• Company Registration Number: 549118
• Certified Organic, Licence No. 7055
• Certified by The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
• IE-ORG-02 Ireland Agriculture

The Village Dairy is committed to protecting your personal data and respecting the data protection laws and regulations within Ireland and the EU. This Privacy Policy explains how we do this, and it applies to your use of The Village Dairy website, products and services.

The data we may collect directly from you could include the following:

• First name and surname;
• Postal address;
• Email address(es);
• Mobile and/or landline number(s);
• Passwords in connection with The Village Dairy e-commerce platforms;
• The Village Dairy order history (example: information when you place an order);
• The Village Dairy payment history (example: information when you make a payment over the phone or online);
• Contact details that you have provided to us such as email, social media interaction, telephone both landline and mobile, live chat, attendance at The Village Dairy events, entry into The Village Dairy competitions
• Information about you that is available on the internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.
• Recruitment related correspondence (example: CV, references, cover letters)

Our mission, at The Village Dairy, is to provide quality products and service to our customers. As a result, we endeavour to review and improve the products and services that we provide. To help us achieve this we collect additional information when you visit our websites (www.villagediary.ie) and/or use the resources within this websites.

The types of data we collect from you when you visit our site(s) include:

information about the type of browser, operating system and device you use;
details of the web pages you have viewed;
your IP address;
the hyperlinks you have clicked;
the digital resources you have viewed and how often;
the websites you visited before arriving at our site(s). We encourage you to read the privacy notices of those sites
We also use analytics and cookies
In order to help us improve and promote our products and services we may use your data in the following ways:

We may communicate to you via email, SMS or post.
To display ads on our websites of products and services that you may be interested in.
The use of cookies on our websites help us to advertise to you on other websites with regards to our products and services.
We may use your email address to advertise to you on social media platforms that you may be interested in, be assured that you can opt out of these
communications by unsubscribing from emails.
We may ask you to fill in research surveys.
Should you require the source of your information we shall provide you with that information within one month if it is not obvious to you.

In order to fulfil our lawful and contractual purposes, we capture information as stated above and may process your data with the following companies:

• Payment processors
• Companies that we have authorised to deliver goods and services
• Third party companies that The Village Dairy uses to deliver and support our digital platform

We do not directly transfer your data outside the EU but some of our processors may do through cloud providers we vet and ensure our data processors for GDPR compliance and try and ensure that we have the right to audit all our processors.

We use industry standard security measures to keep your data safe and secure both at rest and in transit. This includes but is not limited to:

• 2048 Bit SSL to secure our websites
• Firewalls
• ISO 27001 certified hosting providers

You have the right to request access to any of the information we hold about you. You also have the following rights in relation to the processing of your data:

• The right to have your data corrected or rectified
• The right to have us erase/delete your data subject to certain laws that make it compulsory for us to retain certain data
• The right to restrict the processing of your data temporarily
• The right to have your data sent to another company (if you do not already have this data in your possession)
• The right to object to the processing
• The right to know if you are subject to an automated decision and that decision has the effect of profiling
• The right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland, info@dataprotection.ie.

As a client of The Village Dairy, you must ensure that the data you provide to The Village Dairy upholds data protection laws and regulations. The Village Dairy does NOT accept liability for data provided by clients that fails to uphold the law.

If you have any queries in relation to our Privacy Policy you can do this by writing a letter, by email or by phone.

• Email: info@villagedairy.ie
• Post: Privacy Officer, The Village Dairy, Killeshin Road, Curragh, Clonmore, Co. Carlow, R93 V2P2 Ireland.
• Ph: +353 59 914 3437

We only retain your information for the specific purposes mentioned above and as set out in our Data Retention Policy.
This Privacy Policy is reviewed on a regular basis and was last updated on 25th May 2020.