Privacy Policy

Verus Metrology Partners’ is a trading name of Verus Precision Limited, an Irish registered company under CRO number 457312 which is wholly owned by Verus Precision Holdings Limited, registered under CRO number 552367. We may refer to the company or group of companies as Verus or Verus Metrology Partners.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.verusmetrology.com (“Site”).

Personal Information We Collect

Our site will collect Personal Information that you enter into data fields on the Verus Metrology Partners website. When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through our Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, PayPal information), email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.” To protect your privacy, you should not provide Verus with any information that is not specifically requested. We collect personal data in the following ways:

• Information that you provide to us when you purchase a product or service with Verus Metrology Partners or become a client of Verus Metrology Partners.
• Information that you may provide to us by using the Site or availing of our services on the Site.
• If you contact us for any reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• By submitting ‘Contact Us’ forms or email enquiries.
• When you provide information to us when you meet us face to face.
• When your company offers information on your behalf.
• Calls to the Verus Metrology Partners Office.
• By submitting a C.V. for a vacant position within Verus Metrology Partners. We request that you do not disclose sensitive personal information (e.g. gender, medical information, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, financial data) in your C.V.

Additionally, our Site may collect information about your visits to our site without you actively submitting such information. Unidentifiable information may be collected using various technologies, such as cookies and web beacons. When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse our Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our Site and information about how you interact with our Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. You may set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may result in our Site not functioning properly. For more information or to find out how to disable cookies have a look at the About Cookies website.
• “Log files” track actions occurring on our Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse our Site.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Order Information and Device Information.

How do we secure your personal information?

All information that you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Who is the Data Controller?

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller is Verus Precision Limited, registered in Ireland with company number 457312 and a registered office address at Unit 2, Cleveragh Industrial Estate, The Back Avenue, Cleveragh, Sligo, F91 HRR3, Ireland.

How do we use your personal information?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through our Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

• Communicate with you;
• Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
• When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with our Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing your personal information

Verus is a group of companies operating under the holding company Verus Precision Holdings Limited. The Verus entity that provides services to you may depend on where you are located or what service you avail of. For Verus to carry out its services it may be necessary to transfer personal data within the Verus group for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with GDPR laws.

We may share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information as described above while assisting us in the improvement and optimisation of the Verus website. For example, we also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here.

If you sign-up to receive our newsletter we will add you to our email list and you will receive an email with the latest information from Verus Metrology Partners. Every email contact will have an unsubscribe option so you can opt-out at any time. We use MailChimp to power our online newsletter emails – you can read more about how MailChimp uses your Personal Information here.

It is Verus’ practice to require such third-party service providers to keep your personal information confidential and to use your personal information only to perform functions for Verus and in accordance with Verus’ instructions.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Except as otherwise stated in this section, Verus will not transfer your personal information to third parties unless you have been provided with an opportunity to opt into this disclosure.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.

Your Rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through our Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.

You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data by Verus, to object to our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions and you have the right to request that we transfer your data to another organization or to you directly, under certain conditions. If you make such a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the online form included in the ‘Withdrawing Permission’ section below.

Data Retention

We hold your information while you are a client of Verus and for a period of time after that. We do not hold personal information for any longer than is necessary.

In general, Verus will only store your personal information for as long as it is needed to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. When you place an order through our Site or make a quotation or service enquiry, we will maintain your Personal/Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

We retain your information for the sole purpose of potential future communication in relation to future enquiries or business contracts.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. If we update our privacy or cookies policy we will let you know via the contact information supplied to us.

Withdrawing Permission

To withdraw permission for the use of your personal information, Verus Metrology Partners will provide an opt-out option on all of our communication with you, so if you decide that you do not want any further emails or any other forms of communication then we will delete your details permanently.

Additionally, if you would like your information deleted from our entire database, you can contact us via our online contact form requesting Verus Metrology Partners to do so accordingly.