Privacy Policy

Rural Gites respects and wishes to protect the privacy of its users of its services and the services of its advertisers. This sets out the details of our privacy policy in relation to information collection on our website.

This document lets you know:

  • When we collect information from you when you use this site

  • Who exactly collects that information

  • How that information is used and by whom

  • Your rights in relation to this information

How this policy may change and how we will notify you of any changes, and how to contact us if you have any queries about this policy. If you have any comments on our privacy policy as set out in this text, please contact us using the following email address: info@ruralgites.com

When and how do we collect data from you?


We collect data from you:

  • When you book on any of our courses

  • When you create and submit an email to Rural Gites

  • When you book a gite via the website

  • Via data capture devices using cookies and studying which items you have visited most frequently

What data is collected?


The data we collect may be personal data and may include your name, postal address and email address.

Cookies and system logging:

We may obtain information about your general usage of our website by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information which is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:

  • estimate our audience size and usage pattern

  • store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests

  • speed up your searches

  • recognise when you return to our website

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser (see Help within your browser for details) or for more cookie information, visit allaboutcookies.org

Who collects the information?

Rural Gites collects the information and we hold valid notifications under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2016.

Any personally identifiable information that is required to use the website is owned solely by us. We do not share, sell or rent your information to any other person, company or organisation in any way other than is disclosed in this document or as stated at the point where the information is collected. 

Consent:

By disclosing personal information to us you consent to the collection, storage and processing of information in the manner described in this policy.

How is the information used and by whom?

From time to time, we may also forward a newsletter to your email address. This would contain information on new features, events and services in relation to our gites. You have the right to 'opt-out' of your information being used for purposes not directly related to the gites. For further details of this right, please see 'Your rights in relation to this information' below.

What security measures do we have in place to protect this information?

Our security procedures for storing and disclosing customer details conform with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2016 so as to prevent unauthorised access to it.  The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of owners and operators of these sites. We therefore recommend that you read the privacy statements and policies on each site to which you are asked to submit personal information.

Your rights in relation to this information:

If you decide that you no longer wish to receive newsletters, promotional and marketing emails you should email info@ruralgites.com with instructions for us to delete your address data from our records.

Policy change:

Please note that we reserve the right to change this policy at any time in the future, with or without notice. Should we decide to change the policy, we will post notification of the changes on this page. 

Questions:

If you have any questions about this document or our procedures, please contact us at info@ruralgites.com

Privacy Policy Statement:

if you use this site to send an email to us, you become a 'customer' and your details are used to respond to your request. The details supplied by you are also added to Rural Gites customer database and will be used for marketing purposes by Rural Gites. You always have the right to correct or remove your details. To do this you can contact Rural Gites by sending an email to info@ruralgites.com

Rural Gites will not sell your details to other companies and will only disclose them to selected suppliers we engage to process data or provide mailing, marketing or research services on our behalf. 

If you do not supply us with personal details, by example using the site to send an email, you are using our site anonymouysly as a visitor. Rural Gites is not interested in the identity of visitors to our site. However, Rural Gites is interested in information that tells us about the use of our site, such as: how many visitors we get, from which countries the site visited, which pages or items are visited, and which are the busy times. We also keep up to date with the type of browser people use when visiting our site so we can change this site to meet the needs of visitors' hardware and software.