Bestbuyenvelopes.ie respects the privacy of all users of its site and ensures that the personal information you provide to us is treated confidentially. Processing of the personal information happens in a way that is in accordance with the requirements stipulated in the Data Protection Act.

Bestbuyenvelopes.ie processes the personal details and other data in accordance with the legislation in force. The considerations on this matter are defined in this privacy and cookie statement.

Purposes of the data processing
Your personal details are processed by us for entering into and implementing contracts covering web-related services and the management of the relationships arising from these, this to include the implementation of activities directed at expanding the customer database.

When you complete a contact or registration form on the website, or send us an e-mail, the information you send us is retained for as long as is necessary to fully answer and deal with it, depending on the nature of the form or the contents of your e-mail.

Newsletter
We offer a newsletter with which we wish to inform interested parties about developments within Bestbuyenvelopes.ie, our services and related matters. Your e-mail address is only added to the list of subscribers with your explicit permission. Every newsletter contain a link with which you may unsubscribe. The newsletter subscriber file is not supplied to third parties.

Cookies
We make use of cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent together with pages on this website [and/or Flash applications] and is stored on your computer’s hard disc. The information stored in these can be sent back to our servers during a subsequent visit. We make use of these cookies to:

• improve the operation of our website,
• test the website and improve it by monitoring web visits,
• measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns.

We only use these data aggregated together and cannot trace them back to an individual.
A distinction may be made between two different types of cookie: functional cookies that are necessary for the proper operation of our website, and other cookies.
Below you can find a list of the cookies that are placed by this website, other than the functional cookies (cookies that are necessary to allow the website to operate).
 

Cookie	Name	Reason	Extra info	Approval required
Google Analytics	_utma	Is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the Java library initiates and there are no existing _utma cookies present. The cookie is updated each time data are sent to Google Analytics.	Expires after 2 days.	Yes*
Google Analytics	_utmb	Is used to define new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the Java library initiates and there are no existing _utmb cookies present. The cookie is updated each time data are sent to Google Analytics.	Expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.	Yes*
Google Analytics	_utmc	This cookie works together with the _utmb cookie to determine whether the visitor is in a new session/visit.	Cookie is destroyed after closing the browser.	Yes*
Google Analytics	_utmz	Saves the source of the traffic or campaign in which is explained how the user reaches your site. The cookie is updated each time data are sent to Google Analytics.	Expires after 6 months.	Yes*
Google Analytics	_utmv	Is used to store custom variable data at visitor level. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a custom variable at visitor level. This cookie was also used for the obsolete _setVar method. The cookie is updated each time data are sent to Google Analytics.	Expires after 2 years.	Yes*
Google	PREF	Can store your preferences and other information, in particular your preferred language (such as English), how many search results you want to display per page (such as 10 or 20) and whether you want to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter.		No
Google	khcookie	Retains user preferences and information from pages that use Google Maps.		No
Google	NID	Retains user preferences and information from pages that use Google Maps.		No
Scorecardresearch	UID	Provides a unique machine-generated user ID. This cookie is used for anonymous user statistics.		Yes
Scorecardresearch	UIDR	Is used to gain insight into the visit to the website.		Yes
Sharethis	_stid	Provides a unique machine-generated user ID.		Yes
Sharethis	_uset	Is used as indication of whether someone has already received cookies. Sharethis collects information for advertising purposes.		Yes
Sharethis	__unam	Is used to record visited pages and the time that is spent on a page. This service only identifies unique visitors when they also have an account with Sharethis and have given permission to do so.		Yes
AddThis	uid	Provides a unique machine-generated user ID. AddThis collects information for advertising purposes.		Yes
AddThis	_atuvc	Measures how often an AddThis user is seen.		Yes
Twitter	guest_id	To identify you to Twitter.		Yes
Youtube	Visitor_INFO1_LIVE	YouTube makes an attempt to discover your bandwidth.		No
Youtube	PREF	Can store your preferences and other information, in particular your preferred language (such as English), how many search results you want to display per page (such as 10 or 20) and whether you want to activate YouTube’s SafeSearch filter.		No
LinkedIn	X-LI-IDC	Visitor gains access to share the contents of the website on LinkedIn.

* Google Analytics’ cookies are presently a point of discussion between the Dutch Ministry and the OPTA (Dutch Independent Post and Telecomms Authority). The chance exists that in the future you will not have to ask permission to place these cookies. However this does remain the case at present!

Use of session cookies
With the help of a session cookie, we can see what parts of the website you have looked at during this visit. We can thus adapt our service as far as possible to our visitors’ surfing behaviour. These cookies are deleted automatically as soon as you close your web browser.

Below you can find a list of the functional cookies that are placed by this website.
 

Cookie	Name	Reason for placement	Extra info	Permission required
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	PHPSESSID	Identification of your current session in PHP.	Is deleted at the end of your visit.	No
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	WEBSHOPSESSID	Identification of your current session in a Webshop.	Is deleted at the end of your visit.	No
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	webshop_light_ last_viewed	Remembers the last item you looked at.		No
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	SSL	The same as PHPSESSID, but for secured websites.	Is deleted at the end of your visit.	No
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	fontSizeOffset	Is used to enlarge and reduce character sizes.		No
www.bestbuyenvelopes.ie	wa	Checks whether your browser accepts cookies.	Is deleted at the end of your visit.	No

Google Analytics
Via our website, a cookie from the American company Google is placed, as part of the ‘Analytics’ service. We use this service to keep up to date and to receive reports about how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no influence on this. We have indeed permitted Google to use the analytics information for other Google services.

The information Google collects is anonymised as far as possible. Your IP address is emphatically not provided. The information is transferred to Google and stored by them on servers in the United States. Google states that it abides by the Safe Harbor principles and is signed up to the Safe Harbor programme of the American Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal details.

Social media buttons
Buttons are included on our website to allow web pages to be promoted (‘like’) or shared (‘tweet’) on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work by means of sections of code that originate from Facebook or Twitter themselves respectively. Cookies are placed by means of this code. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy declarations of Facebook and Twitter respectively (and these may change regularly) to learn what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.

The information that these companies can collect is transferred to Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn and stored by them on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ state that they abide by the Safe Harbor principles and are signed up to the Safe Harbor programme of the American Department of Commerce. This means that there is an appropriate level of protection for the processing of any personal details.

Switching on and off of cookies and their deletion
You can find more information about the switching on and off of cookies and their deletion in the instructions and/or using the Help function of your browser.

Right to inspect and correct or delete your information
You have the right to ask to inspect your information and to correction or deletion of it. See our contact page for this. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately for this. When this concerns insight into your personal data couple to a cookie, you must send along a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.

Modification of privacy and cookie statement
We retain the right to modify this privacy and cookie statement. Changes will be published on this website.