Privacy Policy:
Loch Lomond Castle Lodges operates lochlomondcastlelodges.com and may operate other websites. It is Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Loch Lomond Castle Lodges also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on lochlomondcastlelodges.com blogs/sites. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s websites choose to interact with Loch Lomond Castle Lodges in ways that require Loch Lomond Castle Lodges to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Loch Lomond Castle Lodges gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at lochlomondcastlelodges.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Loch Lomond Castle Lodges are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Loch Lomond Castle Lodges. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Loch Lomond Castle Lodges discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s behalf or to provide services available at Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a court order or other governmental request, or when Loch Lomond Castle Lodges believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Loch Lomond Castle Lodges, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Loch Lomond Castle Lodges website and have supplied your email address, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Loch Lomond Castle Lodges and our products.
If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers
If Loch Lomond Castle Lodges, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Loch Lomond Castle Lodges goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Loch Lomond Castle Lodges may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Loch Lomond Castle Lodges’s sole discretion. Loch Lomond Castle Lodges encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a lochlomondcastlelodges.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; facebook, twitter, linkedin, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: info@lochlomondcastlelodges.com