Privacy Policy for Pods4U

Effective date: September 2022

Welcome to Pods4U, accessible at www.pods4u.ie.

Your privacy is critically important to us, and this privacy policy aims to clearly explain how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information.

1. Information Collection and Use

What We Collect:
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Personal information you provide when making an inquiry or placing an order, such as your name, email address, phone number, and address.
- Data collected automatically when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, and browsing activity.

How We Use Your Information:
- To process a quotation and fulfil orders that you have requested.
- To communicate with you about your order, inquiries, or our services.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
seek your views or comments on the services we provide.
- To notify you of changes to our services or maintenance updates.
- To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
- For internal analytics to improve our website and services.
- To comply with legal obligations.

Chatbot Interactions:
We use a chatbot on our website to help answer questions, provide general information about our products and services, and assist visitors with enquiries.

When you use the chatbot, we may collect and process the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, phone number, project details, delivery location, budget, timeline, and any other information you include in your messages.

We use this information to:

- respond to your enquiry;
- provide relevant information about our products and services;
- prepare or follow up on quotations;
- improve our website, customer service, and enquiry process;
- keep a record of conversations where needed for customer support, sales, or service purposes.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the chatbot unless it is necessary for your enquiry.

Chatbot information and accuracy:

Our chatbot is provided to help visitors access general information quickly. While we aim to keep the information accurate and helpful, chatbot responses may occasionally be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date.

Any information provided by the chatbot is for general guidance only. It does not create a binding offer, quotation, contract, warranty, or guarantee. Any final price, specification, availability, delivery timeline, or agreement must be confirmed directly by Pods4U in writing.

2. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

- Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
- The necessity to fulfill a contract with you.
- Our legitimate interests in operating our business, provided those interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

3. Data Sharing and Transfer

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties.

We may use third-party software providers to operate our website, chatbot, enquiry forms, analytics, CRM, and customer communication systems. Information submitted through the chatbot may be processed by these providers on our behalf for the purpose of responding to enquiries and operating our services.

Where we use third-party providers, we only share the information necessary for them to provide their services to us, and we take reasonable steps to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place.

4. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

For instance, we hold information given to us to complete quotations for up to 2 years. We hold your email address on a subscribed mailing list indefinitely unless you have requested to unsubscribe.

5. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

- Access, correct, or delete your personal data.
- Object to or restrict processing of your data.
- Request data portability.
- Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing - based on consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@pods4u.ie.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@pods4u.ie