Privacy Policy

1. Introduction 1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information. 2. Credit 2.1 This document was created from SEQ Legal 3. Collecting Personal Information 3.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information: (a) information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address); (b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address); and (c) any other personal information that you choose to send to us. 4. Using Personal Information 4.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. 4.2 We may use your personal information to: (a) administer our website and business; (b) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested; (c) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter); (d) send you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications); and (e) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website; 4.3 We will never supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing. 5. Disclosing Personal Information 5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees or officers, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. 5.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. 5.3 We may disclose your personal information: (a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law; (b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; (c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); (d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and (e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information. 5.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties. 6. Retaining Personal Information 6.1 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. 6.2 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: (a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law; (b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and (c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk). 7. Security of Personal Information 7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. 7.2 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. 8. Amendments 8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. 8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. 9. Your Rights 9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to: (a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and (b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address). 9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law. 9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. 9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes. 10. Third Party Websites 10.1 Our website may include hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. 10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties. 11. Updating Information 11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated. 12. Cookies and Google Analytics 12.1 Our website uses cookies. 12.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. 12.3 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. 12.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. 12.5 We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. 12.6 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example: (a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”; (b) in Firefox (version 47) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and (c) in Chrome (version 52), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading. 12.7 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. 12.8 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website. 12.9 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example: (a) in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11); (b) in Firefox (version 47), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and (c) in Chrome (version 52), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”. 12.10 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. 12.11 Our website also uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ]. 13. Data Protection Registration 13.1 We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. 13.2 Our data protection registration number is ZA212017. 14. Our Details 14.1 This website is owned and operated by Retreat East Limited. 14.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 5296976, and our registered office is at 302 Crane Court, London Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 0AJ 14.3 Our principal place of business is at Brick Kiln Farm, Sandy Lane, Hemingstone, Suffolk IP6 9QE 14.4 You can contact us: (a) by post, using the postal address given above; (b) using our website contact form; (c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time; or (d) by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.