Privacy

Data Protection Policy

  • As a portal for self catering holiday cottages WE DO NOT TAKE ORDERS OR PAYMENT DIRECTLY. We put you in touch with individual owners ("advertisers") who process your bookings and take payment directly. Your contract is directly with the individual owners ("advertisers") and not Snowdonia Country Cottages.
  • We are committed to protecting your privacy.This is our Privacy Notice and it explains how we collect, use, share and protect your personal data. We only collect information about you if you register for promotional deals or you provide it to us on our enquiry form. The information we collect is your name, email address. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with GDPR 2018). We also collect website usage information and do this using “cookies”. For further information about cookies and how we use them please see our Cookie Policy below.
  • We will not send you unsolicited emails unless you have given us your express consent to contact you.
  • Your personal details will not be sold, exchanged, transferred or given to any third party whatsoever. We may disclose your personal data without your permission in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
  • Any marketing or promotional emails you have elected to receive from us will have an option to unsubscribe in accordance with Direct Marketing regulations..
  • You can check the information that we hold about you by contacting us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly. You have the right to ask us at any time:-
    -to confirm we hold any of your personal data
    -to send you a copy of any personal data that we hold about you
    -to correct any inaccuracies in your personal data and to add relevant details where the personal data we hold is incomplete
    -to delete or stop processing any of your personal data, where we are required by law to do so
    -to let you have a portable copy of the personal data we hold about you, where we are required by law to do so
    -to stop sending you marketing material. However please note that we may continue to send you service related (i.e. non-marketing) communications
  • The personal information that we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law. If you have any questions/comments about privacy, please contact us. If you are dissatisfied with our handling of any complaint you also have the right to raise concerns with The UK Information Commissioner: https://ico.org.uk

Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies...

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately is most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

This site offers online booking or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.