Privacy & Owner Cookie Policy
Your privacy is of the utmost importance and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information. We are also legally obliged to use your information in line with current legislation covering the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998.
Who are we?
This site and the properties available to book through it are owned and operated by Alan Walker and Angela Parker as a partnership.
What information do we collect?
We collect personal identifiable information such as names, addresses, property details, email addresses and telephone numbers.
How do we collect information?
We collect information in three ways:
Information you give us: You may provide us with information by completing forms on our website or by contacting us via email, telephone or other means. We also collect information when you voluntarily provide feedback and reviews or participate in competitions.
Information we derive from other sources: We may also collect information about you from other sources such as public records or bodies, or through targeted research. Any personal information obtained is processed in accordance with the principles and conditions contained within the Data Protection Act 1998.
Information we collect from you: Like most websites, when you visit our website we also collect information about usage via cookies. We do not collect personal information via cookies.
How do we use information?
We use information about you to process your holiday booking/reservation, manage your account or undertake holiday home letting activities on your behalf.
We may also use your information for sending out our newsletter. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you wish to opt out, please email hello@hvarholidays.com.
We collect information to gain a better insight into the holiday home rental market, helping us tailor our products and services accordingly, including helping to keep our website and newsletter content relevant.
Finally, we use cookies to better tailor your user experience and personalise your repeat visits to our website.
How do we safeguard information?
We adopt best practices to safeguard personal identifiable information.
Who we share information with?
Any information we collect about individuals is used by the property owners, cleaner, property maintenance team and family of the owners where relevant but only ever in relation to your relationship with us. We do not share information about individuals with any other third parties, unless we are required or allowed to do so by law.
How you can access or correct your information
You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of the information we hold, or to update this information please email hello@hvarholidays.com.
Other Websites
This privacy policy only applies to this website. If you follow links to other websites you should read their privacy policies.
Children
Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We monitor and review our privacy policy regularly and will publish any updates on this webpage. The privacy policy was last updated November 2019.
Subscriptions, Tracking and Cookies
We offer various free services on our website which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users, or exchange of information between our website and another which may hold a user’s personal information. These include, but are not restricted to the: AddThis Share Button, Facebook ‘Like’ Button, Pinterest ‘Pin It’ Button.
For a full list of functionality that requires access to your details, and information on how your personal information will be used, please contact us on hello@hvarholidays.com. Please do not interact with any functionality on the website before doing this if you are at all concerned about this.
Usage tracking
We reserve the right to track user traffic patterns on our website. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We do not break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on their servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Cookies
To comply with EU legislation that was introduced in May 2012, this section documents how this website might collect information as you browse and use it to provide a tailored service to improve your online experience.
This website may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The owners of this website use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the functionality available on this website.
Cookies for Site Tracking
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Your Consent
By using this site, you are asked to consent to the collection and use of your personal information via a Cookies pop-up box on our website.
Changes to Our Policies
If the owners of this website decide to change its privacy and cookies policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed. We will review these policies regularly.
