Privacy Policy

Introduction

Data privacy and protection for everyone who uses our products and services, and who entrusts us with their information, is very important to Gloss Publications. We have written this privacy notice so you can better understand how we collect data, what we do with it. It will also outline what rights you have over your data and how we protect and facilitate those rights.

Any marketing email we send you will always have an “unsubscribe” link that will take you off that list. Please remember that you may have subscribed from another email address; you will only be able to use the link to “unsubscribe” from the address to which the email has been sent.

Your Personal Information 

We collect information:

• when you pay for any of our products or services
• when you register to receive one of our newsletters
• when you use either of our websites, thegloss.ie or www.lookthebusiness.ie.
• when you attend any of our events
• when you enter a competition
• if you contact us about a query or a complaint

We collect the following types of information:

Contact Information

When you use or subscribe to one of our services, such as purchasing a print subscription, signing up to an email newsletter or entering a competition, we will ask you to provide information such as your name, email and/or postal address so that we can provide you with the services requested.

Payment Information

When you purchase a product or service from us, such as subscribing to one of our magazines or attending one of our events, we will also ask you for your payment details in addition to your contact information, in order to secure payment and to authorise access to our products and services.

Online Identifiers

When you visit one of our websites, we collect information about your web visit, such as how long you visited, what sites you visited or pages you looked at, your IP address and where you were when you visited, what sort of device you were using when you visited (such as a mobile phone or type of desktop PC, Mac etc), and information identifying the language used by your Device.

Behavioural Data

When you visit one of our websites, we collect data on your online behaviour (eg time spent on website, items clicked on, etc).

When you buy a product or service from us, such as magazine subscription or a ticket to a Gloss Publications event, we will collect information about what products and services you have bought from us.

When you register for a newsletter or take part in research, we may collect data about your preferences, tastes and interests.

How we use your personal information

We collect different types of information about people for four main reasons:

1. To provide personalised services unique to individual users.
2. So we can monitor and improve the services we offer.
3. To sell advertising space on our websites. This helps us to keep our websites free for people who visit them.
4. To market products and services which we think would be relevant to you.

Newsletters

When you sign up to one of our newsletters, you are giving consent for us to use the email address provided to send you relevant content for the brands you have signed up to. You can withdraw this consent for any newsletter by unsubscribing at any time.

Advertising

We advertise on our site and in our newsletters. We use cookies and similar technologies and work with trusted partners so that we can show you advertisements we believe might interest you, to control the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of a campaign. We have a legitimate interest in using cookies but you can opt in or out of using them at any time. If you are interested and want to learn more about these, including how to opt out, please see our Cookie Policy. Please note, opting out of cookies does not mean you will not see any advertisements.

We also use data collected upon registration to estimate gender for the purpose of targeted advertising. Such online advertising helps support the content, products and services we provide.

We use cookies and similar technologies to facilitate our Services in the retrieving of your user preferences; to personalise your visits; for the operation of our website; to collect statistical information about our visitors for analytical purposes (we use Google Analytics, Google Signals and Comscore); to simplify any sign-in procedures; understand user numbers, demographics and interests; and to provide social media features.

Delivery of goods and services

We will use the information you have provided for the provision of goods and/or services that you have requested and subsequently communicating with you about those products and services.

Please note too, that when you buy something from us – such as subscription or a ticket to an event – we may contact you about your registration details, to manage any account or subscription you have with us, or to provide customer service. This will be the case even if you have opted-out of, or declined to consent to, receiving promotional emails.

Competitions

When you enter one of our online competitions, we will process your information for the purposes of picking a winner. If you have opted-in to receiving information from us about our products and services (eg receiving subscriptions offers, event invitations, signing up for editorial newsletters etc) then we will use the information you provide to make sure we offer you relevant products and services (based on where you live, your age, gender, tastes, preferences etc). If you have opted-in to receive news and offers from any competition sponsors, we will share your information with them.

In the case of competitions hosted with our partners, if you are the winner of a prize, we will disclose your personal data to third parties where required to fulfil delivery of your prize (in such circumstances the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements).

Partners

We work with partners in luxury goods, fashion, travel and retail so that we can present you with some outstanding offers and opportunities by either email or post. You will only ever receive partner messages from us if you have actively given permission. We won’t disclose your personal information to anyone, the messages will come from us and you can unsubscribe at any time from these messages.

Affiliate Links 

All products featured on thegloss.ie are hand-selected by our editors. If you buy something through affiliate links on our site we may earn a commission.

THE GLOSS | GOODBODY Investment Club

If you sign up for THE GLOSS | GOODBODY Investment Club, your information will be processed by The Gloss Magazine and Goodbody for the purposes of giving you access to the Investment Club. Please see Goodbody’s privacy policy here for more information. By registering to join this Investment Club, you may receive invitations to other events, articles and reports from Goodbody and The Gloss on similar topics. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Customer Queries

We process any information you provide when dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by you or legally on your behalf.

Consent

In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent:

• When you sign up for the MyGloss feature (where you can save articles to read later) on www.thegloss.ie
• When you sign up to any editorial newsletter
• When you tick a box to receive email from Gloss Publications about news and offers
• When you tick a box to consent to receive email from Gloss Publications on behalf of our partners
• We send SMS messages, either from Gloss Publications or on behalf of our partners with your consent
• When you give us your details to enter a competition
• When you participate in any research, this is with your consent

Contractual Obligations

In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations.

For example, when you purchase a print subscription to a magazine, we will keep your name and address to fulfil your subscription.

Legal Compliance

If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data.

For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting us to law enforcement.

Service Providers

We work with service providers to perform some tasks on our behalf. This might include: analysis, payments, marketing, etc and including tagging and blending non-personal site user data to provide aggregate demographics on our audiences. We may share your personal data with these providers to perform the necessary tasks. However, they are obliged not to disclose or use it for any other purposes. Any third-party processing of your data on our behalf will be subject to security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this privacy notice and applicable law.

Customer Research and Insights

We may disclose de-personalised data (such as aggregated statistics) about the audience of our products and services and/or research participants to describe our sales, customers, traffic patterns and other information to prospective partners, advertisers, investors and other reputable third parties, and for other lawful purposes. These statistics will never include identifiable personal information.

Marketing Partners

With your explicit permission, we may share your information with other companies we are working with, such as competition sponsors. Whenever we share your information with another company, we will always ask for your permission, will name the company and will always be clear that your information will be shared with another organisation.

How long will we keep data?

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the individual service/s you have requested, while taking into account any legal requirements and tax and accounting rules. We do not store customer data for longer than six years after the last purchase.

Third Party Security

We make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information and make sure that, when we ask another organisation to provide a service for us, they have appropriate security measures and follow the same high standards of security and data protection as we do.

As a consumer, you have rights:

1. The right to be informed.At every point where we are collecting your data, we will inform you of why it is being collected and how it is being processed.
2. The right of access.If you wish to see what information we hold on you, you may send us what is called a Subject Access request. We will require photocopies of two pieces of identification. We will respond within 30 days of receipt of your request.
3. The right to rectification.We offer the opportunity to amend your personal information by contacting us at digital@thegloss.ie.
4. The right to erasure.If you wish to cancel all communications with us, we can anonymise or de-identify your data. Please contact us at digital@thegloss.ie.
5. The right to restrict processing.You can opt-out or restrict the processing of your data by amending your cookie settings in your browser or unsubscribing from postal and email communications.