Code of Conduct - Camping & Touring & Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions
Booking Confirmation
Following your booking and confirmed deposit payment you will receive a receipt confirming your payment. Deposits are non-refundable and may only be transferred at the parks discretion. Please bring your booking receipt when checking in at reception. All booking balances must be paid on arrival.
Conditions of Booking
We reserve the right to decline or terminate the booking of any guest(s) whose party make-up or behaviour interferes or may interfere with the general comfort of other guests. In this event no refunds will be made. Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park & its facilities are intended for family holidays. We are therefore sorry that we cannot accept any parties of single people, unless by prior agreement with us directly.
Arrival & Departure time
Your pitch should be available from 12:30 on the day of arrival, latest check in time is 7pm.
Your pitch should be vacated and clear by no later than 11am on the day of departure.
Due to the current trend for larger tents, awnings, motorhomes and caravans, anyone arriving with a unit ( including all guy ropes and additional pup tents and gazebos ) that will not fit within the pitching area may be asked to leave or move pitch ( if available ).
Any request for a specific area of the site when booking cannot be guaranteed, especially during the peak time of school holidays, we reserve the right to alter pitches to accommodate, this will only be done in extreme circumstances.
Once you have arrived on site no refunds can be given if, for any reason, you decide to leave before the confirmed departure date.
Children
Children remain the responsibility of their parents or guardians at all times. It is particularly important that you always know where your children are, and that you provide adequate supervision for them at all times.
Holiday Amendments & Cancellations
Changes to your holiday during your stay
We cannot accept responsibility or compensation for circumstances beyond our control including (but not limited to) industrial disputes, natural disasters, fire, technical problems, bad weather and acts of government.
Amendments to your booking
After you have paid your Deposit you may wish to change some elements of the Holiday, e.g. type of accommodation or duration. We will try to meet your request. It may be necessary to cancel your break due to illness, accident or change of circumstances. We cannot guarantee a full refund, however we will endeavour to come to an arrangement. Failure to arrive without satisfactory explanation or written cancellation will not be entitled to a transfer of stay. Bookings may not be able to be amended within 28 days of arrival, we recommend purchasing holiday insurance, to help for those unforeseen events.
If we make any major alterations to your booking
We try very hard to provide all facilities as advertised on our website. It may however be necessary to make some alterations in advance of your holiday. If such a change is necessary, we will endeavour to advise you via email as soon as possible.
If we cancel your booking
We always endeavour not to change the date or cancel your booking, but in exceptional circumstances this may be necessary. We will inform you of the change of date or cancellation as soon as possible and give you the following options.
A. accept the alternative arrangements as notified to you
B. choose another available break from us at the advertised price
C. cancel your holiday with a full refund of any money you have paid
Rules and Regulations
The person completing the booking is responsible for the conduct of their party, It is your responsibility to read the rules & regulations and abide by the rules therein. Not reading the rules is not an excuse for infringement. It is your responsibility to ensure that all members of your party accept the terms of the contract set out in these terms and conditions of booking. Failure to disclose all relevant information or comply with these terms may lead to termination of the contract and loss of the booking without refund. Parc Ynysymaengwyn Cyf reserves the right to ban individuals from future use of the park.
The Park reserves the right to refuse entry to the site. Your annual/seasonal pitch agreement allows owners to keep their holiday home on the park, in exchange for paying the pitch fee. It does not guarantee that the park will remain open or that owners will be able to use their holiday home at any particular time, especially in the event of a public health emergency such as where the government has ordered entire industries to shut down. The Pitch Fee helps us to run the Park all year round. You will see some of our work when you are using your Caravan. Other work may be done when you are not here, including when the Park is closed.
Exceptionally, a change in relevant laws and regulatory requirements may temporarily prevent you from using your caravan (“Exceptional Park Closure”). Such circumstances may also prevent us allowing you to use some of the Pitch Services, or the Park Services.
The Pitch Fee will remain due throughout any such time. This reflects the long-term commitments we have. We will still be complying with our obligation to allow you to keep the Caravan on the Pitch. We will still be committed to allowing you to use it for holiday and recreational purposes when circumstances allow, to supplying the Pitch and Park Services when we are able and to insuring and maintaining the common parts of the Park.
