Effective Date: 25th May 2018
This Privacy Statement explains how Groupon Shop Limited collects, controls, processes, and uses information about you (which we call “personal data”).
When we say “Groupon Shop”, “us”, “our”, or “we”, we mean Groupon Shop Limited. Groupon Shop is the operator of this website and sells the products that you can purchase from it.
When we talk about the “Site”, we mean groupon-shop.co.uk.
Change
We routinely update this Privacy Statement to clarify our practices and to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new services, functionality, or features to the Site. If we make any material changes we will notify you, either by email (sent to the email address specified in your account), by means of notice on the Site or by using other methods. You can determine when this version of the Privacy Statement was adopted by referring to the “Effective Date” above.
You understand that your continued use of the Site after we send a notice about our changes to the Privacy Statement means that the collection, control, processing, and use of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Statement. If you object to any changes, you may modify your account settings or close your account as described below.
1. Personal Data We Collect
We will collect the following personal data when you interact with the Site:
Contact details (e.g. your postal address, telephone number, and email address). We may need some of this information to deliver products to you, such as your postal address, and won’t be able to carry out these services if you don’t provide it;
Payment details (e.g. your credit card details or payment tokens from third party payment providers like PayPal). We use these to process your order, and won’t be able to take payment from you or give refunds if you don’t provide it; and
2. Cookies
We use "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer using the functionality of your browser. A lot of websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. You can usually modify your browser to prevent cookie use - but if you do this the Site may not work properly (at least in respect of certain, strictly necessary cookies). The information stored in the cookie is used to identify you. This enables us to operate an efficient service and to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to the Site.
3. Your Rights
You can access, update, rectify, and delete your personal data which makes up some of your profile by logging into your account or contacting us here. Keeping your personal data current helps ensure that we can respect your preferences and offer you the goods and services that are most relevant to you.
In accordance with applicable law, you may (i) request access to any personal data we hold about you; (ii) request that it be updated, rectified, deleted or blocked; (iii) request that we delete personal data we hold about you; (iv) request that we restrict our processing of your personal data; and (v) request that we provide you or a third party with a copy of certain personal data about you (that is referred to as the right of “data portability”). You can also object to any of our uses of your personal data described in this policy, including our marketing activities.
4. How We Use Information
We control and process the personal data you provide to us, which we collect from other sources, and which we generate to:
Operate, maintain, and improve the Site by analyzing how you and our other customers use and interact with it. This is to meet our legitimate business interests in providing the Site and ensuring that it provides the best experience for our customers;
Validate, facilitate, and prevent fraudulent purchases. This may include processing orders for goods, payment verification, and verifying that vouchers redeemed by customers are valid. This is necessary to meet our contractual commitments to you set out in the Terms of Sale;
Answer your questions and respond to your requests, for example in the context of customer service. This is to meet our contractual commitments to you in the Terms of Sale where these questions or requests are part of the purchase process or to comply with legal obligations (such as allowing you to exercise your rights as described above), and in other cases to meet our legitimate interests in providing a good service to our customers;
Manage our everyday business needs, such as administration of the Site, fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, and enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations and Terms of Use or to comply with the law; and
Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We do this where necessary to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject, or to meet our legitimate interests in enforcing our legal rights and resolving disputes or verifying payments and preventing fraud.
5. When and Why We Disclose Personal Data
We share your personal data as follows:
with your consent;
with other Groupon entities within the European Economic Area, who will process your personal data only in accordance with our instructions and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement;
with unaffiliated third-party delivery and warehousing businesses, so they can deliver the products purchased to you. We share personal data with unaffiliated third-party delivery and warehousing businesses in order to meet our contractual obligations to you, and they are not permitted to use your personal data in any way other than delivering the products purchased by you;
to a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of the Site or any portion or operation related to part of the Site;
in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, or restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our stock and/or assets, or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process;
to comply with legal orders and government requests, or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions, where this is necessary to comply with these legal obligations;
to combat fraud or criminal activity, and to protect our rights or those of other Groupon entities, or delivery and warehousing businesses, and users, or as part of legal proceedings affecting us and/or other Groupon entities, as it is in our legitimate interests to prevent fraud and protect these rights; or
in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts, to the extent this is necessary to comply with such legal obligations.
6. Security of Personal Data
We have implemented an information security program that contains administrative, technical and physical controls that are designed to safeguard your personal data, including industry-standard encryption technology. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Retention of Personal Data
We will retain your personal data for as long as needed to provide you services. If you close your Groupon account, we will retain your personal data for a period where it is necessary to continue operating our business effectively, to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes or fraud prevention purposes until these purposes no longer exist, and to retain as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
8. Privacy Practices of Third Parties
This Privacy Statement only addresses the collection, processing and use (including disclosure) of personal data by us through your interaction with the Site. Other websites that may be accessible through links from the Site may have their own privacy statements and personal data collection, processing, use, and disclosure practices.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this Privacy Statement, if you want to make use of any of the above rights, or other rights that you may have in relation to your personal data, please contact us via this form. You can also contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@groupon.com and can also reach us via postal mail at the following address, which we use for data protection correspondence:
Groupon International Limited, ATTN: Data Protection Officer, Lower Ground Floor, Connaught House, 1 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, 216410 Ireland.
We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any request, complaint, or concern about our use of your personal data. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist you, you have the right to make a complaint to the data protection authority in your country of residence or to our Lead Supervisory Authority:
By Post
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House, Station Road
Portarlington, Co. Laois
R32 AP23
Ireland
By Email
info@dataprotection.ie