Our Policy:

It is our policy at The-Irish-Shop.com to operate a professional, customer friendly online business offering the highest levels of security to our customers in a confidential manner.

We are committed to preserving your privacy and maintaining a secure environment for you to shop online with us.

Our credit card transaction processor, PayPal are a world market leader and provide the most up to date and secure methods to carry out electronic payments over the internet.

We will constantly monitor our security systems and inform you of all changes and improvements through our website.

Data Encryption:

We use the industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect against the possibility of theft, manipulation, and other alteration of any information that you provide us.

This system is used by banks, financial institutions and thousands of websites and other online commerce businesses.

All areas of our website where sensitive information about our customers is involved, is safe and secure with this system and makes buying online at The-Irish-Shop.com safer than buying over the telephone.

The Procedures:

When you create an account with The-Irish-Shop.com you will be asked to provide some personal information (name, address, phone number, e-mail) but not your credit card details.

If you decide to make a purchase you will then be asked for more sensitive information (credit card details). At this stage the process moves into the realm of our transaction processors PayPal who will carry out all the security checks required and transfer your card details to the bank for processing using the most secure systems.

The-Irish-Shop.com does not see any of your credit card details.

Your Information:

We do not collect any credit card information. All of this highly sensitive information is securely processed by our transaction processors. We do not store sensitive information on our servers.

In accordance with data protection legislation we do not share, sell, distribute or in anyway disclose your information with any third parties.

All information we do gather from our customers when setting up an account with us i.e. name, address, contact number, e-mail is used solely as a way for us to communicate and process your orders efficiently. Occasionally we may use this information to send or inform you of special offers, sales or promotional products. We will not do this on a scale that will be a nuisance to our customers.  All personal information is retained and securely controlled by senior management within our business.

If you have any queries about your information, wish to change your details, remove it from our system or express concerns, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

We will respond to you as a matter of priority, usually within 2 day’s.

Cookies:

Our shopping cart software may use cookies to create and maintain your shopping cart during a session. These pieces of information stored on visitor’s hard drives are used purely as a service tool to enhance the shopping experience on our site. There is no link between these cookies and any sensitive information, and in no way does the usage of cookies compromise your security or privacy.

Changes to policy:

Any changes to policy will be posted on this page. Any information posted prior to the changes will not be subject to the new policy without your consent. The information will remain subject to the policy at the time it was provided to us. Once the change in policy is posted, any new information that you provide and/or information associated with new orders will be subject to the new policy.

If you have questions or concerns about this policy or need to update your customer information,please send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it