Liability
Anyone defacing or causing damage to any buildings, equipment or property of the park faces immediate eviction and prosecution. The pitch hirer will be responsible for and charged for any damage /loss caused by themselves or their visitors to the pitch or to any park facility or other resident’s property. Your personal belongings, vehicles, vans and their accessories and contents are left at your own risk. Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park or its staff will not be liable for the loss, theft or damage of any property nor for any injury, accident or mishap to any person in the park. Customers must ensure that their property is secured and fully insured for any unforeseen eventuality.
Data Protection
The information taken at time of booking is required to be collected for the purposes of processing your reservation at Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park. We may process your data to keep you informed of our activities and to keep you updated with news, offers and other information that may be of interest to you.
* Speed Limit 5mph exists on site at all times.
* Radios, Tv's, voices must be volumed down so that no annoyance is caused to other guests.
* The movements of traffic between midnight and 7am should be kept to an absolute minimum
* Noise levels should be kept down after 11pm.
* Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times.
* 6 Meters must be kept between all units.
* Please raise your disposable BBQ's off the ground so as not to scorch the grass.
* Plots should be vacated or re-booked by 12.30pm. Please produce your receipt upon request.
* We cannot give refunds.
* Strictly NO OPEN FIRES.
* A Laundry is available for your use on the static site, please ask for tokens and key fob.
The Laundry is open between the hours of 9am - 8pm.
* The electric hook-up supply is 16 amps.
* The Office opening hours are 9am - 11am and 5pm - 7pm
Outside these hours, provided you have a confirmed booking, you may proceed onto the park and report to the
office during the above times.
* The Park operates a zero tolerance policy to abusive, aggressive, troublesome behavior to the management or
other customers.
* The Management holds the right to ask anyone who is breaking the above terms to leave the park.
* NO BOATS OR JETS SKI'S
PRIVACY NOTICE INTRODUCTION
Welcome to our privacy notice.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information, which we call “personal data”. This privacy notice will tell you how we look after your personal data and about your privacy rights. It supplements any other notices and is not intended to override them.
We have tried to be brief and clear. We are happy to provide any additional information or explanation.
WHO WE ARE
Data Controller (Park Owner)
Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park
Name or title of Data Protection Manager:
Rita Blunden
Address: Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park, The Lodge, Tywyn, Gwynedd LL36 9RY
Telephone: (01654) 710684
Mobile:
Email: [email protected]
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk). We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns first.
CHANGES
This version was last updated on 24/05/2018 .
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed of any changes.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You may give us data orally or by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, for example when you:
enter into a contract with us or contact us about doing so;
contact us about any contract we have with you;
request marketing to be sent to you;
give us some feedback.
We may also receive personal data about you from third parties and public sources, including other customers when they interact with us.
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.
We have set out below how and why we plan to use your personal data.
Purpose/Activity
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you with our business Performance of a contract with you
To perform any contract with you including:
(a) Managing payments, fees and charges
(b) Collecting and recovering money owed to us
(c) Addressing any breach
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to ensure compliance with contract terms)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Notifying you about changes to our business which are relevant to you
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how people use our business)
To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop and grow our business)
OTHER MARKETING
We will get your express opt-in consent before we use your personal data for any other marketing purpose or share it with any third party for marketing purposes.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
However, if we need to use your personal data for a new purpose and the law allows us to do so, we will notify you and explain the legal basis for our actions.
VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE
If we want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this.
When someone visits our website, we may use a third-party service to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
IF YOU CONTACT US VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
We use a third-party provider to manage our social media accounts. They will store your messages as follows:
Name of provider Facebook
Retention period for messages
We do not hold messages for over a week.
IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA
If you do not provide personal data to us and this would prevent us from performing the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you, or place us in breach of the law, we may have to cancel our contract. We will notify you if this is the case.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with third parties to help us run our business or carry out our obligations to you:
Name Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Service providers for IT and system administration
Performance of a contract with you.
Necessary for our legitimate interests (performing the contract, using your data as we have described in this notice).
Our professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, accountants. Necessary for our legitimate interests (complying with our legal obligations).
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities
Necessary for our legitimate interests (complying with our legal obligations).
