McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Ltd.
Internet Site Privacy Statement
McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Limited, referred to in this statement as "we", "us" or "our", are pleased to provide information to all of our customers about our online privacy statement. Please be assured that we use our best efforts to protect the privacy of visitors to this web site.
Types of Information We Collect and How It Is Used
We only gather personal information, such as first and last names, addresses and email addresses, when voluntarily submitted by you. For example, personal information may be collected from you when you give your feedback on our web sites and our products or enter one of our on line prize promotions.
Sharing of Personal Information
We may share personal information within the McDonald's Family; by this expression, we mean McDonald's Corporation and each of its subsidiaries, together with their respective franchisees and certain selected companies. Those selected companies are either our partners who perform a function such as prize-provision within our promotions and offers, or are agencies and suppliers whom we have retained to assist us to more effectively fulfil orders, manage and conduct promotions and offers, provide technical assistance and support and perform other functions to support our marketing activities.
All selected companies may have access to personal information if needed to perform such functions, but will only be permitted by us to use such personal information for the purpose of performing that function (which may include one to which you have expressly given your consent) and not for any other purpose.
We do not currently envisage our wishing to transfer personal information about you outside of the European Economic Area, but in the unlikely event we should wish to do so in future, we will only do so to the extent that it is permitted under all privacy and communications legislation applicable within the Republic of Ireland. Of course if we need your specific and express consent to do this, we will obtain it before transferring any information.
We are committed to protecting the security of your information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your information from unauthorised access and use. As effective as modern security practices are, no physical or electronic security system is entirely secure. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of information is at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we use appropriate security measures to seek to prevent unauthorised access. We will continue to revise policies and implement additional security features as new technologies become available. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
In all cases, any use of your personal information by the McDonald's Family which use has been instigated by us (as opposed, for example, to a promotional partner), will comply with this statement.
Occasionally, with your permission and depending on the purpose for and context in which you gave that permission, we will send marketing information and news to you, for example, relating to new product offerings, loyalty schemes and clubs, discount coupons and other promotions and offers. This may include our sending to you marketing information for the products or services of a promotional partner on that partner's behalf.
However, in every case, if you do not elect to receive such communications or if you elect to discontinue receiving them, then we will not send or will cease sending them to you. Also, we reserve the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity of the site, to fulfil your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement or regulatory investigation. Save for this, we do not sell, transfer or disclose personal information we have collected from you in connection with our web site activities, to third parties outside the McDonald's Family.
Please note that if we are, in turn, a promotional partner of an unrelated company, for example where we are not asking you to submit any personal information to us but are simply providing information on our site and may be a link to the other company's web site where one must visit to take part in that company's promotion, offer or other activity, then the privacy statement of that other company will apply instead of ours.
Whilst we make very effort only to tie-in with reputable companies which have a similar high regard for your privacy, you should make sure you are aware of what their policies say, as we are not responsible for the policies and practices of other companies, including those of other members of the McDonald's Family.
We do not warrant that any information, software or other material accessible through our website is free of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other contaminants. We assume no responsibility and shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages that result from the use, access to, browsing in or downloading of any information, data, text, images or other material accessible through this website, one of its web pages or the website of any linked third party.
Our Privacy Statement Regarding Children
We are very sensitive to privacy issues. We are proud of our long time commitment to our customers. We are especially careful in any communications with one of our most treasured customers - children.
On our web sites, we offer many features which do not require a child to provide any personal information.
Our policy is not to collect personal information from any child under 12 unless for a specific activity where the child's parent or guardian has first written to us with that parent's or guardian's consent to that specific activity.
We will not collect (nor encourage any child to give) more detailed information, such as a postal address or a telephone number, than is needed by us to facilitate that child's selected activities, without first obtaining the written consent of a parent or guardian.
Our policy is that our on-line activities will not generally involve the publishing of any personal data relating to a child on any of our web sites, but if there is any specific occasion where publication is proposed then this will not take place unless that child's parent or guardian has written to us with their specific consent to the proposed publication and then only after there has been pointed out to the parent or guardian the possible consequences of such a publication.
We urge parents to regularly monitor and supervise their children's on-line activities.
Access
You are in control of any personal information you provide to us on-line. You may request in writing copies of your information held by us as data controller. We will provide you with a copy of the information held by us as soon as practicable and in any event not more than 40 days after the request in writing. There may be a charge to access your information. We may also request proof of identification to verify your access request. All requests should be addressed to our data protection compliance officer, [name] at the address below.
We endeavour to keep your information accurate, complete and up to date. If your information that we hold is inaccurate, please let us know and we will make the necessary amendments, erase or block the relevant information as you request and notify you within 40 days of your request that the relevant action has been taken. All requests should be addressed to our data protection compliance officer, [name] at the address below.
We will only hold on to your information for as long as necessary for the purposes of providing services to you, informing you of products or services offered by us in the future or as may be required by law.
