A & M Villas Ltd. (Trading as Rent a Villa in Tuscany) Website Privacy Policy
A & M Villas Ltd. respects your privacy. A & M Villas Ltd. will
not collect personal information without your clear permission. Any
information you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of
security and confidentiality.
The aim of this Website Privacy Policy is to set out how the company
uses personal data, which visitors provide when visiting this website.
We aim to communicate our Website Privacy Policy in simple terms but,
inevitably, some technical terms have to be used. These technical terms
used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
If you are not happy with this policy, or indeed the site's
Terms and Conditions
you should not use this website.
Legislation
A & M Villas Ltd. complies fully with the Data Protection Acts 1988
and 2003 in Ireland, the country whose laws and regulations govern this
website.
Collection of data
A & M Villas Ltd. collects two types of information:
· Personal data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact
you. Such data includes your name, address, telephone number and email
address and is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to
us.
· Non-personal data
Like most websites, A & M Villas Ltd. gathers statistical and other
analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors
to our website. This non-personal data comprises information that cannot
be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information
regarding, for example, user Internet Protocol addresses and other
anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session"
cookies, which enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on
this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website
if cookies are disabled from the web browser. Technical details in
connection with visits to this website are logged by our Internet
Service Provider for statistical purposes. No information is collected
that could be used by us to identify website visitors.
The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our
site, and can include:
· The IP address of the visitor's computer
· The top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
· The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used
This information is used to allow us to improve the information we are
supplying to our users, find out how many people are visiting our site
and for statistical purposes. Some of the above information is used to
create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of
visitors to the different sections of our site, discover what
information is most and least used, inform us on future design and
layout specifications, and help us make our site more user friendly.
You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with
any identifiable individual, do not constitute "personal data" for the
purposes of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.
Use of information
Any information you provide is used by A & M Villas Ltd. only for
the purpose for which you provide it. A and M Villas Ltd. undertakes not
to disclose personal or technical information about visitors to any
third party (apart from our Internet Service Provider, which records
such data and which is bound by confidentially provisions), unless in
direct connection with the service requested
Electronic newsletter
A & M Villas Ltd. publishes an electronic newsletter and complies
with best practice in eMarketing. We apply a double opt-in policy, which
requires you to confirm your wish to sign up for the newsletter. This
measure is a further safeguard against possible abuse of the subscriber
list by third parties.
You can unsubscribe at any time by a simple one-click process. We will
then confirm that you have left our list.
Security
Your personal data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet
Service Provider. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot
guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us
via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps
(including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to
protect your personal data.
Updating, verifying and deleting personal data
You may inform us of any changes in your personal data, and in
accordance with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and
2003 we will update or delete your personal data accordingly. To find
out what personal data we hold on you or to have your personal data
updated, amended or removed from our database, please email :
info@rent-a-villa-in-tuscany.com
Sale of Business
A & M Villas Ltd. reserves the right to transfer information
(including your personal data) to a third party in the event of a sale,
merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially
all of the assets of our company. We would do so provided that the third
party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Website Privacy Policy and
provided that the third party only uses your personal data for the
purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event
of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
Changes to this Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this
website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any
time we decide to use personal data in a manner significantly different
from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed
to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and
you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
the new manner.
Glossary
The following are definitions of some technical terms used in this statement.
Web browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
IP address
The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company's
computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for example
192.172.21.23). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP
address, although the address may not be the same every time a
connection is made.
Cookies
Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your
computer by a website. Cookies can be read by the web site on your
subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your
browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so
that the website can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally
speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can
be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the
website.