Holidays Cottages respects each individual’s right to personal privacy. Whilst this site does not intend to collect personally identifiable data, we aim to be open with our visitors and explain the following:

Statistical tracking:

This site uses Piwik, which is an open source web analytics. Statistical web tracking is commonly used by website owners to view how many people visit their website, website referral, how long a visitor stays on their website, search engine terms, amongst other information. Piwik is an open source alternative to Google Analytics, read more here. Piwik software does not collect any personally identifying information. Learn more about the spirit of open source software here.

Cookies

Many websites use small text files called ‘cookies’ for statistical information (see above), as well as for other purposes. This website uses cookies for statistical information as part of Piwik analytics, but, as above, these cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information.

Holidays Cottages is dedicated to increasing awareness of traditional British holidays, with a particular focus on rural tourism and boosting the rural economy. To help increase awareness of rural tourism and support the running of this website, we are affiliated with one of the predominant providers of UK holiday cottages. They use cookies which shows that this website referred our visitors to them. They have a full privacy policy. These cookies show how many people this site referred to them, what date and on what hyperlink was clicked, amongst other things – we do not collect any personally identifiable information in regards to our affiliation. Nor do we deal with the transactional or data collection side of their business.

Emails

Any email address you use whilst corresponding with us are kept in the strictest confidence, unless otherwise told to by yourself – for example, if you wish to submit an article or photo (coming soon). We detest email spam and will not use your email address for anything other than replying to queries you send and general correspondence. We do not sell email address or use them for any other purpose than directly corresponding with you in a personalised manner. We do not have a newsletter, or any other form of ‘email promotion’.