Changes to our Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time in our sole discretion. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you can see what information we gather, how we might use that information and in what circumstances we may disclose it. By continuing to use our Site after we post any such changes, you accept and agree to this Privacy Statement as modified.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about our McDonald's Internet Privacy Statement, please contact us at:
McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Limited,
7 Richview Office Park,
Clonskeagh,
Dublin 14.
Website Terms & Conditions of Use
McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland, a company limited by shares, registered in Ireland under number 127316, having its registered office at 7 Richview Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, ("McDonald's") has established this site (the "Site") for your personal entertainment, information and communication. The Site is subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions"). By accessing the Site, you accept these Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions
- You may, subject to paragraph 8, download one copy of the materials contained in or displayed on the Site and print off pages of the Site for non-commercial personal use only provided that:
(a) no documents or related graphics on the Site are modified in any way;
(b) you do not remove or alter any copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials; and
(c) all use is for lawful purposes only.
Neither the content of the Site nor any part of it may be distributed, reproduced, modified, transmitted, reused, re-posted or used for public or commercial purposes without McDonald's prior written permission.
If you breach any part of the terms of this notice, your permission to use the Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Site.
- If you download any software from the Site, the software, including all files, images, contained in or generated by the software and accompanying data (together, the "Software") are deemed to be licensed to you by McDonald's. Neither title nor any intellectual property rights are transferred to you, but remain with McDonald's. You may not resell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise convert the Software to a human perceivable form. Either party may terminate the licence at any time immediately with or without notice and on such termination you must destroy all materials including (but not limited to) the Software obtained from the Site and all copies.
- The Site and the content, functionality and design of the Site is protected in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere in the World by copyrights trade marks, designs and/or design rights and other intellectual property rights or either used by McDonald’s under licence from a third party or owned by McDonald's or a member of the McDonald's Family; this means McDonald's Corporation and each of its subsidiaries, together with their respective franchisees and certain selected companies (which are either partners who perform a function such as prize-provision within promotions and offers, or agencies and suppliers whom McDonald’s have retained to assist in more effectively fulfilling orders, managing and conducting promotions and offers, providing technical assistance and support and performing other functions to support McDonald’s marketing activities).
None of the Site, the Site content, the Site functionality or the Site design, nor any part of any of each, may be used in any manner whatsoever, except either as provided for in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site or within the strict terms of the written permission of McDonald's obtained for the proposed use in advance of such use (and in respect of which. McDonald's neither warrants nor represents that your proposed use will not infringe any third party rights).
- The materials contained in or displayed on this Site are provided "as is" and without warranties or representations of any kind either expressed or implied. McDonald's disclaims all warranties of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose. McDonald's does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free.
- McDonald’s, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Site), and any of the McDonald’s Family and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with the Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Site, any websites linked to the Site or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Site or your downloading of any material from the Site or any websites linked to the Site.
Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit McDonald's liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by negligence; or
(b) fraud; or
(c) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
(d) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under Irish law.
If your use of material on the Site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
- Save for information covered by the McDonald’s Restaurants of Ireland Ltd Internet Privacy Statement (“ McDonald’s Privacy Statement”), any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, graphics or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post shall subject to the McDonald’s Privacy Statement, become the exclusive property of and may be used by McDonald's or other members of the McDonald's Family or on behalf of either at any time and for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, McDonald's is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
- You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Site any material:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
You may not misuse the Site (including, without limitation, by hacking). McDonald’s shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing McDonald’s to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of the above.
- The trade marks and logos (the "Trade Marks") displayed on Site include the registered and unregistered trade marks of the McDonald's Family and of other businesses. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions on the Site may be construed as granting any licence or right to use any of the Trade Marks without the prior written permission of McDonald's or other proprietor of the Trade Marks. Any use of the Trade Marks or any other content on the Site except as provided in these Terms and Conditions is strictly prohibited.
- McDonald's has not reviewed any sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is entirely at your own risk.
- While McDonald’s endeavours to ensure that the Site is normally available 24 hours a day, McDonald’s shall not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. Access to the Site may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond McDonald's control.
- Unless otherwise stated or the context requires otherwise the Site relates to the business of McDonald's in the Republic of Ireland only.
- McDonald's controls and operates this site from its registered office stated above. All communications regarding this web-site should be addressed to McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland, 7 Richview Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.
- Any exclusion or restriction of liability contained in these Terms and Conditions shall apply only to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the Republic of Ireland.
- You are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws relating to the use of or otherwise connected with the Site. To the extent that this Site or any activity contemplated by it would infringe any law of a jurisdiction other than the Republic of Ireland, then you are prohibited from accessing this Site or attempting to carry on any such offending activity and this provision shall override all other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
- Any use of the Site shall be subject to the laws of the Republic of Ireland and any dispute arising from such use or otherwise in connection with the Site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Ireland.
- McDonald's, the Golden Arches logo, Happy Meal, Ronald McDonald Name and Design and “i'm lovin’ it” are trademarks of McDonald's Corporation and its affiliates.