Herisson, Allier
Gite de L’ancien College understands the importance of privacy to our guests. We are committed to protecting any personally identifiable information we hold, and fulfilling our obligations under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK Data Protection Act (UK DPA) and other applicable data protection and privacy legislation.
This Privacy Policy describes what personal information we collect, how and why we use this information, and the safeguards we put in place to protect personal data. It also describes the options we provide for you to access, update or request erasure of the information we hold about you.
We believe in minimizing the data we collect to only that which is necessary for taking and managing bookings, and the use of our website.
Personal data that we collect includes:
Personal data that you provide is only accessed by the proprietors of Gite de L’ancien College and the third-party booking platform which you use to make your booking (Gîtes de France or booking.com).
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties or share your information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
We may, at our sole discretion, disclose your personal data to meet legal obligations or respond to any valid government or regulatory request; prevent or mitigate fraud; protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of our staff, guests, and/or the wider community; or to prevent or stop any activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information has been collected, and thereafter for as long as retention serves our legitimate interest, legal or business purposes. This might include retaining personal data:
Personal data held is regularly reviewed to ensure its continued accuracy and necessity to our purposes. Inaccurate or redundant data is updated or deleted as appropriate.
Your personal data will only be stored and processed within the United Kingdom, France, the EEA, and outside of the EEA in countries deemed by the European Commission to be providing adequate protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in connection with the processing of personal data (‘adequate jurisdictions’) or to third party companies (eg Google) that are signatories to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield ensures data is protected to the same standards as used within the EEA.
We implement all necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure personal data you provide to us is held and treated securely, and to mitigate the risk or loss, misuse or alteration of this data.
Gite de L’ancien College’s website uses cookies, which are strings of information placed on your device that your device provides to the website or application each time you return. We use two types of cookies within our website: functionality cookies and performance cookies.
We use functionality cookies to identify and track your usage and website access preferences. Information collected may include the pages you visit, your interactions with features, functionality, content and links, your language preferences, the operating system and web browser you use, and your network and IP information.
We use performance cookies in order to gather anonymous data that helps us improve our services. Performance cookies are generally placed by third party analytics companies (e.g. Google Analytics) who gather this data on our behalf. Data gathered through third party performance cookies does not contain any personally identifiable information.
If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your browser, or wish to delete your existing cookies, you can do this from your browser preferences. You should be aware that if you delete or disallow cookies, many websites will not work properly and you will lose some functionality.
Under the GDPR and UK DPA, you have the following rights in respect of your personal data:
If you wish to request access to, rectification or erasure of personal data we hold about you, or you wish to raise an objection to our processing activities, you can do so at any time by contacting us via the methods below.
Telephone: 07836 332200
Email: simon@gunns.org
Requests for erasure of personal data will only be honoured to the extent that it is no longer necessary for us to hold in order to provide services to you, or meet our legal and contractual record keeping requirements. We reserve the right to refuse to change or erase data if doing so would violate any law or legal requirement, or cause the information to be incorrect. In the event that we refuse a request made by you, we will provide you with a reason why, which you have the right to legally challenge.
You also have the right to make a complaint about our processing activities with the supervisory authority responsible for the protection of personal data in the country where you live, or in which you think a breach of data protection laws might have taken place.
The majority of our processing activities take place in the United Kingdom, and so our lead supervisory authorities is the Information Commissioner’s Office.You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office by calling +44 1625 545 700, or emailing casework@ico.co.uk.
If you have questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, the personal data we collect and hold, or the purposes for which this data is used, you may contact us by emailing simon@gunns.org.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, the updated version will be made available via our website, at www.hedgehoghall.fr. The version number and date that this policy was last revised is included at the top of the page.
