Privacy Policy

Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how and for what purposes we use the information collected about you via our website www.aldi.ie ("our site"). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our site and any services we offer via our site, you are agreeing to be bound by this policy in respect of the information collected about you via our site.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Acts, 1998 & 2003 (the "Act"), the data controller is Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited (Company Number 294035) of 67/68 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is [NAME].

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.aldi.ie ("our site"). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our newsletters, posting material, requesting further services or by you contacting our Customer Services Helpline. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion or when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.

Although it is not compulsory for you to provide information when requested, if you do not, then we may not be able to provide you with a full range of services our site has to offer.

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES COLLECTED FROM YOUR COMPUTER
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our site.

Cookies are specific to the server that created them and can not be accessed by other servers which means that they can not be used to track your movements around the web. Passwords and credit card numbers are not stored in cookies. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To send you information about our products and services if you subscribe to our newsletter and updates.
• To process orders or applications submitted by you, if applicable.
• To verify your identity.
• To carry out marketing analysis and make general improvements to our site.
• To obtain your views or comments on the services and products we provide.
• To contact winners of our competitions and help us plan other promotional activity.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our service.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group as defined in Section 155 of Companies Act, 1963 (as amended), which includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Other than as set out above, we will not disclose any of your personal information without your permission unless we are required by law to do so.

YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at 67/68 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of €6.35 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Aldi Stores (Ireland) Limited at 67/68 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2.