Privacy Policy

1.0 OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

User privacy and data protection are human rights
We have a duty of care to the people within our data
Data should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
We really don’t like unsolicited spam emails!
We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

2.0 RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regard to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

3.0 PERSONAL INFORMATION OUR WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

3.1 Site visit analytics and tracking

Like most websites these days, our website site uses Google Analytics to track user interaction. We use this data to gain insights about the number of people visiting our site, and to understand how they find and use our web pages. This helps us to ensure information about our products and services are visible and easy to find.

Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of Google Analytics.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop Google Analytics from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

3.2 Contact us forms and email links

Should you choose to use our contact form or an email link, none of the data you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0.

The data you provide will be added to an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

4.0 HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no point does this website store information about you. As mentioned in section 3.2, all information sent via callback request forms, brochure request forms and email links are simply sent via email to the relevant Braeside Retreats showroom to await a response.

5.0 ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

This website is hosted in a secure data centre.

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

6.0 OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

We use a single third party to process personal data on our behalf. This third party has been carefully chosen and complies with the legislation set out in section 2.0.

Google is based in the USA and is EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant: Google (Privacy policy

7.0 DATA BREACHES

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

8.0 DATA CONTROLLER

The data controller of this website is: Tahuna Bothies.

Whose registered office is:

Mains of Foveran,
Newburgh,

Ellon,

Aberdeenshire,

AB41 6AQ

9.0 DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

Miss Gail Davidson

Mains of Foveran,

Newburgh,