Bluechip respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the
Data Protection. The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we
deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website. By visiting
this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external
links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible
for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
1. Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
(a) Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify, contact you or process
requests on your behalf and may include your name, address, email address, detailed
financial information, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been
deleted, clipped or anonymised, telephone number, and billing and credit history
information. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit
it to us or have authorised us to obtain it.
(b) Non-Personal Data
Like most web sites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected
on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our web site. This Non-Personal Data comprises
information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic
information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped
or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the
use of our web site.
2.Purposes for which we hold your Information
(a) Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:
(i) To provide you with the goods or services you have ordered;
(ii) To contact you if required in connection with your enquiry or to respond to
any communications you might send to us
(iii) To send various promotional material such as monthly newsletters.
(b) Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate
form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us
better design and organise our website.
3. Cookies
Bluechip website uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored
by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies
to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences
so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website - our cookies
are not available to other websites. You are always free to decline our cookies,
if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note
that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being
sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.
4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined
with similar information of other users of our web site. For example, we might inform
third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our web site, the demographic
breakdown of our community users of our web site, or the activities that visitors
to our web site engage in while on our web site. The third parties to whom we may
provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers
of advertising services (including web site tracking services), commercial partners,
sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties. We will not disclose
your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure
or unless the third party is required to fulfil your service order (in such circumstances,
the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements. We will disclose
your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose
it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court
or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
5.Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a
third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer
of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third
party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Web Site Privacy Policy and provided
that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided
it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be
afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
6.Security
Your Personal Data is encrypted and held on secured servers with our hosting providers.
The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security
of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over
the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable
steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your
Personal Data.
7.Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our
obligations under the Data Protection Acts on the Protection of Individuals with
regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data,
and any implementing and/or amending legislation as may be adopted in Ireland from
time to time, we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out
what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended
or removed from our database, please contact Bluechip. Any such data subject requests
may be subject to the prescribed fee.
8. Bluechip Profile
Bluechip provides registered members with the option of creating a personal profile.
A profile includes your personal information, treatments done, purchase history.
Registered members' profiles can be seen by Bluechip clients who offer treatments in
matching categories and locations.
Registered Members can elect to delete their Profile. Deleting a Profile from the
My Account area of the site will mean it is no longer accessible to the registered
member. Please note that deleted Profiles may still be stored by Bluechip in testing
or backup systems for a period of time.
All information provided when creating a Profile including name, email address,
telephone numbers, purchase history are used for the purposes of facilitating registered
members treatment search efforts.
Bluechip reserves the right to disable or delete a Profile at their sole discretion.
9. Email communications from Bluechip
Bluechip also provides you with selected information about Bluechip software and related
topics in our email newsletter Bluechip News Update. This free service is sent to registered
users and provides the option of opting out of receiving these. Bluechip may also make
you aware of additional products and services which form part of your relationship
with Bluechip.
10. Storage & Security of Personal Information
Bluechip takes all reasonable steps to ensure the security of our system. Bluechip allows
you to access your information at any time to keep it accurate and up to date. Any
information which we hold for you is stored on secure servers that are protected
in controlled facilities.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our
information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information
held by Bluechip. However, Bluechip will not be held responsible for events arising from
unauthorised access of your personal information.
You can also play an important role in keeping your personal information secure,
by maintaining the confidentiality of any password and accounts used on the Bluechip
site. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account
by any other Internet user or any other breach of security.
11. Feedback
Bluechip welcomes ideas and feedback about all aspects of the site. Bluechip stores
feedback that users send to us. This feedback will be used to administer and refine
the service and may be shared with Bluechip partners either in aggregate form or with
specific identifying characteristics removed.
12. Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Web Site Privacy Policy will be posted on this web site so you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner
significantly different from that stated in this Web Site Privacy Policy, or otherwise
disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and
you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.
13. Cookie Policy
To give you the best possible website experience, this site uses cookies. Continuing
to use the Bluechip website means you agree to our use of cookies. This document (anchorlink
to cookie policy ) explains “what cookies are” and the types of cookies Bluechip uses
on our websites.
What are cookies?
A "cookie" is a text file that websites send to a visitor's computer or other Internet-connected
device to uniquely identify the visitor's browser or to store information or settings
in the browser
Does Bluechip use cookies on its websites?
Yes. BLuechip uses cookies on its websites to enhance the website and provide services
and functionality to its users. You may restrict or disable the use of cookies through
your web browser; however, without cookies, you may not be able to use all of the
features of the websites.
What types of cookies are used on our website?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to carry out a transaction or request initiated
by you. Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the use of the features on
Bluechip.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you have made in order to provide
functionality for your benefit. For example, functional cookies allow the website
to remember settings specific to you, such as your country selection and persistent
logged-in state if selected by you.
Analytic Cookies
These cookies allow us to collect data relating to your use of the website, including
the content on which you click while browsing the website, in order to improve the
performance and design of the website.
These cookies may be provided our third party analytic tool provider but are only
used for purposes related to our websites. We use Google Analytics to analyse how
Bluechip is used
Targeting Cookies
These cookies remember information regarding your use of the website so that we
can serve promotional and other targeted information to you on our website.
How do I disable or remove cookies?
Each type of web browser offers ways to restrict and delete cookies. For more information
on how to manage cookies visit the appropriate link below.