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  THE O MAHONY SOCIETY AND PRIVACY: THE GDPR

In May, 2018, the Global Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) became effective throughout the European Union (EU).  These sweeping reforms, designed to provide protection of your electronic information, will impact us all.  PLEASE REFER TO THE COMPLETE PRIVACY POLICY.  ALL EU RESIDENTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO GIVE AN ANNUAL UPDATE TO THEIR AGREEMENT WITH THIS POLICY.  The easiest method of doing such is to login to the website at least once a year.

As always, The O Mahony Society honors your privacy. We will only use your personal information for official Society communications and will not share your information with any outside source without your prior written consent.

 

If you have questions about The O Mahony Society and the GDPR, please contact Runai Linda McConnell Baker at lbaker8@ec.rr.com

 

What type of information do you collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including but not limited to name, email, password, communications); payment details (which may include credit card information per our PayPal link), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

 

How do you collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address, phone number, and email address.

 

Why do you collect such personal information?

We collect such non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:

 

  1. To provide and operate the services of the society;

  2. To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and informational messages (e.g., OMS Newsletters, Shout-Outs, OMS Journal, etc.);

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

Our society website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to offer our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 


All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

The O Mahony Society honors your privacy.  We will only use your personal information for official Society communications and will not share your information with any outside source without your prior written consent.  Information on former members is warehoused for three years following the last dues paid before being deleted.

 

How do you communicate with your site visitors?

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our society, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

 

How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?

Wix, together with its marketing, analytics, and technology partners, uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies (such as cookies, beacons, pixels, tags and scripts). These technologies are used in order to maintain, provide and improve our services on an ongoing basis, and in order to provide our visitors, our users and their users-of-users with a better experience.  For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to maintain and keep track of our visitor’s and users’ preferences and authenticated sessions, to better secure our services, to identify technical issues, user trends and effectiveness of campaigns, and to monitor and improve the overall performance of our services.

 

Please note that third party services placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through our services may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. Such practices are not covered by our Privacy Policy and we do not have any control over them. 

 

Cookies: In order for some of these technologies to work properly, a small data file (“cookie”) must be downloaded and stored on your device. By default, we use several persistent cookies for purposes of session and user authentication, security, keeping the user’s preferences (e.g., regarding default language and settings), connection stability (e.g., for uploading media, using e-Commerce features, etc.), monitoring performance of our services and marketing campaigns, and generally providing and improving our services.

 

If you want to delete or block any cookies, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information on deleting or controlling cookies is also available at www.aboutcookie.org (note that this website is not provided by Wix, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness, or availability). Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies or tracking technologies may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our services, or may otherwise adversely affect your user experience.

 

Clear Gifs: We and certain third party services may employ a software technology called “clear gifs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), which enables them and us to improve our services by measuring their effectiveness and performance. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, however are not stored on your device, but instead embedded within our services.

 

Flash and HTML5: We and certain third party services may also employ certain tracking technologies known as “Flash cookies” and “HTML5”, mainly for advertising purposes. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing or blocking such technologies. Additional information about managing Flash cookies is available here. 

(Please note that this website is not provided by Wix, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness, or availability).

 

Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting: Certain third party services and ad networks may display advertising on our website, on Wix Apps, and on Wix mobile apps, or manage our advertising on other websites. Such parties may use certain tracking technologies to collect certain information about your activities on the services and different third party services to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests and preferences. You may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from certain advertisers and ad networks by clicking here (or if you are located in the European Union click here (provided by YourChoicesOnline.eu). Please note this does not opt you out of receiving all advertising and that your opt-out will only be in relation to the specific advertising. You will continue to receive advertising for which you have not opted out.

User Data Supplementation: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you. Where we obtain your personal information from these third parties, we ensure that such parties are contractually committed to inform you that your personal information will be disclosed to us and we take steps to ensure the accuracy of your personal information before using it. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

“Do Not Track” Signals: Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application.

 

Security


Wix has implemented security measures designed to protect the personal information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and third party services for further enhancing the security of our services and protection of our visitors’ and users’ privacy.

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Wix, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your personal information, your users-of-users’  information, or any other user content you upload, publish, or otherwise share with Wix or anyone else.

We therefore encourage you to set strong passwords for your user Account and user website, and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm. Furthermore, because certain areas on our services are less secure than others (for example, if you set your support forum ticket to be “public” instead of “private,” or if you browse to a non-SSL page), and since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any personal information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us at privacy@wix.com.

 

 

How can your site visitors' withdraw their consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at lbaker8@ec.rr.com or send us mail to: 1029 Daybreak Court  Leland, NC  28451  USA

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

 

Questions and your contact information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at johnomah45@gmail.com

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Approved by The O Mahony Society Council; Updated 19 May 2018

The O Mahony Society (OMS) Privacy Policy

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