browser. All data passed between our web server and your browser remains completely private and secure. For example, using SSL, your computer and ours agree to transpose whatever we are sending into an unintelligible hash of characters.
Through using SSL, we can ensure that your valuable personal data is fully encrypted when you interact with our site. Without this information on your computer or ours, no one can understand our encrypted communication.
Our SSL certificates are issued by a leading certificate authority, Symantec. Symantec TM is the world’s leading provider of SSL certificates. Symantec helped lead the development of Extended Validation (EV) and has issued more EV SSL certificates than any other Certificate Authority.
Our marketing activities, through Eason newsletters, social, loyalty communications, contain genuine, valid money saving offers and promotions that may be active on Eason for a defined period of time. Spam, or content of a poor quality is never distributed to our subscribers. By notifying you of these offers, we always aim to do so in a non-intrusive, high quality manner.
To subscribe to the direct marketing from Eason, you must explicitly consent to do by either populating our sign up form on our website, or by updating your subscription preferences in either your Eason Account Summary or while completing a purchase at the Eason checkout. You will never receive our marketing communications unless you have explicitly provided your consent to Eason. When you provide your explicit consent to subscribe to our marketing, we will use your details to send you updates on Eason's offers, products and services which we identify as being relevant to you.
To unsubscribe from the Eason email database, simply click on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of every marketing email or update your preferences in your Eason account. Alternatively, you can email support@Easons.com indicating 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line with your request to unsubscribe and we will action this for you within 1 business day. We respect your right to not receive our marketing even after consent and subscription, and we have made unsubscribing as easy as possible for you. Should you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop us a line at support@easons.com
This notice may change from time to time, and any changes will be posted on our website and will be effective when posted. Please review this notice each time you use our website or our services.
In order to provide you with a smooth, efficient and personalised experience, we collect some information relating to your usage of our site. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customise our service to make your experience easier and quicker. Please note, the following cookie policy applies to Easons.com and all subdomains, including secure.easons.com (used for your Shopping Basket).
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At Easons.com we use cookies to keep track of what you have in your basket, and to remember you when you return to our site.
Please note that cookies can't harm your computer. We don't store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create, but we do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience of the site.
We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.
The following tables describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete Easons.com cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” inChrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" inFirefox and Safari etc).
SESSION COOKIES
We use session cookies to remember your log-in and what you've put in the shopping basket. These we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken. More information on session cookies and what they are used for at www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html
TD_UNIQUE_IMP
The Unique Impression Cookie contains programs of viewed ads together with the time of the ad-view. This information is used to be able to identify unique ad-views.
TD_POOL
Ad-pools have the feature of ad-rotation. To support this, pool-based ad-views are stored in a cookie.
TD_EH_
The Event History Cookie contains information about the three latest tracks (clicks) and the ten latest closures per program. This information is used to be able to connect clicks with closures. TradeDoublerGUID
The GUID Cookie holds an identifier to support server side storage of the user event history
OPT_OUT
Allows a user to disable cookie based tracking or targeting for the browser that the user is using
RET
Retargeting is a feature that makes it possible to target ads to users that have visited configured targeting points on the advertiser’s site. To support this feature the targeting points visited by a user are stored in this cookie.
We sometimes embed video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example,YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Easons.com does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Our Data Protection Officer; Ray Walsh can be contacted by email at RWalsh@easons.com.
We have set out below a list of third parties with whom your data may be shared with during normal business practices (eg. processing orders, payments processed by Sageby, postal address provided to An Post etc. Eason staff may also have their data processed by HR related or insurance companies as listed below. Email address or personal information will not be shared with 3rd parties for them to use for their own marketing purposes.
Third party name |
Description of services provided |
Other companies in the Eason Group (Eason Ltd, Eason Holdings plc and Eason & Son (NI) Ltd) |
In order to operate our organisation effectively |
Kelleher |
Insurance brokers |
CPL and Hayes |
Recruitment agencies |
RSA |
Insurance Products |
Invesco |
Pensions & Investments |
Simply Personnel |
Human Resources Software |
An Post |
Postal service |
PWC |
Auditor services |
Microsoft Outlook |
Email services |
Learnupon |
Cloud based management software |
Easycoms |
Internal Communications Tool |
Edays |
Human Resource Management Software |
Micropay |
HR software |
Sage |
Payroll software |
Securitas |
Security services |
Manguard |
Security services |
Thorntons |
Waste management services |
An Garda Siochana |
Law Enforcement |
Savvy |
Loyalty platform supplier |
Microsoft AX |
ERP System |
ERP |
Ecommerce database |
Tibus (Belfast) |
Website Hosting provider |
Paypal |
Online payment provider |
Gardners UK |
3rd Party Logistics |
Snipp |
Loyalty card database |
Wordpress |
Marketing services |
Apparatus |
Website Development Partner |
Realex |
Credit card services |
Desk.com |
Service desk software |
Salesforce |
Service desk software |
Barclays UK |
Banking |
IWACS |
Warehouse management system |
Masterlink |
3rd Party Logistics |
Episerver |
eCommerce CMS & Email platform |
Microsoft azure |
Cloud provider |
Microsoft exchange |
Email server |
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