Why do we use your personal data?
We use your personal data to provide you with the information, products and services that you request or purchase from us when shopping online. In this context, we use your personal data to be able to process your purchase order and payment transactions, and to manage your deliveries, claims, returns and refunds in a secure and effective manner. 

Purchase order and payment data collected for the purpose above will also be used, under certain conditions and limitations, for marketing, business development and analytics purpose and to detect fraud and thefts in connection with online sales and to comply with applicable laws. 

How do we use your personal data?
The personal data we obtained directly from you when you are placing a purchase order, making a payment or using any other of our services will be used only to the extent necessary to process that order and to deliver the requested products and services.

Whenever you place a purchase order, make a payment, return a product or signing up for a financial service we use your personal data to verify your identity and your capacity to enter into a contract, that financial information you provide us is accurate, conduct fraud checks or prevent other illegal activity.

Who has access to your personal data?
We share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfil the intended purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as order fulfillment and payment processing. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as electronic communication providers, banks and postal services. Please be aware that many of  these recipients have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own rights.

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
When making products and services available to you H&M will process your personal data necessary for concluding a contract with you and to fulfill any obligations derived from that contract, whether the contract refers to a purchase order and payment, or the use of other services provided by us or by third parties. For the purpose of identify and contact you when an item you have signed up to recieve information regarding is available again for purchase, we use legitimate interest as a business as legal ground for processing.

How long do we keep your personal data?
We will keep and process your personal data no more than necessary for us to perform our contractual obligations. 

However, we may continue to use and store your data for additional purposes.

Purchase order data will also be used for the purpose of Development and Improvement of products, services and supply chains. 

Purchase order data will also be used for the purpose of Security and Safety by fraud detection and loss prevention. 

If you are a user of an H&M Account or a member of H&M Membership we will continue to use your purchase order data to the extent necessary for us to deliver upon our promises and to distribute Ads & Promotions acccording to your expectations. 

In addition to the above, for the purpose of Compliance with Laws, we are compelled to continue to save and sometimes use your purchase order data to abide with applicable tax and accounting legislation and to protect consumer rights. 

You can read more about why and how the H&M Group re-use personal data under each section of this Privacy Notice. 

Who is responsible for the processing of personal data?
The H & M Hennes & Mauritz Ireland Ltd is responsible for the processing of personal data within the scope of In-store shopping.

Why do we use your personal data?
We use your personal data to be able to process your purchase and payment transactions and to manage your claims, returns and refunds in a secure and effective manner. 

Payment data collected for the purpose above will also be used, under certain conditions and limitations, business development and analytics purpose and to detect fraud and thefts in connection with sales and to comply with applicable laws. 

We offer WiFi access service in many of our stores for your convenience and for analytics purpose. You can find more information in the specific WiFi in store Privacy Notice.

The processing of your personal data for video surveillance purposes is based on our legitimate interest as a business.

How do we use your personal data?
The personal data we obtained directly from you when making a purchase will be used only to the extent necessary for completing the purchase.

Whenever you make a payment, return a product or sign up for a financial service we use your personal data to verify your identity and your capacity to enter into a contract, that financial information you provide us is accurate, conduct fraud checks or prevent other illegal activity.

Who has access to your personal data?
We share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfil the intended purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as order fulfillment and payment processing. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as electronic communication providers, banks and postal services. Please be aware that many of  these recipients have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own rights.

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
When making products and services available to you H&M will process your personal data necessary for concluding a contract with you and to fulfil any obligations derived from that contract, whether the contract refers to a purchase transaction, or the use of other services provided by us or by third parties.

The processing of your personal data for camera monitoring purposes is based on our legitimate interest as a business.

How long do we keep your personal data?
We will keep and process your personal data no more than necessary for us to perform our contractual obligations. 

However, we may continue to use and store your data for additional purposes.

Purchase order data will also be used for the purpose of Development and Improvement of products, services and supply chains. 

Purchase order data will also be used for the purpose of Security and Safety by fraud detection and loss prevention. 

We will keep images from our monitoring cameras for a maximum period of 30 days, unless we are obliged by law or public authority to keep and/or process data for a longer period.

