Cookie Policy

Please Read the Terms of This Policy Carefully Before Using the Site

1. About this Cookie Policy

   This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how ESW uses those cookies. Please read and print this Cookie Policy so you can understand what type of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used by ESW.

   For information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, please see our Privacy Notice. (https://esw.com/privacy-policy/)

   This Cookie Policy also tells you what your rights are in relation to the personal data that you pass to us when you use ESW cookies. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:

   Address:
   Head of Compliance
   eShopWorld c/o U.S. Direct E-Commerce Limited
   South Block, The Concourse Building
   110-115 Airside Business Park
   Swords
   County Dublin
   Ireland

   Email address:
   privacy@eshopworld.com

2. What are Cookies?

   A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies work to make your experience browsing our sites as smooth as possible and they remember your preferences.

   Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your browser or device. Session cookies are deleted from your computer or device when you close your web-browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer or device until deleted or until they reach their expiry date. There are different types of cookies. Some cookies come directly from our website and others come from third parties which place cookies on our site.

   We use the following cookies:
   i. Necessary Cookies
   These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable basic functions like page navigation or access to secure areas of our website. Without these cookies, some parts of our site just won’t work as they should.

   ii. Preferences Cookies
   These cookies enable our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. These are also used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.

   iii. Statistics Cookies
   They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

   iv. Marketing Cookies
   These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and its content more relevant to your interests.

   v. Unclassified Cookies
   Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

3. How Does ESW Use these Cookies?

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

• Recognising your preferred settings.
• Giving you a browsing experience that is unique to you and to serve you content which we believe improves your site experience.
• Analysing how you use our site which helps us to troubleshoot any problems and to monitor our own performance.
  
  

4. How to Block Cookies?

   You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.