Privacy Policy
Connemara Organic Seaweed Company
What we collect, why, and the control you keep over it. We collect as little as we can and never sell your data. Here’s the full picture.
Last updated · June 2026
1. The short version
We collect as little as we can, use it only to run our shop and talk to you, never sell it, and let you ask for it back or have it deleted whenever you like. The detail below explains exactly what that means.
We are the data controller for the information you give us. That means we decide how and why it’s used, and we’re accountable for keeping it safe under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Irish data protection law.
Registered Address:
CONNEMARA ORGANIC SEAWEED COMPANY
ROS AN MHÍL UACHTARACH
BAILE NA HABHANN
GAILLIMH
H91 XF2H
Ireland
Email: noel@connemaraseaweedcompany.ie
Website: https://connemaraseaweedcompany.ie/
For the purposes of data protection law, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are the “Data Controller” of your personal data.
2. What we collect
We only collect what we need to take an order, deliver it, and stay in touch if you ask us to:
Order details: your name, delivery and billing address, email, and phone number
Payment confirmation: handled by our payment provider; we never see or store your full card number
Account details: if you choose to create an account, your email and a password (stored encrypted)
Messages: anything you send us by email or the contact form
Basic site analytics: privacy-friendly, aggregated, and never tied to your name
3. How we use it & why
Under GDPR we need a lawful basis for everything we do with your data. Here’s ours:
To process and deliver your order, and handle returns: because it’s necessary to perform our contract with you
To answer your questions and provide support: our legitimate interest in running a responsive shop
To send our newsletter: only with your consent, which you can withdraw in one click, any time
To meet tax, accounting, and consumer-law obligations: because the law requires it
We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we never sell or rent it to anyone.
4. Cookies & analytics
We keep tracking light. It’s part of why our pages are low-carbon. We use a small number of essential cookies to make the basket and checkout work, and a privacy-friendly analytics tool that counts visits without cookies, without fingerprinting, and without following you around the web.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The essential ones are needed for the shop to function; everything else is optional.
5. Who we share it with
Only the trusted partners we need to get your order to your door and keep the lights on. Each is bound to protect your data and use it only for the task we give them:
Our payment provider, to take payment securely
Delivery carriers (An Post, DPD, DHL and Royal Mail), to ship your order
Our email and website hosting providers, to run the shop and send order updates
Our accountant and, where legally required, the Revenue Commissioners
6. How long we keep it
Order and invoice records are kept for six years, because Irish tax law requires it. Account details are kept until you ask us to close your account. Newsletter details are kept until you unsubscribe. Contact-form messages are kept only as long as needed to resolve your query.
7. Your rights
Under GDPR you have the right to:
Ask for a copy of the data we hold about you
Have mistakes corrected
Have your data erased where there’s no legal reason to keep it
Object to, or restrict, certain uses
Receive your data in a portable format
Withdraw consent (for the newsletter, for example) at any time
To exercise any of these, just email us. We’ll respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie) if you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data
8. Keeping it safe
Our site runs over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Passwords are stored encrypted, payment is handled by a PCI-compliant provider, and access to order data is limited to the people who need it to do their job. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable, up-to-date measures to protect your information.
9. Sending data abroad
Your data is processed within the EU/EEA wherever possible. If a provider we rely on processes data outside the EEA, we make sure appropriate safeguards are in place (such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses) so your data stays protected to the same standard.
10. Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle your data, we’ll update this page and move the “last updated” date. For significant changes affecting how we use your data, we’ll let you know by email where we can.
To exercise any of your rights, please contact:
noel@connemaraseaweedcompany.ie
11. Talk to us
Questions about your privacy, or want to make a request? A real person in Lettermullen will reply.
- Email: privacy@connemaraseaweedcompany.ie
- Phone: +353 (0)91 506 848
- Post: Connemara Organic Seaweed, Lettermullen, Co. Galway, Ireland