In addition to the above, for the purpose of Compliance with Laws, we are compelled to continue to save and sometimes use your purchase order data to abide with applicable tax and accounting legislation and to protect consumer rights. 

You can read more about why and how the H&M Group re-use personal data under each section of this Privacy Notice. 

Why do we use your personal data?
We will use your personal data to generate and send ads and promotions, including style and shopping recommendations, notifications, information, surveys and invitations through multiple communication channels.  

Ads, promotions and other direct marketing communication will be distributed according to your preferences through electronic mail, text messages, phone calls or postal mail as well as displayed in your mobile app, social media channels or web browser. 

To optimize online customer experience, we provide you with personalized ads and promotions resulting from algorithmic analysis and predictions of your preferences, interests and behaviour.   

To be more efficient in our marketing communication we collaborate with different social media, search engine and advertising network providers ("Advertising Partners").

Please read more about our Advertising Partners below. 

How do we use your personal data?
We only use data obtained directly from you, when you create your account, shop with us, sign up for membership, subscribe to newsletters or engage with us in any other way.

We will never retrieve, use, and store personal data from data brokers or other external sources. Nor do we have access to such data for pursuing a marketing purpose, unless we explicitly say so.

H&M collaborates with advertising partners such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest and YouTube for advertising on social networks and with Google for online advertising networks such as Google Ads and Google Marketing Platform.

Advertising partners use data provided by us and collected from cookies and other technologies in order to predict your preferences and interests, and take this into account when choosing the adverts on the advertising spaces mediated via their online advertising networks. This is standard industry practice commonly known as "retargeting". Retargeting allows us to run advertising campaigns which is as relevant to you as possible and to measure the efficiency and reach of the advertising materials, but also to measure the advertising partners’ performance and efficiency of campaigns. 

Advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to trace your usage of our websites and services by accessing data stored on your device or in apps.

Read more about cookies and other tracing technologies in the Cookies' section of this Privacy Notice. 

If you do not want us to share your contact details with Third Parties for this purpose, you can at any time withdraw your marketing consent by managing your consent in the Cookie Settings under the help-section at the bottom of the front page.

Advertising Partners
H&M collaborates with Advertising Partners, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest and Google.

Our Advertising partners enable us to identify and engage with the right target audience, to create and distribute personalised marketing content across platforms and services. To be able to choose the content that fits your interests, we can use information obtained from you when you signed-up for newsletter or created an account, membership or made a purchase with us. We may share this information and a customer identifier, e.g. an encrypted email address or device id, with third parties such as Facebook and Google. The purpose is to show relevant ads to you on third party websites and apps. In order to do this, your data is matched with the database of the third party. If a match is found, you will receive promotional and relevant content in your feed or search engine. If no match is found your data is securely destroyed. We take our responsibility to protect the personal data of our customers very seriously and would like to reassure you that this personal data is handled in a secure manner using a technique called hashing. This ensures your data is scrambled in a manner that makes it unreadable to anyone other than the recipient for the explicit given purpose.

We may also link this data through the various devices you use, as well as process data about the ads, for example; if you clicked on an ad and then made a purchase. The purpose is to measure the impact of the ad and to enable ad billing.

If you do not want us to share your details with Third Parties for this purpose, you can at any time withdraw your marketing consent by managing your consent in the Cookie Settings under help section at the bottom of the front page.

We also collaborate with Rakuten for affiliate (influencer) marketing and to drive traffic to our web sites.

Each Advertising Partner is responsible for their part of the processing as controllers, including (if any) transfers of personal data to non-EEA countries.

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfil the intended processing purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks exclusively on our behalf, such as data analytics and marketing content creation. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as Advertising Partners, media agencies and electronic communication providers. Please be aware that many of these recipients have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data as controllers. 

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data with any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
We will obtain your consent before we send you newsletters through e-mail.

We will ask for your prior consent regarding marketing that is based on cookie data or other tracking technologies.

If you're a member, account holder or a subscriber you may hear from us in other channels, such as social media. For this processing we rely on our legitimate interest as business to promote our ads to you.

How to exercise your rights
You have the right to exercise your rights against H&M to such personal data vested in H&M's possession and control.   

