​Ensuring the privacy and security of your personal information is very important to us at Park View Holiday Cottage.

Amanda Barkess will be what is known as the ‘controller’ of the personal data you provide to us.

Our Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect about you, how we use, disclose and otherwise manage this information and the choices you have to restrict our usage of this information. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with such legislation as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

Unless otherwise agreed with you, we will only collect basic personal data about you, which does not include any special categories of personal information about you (often known as ‘sensitive personal data’ such as sexual orientation, race or other similar information).

We will collect your personal data from one of the following ways:​

• ​When you contact us (via phone, email, our website or via any 3rd party website) to make an enquiry about Park View
• When you make a booking with us (via phone, email, our website or via any 3rd party website)
• When you sign up to our marketing communications through our website or any other marketing channels

We use personal information to conduct business, provide information and support for products and services, better understand your needs, refine and develop our business, improve services, personalise communications and ensure the best quality service experience.

We need to know basic personal data in order to provide you with the service you have engaged us to provide. We will ask questions relevant to us making a booking and understanding your needs as a customer of Park View.

We will use your personal information to make your Booking Agreement with Park View. The minimum personal information required to make a booking with Park View is your email address, phone number, full name and full postal address. 

​If you do not provide this personal information, then we will be unable to provide the services you have requested. We will not collect any personal data from you that we do not need in order to provide and oversee the services we have agreed to provide with you.

The information we collect is for Park View and we do not release your information to third parties.

In addition to personal information, we store transaction history for bookings you have made with us. We do not retain information relating to credit or debit cards. We use third party Bookalet and Stripe for secure payments for online transactions.

​We will only email you with our newsletters and marketing offers if you have given us your consent to do so. You will always have the option not to be included and to remove yourself from our mailing lists.

All the personal information we hold about you will be processed by us in the United Kingdom and no third parties will have access to your personal data unless there is a legal obligation for us to provide them with this or a necessity to carry out the services which you have engaged us to provide.

For the purposes of making a booking Park View use Bookalet

For the purposes of the prevention or detection of offences, and/or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, we may share any information that we collect with the Police, other public or private sector agencies or representative bodies in accordance with the relevant legislation. Information shared in this way will not be used for marketing purposes.

We will generally keep your personal data for a minimum of 7 years, after which time it will be destroyed if it is no longer required for the lawful purpose(s) for which it was obtained. If you consent to marketing, any information we use for this purpose will be kept with us until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information. 

We do not collect any personal information from visitors to our website other than information that is knowingly and voluntarily given. Anonymous information is collected, such as the number of visitors to the website in a given period. This is purely statistical and cannot be used to identify an individual user.

Our website may include links to third party websites over which we have no control. These websites should have their own privacy policies which we recommend you review. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for third party websites.

We have a Ring door bell at the front door and Ring security camera overlooking the back garden. Both cameras are deactivated when guests arrive and no recordings made for the duration of the holiday letting.

We do not retain any information relating to credit or debit cards at all. 

If at any point you wish to see the information we hold about you, if you wish to stop receiving our marketing or wish for us to delete your information then there are a number of things you can do:

We will provide all Personal Information that we have on You within 2 weeks. If you believe that any information we are holding is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect. Where we are aware of a data breach, we will inform the Information Commissioner's Office within 72 hours of first having become aware of the breach where that breach is likely to result in a risk to individuals Personal Data. We will notify you without undue delay after first becoming aware of a data breach.