Information collected
Renaissance collects the details provided by you on registration together withinformation we learn about you from your use of our service and your visits toour web site and other sites accessible from them. We also collect informationabout the transactions you undertake including details of payment cards used.
We may collect additional information in connection with your participationin any promotions or competitions offered by us and information you providewhen giving us feedback or completing profile forms. We also monitor customertraffic patterns and site use which enables us to improve the service weprovide.
Use of your information and your preferences
We will use your information to provide and personalise our service and todetect and prevent fraud. We will also use your contact details to communicatewith you. We may use your information to send you offers and news about Renaissance products and services or those of othercarefully selected companies which we think may be of interest to you. We maycontact you by post, email, telephone or fax for these purposes.
We may use your information to verify your identity and prevent or detectfraud. In performing these checks your information may be disclosed to creditreference agencies, who may keep a record of that information. This is not acredit check and your credit rating will be unaffected.
Please note that there may be instances where it may be necessary for us tocommunicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasonsrelating to our service.
Disclosures of your information
We will never pass your personal information to anyone else, except where weare required or permitted to do so by law, for any successors in title to ourbusiness and suppliers that process information on our behalf both in Irelandand abroad. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that noindividual customers are identified) for marketing and strategic developmentpurposes.
Other web sites
Our web site may contain links to other web sites which are outside ourcontrol and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sitesusing the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect informationfrom you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy,which may differ from ours.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of harmless information issued by a website and stored by your browser.
The cookies we use do NOT contain any personally identifying information; they only contain a unique id we use to match you to your own previous visits to our website. This way we can remember your past preferences or selections to enhance your browsing experience on our website.
We also use cookies to detect which pages view during your visit. This was we can find out which pages our visitors find interesting and might either enhance those pages or point other visitors to those pages.
These cookies can only be read by your browser when you're visiting our website. They can not be read or used by other users on our website or by other websites you visit, just as our site can not read or use cookies issues by other website.
Please note: Your personal information is never matched or stored with the cookie on your computer and do not contain any personally identifying information.
It would be perfectly possible to use other techniques to the same affect. However, cookies are the easiest way to accomplish this because that's exactly what they were designed for.
If you would wish to do so, you could configure your browser to stop accepting cookies from our website or from websites in general. Please consult your browser's documentation. You will still be able to browser our site, we do not force you to use cookies. Please be aware that your browser is probably configured to accept all cookies by default.