1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding your privacy
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of visitors of www.HiveAliveBees.com and our customers; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
1.3 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Advance Science Ltd, Business Innovation Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway. You can contact us on +35391394459 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. For more information about us, see Section 13.
2. Credit
2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).
3. How we use your personal data
3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage
data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location,
browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit,
page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the
timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage
data is Google Analytics and Hotjar. This usage data may be processed for
the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis
for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and
improving our website and services.
3.3 We may process your account data ("account data"). The account data may
include your name and email address. The source of the account data is you.
The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our
website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and
services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with
you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the
proper administration of our website and business and processing orders.
3.4 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our
website ("profile data"). The profile data may include your name, address,
telephone number and email address.] The profile data may be processed for
the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and
services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely
the proper administration of our website and business.
3.5 We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use
of our services ("service data"). The service data may include your name,
email, address, phone number. The source of the service data is you. The
service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website,
providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services,
maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The
legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the
performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your
request, to enter into such a contract.
3.6 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or
through our services ("publication data"). The publication data may be
processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our
website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate
interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
3.7 We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us
regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry data may be
processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods
and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
3.8 We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including
customer contact information ("customer relationship data"). The
customer relationship data may include your name, your contact details, and
information contained in communications between us and you. The source of
the customer relationship data is you. The customer relationship data may be
processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers,
communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications
and promoting our products and services to customers. The legal basis for
this processing is consent
3.9 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of
goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website
("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details,
your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be
processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and
keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this
processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or
taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate
interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
3.10 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of
subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification
8data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending
you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this
processing is consent.
3.11 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication
that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The correspondence data
may include the communication content and metadata associated with the
communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with
communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence
data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and
record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests,
namely the proper administration of our website and business and
communications with users.
3.12 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where
necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether
in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The
legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the
protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal
rights of others.
3.13 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where
necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage,
managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this
processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our
business against risks.
3.14 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal
data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data
where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to
which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital
interests of another natural person.
3.15 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we
prompt you to do so.
4. Providing your personal data to others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of
companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all
its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the
legal bases, set out in this policy.
4.2 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional
advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or
maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional
advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in
court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
4.3 We may disclose contact details to our suppliers or subcontractors insofar as
reasonably necessary for customer service/fulfilling orders.
4.4 Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our
payment services providers, Stripe Payments. We will share transaction data
with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the
purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing
with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can
find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and
practices at www.stripe.com
4.5 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section
4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to
protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We
may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for
the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court
proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. Retaining and deleting personal data
5.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are
designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation
to the retention and deletion of personal data.
5.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept
for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
5.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your
personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal
obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests
or the vital interests of another natural person.
6. Amendments
6.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on
our website.
6.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any
changes to this policy.
7. Your rights
7.1 In this Section 8, we have summarised the rights that you have under data
protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have
been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant
laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of
these rights.
7.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.
7.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your
personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with
certain additional information. That additional information includes details of
the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned
and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of
others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data.
The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be
subject to a reasonable fee.
7.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified
and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any
incomplete personal data about you completed.
7.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal
data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are
no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected
or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing;
you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection
law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data
have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to
erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for
exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance
with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal
claims.
7.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your
personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the
personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer
need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require
personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and
you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection.
Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store
your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your
consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the
protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of
important public interest.
7.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on
grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the
legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the
performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of
any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests
pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will
cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate
compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your
interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment,
exercise or defence of legal claims.
7.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct
marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you
make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this
purpose.
7.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for
scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds
relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the
performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
7.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to
which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to
entering into a contract,
and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right
to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and
machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would
adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
7.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes
data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a
supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the
EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place
of the alleged infringement.
7.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal
information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any
time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the
withdrawal.
7.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by
written notice to us.
8. About cookies
8.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that
is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The
identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a
page from the server.
8.2 Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web
application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by
gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps
us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to
tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical
analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to
monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no
way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other
than the data you choose to share with us.
8.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a
user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the
information stored in and obtained from cookies.
9. Cookies used by our service providers
9.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your
computer when you visit our website.
9.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics
gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information
gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our
website. Google's privacy policy is available at:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
10. Managing cookies
10.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies.
The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to
version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and
deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-
website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-
explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-
privacy (Edge).
10.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many
websites.
10.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our
website.
11. Our details
11.1 This website is owned and operated by Advance Science Ltd.
11.2 We are registered in Ireland under registration number 487054, and our
registered office is at Business Innovation Centre, National University of
Ireland, Galway.
11.3 Our principal place of business is at Business Innovation Centre, National
University of Ireland, Galway.
11.4 You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, on +353 91 394 459; or
(d) by email, using This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
12. Data protection officer
12.1 Our data protection officer's contact details are: Dara Scott +35391394459