Personal data in our possession is data obtained directly from you when shopping with us, creating an account or membership, subscribing on newsletters or when engaging with us by other means online or offline. 

You have, at any time, the right to withdraw your consent for marketing purpose, or object to it if the processing is based on our legitimate interest .

Your consent withdrawal or objection to further marketing communication means a ceasure of all future ads, promotions and other marketing messages originating from the H&M Group, including the underlying processing of personal data for this purpose. 

If you, however, continue to receive marketing communication from us displayed in your social media feed or web browser, this is a matter entirely between you and your platform provider. 

You can revoke your consent or object to further marketing communication by the following means:

* following the instruction in each marketing post
* by editing the settings of your H&M account
* configurate the privacy settings on your social media account or browser, or
* contact Customer Service
* disable your account and/​or membership

How long do we keep your data?
H&M will process your data no longer than necessary to provide you with ads, promotions and other direct marketing messages.

We will cease processing your data for marketing purpose once you have closed your customer account or membership, actively rejecting further marketing communication from us.

Why do we use your personal data?
H&M will use your personal data in order to administrate your H&M account (“My Account”) including the collection of consents, identify and certify the identity of the user of the account, prevent unauthorized access and use, restrict usage by minors, communication of notices and notifications, take actions against misuse of the account, enforce violations of terms of use, and to manage withdrawals of consents.  We will also use your personal data to bring you a personalised online experience and to make your purchase information instantly available to you.  

We will use no more data than necessary for providing you with all the benefits associated with a H&M account. This means that we will only use personal data obtained directly from you when you signed-up for an account. 

In order to make the experience even more relevant to you we may personalise the content before we display it to you based on what we know (or perceive we know) about your interests and preferences. If you as a H&M account holder have signed-up to receive ads and promotions, your promotions and offers will be based on your profile data, shopping and web browsing history subject to your preferences. Personalisation comes through analyzing and predicting aspects concerning your interests, preferences, behavior etc., by making use of a combination of personal data obtained from you or from third parties. 

We may also use personal data received from web cookies, pixels, plug-in or other web tracing technologies for the same objectives.

To find out more about the use of such technology, please read the specific section on Cookies in this Privacy Notice. 

How do we process your personal data?
We use no more data than necessary for providing you with all the benefits that come with a H&M account. This means that we will only use personal data obtained directly from you when you signed-up for it. 

To make it even more relevant to you we personalise the content before we display it to you based on what we know (or perceive we know) about your interests and preferences. Personalisation comes through analyzing and predicting aspects concerning your interests, preferences, behavior etc., by making use of a combination of data derived from previous purchase orders and data retrieved through cookies and other tracing technologies. 

You can read more about Cookies in the specific section of this Privacy Notice. 

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfill the intended processing purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as data analytics and marketing content creation. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as electronic communication providers, for the purpose of sending messages and notifications to you, or to reach out to you for any other reason. Please be aware that many of these recipient third parties have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own names. 

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
The processing of your personal data for your account is based on your consent when you create your H&M account.

The processing of your personal data in order to provide you with a personalised online experience such as product recommendations is based on our legitimate interest to operate our business by offering new products that we think will be of interest to you.

Your right to withdraw your consent:
You have, at any time, the right to terminate your account by withdrawing your consent. If you decide to withdraw your consent all processing of your personal data will immediately cease. You will no longer be able to gain the benefits of being a user of an H&M Account. 

How to withdraw you consent?
You can withdraw your consent either yourself by managing your account settings in My Account or contact our Customer Service at customerservice.ie@hm.com  

How long do we keep your data?
We will use your personal data no longer than necessary for making the account available to you.  

Personal data solely collected and used for the purpose of providing you with a H&M account will be erased upon termination.

We may however continue to keep and use your data if we have outstanding obligations to you or by any other reasons are prevented from erasure, for example if you have an open order or unsettled debt.

Your right to object to processing of your data:
You have the right to object to processing of your personal data that is based on H&M's legitimate interest by contacting dataprotection.ie@hm.com. In some cases that may mean we ask you to delete your account. Your account will then be deleted and we will not be able to carry out our services to you.