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
HOW LONG WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
You can ask us about the retention periods for different aspects of your personal data by contacting our DPM.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
No fee usually required You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Booking Confirmation
Following your booking and confirmed deposit payment you will receive a receipt confirming your payment. Deposits are non-refundable and may only be transferred at the parks discretion. Please bring your booking receipt when checking in at reception. All booking balances must be paid on arrival.
Conditions of Booking
We reserve the right to decline or terminate the booking of any guest(s) whose party make-up or behaviour interferes or may interfere with the general comfort of other guests. In this event no refunds will be made. Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park & its facilities are intended for family holidays. We are therefore sorry that we cannot accept any parties of single people, unless by prior agreement with us directly.
Arrival & Departure time
Your pitch should be available from 12:30 on the day of arrival, latest check in time is 7pm.
Your pitch should be vacated and clear by no later than 11am on the day of departure.
Due to the current trend for larger tents, awnings, motorhomes and caravans, anyone arriving with a unit ( including all guy ropes and additional pup tents and gazebos ) that will not fit within the pitching area may be asked to leave or move pitch ( if available ).
Any request for a specific area of the site when booking cannot be guaranteed, especially during the peak time of school holidays, we reserve the right to alter pitches to accommodate, this will only be done in extreme circumstances.
Once you have arrived on site no refunds can be given if, for any reason, you decide to leave before the confirmed departure date.
Children
Children remain the responsibility of their parents or guardians at all times. It is particularly important that you always know where your children are, and that you provide adequate supervision for them at all times.
Holiday Amendments & Cancellations
Changes to your holiday during your stay
We cannot accept responsibility or compensation for circumstances beyond our control including (but not limited to) industrial disputes, natural disasters, fire, technical problems, bad weather and acts of government.
Amendments to your booking
After you have paid your Deposit you may wish to change some elements of the Holiday, e.g. type of accommodation or duration. We will try to meet your request. It may be necessary to cancel your break due to illness, accident or change of circumstances. We cannot guarantee a full refund, however we will endeavour to come to an arrangement. Failure to arrive without satisfactory explanation or written cancellation will not be entitled to a transfer of stay. Bookings may not be able to be amended within 28 days of arrival, we recommend purchasing holiday insurance, to help for those unforeseen events.
If we make any major alterations to your booking
We try very hard to provide all facilities as advertised on our website. It may however be necessary to make some alterations in advance of your holiday. If such a change is necessary, we will endeavour to advise you via email as soon as possible.
If we cancel your booking
We always endeavour not to change the date or cancel your booking, but in exceptional circumstances this may be necessary. We will inform you of the change of date or cancellation as soon as possible and give you the following options.
A. accept the alternative arrangements as notified to you
B. choose another available break from us at the advertised price
C. cancel your holiday with a full refund of any money you have paid
Rules and Regulations
The person completing the booking is responsible for the conduct of their party, It is your responsibility to read the rules & regulations and abide by the rules therein. Not reading the rules is not an excuse for infringement. It is your responsibility to ensure that all members of your party accept the terms of the contract set out in these terms and conditions of booking. Failure to disclose all relevant information or comply with these terms may lead to termination of the contract and loss of the booking without refund. Parc Ynysymaengwyn Cyf reserves the right to ban individuals from future use of the park.
The Park reserves the right to refuse entry to the site. Your annual/seasonal pitch agreement allows owners to keep their holiday home on the park, in exchange for paying the pitch fee. It does not guarantee that the park will remain open or that owners will be able to use their holiday home at any particular time, especially in the event of a public health emergency such as where the government has ordered entire industries to shut down. The Pitch Fee helps us to run the Park all year round. You will see some of our work when you are using your Caravan. Other work may be done when you are not here, including when the Park is closed.
Exceptionally, a change in relevant laws and regulatory requirements may temporarily prevent you from using your caravan (“Exceptional Park Closure”). Such circumstances may also prevent us allowing you to use some of the Pitch Services, or the Park Services.
The Pitch Fee will remain due throughout any such time. This reflects the long-term commitments we have. We will still be complying with our obligation to allow you to keep the Caravan on the Pitch. We will still be committed to allowing you to use it for holiday and recreational purposes when circumstances allow, to supplying the Pitch and Park Services when we are able and to insuring and maintaining the common parts of the Park.
