Privacy Notice

This is the privacy notice of the Star Tarot website, owned by Norah de Barra with an address in Beara, West Cork, Ireland.

Introduction

This notice describes how we collect, store, transfer and use personal data. It tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

In the context of the law and this notice, ‘personal data’ is information that clearly identifies you as an individual or which could be used to identify you if combined with other information. Acting in any way on personal data is referred to as ‘processing’.

This notice applies to personal data collected through our website and through social media platforms and online retail platforms, including Facebook.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

1. How Star Tarot obtains personal data

The information we process about you includes information:

  • you have directly provided to us via our contact form, email communications, phone or text message and online purchases using Paypal.
  • as a result of you messaging Star Tarot via a social media page such as Facebook.

2. Types of personal data we collect directly

    When you use our website, our services or buy from us, we ask you to provide personal data. Star Tarot may collect the following data about you

    • Personal identifiers, such as your first and last names.
    • Contact information, such as your email address, your telephone number and your postal addresses for billing, delivery and communication.
    • Records of communication between us including messages sent through our website, email messages and telephone conversations

    Star Tarot as an ethical business will not sell your contact information or engage in any trading of that information with a third party. Your confidentiality is important to us.

    1. Types of personal data we collect from your use of our services

    By using our website and our services, we process:

    • information you contribute, including reviews and testimonials
    • usage information, including the frequency you use our services, the pages of our website that you visit, whether you receive messages from us and whether you reply to those messages
    • transaction information that includes the details of the products services you have bought from us and payments made to us for those services
    1. Our use of aggregated information

    We may aggregate anonymous information such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Anonymous information is that which does not identify you as an individual. Aggregated information may be derived from your personal data but is not considered as such in law because it does not reveal your identity.

    For example, we may aggregate usage information to assess whether a feature of our website is useful.

    However, if we combine or connect aggregated information with your personal data so that it can identify you in any way, we treat the combined information as personal data, and it will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

    1. Special personal data

    Special personal data is data about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data.

    We do not collect any special personal data about you.

    6. The bases on which we process information about you

    The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal data, and to notify you of the basis for each category.

    If a basis on which we process your personal data is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.

    If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.

    The following are the reasons we collect your personal data:

    • In order to communicate with you after you have contacted us
    • In order to deliver one of our services when you have made a booking.
    • If a voucher has been purchased on your behalf.
    • To facilitate ease of administration when you re-book our services.
    • Providing you with our newsletters, updates or special offers when you have subscribed to our newsletter
    • In the case of a competition, in order to communicate with a prize winner.
    1. Information we process because we have a contractual obligation with you

    When you buy a product or service from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between you and us.

    In order to carry out our obligations under that contract we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal data.

    We may use it in order to:

    • provide you with our services
    • provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain the most from using our website

    We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract.

    We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.

    1. Information we process with your consent

    Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our business, including our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal data.

    Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, we ask you to agree to our use of non-essential cookies when you access our website.

    You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us at booking@startarot.ie. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.

    1. Your personal data is not shared

    We do not share or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

    1. Payment information

    Payment information is never taken by us or transferred to us either through our website or otherwise.

    At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website of PayPal payment service provider. That page may be branded to look like a page on our website, but it is not controlled by us.

    1. Cookies

    Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit a website that uses them. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use at a later date.

    They are commonly used to provide you with a personalised experience while you browse a website, for example, allowing your preferences to be remembered.

    They can also provide core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility; record how you interact with the website so that the owner can understand how to improve the experience of other visitors; and serve you advertisements that are relevant to your browsing history.

    Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one visit (known as a session), one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely until you delete them.

    Your web browser should allow you to delete any cookie you choose. It should also allow you to prevent or limit their use. Your web browser may support a plug-in or add-on that helps you manage which cookies you wish to allow to operate.

    The law requires you to give explicit consent for use of any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of a website.

    When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.

    If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you may not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

    We use cookies in the following ways:

    • to track how you use our website
    1. Your rights

    The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regard to the processing and control of your personal data.

    We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at http://www.knowyourprivacyrights.org  

    1. Use of our services by children

    We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children.

    If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian.

    1. Encryption of data sent between us

    We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.

    Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

    1. Delivery of services using third party communication software

    With your consent, we may communicate using software provided by a third party such as Facebook (WhatsApp), Microsoft (Skype) or Zoom Video Communications (Zoom).

    Such methods of communication should secure your personal data using encryption and other technologies. The providers of such software should comply with all applicable privacy laws, rules, and regulations, including the GDPR.

    If you have any concerns about using a particular software for communication, please tell us.

    1. Data may be processed outside the European Union

    Our website is hosted in Ireland.

    1. Control over your own information

    At any time, you may contact us to request that we provide you with the personal data we hold about you.

    To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you should contact us to make that request.

    If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you should contact us to make your request by emailing  booking@startarot.ie

    1. Communicating with us

    When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by email, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.

    We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.

    We may keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide our service.

    1. Complaining

    If you are not happy with our privacy policy, or if you have any complaint, then please do tell us.

    When we receive a complaint, we record the information you have given to us on the basis of consent. We use that information to resolve your complaint.

    If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal data, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission (DPC). This can be done at https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/complaints/1592.htm. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about your concern before you approach the DPC.

    1. Retention period

    Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal data only for as long as required by us:

    • to provide you with the services you have requested
    • to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities
    1. Compliance with the law

    Our privacy policy complies with the law in Ireland, specifically with the Data Protection Act 2018 (the ‘Act’) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011.

    1. Review of this privacy policy

    We shall update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary.

     How to contact us:

    If you have any questions about the privacy policy of Star Tarot, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Email: booking@startarot.ie