Why do we use your personal data?
We use your personal data, such as your Member ID, to create and manage your H&M Membership account and to give you all the granted benefits and rewards. The H&M Membership is as further described in the Terms & Conditions and on our official website.  

We process your personal data to keep your membership account up-to-date and always current. By doing so we will be able to provide you with your shopping history, details about your orders, H&MxKlarna credit and your status as a member

Furthermore, we will use your personal data to serve you with personalized information, ads, promotions, recommendations, rating services etc. Any member will also receive invitations for upcoming events, competitions and customer surveys.  

Purchase order and payment data may be used to detect non-compliance with the H&M Membership Terms & Conditions, and to detect online loss and fraud.

How do we use your personal data?
We will only use personal data obtained directly from you when you signed-up for your membership, combined with information you share with us by using our services. For example when you add a product as your favourite or make a purchase and/or a return or claim. If acts of non-compliance to the H&M Membership Terms & Conditions or suspected fraudulent behaviour is detected, we will use your personal data, such as your email and Member id in order to contact you and take action.

To make the membership even more relevant to you we personalise the content before we display it based on what we know (or perceive we know) about your interests and preferences. Personalisation comes through analyzing and predicting aspects concerning your interests, preferences, behavior etc., by making use of a combination of data derived from previous purchase orders and data retreived through cookies and other tracing technologies.

You can read more about Cookies in the specific section of this Privacy Notice. 

We use e-mail communication to reach out to you but also, where applicable, send notifications to your mobile app, browser and/or through available social media messaging services. Customer Service may also use your telephone number as a means to contact you if needed.

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfill the intended processing purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as data analytics and marketing content creation. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as electronic communication providers, for the purpose of sending messages and notifications to you, or to reach out to you for any other reason. Please be aware that many of these recipient third parties have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own names. 

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
The processing of your personal data to create and manage your membership account and to provide you with the personalised services of the H&M Membership is necessary to fulfil the H&M Membership agreement. 

The use of your personal data to email you offers, style updates, bonus vouchers, birthday offers and special invites to sales and events is based on your consent.

For any other purpose referred to herein, we process your personal data to on the basis of our legitimate interest as a business.

How long do we keep your data?
We keep and continue to process your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations, at the latest until the H&M Membership is terminated.  

You have the right to terminate your membership at any time. If you choose to do so, your membership will cease to exist, and your personal data will be deleted. 

We will keep your personal data for a longer period of time if there are any legal requirements or if there is an ongoing dispute.

Why do we use your personal data?
We will use your personal data to give you service and support and to improve the overall experience of the service, through email, chat function, telephone and social media. In this context we will use your personal data to manage your questions, handle complaints and warranty matters and to provide technical support as well as to improve customer experience. We will also analyze data on an aggregated level to gain insights in customer preferences, expectations and trends etc.

We may also contact you through email, telephone, social media or any other means if there is a problem with your order or request your participation in a customer survey, which is however voluntary.

How do we use your personal data?
We will only use such personal data necessary for providing the service to you in a secure and efficient way. We will use the personal data you provide us with when you contact us, such as contact details, birth date and other necessary information. In order to resolve your case, we may also need to access and use transaction data such as order, payment and delivery information. 

Occasionally, we may co-listen your calls and conversation. This will take place to support training and development of employees, seek opportunities to improve service, only upon suspicion of bad quality of service and for the purpose of technical troubleshooting.

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfil the intended purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as externally operated call centers.

H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers.

We may from time to time also share personal data with third parties, such as electronic communication providers, providers of messaging services, providers who support customer service contacts, and social media platforms for sending notifications or reaching out to you regarding a customer service matter. Please be aware that many of these third party recipients have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own names.

When engaging with us on social media pages, such as Facebook and Instagram pages, all text messages and pictures are shared with us and the named platform provider. You do this according to the platform's terms of use and privacy policy to which you have agreed when you signed-up as a user. H&M assumes no responsibility for the platform provider's processing of your personal data.    

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
In order to provide you with the best possible Customer Service, we must collect and use your personal data. This is justified on our legitimate interest as a business.

