Privacy Policy

What ‘Personal Data’ is collected

‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.

If you are visiting our website, we may collect, store and use information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation.

If you are a property-owner enquiring about advertising, or currently advertising with, or having previously advertised with, Railway Station Cottages Ltd, we may also collect, store and use any other information that you choose to provide to us, by email, letter or telephone, or by reference to your website. This personal data will include, but not necessarily be limited to, your full name, address, email and telephone contact details.

Our website links to other Third Party websites, however Railway Station Cottages Ltd is not responsible for the privacy policy or practices of other websites.

How Personal Data is collected

If you are visiting our website for the first time, you will be asked to consent to our use of cookies on our website in accordance with this policy. 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. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. We use “persistent” cookies on the website. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date. More detailed information about the cookies we use is supplied at the end of this policy in the Appendix.

If you are a property-owner, you will supply personal data to us when you enter into a contract with us to supply advertising services for an annual subscription period, or enquire about advertising with us. This may be in an email, telephone conversation, letter or ‘advertise your property’ form.

Why is Personal Data collected

If you are visiting our website and have accepted our use of cookies, we will collect information about how you have used our website to gain an understanding of where our visitors have come from, how they have searched and what they have searched for, how long they spent on our website and which pages were of interest. We then use these statistics to aid our development and marketing of the website and our business. We also provide information regarding how many visitors have visited a particular property’s page to the property’s owner at least once during their subscription period.

If you are a property-owner, your personal data is stored by the Data Controller for the purposes of contacting you regarding renewal of your annual subscription, payments and refunds, enquiries and complaints, notice of special advertising promotions and features in publications, and clarification regarding property description and photographs. We also retain the personal data of property-owners who have previously advertised on our website for up to two years after their subscription period has ended, to enable us to contact them during this two-year period to ask if they wish to consider re-advertising with us.

How long is Personal Data kept

If you are visiting our website and have accepted our use of cookies, we will store information about how you have used our website for up to two years. Further information on the information retention periods for each cookie is provided in the Appendix below.

If you are a property-owner, your personal data is retained by the Data Controller from the time you supplied it to us, and continuing for up to two years after the end of your subscription period.

The sharing of Personal Data

Your personal data may be disclosed to any employees or consultants of Railway Station Cottages Ltd, in so far as it is necessary and practical to run our business. Railway Station Cottages Ltd will take reasonable technical and organisation precautions to with regards the security of your personal data.

We may also share your personal data in full or in part if we are required to by law.

We may use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

Learn more about how Google uses information from this site to provide services

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Railway Station Cottages Ltd takes care not to share your personal data with any Third Party without your express consent. If we are approached directly by any Third Party wishing to contact you, we will either contact you first to ask for your permission to release these details, or alternatively we will provide you with the contact details of the Third Party so you can facilitate contact with them directly. Property-owners should however note that any information they provide for use in their property description on our website, such as names, addresses and contact information, are being placed in the public domain and that by advertising with us and approving your advertisement, you have consented to this information being made publicly available. Railway Station Cottages Limited asks you to provide this personal information for your advertisement, asks you to confirm its accuracy and to provide your approval that the advertisement can be displayed on our website. Railway Station Cottages Ltd cannot therefore be held responsible for the sharing of any personal data in the property advertisements displayed on our website.

Your rights

As a property-owner advertising on our website, you have the right to control how your personal data is used. You can:

• request access to your personal data;
• request deletion of your personal data;
• request correction of your personal data; and
• request your personal data be transferred to another person.

You are encouraged to raise any concerns about the handling of your personal data directly with the Data Controller of Railway Station Cottages Ltd, however you also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority if you feel that the Data Controller has failed to process your personal data correctly.

Visitors to our website are reminded that they can opt out of the Google’s DoubleClick advertising that may be provided on our website, by noting their preference at http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx. Visitors are also reminded that can reject all cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer (version 9) you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block All Cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one. You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added. If you have any concerns about the use of cookies and Google’s analytics and advertising on our website, please contact the Data Controller of Railway Station Cottages Ltd.

The Data Controller’s Identity

The Data Controller is the person responsible for the information collected on this website and the information stored about our properties, their owners, and visitors to our website (www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk). Our Data Controller is Christian Parkinson, Director of Railway Station Cottages Ltd (Company Number 08715014) and our Data Protection Registration Number is ZA035331.

We aim to be transparent in our use of your personal data, however if you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please contact the Data Controller by email to enquiries@railwaystationcottages.co.uk or by writing to Railway Station Cottages Ltd at 9 The Croft, Ulgham, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 3BB.

Appendix – cookies used on our website

The table below summarises the cookies that we use on our website (www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk) and their function.