Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how aliquo collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through the website when you sign up to our mailing list and purchase a product.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. By visiting our website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Links: This website may include links to third-party websites (for example in a blog post, or links to Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram accounts). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of every website you visit.

What personal information do we collect?

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

Identity Data includes first name and last name.
Contact Data means the data we use to contact you including your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone number.
Financial Data means the data we use to process your payments for your orders including your payment card details. We do not store or process your card details ourselves.
Transaction Data means details about transactions you have made on our website including the payments to and from you along with other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data means details about the device(s) you use to access our website including your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data includes your username (email address) and password, your login data, purchases or orders made by you, and if you subscribed to our mailing list.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services. This includes your browsing patterns and information such as how long you might spend on one of our webpages and what you look at and for on our website, the click stream to and from our website, page response times and page interaction information such as scrolling, clicks and mouseovers.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share aggregated and/or anonymised data (“Aggregated Data”) such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our website runs on the Shopify platform and Shopify are GDPR compliant.

How is your personal information collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you:

Information That You Provide: We receive and store any information that a visitor or customer enters on our website or gives us in any other way (e.g. by interacting with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise). This information is used to enhance your experience on our website, to respond to your requests, process your orders and to communicate with you. We do not store or process your credit card details ourselves.
Automatic Information: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Usage Data and Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this data by using cookies and other similar technologies. "Cookies" are one example of this type of information. In internet terms, a "cookie" is a text file that websites send to visiting computers/devices to identify the visiting computer/device. Please see our Cookies Policy for further details. We also use third-party website analytics tools such as Google Analytics. These tools collect information about visitor traffic on our website.

How do we use that personal information?

Your contact information is used for the following purposes only:

Register you as a user on our website;
Manage and/or maintain your user account on our website (if you created one);
Process and deliver purchases, returns, backorders etc;
Carry out fraud assessment;
Communicate with you and provide customer support;
Comply with legal requirements and industry standards.

If you have signed up to our mailing list, we also use your name and e-mail address to send you regular newsletters about new collections, events or promotions etc... We would never sign you up to any mailing list without your express consent. In addition, you can unsubscribe at any time by e-mailing alice@aliquo.ie or via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each newsletter. We use a third party called Mailchimp to manage contacts and send newsletters. Mailchimp does not pass on your data to any third parties and is GDPR compliant.

We use other types of personal information for the following purposes:

To use data analytics to improve our website, as well as creating targeted ads to find new customers who might also like our products.
We may also share certain data with third party social media platforms in order to show you targeted ads when you visit them. We do this only by the use of cookies which capture your visits to our website. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for more information. We NEVER share your e-mail address with any third party social media platform, as this is against our own policy.

How secure is your data?

Our website runs on the Shopify platform. Shopify has implemented technical and organisational data security measures to be in compliance with GDPR. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. (Currently, that's just me!).

You acknowledge that the Internet is not a completely secure medium for communication and, accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us (or we send to you) via the Internet. We are not responsible for any damages which you, or others, may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.

How long do we keep personal information?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. For example, details of your orders will be kept for as long as we need to retain that data to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements. This is generally 7 years unless the law prescribes a longer period.

Do we share personal data with any third party?

Your privacy is always respected when you shop with aliquo. From time to time we might establish business relationships with other entities whom we believe trustworthy and whose privacy policies are consistent with ours. Your customer information is sometimes shared with such carefully selected partners:

E-commerce provider – our website runs on the Shopify platform.

Email service providers - in order to send you marketing content and transactional emails, we share your details with our email service provider Mailchimp.

Social Media Platforms - we only share information with Social Media platforms using cookies. NEVER your name or e-mail address.

Analytics tools - we use Google Analytics tools to track the way that users interact with our website in order to improve user experience.

Payment providers - in order to process any payments made on our site, Shopify facilitates the sharing of your Financial Data with payment providers. Your credit card details are not stored.

Delivery providers - in order to package and mail your orders to you, it is necessary to share your information with delivery providers. Our current delivery provider is the international postal system.

Cookie Policy

By visiting this website with your browser settings adjusted to allow cookies, you are consenting to aliquo using cookies for the purposes outlined below in order to provide you with a fully functional shopping experience.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded and stored on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. Where cookie technology is not available, an anonymous identifier may be used. An anonymous identifier is a random string of characters used for the same purposes as a cookie.

Your browser accesses the cookie file only when you visit the website that generated it. This helps to ease your navigation by automatically logging you in and remembering things like your preferences and what’s in your shopping basket.

The information stored within any given cookie can only be accessed by the website that created it and cookies are limited to communicating only the information that you have disclosed to the site.

We use the following types of cookie:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use a shopping cart.
Analytics cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, which websites they might have come from, and to see how they move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
Marketing cookies. These allow us to understand the performance of ads and newsletters.

How do I control Strictly Necessary cookies?

You can use your browser settings to control whether or not we set Strictly Necessary cookies. More information on your browser settings is provided at the bottom of this page. Please be aware that Strictly Necessary cookies are critical to the working of the site. If you choose to disable cookies from this site, the functionality of the site will be greatly reduced.

How do I control Analytics cookies?

We use Google to provide our analytics data. You can read more about how Google Analytics treats your data at: Google: Safeguarding your data.

You can also read Google’s full privacy policy. Google provides a tool to opt-out of Google Analytics. This is available for all modern browsers in the form of a browser plugin.

Additionally, you can control how cookies are set using your browser settings. See at the bottom of this page for more information on managing cookies.

The list below details the cookies used on our website. We have outlined who sets these cookies and their purpose. If the Party reads something other than 'aliquo', these are our third party business partners who help us to enhance your browsing experience.

Category	Party	Purpose
Strictly necessary	aliquo via Shopify	Shopify uses cookies to enable some basic functionality that is required for you to browse and shop on our website, such as remembering which products you have added to your cart.
Marketing	Facebook	Facebook use cookies (or, if applicable, anonymous identifiers) to track our paid advertising activity. We use the information collected by these cookies to help us determine where our ads will be most effective online. The data taken is not confidential data.
Analytics	Google Analytics	Google Analytics use cookies (or, if applicable, anonymous identifiers) to collect data that helps us understand how people are using the site. We use this information to identify how and where we can improve the customer experience. The data collected through these cookies is anonymous, does not collect specific customer data and is never shared with other third parties.
Marketing	Social Media plugins	Sites such as Facebook and Pinterest, serve cookies in order to be able to share and discuss aliquo’s products on social networks.
Marketing	Mailchimp	Mailchimp automatically place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent by us. This enable us to recognise when subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links.

Sharing with social networks

If you use the buttons that allow you to share products and content with your friends via social networks like Pinterest and Facebook, these companies may set a cookie on your computer memory. Find out more about these here:

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

http://twitter.com/privacy

http://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/

https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy

Managing cookies:

If cookies aren't enabled on your computer, it will mean that your shopping experience on our website will be limited to browsing and researching; you won't be able to add products to your basket or buy them. To enable and manage cookies, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.