Select Cornwall Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and will not share your details with anyone else.

1. Information you provide

In order to use some of the services provided on our Web site you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (such as your name, address, email address etc) when booking your holiday cottage or accommodation.

2. Information we collect

Select Cornwall record data on user behaviour so that we can maintain, protect and enhance our Web site and monitor the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. We use Google Analytics to analyse some aspects of our Web site and in doing this we share certain non-personal usage data with Google. This shared usage data does not identify you individually and is maintained in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy.

3. Payment security

We provide an on-line booking service that allows you to pay for your holiday cottage or accommodation by submitting your credit or debit card details. We are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security.

Whenever we ask for credit card details these are encrypted before transmission. An Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate from Verisign shows that the transaction is encrypted and that Select Cornwall have been authenticated according to the most rigorous industry standard.

Select Cornwall do not store or process credit card details on any of our systems; instead we use Sage Pay, a secure online payment gateway to process these payments on our behalf. Sage Pay (formerly known as Protx) have achieved the highest level of compliance under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and adhere to the most stringent levels of fraud screening, ensuring that card details remain secure throughout the transaction process.

4. Logged information

When you request any page on the Select Cornwall Web site you send certain information in accordance with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to our Web server. This data includes the unique IP Address allotted to your computer and the nature of the data requested. Select Cornwall retain this data in log files and use it to study the performance of our Web site and aggregated user behaviour. We do not routinely use the IP Address for any purpose but we retain the right to do so in identifying the origin of any unusual activity on our Web site.

5. Managing cookies

During the course of any visit to the Select Cornwall Website one or more small files (called cookies) may be downloaded to your computer that can be used to identify your browser between visits and record how you first arrived at our site. Should you choose to create a shortlist of holiday cottages or accommodation, a cookie is used to remember this list for future visits.

Most browsers provide the facility to view and delete cookies. You can also elect to be warned when a cookie is being created and even decline to accept cookies altogether.

6. Use and storage of personal information

When you supply any personal information to Select Cornwall we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass it on to anyone else.

Information you provide to Select Cornwall will only be made available to those involved in supplying your holiday. This includes our Booking Office staff, and the Owner or Housekeeper of your chosen property. We will never supply your information to anyone else without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged by law to disclose it.

Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to Select Cornwall, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Select Cornwall, and Select Cornwall considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Select Cornwall can use any information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may include informing relevant third parties, such as your employer, school or service provider about the content and your behaviour.

Personal information you provide in registering for a service will only be used by Select Cornwall in the provision of that service or to inform you about other Select Cornwall services that may be of interest. In any email communication that is not essential to the provision of the requested service we will always provide the option to unsubscribe.

We will normally hold your personal information on our systems until such time as we deem it no longer commercially viable. We delete all data on you at your request provided that there is no outstanding action on any holiday cottage booking. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Access to your data is restricted to Select Cornwall authorised personnel and our servers are housed in a secure environment. Our internal computer network is protected by a firewall and backups are stored in a safe.

7. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that Select Cornwall holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to: Data Protection Officer, Hendra Paul Farm, Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 4JL.

8. Users under 18 years of age

Users under the age of 18 are not permitted to rent a holiday cottage and personal details cannot be provided for this purpose. Any user under 18 years of age requesting a brochure must have their parents'/guardians' consent to use the Select Cornwall Web site. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. Links to other Web sites

This site contains links to other Web sites. Select Cornwall is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such Web sites. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you visit by linking from our Web site.

10. Notification of changes

This Privacy Policy Statement may be revised over time as new features are added to www.selectcornwall.co.uk or as internet security and privacy standards evolve. We will post notification of any changes prominently. We published this version of our privacy policy on the 9th Setember 2009.

11. Acceptance of these terms

By using this site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the Select Cornwall's Privacy Policy Statement. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the www.selectcornwall.co.uk site and exit the site immediately. Your continued use of the www.selectcornwall.co.uk site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.