Privacy Policy | Gamepark Wood

Gamepark Holiday Cottage (we) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Purpose of this policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Gamepark Wood Holiday Cottage collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website (regardless of where you visit it from), including any data you may provide through this website when you make a booking enquiry or place a booking with us.

You may contact us if you have any questions in relation to our data privacy practices or this privacy policy.

Please contact us by email at gameparkwood@gmail.com.

We will keep our privacy policy under regular review and any future changes will be posted on this page and where appropriate notified to you by email.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-party links

Where this privacy notice is published on our website, please note that our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

The information we may collect about you

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, occupation and gender.

Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.

Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of bookings you have made with us.

Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Experience & Preferences Data includes details of your experience in booking with us or staying at our properties, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a booking you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

make a booking enquiry;
place a booking;
cancel your booking;
request marketing to be sent to you; or
give us feedback or contact us.

Interactions with the lead person in your party. Your Identity and Contact details may be given to us by the lead person in your party (i.e. the person that placed the booking) as part of a list of the persons staying at our property.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.

To facilitate online bookings we use cookies provided by Supercontrol.

We use Google Analytics, which uses a variety of cookies. These are used to track visitors and collect information about how visitors use our site.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data may be collected from or shared with providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data include;

To register you as a new customer or guest
Performance of a contract with you
To process your booking or cancellation
To process your details as part of a party staying at any of our properties
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to manage our properties and to protect our rights)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

Marketing

You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or made a booking with us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing messages sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of you making a booking with us

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of your personal data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out above.

Service providers acting as processors based within the UK and/or the EEA who provide IT and system administration services or booking systems.

HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International transfers

If we transfer your personal data out of the UK and/or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission or by the UK Information Commissioner.

Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK or Europe.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for legal and/or tax purposes.

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data privacy issues (www.ico.org.uk) if you feel we have not protected your data properly. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.