Regardless of purpose, we will not record any telephone conversations without your consent.

How long do we keep your data?
We will keep your data for as long as we need to handle your case. We may continue to keep and use your data if we have outstanding obligations to you or by any other reasons are prevented from erasure.

Case logs are stored for a maximum period of one year after closure. 

Your right to object to processing based on legitimate interest:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is based on H&M's legitimate interest by contacting dataprotection.ie@hm.com.

Why do we use your personal data?
We will process your data when you enter our competitions. Your personal data will be used  for H&M to contact contestants regarding the competition, before and after an event, to identity contestants, verify the age of contestants, to contact winners, deliver and follow up on prize deliveries.

What types of personal data do we process?
We will process following categories of personal data 

* contact information such as name, address, e-mail address and telephone number
* age
* information submitted in the contest

Who has access to your personal data?
Data that is forwarded to third parties, is only used to provide you with the services mentioned above, to shipping suppliers for delivery of prizes.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
The processing of your personal data in order to make the competition available to you is based on the agreement, when accepting the terms and conditions for the competition, or on our legitimate interest when there are no specific terms and conditions connected to the competition.

How long do we save your data?
We will keep your personal data for 45 days after the competition has ended.

Why do we use your personal data?
We always want to exceed the expectations of our customers and users. Only with the right offers and by providing the best user and shopping experience, we can stay relevant. For this reason, we may use your personal data to evaluate, develop and improve our products, services, systems, supply chain and store premises.  

This includes analysis to make our services more user-friendly, such as modifying the user interface to simplify the flow of information or to highlight features that are commonly used by our customers in our digital channels and to improve IT systems in order to increase the security for our visitors and customers in general.

The analysis is also used to develop and constantly improve the logistics flow of goods by forecasting purchases, stocks and deliveries as well as our resource capacity from a sustainability point of view by streamlining purchasing and scheduling of deliveries.

In addition we use the data to be able to plan new establishments of stores and warehouses and improve our product range. 

How do we use your personal data?
We will only use personal data for a development and improvement purpose if it is strictly necessary and cannot be achieved with less invasive means. This means that we will protect and secure your data to the extent reasonably possible, for example by appropriate pseudonymiszation and encryption techniques or by data anonymization. 

In no event do we analyse data for development and improvement purposes in such a way that your identity is traceable. 

Any data used for the purpose of development and improvement of products, services and systems etc have usually been collected for different objectives. We may for example use your purchase data and contact information from the check-out to develop new features, functionality, performance and security of the ordering processing systems, and hence improving the overall shopping experience.

Notwithstanding the above, we may reach out to you to respond to enquieries and surveys. In such case, any personal data used and obtained from you will only be processed for the specific purpose described therein.

We may also use personal data received from web cookies, pixels, plug-in or other web tracing technologies for the same objectives.

To find out more about the use of such technology, please read the specific section on Cookies in this Privacy Notice. 

Who has access to your personal data?
Only pseudonymised personal data may be shared within H&M Group whenever sharing is necessary to fulfill the intended processing objectives. For the same reason, personal data may be shared also with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as external web-analytics companies to analyze online behavior, software development or externally hosted development tools. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

We will never use personal data for analytics purposes to identify individuals. All analysis is carried out on an aggregated data level. 

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
The processing of your personal data for the purpose to develop and improve our services and products, is based on our legitimate interest as a business ensuring that they provide the best possible service to their customers.

How long do we keep your personal data?
We will process your personal data no more than necessary for us to fulfill the purpose. Thereafter the data will be immediately erased for this type of use.

Your right to object to the processing of your data:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is based on H&M's legitimate interest, by contacting dataprotection.ie@hm.com.

Who is responsible for the processing of personal data?
The H & M Hennes & Mauritz Ireland Ltd is responsible for the processing of personal data within the scope of Compliance with Laws.

Why do we use your personal data? 
In order to comply with certain legal obligations, we are compelled to process personal data on our customers.  

Such obligations may vary from country to country stipulated in for example tax and accounting legislation or applicable consumer protection legislation.

How do we process your personal data?
We use your personal data to collect and verify accounting data to comply with our obligations. For this purpose we may keep your name, contact details, order history and other relevant transactional information. 