Liability
Anyone defacing or causing damage to any buildings, equipment or property of the park faces immediate eviction and prosecution. The pitch hirer will be responsible for and charged for any damage /loss caused by themselves or their visitors to the pitch or to any park facility or other resident’s property. Your personal belongings, vehicles, vans and their accessories and contents are left at your own risk. Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park or its staff will not be liable for the loss, theft or damage of any property nor for any injury, accident or mishap to any person in the park. Customers must ensure that their property is secured and fully insured for any unforeseen eventuality.
Data Protection
The information taken at time of booking is required to be collected for the purposes of processing your reservation at Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park. We may process your data to keep you informed of our activities and to keep you updated with news, offers and other information that may be of interest to you.
* Speed Limit 5mph exists on site at all times.
* Radios, Tv's, voices must be volumed down so that no annoyance is caused to other guests.
* The movements of traffic between midnight and 7am should be kept to an absolute minimum
* Noise levels should be kept down after 11pm.
* Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times.
* 6 Meters must be kept between all units.
* Please raise your disposable BBQ's off the ground so as not to scorch the grass.
* Plots should be vacated or re-booked by 12.30pm. Please produce your receipt upon request.
* We cannot give refunds.
* Strictly NO OPEN FIRES.
* A Laundry is available for your use on the static site, please ask for tokens and key fob.
The Laundry is open between the hours of 9am - 8pm.
* The electric hook-up supply is 16 amps.
* The Office opening hours are 9am - 11am and 5pm - 7pm
Outside these hours, provided you have a confirmed booking, you may proceed onto the park and report to the
office during the above times.
* The Park operates a zero tolerance policy to abusive, aggressive, troublesome behavior to the management or
other customers.
* The Management holds the right to ask anyone who is breaking the above terms to leave the park.
* NO BOATS OR JETS SKI'S
PRIVACY NOTICE INTRODUCTION
Welcome to our privacy notice.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information, which we call “personal data”. This privacy notice will tell you how we look after your personal data and about your privacy rights. It supplements any other notices and is not intended to override them.
We have tried to be brief and clear. We are happy to provide any additional information or explanation.
WHO WE ARE
Data Controller (Park Owner)
Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park
Name or title of Data Protection Manager:
Rita Blunden
Address: Ynysymaengwyn Caravan Park, The Lodge, Tywyn, Gwynedd LL36 9RY
Telephone: (01654) 710684
Mobile:
Email: [email protected]
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk). We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns first.
CHANGES
This version was last updated on 24/05/2018 .
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed of any changes.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You may give us data orally or by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, for example when you:
enter into a contract with us or contact us about doing so;
contact us about any contract we have with you;
request marketing to be sent to you;
give us some feedback.
We may also receive personal data about you from third parties and public sources, including other customers when they interact with us.
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.
We have set out below how and why we plan to use your personal data.
Purpose/Activity
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you with our business Performance of a contract with you
To perform any contract with you including:
(a) Managing payments, fees and charges
(b) Collecting and recovering money owed to us
(c) Addressing any breach
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to ensure compliance with contract terms)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Notifying you about changes to our business which are relevant to you
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how people use our business)
To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop and grow our business)
OTHER MARKETING
We will get your express opt-in consent before we use your personal data for any other marketing purpose or share it with any third party for marketing purposes.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
However, if we need to use your personal data for a new purpose and the law allows us to do so, we will notify you and explain the legal basis for our actions.
VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE
If we want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this.
When someone visits our website, we may use a third-party service to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
IF YOU CONTACT US VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
We use a third-party provider to manage our social media accounts. They will store your messages as follows:
Name of provider Facebook
Retention period for messages
We do not hold messages for over a week.
IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA
If you do not provide personal data to us and this would prevent us from performing the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you, or place us in breach of the law, we may have to cancel our contract. We will notify you if this is the case.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with third parties to help us run our business or carry out our obligations to you:
Name Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Service providers for IT and system administration
Performance of a contract with you.
Necessary for our legitimate interests (performing the contract, using your data as we have described in this notice).
Our professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, accountants. Necessary for our legitimate interests (complying with our legal obligations).
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities
Necessary for our legitimate interests (complying with our legal obligations).
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
HOW LONG WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
You can ask us about the retention periods for different aspects of your personal data by contacting our DPM.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
No fee usually required You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.