Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our on-line or other services. In this Privacy Policy we explain how and why we collect your information, what we do with it and what controls you have over our use of it.

From time to time, we add or change functions, features or products to our Web Sites or add or change Services. This, and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to contact at info@santaexperience.ie

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions. We recommend that you print and retain a copy for your future reference. By accessing, browsing or otherwise using this Website, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this privacy statement in its entirety. If you do not agree to this privacy statement in its entirety, you should not use this Website or provide us with your personal data.

What data do we collect and how do we use it?

Magic Hammer events/Santa Experience collects and processes information about you in order to:

(i) identify you each time you visit a Web Site or wish to have a Service provided;

(ii) process bookings or orders submitted by you;

(iii) improve our Services and Web Sites

(iv) Customise your experience, for example, provide advertisements that we think are relevant to you and which support any specific requests for information you may make through keyword searches;

(v) carry out analysis on the demographics of all our customers; and

(vi) send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience products and services.

You may be asked, either when you book with us, buy our products/services or at other times, for information about yourself and other attendees, such as names, age, gender, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number. In addition, when you order certain goods or services from our Web Sites, we will need to know your credit/payment card number and expiration date.

We will keep your information for as long as you are a customer or until you unsubscribe.  You are under no obligation to provide this information, but if you don’t then we may not be able to provide you with certain services or personalise your experience and tailor our Services.

Log files/IP addresses

When you visit our Web Sites, we automatically log your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet) which is automatically recognised by our web server. We use IP addresses to help us administer our Web Sites and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.

Non-personal information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our Web Sites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our Web Sites. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites from which it is possible to link to our Web Sites with information relating to the number of users linking to our Web Sites from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a Web Site transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a Web Site if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user’s computer, cookies do not personally identify customers or passwords. Credit card information is not stored in cookies.

We use cookies for the following reasons:

(i) To identify who you are and to access your account information;

(ii) To estimate our audience size and patterns;

(iii) To ensure that you are not asked to register twice;

(iv) To control how often visitors see similar ads;

(v) To track preferences and to improve and update our Web Site; and

(vi) To track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and contests.

With whom is the information shared?

Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience will not share, sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience may disclose aggregate statistics about our sales, our Web Site visitors and customers of our telephone services in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will not include personally identifying information.

Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience and its Web Sites, visitors to the Web Sites and customers of our Services.

Our Web Site contains links to the sites of third parties. When you visit these sites, we suggest that you read their privacy policies. Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.

We may share your information internally within the Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience.

We may need to share personal data to support our IT system providers ensure security and audit us on whether we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing, or just making sure we’re keeping the books right. Each of the external companies we work with has been selected by us for their ability to provide what we need to our required specification, including their ability to handle sensitive data (like your personal information) securely and appropriately.

We may need to share personal data with another organisation if we were to sell or transfer any of our business. In that case we would share with our successors in title to our business.

We may need to share personal data when we receive requests for information from government departments, the police and other enforcement agencies. If this happens, and there is a proper legal basis for providing your personal information, we will provide it to the organisation asking for it.

Information about products and services

It is very important to us that we provide you with the highest level of service. In order to help us do this, from time to time Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience companies may send you details of our products and services which we think may be of interest to you. If at any time you do not wish to receive these details, please use the unsubscribe function.

Security

Magic Hammer Events/Santa Experience places a great importance on the security of all information associated with our customers and at any time you can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold . We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to user information. With regard to our Web Sites, we use secure server software (SSL) to encrypt financial information you input before it is sent to us. Whilst we do our best to maintain security within our Website and to safeguard your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you may transmit to us.

Where is the information stored?

Information which you submit via our Web Sites or our telephone services is stored on a computer located in the European Economic Area. This is necessary in order to process the information and to send you any information you have requested. Information submitted by you may be transferred by us to our other offices and to reputable third party suppliers, which may be situated outside the European Economic Area. Not all countries outside the EEA have data protection or privacy laws. In addition, if you use our Services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those Services.

Comments

Please e-mail any questions, concerns or comments you have about our Privacy Policy to info@santaexperience.ie