Privacy


PRIVACY


MIMIBoutique.ie respects and guards your privacy. We do not store your credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties.

To protect your personal information, we take every reasonable precaution and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored using cutting edge AES-256 encryption. We follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted best industry standards.

COOKIES

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the information you give us such as your name, address and email address.
When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart. We use cookies to identify you so we can retrieve your information so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are a small text file which which are transferred by our website to  your access device (for example a computer or mobile).

It allows  a web server to identify you when you return to our website and the pages you  navigate through so while they do not contain information which identifies you as the user, it has personal information a website stores about you, for example customer preferences like a user name or pages you have navigated through on the site.

Website functionality cookies enable you to browse the website and utilise features such as shopping baskets.

Website analytics cookies measure and analyse how our customers use the website, which helps us to work on making your shopping experience a better one.

Customer preference cookies enable a website to become more personal by remembering your preferences, for instance a user name

Session cookies will expire at the end of your session once you close your web browser.

Controlling and deleting cookies:

Many web browsers will give you the option to enable or block cookies.

You also have the option to delete cookies, however deleting or blocking cookies may limit the features available to you on many websites.

Please refer to the help or support tab on your web browser as instructions will vary.

FIRST PARTY COOKIES

We may send to you the following cookies:
(1) osCsid – Expires: At end of Browser session. This is a session cookie that identifies whether you’re logged into our site.
(2) PHPSESSID – Expires: At end of Browser session. This is a session cookie that identifies whether you’re logged into our site.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

We may send to you the following cookies:
(3)  __atuvc – Expires: 2 years. AddThis Sharing Tool – a social bookmarking tool
(4)  __utma – Expires: 2 years. Google Analytics
(5)  __utmb – Expires: 1 day. Google Analytics
(6)  __utmc – Expires: At end of Browser session. Google Analytics
(7) __utmz – Expires: 6 months. Google Analytics

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

BLOCKING COOKIES

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
(a) In Internet Explorer (version 9) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
(b) In Firefox (version 16) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and deselecting “Accept cookies from sites”; and
(c) In Chrome (version 23), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on this website.

DELETING COOKIES

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:
(a) In Internet Explorer (version 9), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
(b) In Firefox (version 16), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” and then “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
(c) In Chrome (version 23), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

Again, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy, please contact us.