Which categories of personal data we must process depends on its purpose and is generally stipulated by applicable laws.

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfill the intended purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as provider of book-keeping systems or information storage.

We may from time to time also share personal data with independent third parties, such as external accountants, book-keeping services and competent public authorities. Please be aware that many of these third party recipients have an independent right or obligation to process your personal data in their own names.

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
The processing of your personal data is necessary for H&M to fulfill its legal obligations of the country of operation.

How long do we keep your personal data?
The data retention time will vary depending on the purpose, context and specific local legal requirements.

Why do we use your personal data?
In order to protect our customers, users, visitors, assets and business against violence, fraud, theft, misuse and other malicious activities, H&M has put in place a range of different security and safety measures. Some of these measures will require collection and processing of personal data. 

How do we use your data?
How we process your data and what personal data we use differs from application and field of use. We may for instance use your order history, payment data and shopping behaviour to detect online loss or fraud.

We may use personal data received from web cookies, pixels, plug-in or other web tracing technologies for the same objectives.

You can read more about Cookies in the specific section  of this Privacy Notice. 

In many of our stores we use surveillance cameras to detect and prevent thefts, fraud and enhance the security and safety of visitors and staff.  

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfill the intended purpose. 

We may share your personal data also with third parties for security and safety purposes. For example, we will share your data with companies that help us detect and prevent potential fraud and thefts. 

We may share relevant information with insurance companies for claim handling and to law enforcement agencies in so far as we are compelled to do so by legal obligation. 

Such thrid party recipients have an independent right and/or duty to process your personal data in their own interest or by a legal obligation. 

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
Unless there is a specific legal obligation, the processing of your personal data for security and safety purposes is based on our legitimate interest of ensuring our business, staff and customers are safe. 

How long do we use and keep your personal data?
We will keep your personal data no more than necessary for each purpose.

We will keep images from our surveillance cameras for a maximum period of 30 days, unless we are obliged by law or public authority to keep and/or process data for a longer period.

Your right to object to the processing of your data:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is based on H&M's legitimate interest by contacting dataprotection.ie@hm.com.

Why do we use cookies?
The H&M Group uses cookies and other tracking technologies to give you the full functionality of the website, to customize your user experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our websites, apps and newsletters across internet and via social media platforms.

Who is responsible for cookies?
H & M Hennes & Mauritz GBC AB and the named publisher, listed in the cookie subgroup below, are both responsible for setting cookies on your device when you access any of our official websites and for the access and collection of data from the same device. 

What is a cookie?
A "cookie" is a small text file that is downloaded onto your device such as computer or smartphone when you access our websites. 

We use cookies and other similar technologies in order to make our website work efficiently and secure and to improve personalised user experience. 

When referring to cookies we include:
first- and third party cookies, 
tracking pixels and plug-ins, including technologies those from third party publishers,
other tracing technologies.

All cookies have a publisher which tells you who the cookie belongs to. The publisher is the owner of the domain specified in the cookie. Whenever you visit our website, we place cookies onto your device for different reasons. Such cookies are called “first-party” cookies, whereas cookies set by a third-party company, such as a social media platforms or ad network/ad tech providers, are called “third party” cookies.

Below you will find more detailed information about our cookies and the reason for using them.

How to withdraw your cookie consent?
You can at anytime disable your non-essential cookie by withdrawing your consent. You manage your cookie consents in Cookie Settings at the bottom of this website.

In addition to your consent withdrawal, you can easily stop your browser from accepting cookies by configuring your browser’s cookie settings.

All commercial web browsers are featured with cookie management functionality.

Please check your web browser to find out more how to delete or disable cookies etc.

If you choose to disable cookies, you may face limitation on functionality and a deteriorated user experience.  

What types of cookies do we use and why?

Why do we use your personal data?
We want to share and inspire you and others about different ways of wearing our products and to give you the chance to show the world your cool style.  

H&MxMe  is a service created for you and your audience and a platform for customer engaged marketing. 

To read more about the HMxMe terms of use click here.

