Privacy Policy

Ktec Telescopes Ltd Privacy Policy

 

Ktec Telescopes Ltd  is committed to ensuring that your private data which is collected by us is as secure as possible.  Your data will never be passed on to any third-party agency, whether freely provided or paid for, in such a manner as to identify you. This complies with current legislation in the Data Protection Act under Irish Law.

 

Data Control

For the purposes of the EU2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the company that is ultimately responsible for the control of your data while using our services is Ktec Telescopes Ltd, 16 Seamount View, Swords, Co Dublin, Ireland. Should you have any questions on how we protect your privacy, please feel free to drop us a line at: stephen@ktectelescopes.ie

 

Any data we collect about you and your visit to the Ktec Telescopes Ltd site helps us to provide you with a better service, and allows us to monitor our site and continue to improve it. Ordinarily, it is not possible to track  IP addresses and other information connected to an individual or organization unless unlawful or criminal activity occurs on our website. In such an instance, we must pass on details to third legal parties, Gardai in Ireland or Police further afield. However, you can usually change settings on your web browser in relation to cookies  and how they are stored on your system. You should satisfy yourself as to the operation of your web browser in this respect.

 

Cookie Policy

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

 

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Google Analytics: This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google's website

 

Third party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

 

Shopping Cart

We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you and what you’ve put in the shopping basket. These we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.

 

 

 

The email address which you provided during your registration and payment may be used by Ktec Telescopes Ltd to contact you occasionally. Registration on the site indicates your whole acceptance of this policy.