Privacy Policy

Effective from 24^th February 2024

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Welcome to Website4Bookings. This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.

This Policy is updated from time to time, in compliance with the GDPR, so please review this Policy regularly while using our services.

1. INTRODUCTION

Our Privacy Policy applies to websiteforbookings.com, explaining how we process your data, your privacy rights, and GDPR compliance. Links provided from our site are not covered by this policy; please see the section on third-party links below.

2. OUR WEBSITE

Website4Bookings promotes marketing products and services for accommodation providers. ‘Website4Bookings’ or ‘we’ refers to the company, while ‘you’ refers to users of our website.

3. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data/information means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It doesn’t include data where the identity has been removed (also known as anonymous data). The data this website collects falls into the following categories:

Contact Data

This includes your full name, home address, phone number and other personal information you have provided.

Contact Email Address

This includes your email address, collected when you sign up to our email newsletter for marketing purposes.

4. TECHNICAL DATA

This includes your IP address, your browser type and version, time-zone setting and location, operating system (OS) and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. This is done through third party technology in the form of Google Analytics and certain WordPress plugins, in order to monitor your behaviour on our website, and also to monitor and detect malicious browsing activity.

5. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use a few different methods to collect data from and about you, through both direct interactions with our website, and through third parties.

Direct interactions include the personal data you provide when you:

• make an enquiry through our website
• contact us via email
• engage with us through our social media channels

6. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal data to communicate with you, to update you on our website content and benefits, to better understand who uses the website and the pages they visit in order to be able to improve the website, and to help understand your requirements and interests.

We use your personal data to provide a better service, through responding to enquiries sent through the website or contact information, replying to you in order to send requested information or marketing material, or following up a request for more information.

We’ll continue to use your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, we may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

7. YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

Under the GDPR laws your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;

• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data. We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR, and you can find out how to contact us below.

8. COOKIES

We use cookies for a better user experience, tracking website usage, displaying messages, maintaining logins, and showing relevant content. Some are essential for full functionality. Our ‘implied consent’ assumes your approval, but you can manage cookies or use browser privacy settings.

Google Analytics gathers visitor behavior data without storing personal information, such as which pages you visited, how long you spent on our site, how you found us, and basic device details.

9. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Browsing behaviour and location data may be shared with third parties connected to analytics and social media. Please refer to https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ for detailed cookie guidance.

10. DATA SECURITY

We ensure GDPR-compliant security for personal information, utilizing secure storage technologies and precise access procedures. Our measures help to prevent accidental loss, unauthorized access, and disclosure.

Access to data is limited to those with a business need, subject to confidentiality, and third parties process data only on our instructions. Procedures are in place to address suspected data breaches, with timely notification to you and regulators as legally required.

11. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our website includes links to third-party websites and services, for example when we reference sources in our blog posts, or links to social media profiles. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them when visiting an external website.

We do not control these third-party websites and we are not responsible for their content or privacy statements. When you leave our website, please check the privacy policy of every website you visit as the information collected will vary.

12. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you do have any questions or queries about our privacy policy after reading through it, or you’d like to exercise any of your rights in line with the GDPR, please email us and we’ll be more than happy to assist.

13. TRADEMARKS

All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.