Who we are

Brownstown Handmade Crafts. Our website address is: brownstownhandmadecrafts.ie

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

 

1. ReCAPTCHA and Forms

When visitors use forms on the site the data requested is collected by the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

“Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) is implemented on the website. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is used on the website to prevent various types of data processing abuse attempts (e.g. phishing). reCAPTCHA analyses various information of the respective visitor (e.g. IP address, mouse movements of the user, length of stay on the website). By using reCAPTCHA, data is transferred to Google, which is used to determine whether the visitor is a human being or a (spam) bot.

The data processing is based on Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting their web offers against abusive automated spying, against spam as well as protecting third parties against such attacks. You can read which data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can read the terms of use for Google services and products at https://policies.google.com/terms.

2. Payment handling

We may have to share information with our payment services provider to process payments accepted online, this information can include:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • City/State/Eircode
  • Unique payment identifier
  • Payment provider identifier

We use Square as our payment services provider, find out more here.

3. Shipping

We may share information with a shipping provider (An Post) for the purposes of delivering you ordered products, this includes your name and address.

4. Newsletters

If you subscribe to our Newsletter, we will retain your email address and name for the purposes of reaching out to you and letting you know of any special offers, new products, and other Brownstown Handmade Crafts marketing material.

5. Cookies

Please check out of Cookie policy here.

6. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

Where we send your data

Further to the above, visitor comments and form input may be checked through an automated spam detection service.