PRIVACY STATEMENT 

SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no. 

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at info@millies.ie or mailing us at: millies market square, kildare town Kildare co. kildare Ireland 045 

SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

Payment:

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then our software stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

For more insight, you may also want to read our Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here.

SECTION 4 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Links

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements. 

SECTION 5 - SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards. 

SECTION 6 - COOKIES

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience and send you relevant content that we feel you would be interested in. You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.

Some cookies are deleted when you close down your browser. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them from your cache. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us to remember things about you as a returning visitor.

How We Use Cookies

Millies.ie uses cookies for the following purposes:

• Essential Cookies – Necessary for the proper functioning of our website, such as enabling secure logins, shopping cart functionality, and payment processing.

• Performance Cookies – Help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting anonymous data on page visits, navigation, and site performance.

• Functional Cookies – Allow us to remember your preferences (e.g., language settings, region) to enhance your experience.

• Marketing and Advertising Cookies – Used to deliver relevant advertisements based on your browsing habits and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Here is a list of some cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).

_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits

_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access 

This website will:

• Remember where you visited on the site.
• Remember that you filled in a form or not.

The following are not Strictly Necessary but are required to provide you with the best user experience and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting (anonymously).

We only collect personal data that is provided by you. We do not collect payment details and all payments are routed through a secure payment gateway. We also use your personally identifiable information for the purpose of website analytics.

We use cookies on our website for the purposes of website functionality and optimising your browsing experience. We also use cookies for the purposes of suggesting products that you may be interested in purchasing through the Google  Network and through Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. 

We may allow third-party service providers, such as analytics and advertising partners, to set cookies on our website. These cookies help us analyze website traffic and deliver targeted ads. Our key third-party partners include:

• Google Analytics

• Facebook Pixel

• Other advertising networks (as applicable)

This website will:

• Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, TikTok and Google +(If available)

This website will not

•  Unlawfully share any personal information with third parties.

Mention Me Referral Program Privacy Policy:

If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this website cookie policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely.

We will process customer email addresses and certain order data for the purposes of the mention me referral program for the following reasons:  

• Enrolling customers onto our refer-a-friend programme 
• Monitoring the programme and safeguarding against gaming or fraudulent use of the programme
• Communicating with customers in connection with operation of the programme and delivery of rewards
• Reporting on the performance of the programme

For full information about the use of cookies in relation to Mention Me: Please read here:

https://mention-me.com/help/privacy_policy_s#cookies

Klarna Privacy Policy:

We will pass certain aspects of your personal information to Klarna, such as contact and order details, in order for Klarna to assess whether you qualify for their payment options and to tailor the payment options for you. Click here for more information on the Klarna Privacy Policy

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We use Facebook to help us further communicate with our customers - you can read more about how Facebook uses your Personal Information here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting: FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

• DO NOT TRACK Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

SECTION 7 - AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site. 

SECTION 8 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at info@millies.ie or by mail at millies

[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]

[market square, kildare town Kildare co. kildare Ireland 045]

Email Marketing Privacy Policy

At Millies.ie, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Email Marketing Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal data when you subscribe to receive marketing communications from us.

1. What Data We Collect

When you subscribe to our email marketing list, we collect and process the following personal data:

• Your name and email address

• Purchase history (if you are a customer)

• Behavioural data (e.g., clicks, open rates) from email campaigns

• Online identifiers, such as cookies and IP address, when interacting with our emails or website

We may also collect additional data you provide directly, such as preferences and interests.

2. How We Use Your Data

We use your data to:

• Send you marketing emails, offers, promotions, and educational content

• Tailor email content to your interests and past purchases

• Improve the effectiveness of our email campaigns

• Perform remarketing through third-party platforms such as but not limited to Facebook and Google Ads via our CRM tool, Omnisend

3. Remarketing and Advertising

We use Omnisend as our marketing automation platform. Through Omnisend, we may share limited customer data (e.g., email address or hashed identifiers) with advertising platforms like but not limited to Facebook and Google for the purpose of:

• Creating custom audiences

• Delivering personalised ads

• Measuring campaign performance

These platforms act as data processors or independent controllers in accordance with their own privacy policies.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), our lawful basis for processing your personal data for email marketing is:

• Consent – when you actively opt in to receive emails from us

• Legitimate Interests – to promote our products and services to you if you are an existing customer, in accordance with the ePrivacy Regulations (SI 336/2011)

You can withdraw your consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails.

5. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access your personal data

• Correct any inaccurate information

• Withdraw consent at any time

• Request deletion of your data

• Object to the processing of your data for direct marketing
  

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data for as long as you remain subscribed to our marketing emails or as required to comply with legal obligations. Unsubscribed users will be removed from active mailing lists and deleted from marketing databases within 30 days.

7. Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data and ensure it is handled securely.