This Privacy and Cookies Statement sets out how Country Adventures uses and protects your information when you use this website. It also explains how cookies are used on this website.
Country Adventures is committed at all times to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy and cookies statement.
Country Adventures may change its statement from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.
Information we collect
We collect specific and personally identifiable information about you when you use our contact form or booking form, a comments box or sign up for our newsletter. This is the information you give to us when you fill in our website contact/ booking/ subscribe forms or add a comment and includes your name and your email address.
We use cookies, which are small text files placed on your computer, to aid the functionality of this website, help us analyse web traffic, and allow the website to respond to you as an individual. Cookies track visitor website usage but do not give us any personal information.
Our website contains links to other websites, and to social networks such as Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. When you click through to these third party websites or choose to use the social network sharing buttons and functionality on the site, the privacy implications will vary according to the third party sites’ privacy and cookie policies and will depend upon the settings you have chosen on their sites. Our privacy and cookies statement does not extend to other websites and social media networks linked to or clicked on from within this website.
Storing and using your personal information
The only personally identifiable information we store from our website is your name and email address when you send us a message through our contact/ booking form, fill out our newsletter subscription form, or make a comment in a comments box on the site. We request this information so that we may respond to your individual query. We store your contact details securely and we never pass your details to any other party without your explicit permission.
As well as responding to your individual query from the contact/ booking forms, we may from time to time use your information to contact you about items that may interest you, or other information you may find useful. When you sign up for our newsletter, we will send our newsletter to you until you request us to stop. You can request that we remove you from our newsletter and/or we do not contact you at any time and we will remove you from our newsletter and/or general email list.
Cookies, why we use them and what data they give us and others
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Cookies help by:
- Remembering your settings during and between visits
- Tailoring content to your needs
- Making our website work as you’d expect
- Improving the speed/security/ functionality of the site
- Allowing you to ‘share’ content, ‘like’, ‘tweet’, and engage with social networks
- Allowing us to analyse website traffic in terms of visitor numbers, general visitor locations (not specific locations) and visitor browsing habits (eg. which pages are visited most often, how long for etc.)
All data collected by cookies are anonymous; you are not personally identifiable. Many cookies are related to, and data collected by, third parties providing functionality on our website: things like Facebook and Twitter, and Google Analytics, and some performance and functionality software we use to help the website work more generally.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information
- Collect any sensitive information
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will limit the functionality of our, and a large proportion of the world’s, websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves your objectives by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.