PRIVACY POLICY
Dr. Mush Me
EMAIL: brian@drmushme.ie
ADDRESS: Suite 3 77 Camden Street, Dublin, D02 XE80
Dr. Mush Me is mandated by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and adheres to its laws in using and safeguarding your information and will not use it for any purpose without your permission.
Dr. Mush Me complies with best practice and ensures that your privacy is protected. If we need you to give us specific information by which you can be recognised when using our website, you can be assured that this information will only be used in a manner that complies with the requirements of this data protection and privacy statement.
We may change this privacy policy periodically to comply with any required updates. Please check our website regularly to ensure that you are happy with our updates.
Information we may collect and ask you to provide:
- Name and occupation
- Contact details and email address
- Demographic information such as age, gender, interests and preferences
- Other information relating to customer services, offers and surveys
How we use the information we collect:
- To ensure we provide you with better services and understand your needs, we use it in the following areas
- For internal record keeping.
- To improve our products and services.
- To send promotional emails about our new products and services, testimonials, special offers or other information we think you may find useful, by sending them to the email address you have provided.
Security
Dr. Mush Me is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have implemented a system that will prevent unauthorized access or disclosure to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Cookie policy
A cookie is a file that asks permission to be stored on your PC’s hard drive. Once you have given your consent, the file is stored and the cookie is used to analyse traffic patterns or to find out when you visit a specific website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application tailors its operations to your needs, preferences and tastes by collecting and remembering information about your preferences.
We operate an “implied consent” policy, which means that we assume that you are happy with our use of cookies. If you are not satisfied, you should either not use this site, delete our cookies after visiting this site, or browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer).
Traffic logging cookies are used to identify which pages are being used. They allow us to analyse web page traffic data and improve our website to better suit your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us to provide you with a better website experience by allowing us to monitor which pages you find most useful and which you do not. A cookie cannot give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies according to your preferences. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
You can also limit your browser so that you do not receive cookies at all. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. You have a choice. You can do this through your browser settings, with the help of your browser function. If you want more information about cookies, you can search for them on Google or Bing.
Cookies on the Dr. Mush Me website
Session cookies – have a specific use that involves remembering your connections, for example, a customer area on a website. For more information on session cookies, click here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html
Google Analytics – in order to improve the user experience on our PINCHE website, we use Google Analytics. All your user data is completely anonymous. You can read more about Google’s privacy policy regarding its analytics service here: http://www.google.ie/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Google AdWords – The Google AdWords code allows everyone to see which pages are producing contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
Facebook Advertising – As part of Facebook advertising, we use conversion tracking and retargeting pixels, which allow us to collect or receive information from our website and other websites and use this information for measurement and targeted advertising services.
Visual Website Optimiser – Our Website Optimiser uses cookies to remember the website you searched for. This helps it to generate the required results.
How do I change my cookie settings? Your website browser allows you to control most cookies through your browser settings. To learn more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on the most common browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Apple Safari
Other information we collect
Social buttons: On our Dr Mush Me website, you will see “social buttons”. These allow users to share or bookmark our web pages. There are buttons for: Twitter, Google +1, Facebook “Like”, and LinkedIn “Share”. In order to use these buttons and connect them to relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of Dr Mush Me.
You should be aware that these sites collect information about what you do anywhere on the internet, including Dr Mush Me’s website. When you click on one of these buttons, these sites record your action and may use this information. In some cases, they will record that you visited our site and the specific pages you went to, even if you did not click on any buttons when you logged into our services, such as Google and Facebook.
You can check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how they use your information and how to opt out or delete that information. This is a choice you should be aware of and exercise.
External Web Services: We use a number of external web services on our website. Dr Mush Me, primarily displays content from our web pages. There are issues with cookies and data collection on external sites that need to be addressed. As with social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information about your use of this embedded content.
If you are not logged into these external services, they will not know who you are, but they may collect anonymous information about your usage, e.g., number of views, reads, uploads, etc.
Email tracking: Some emails we send do not have tracking. This is the case, for example, for personal correspondence or emails with invoices attached. In other cases, we do include tracking so that we know how much additional traffic these emails send to our site and we can tell, on an individual level, whether the user has opened and clicked on the email.
We rarely use the latter information on a personal level, but rather to understand the open and click rates on our emails to try to improve them. Sometimes we use personal information, for example, to resend emails to people who may not have read them the first time. If you want to be sure that none of your email activity is tracked, you can unsubscribe from our Dr Mush Me newsletter.
Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should be aware that we have no control over other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Control of your personal information: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anyone for direct marketing purposes.
If you have already agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you can change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at admin@drmushme.ie.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties that we think may be of interest to you, if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You can request details of the personal information we hold about you under the GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information we hold about you, please write to Dr Mush Me, admin@drmushme.ie.
Disclaimer of liability:
The material on our site is for general information purposes only, and does not constitute professional advice or any contractual obligation whatsoever. You should take specific advice before taking any action, as we do not accept any direct or indirect liability for losses arising directly or indirectly from reliance on the information on our site.
As the internet is an open system, we cannot guarantee that the site and downloads will reach you virus free. You must therefore take all appropriate precautions to avoid the risk of dangers that could affect your security and privacy.
Consent to the use of cookies.
For our website to function properly we use cookies. To obtain your valid consent for the use and storage of cookies in the browser you use to access our website and to properly document this we use a consent management platform: CookieFirst. This technology is provided by Digital Data Solutions BV, Plantage Middenlaan 42a, 1018 DH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Website: https://cookiefirst.com referred to as CookieFirst.
When you access our website, a connection is established with CookieFirst’s server to give us the possibility to obtain valid consent from you to the use of certain cookies. CookieFirst then stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to activate only those cookies to which you have consented and to properly document this. The data processed is stored until the predefined storage period expires or you request to delete the data. Certain mandatory legal storage periods may apply notwithstanding the aforementioned.
CookieFirst is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data processing agreement
We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
Server log files
Our website and CookieFirst automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The following data is collected:
- Your consent status or the withdrawal of consent
- Your anonymised IP address
- Information about your Browser
- Information about your Device
- The date and time you have visited our website
- The webpage url where you saved or updated your consent preferences
- The approximate location of the user that saved their consent preference
- A universally unique identifier (UUID) of the website visitor that clicked the cookie banner