How do we use your personal data?
Photos and/or videos of yourself are regarded as personal data. Such personal data will be published on our official website, and/or on our social media pages and other promotional channels. To be able to do this we need your photo and/or video and in return we will link your photo to your Instagram account. 

Who has access to your personal data?
We may share your personal data within the H&M Group whenever necessary to fulfill the intended processing purpose. For the same reason, personal data is also shared with suppliers carrying out certain tasks on our behalf, such as IT, data analytics and media agencies. H&M is always fully responsible for its suppliers. 

Please note, by hash-tagging your picture or video clip you voluntarily share the content and other personal data with Instagram or other social media platforms. This relationship is outside of H&M's control and a matter between you and the social media service provider.  

Except as explicitly stated herein, we never pass on, sell or swap your data to any third parties.

On what legal grounds may we process your personal data?
We will collect, use and share your username, photos and/or videos to the extent necessary for us to perform the service and meet your expectations when using HMxME and other user generated content services.

How long do we keep your data?
We will keep your username and generated content for 24 months  from the date of posting.

If you want to remove Photos or Moving Content, please visit the Photo or the Moving Content were its placed on hm.com and press "report photo" or contact customer service.

Why do we use your personal data?
When you connect to our free WiFi service we will collect personal data from your device (MAC address) in order to be able to provide the WiFi service to you. When login and use the WiFi service we will also use your personal data to verify your compliance with the Terms & Conditions of the service. We might also by using anonymization techniques, turn personal data into anonymized (non-personal data) for statistical purpose.

Anonymized personal data might be used for the purpose of creating statistics on movements, behaviors and flows in our store premise. Statistics will help us gain better insights on how to operate our stores in a more efficient way by e.g. optimized assortment, floor space and staff utilization. Any data used for this purpose is anonymized and not retraceable to you as an individual.

What types of personal data do we process?
When connect to the WiFi service, we will collect the MAC-address (Media Access Control Address) a unique identifier assigned to your device and related information referring to device hostname,  geographic location and time. 

Who has access to your personal data?
We may use third parties when providing the WiFi services to you, for this reason we share personal data with such third parties. We also share data with an internet service provider when granting you access to the internet via the WiFi service. When creating statistics out of anonymized data we may also share this with other companies of the H&M Group.

What is the legal ground to process your personal data?
When you connect to our free WiFi service, you permit us to collect and use your personal data necessary to provide the requested WiFi service (fulfillment of a contract) and, by using anonymization techniques, turn personal data into anonymized (non-personal data) for statistical purpose (legitimate interest).

How long do we save your data?
We will keep your personal data as long as necessary for us to provide the WiFi service in accordance with the agreed Terms & Conditions and to ensure your compliance with these. The retention period will be up to 14 months from when you last connected to the WiFi network.

Personal data used for statistical purpose is anonymized by technical means after collection. Once your data is anonymized, your personal data is irreversibly erased.  

The H&M Group is committed to deliver an outstanding customer experience - at all levels, at all markets. For this reason we engage with a variety of suppliers and business partners, each having its unique business and operating model.

A call for action is required whenever the H&M Group decides to process data, or let someone else do it for us, in a country outside of the EEA. To ensure that our promises and your statutory rights are not compromised, every supplier and partner to the H&M Group undergoes a careful scrutiny of privacy and security capabilities. There is always a Data Processing Agreement in place between the responsible H&M company and the processor of personal data.

Some suppliers and partners process personal data in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) either as data controllers or processors. In order to ensure a level of protection similar to what is guaranteed in the EEA and a lawful processing, the H&M Group relies on the European Comission's Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to recipients in countries outside of the EEA. And whenever appropriate, we implement additional safeguard measures, such as encryption, pseudonymisation and strict access controls. 

The table below lists the most essential third party organisations to whom H&M transmits or otherwise make available personal data for processing.

This Privacy Notice was last updated: 
22/4/2022

Effectuated Changes to previous version

The section "H&M Membership" has been updated with new information on the processing of personal data in order to detect non-compliance with the H&M Membership Terms & Conditions, and to detect online losses and fraud.

Previous changes:
20/4/2022
3/11/2021 
9/6/2021 
25/3/2021 
18/2/2021