Privacy Policy

Introduction

Amazing Apartments is operated by Amazing Apartments Limited (“we”, “us” or “amazing apartments”) and we are a controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. This means that we are responsible for, and control the processing of, the personal information you provide to us when using this website in accordance with this privacy policy.

amazing apartments understands that customers care about the use and storage of their personal information and we value your trust in allowing us to do this in a careful and sensible manner. We have created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of our customers.

By using amazing apartments Serviced Apartments, our websites (including our mobile site), our social media pages, our telephone reservations line, our helpdesk functions and any other amazing apartments service, you are acknowledging that we are processing your personal information and, where necessary consenting to such practices, as outlined in this statement.

Personal information which we collect

We collect personal information about you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) when you:

a)make or manage a booking either personally or as a guest of another guest;

b)request a brochure;

c)sign up for our newsletter and other marketing emails (in line with Marketingbelow);

d)post material to our website and/or social media page;

e)complete customer feedback or surveys as part of your stay at one of our Serviced Apartments;

f)raise a complaint or dispute with us or are involved in a legally recordable incident at our premises (e.g. in relation to health and safety reporting);

g)speak to one of our representatives, call centre agents or members of our customer services or PR team;

h)participate in competitions or promotions;

i)and/or use our website and customer applications in any other way.

The personal information collected in the above manner may include the following about you (and others if their personal information is provided by you):

a)full name;

b)postal address;

c)email address;

d)telephone number;

e)payment details;

f)geo-location;

g)machine identifiers (such as IP addresses);

h)dispute resolution information;

i)disability and health information;

j)supplementary information (dietary and other preferences and special requirements);

k) image data;

l)voice recordings; and

m) identification information (such as passports, drivers’ licences or national identity cards).

Personal information provided by third parties

We may receive information about you from other sources (such as the Mail Preference Service), which we will add to the information we already hold about you in order to help us provide our products and services in accordance with your requirements and to ensure that the quality of data we have on your account(s) is maintained properly. We may also obtain information about you from social media providers such as Twitter and Facebook or from third-party websites where you have left commentary or feedback about us (for example on TripAdvisor).

How we use your information

We will collect personal information:

1) in order to take the necessary steps in preparation of, or to fulfil our obligations under, a booking contract:

1. a) Bookings and payments– provide communications about bookings, products and services being provided to you (and others if their personal information is provided by you);
2. b) Bookings and account updates– send details of new, amended or cancelled bookings – usually via email;
3. c) Update you on matters affecting your booking– contact you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) in the event of a change that affects a booking or any data or personal information you have provided us with, such as changes to terms and conditions of booking or this privacy policy;
4. d) Website service communication– provide notifications of any changes to our website or to our services that may affect you (and others if their personal information is provided by you);
5. e) Customer service communication– provide you with requested information or correspondence, such as a response from us to an enquiry made by you;
6. f) To provide assistance in completing bookings– send reminder emails to continue with a booking/inquiry which you have initiated either by email/telephone/website but is not paid and completed;

2) with your consent:

1. a) Marketing communications– create a profile about you for marketing purposes to tailor our communications to you. We may use automated processes to do this;
2. b) Promotional offers– inform you about promotional offers and other products or services that may be of interest (in line with Marketing communications above);
3. c) Maintain records indicating your consent to status– to ensure we accurately reflect your wishes when communicating to you;

3) in our legitimate interest* improve our services:

1. a) Market research– to contact you (and others if their personal information is provided by you) to ask about the experience using our Serviced Apartments and services as part of a continual programme of customer service improvement. This is not marketing communication and is separate to Marketing communications above. We may use third parties, for example, TripAdvisor to provide such market research communications to you on our behalf;
2. b) Website customisation– to customise our website and its content to your particular preferences in accordance with the Cookies sections below;
3. c) Customer support– monitor calls and help train staff in relation to our customer support and helpdesk function;
4. d) Product and service improvement– to improve our product and services;
5. e) Service analysis– to conduct research, statistical analysis and behavioural analysis. This may include providing aggregate statistical information relating to customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third parties.

4) in our legitimate interest* to protect against fraud:

1. a) Website improvement and fraud prevention– improve our websites, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our websites and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf;
2. b) Security– carry out security checks when allowing you access to our services and to block fraudulent or suspected fraudulent activity.

5) in order to meet our legal obligations:

1. a) Taxation– ensure we meet our tax and other regulatory obligations;
2. b) Registration– ensure local jurisdiction regulations are complied with (where registration is necessary for such jurisdictions).

* any reliance on legitimate interest shall not prejudice your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms.

Do we use Cookies?

Yes. Our cookies improve access to our site and identify repeat visitors. Furthermore, our cookies enhance a user’s experience by tracking and targeting his/her interests. This cookie use, however, is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Please see our Cookie Policy below.

Cookie Policy

This section describes how we treat the information provided by visitors, what other information we gather and how we use it, why we sometimes need to store “cookies” and how to prevent this. In common with almost all professionally run websites, this website logs the IP address of each visitor in order to keep it running reliably. This is also essential for protecting the website and its visitors from malicious attacks, including infection with malware.

This website provides information as a service to visitors such as yourself, and to do this reliably and efficiently, it sometimes places small amounts of information on your computer or device (e.g. mobile phone). This includes small files known as cookies.

The cookies stored by this website cannot be used to identify you personally.

How Cookies Are Used

We use cookies to understand what pages and information visitors find useful and to detect problems such as broken links, or pages which are taking a long time to load.

We sometimes use cookies to remember a choice you make on one page when you have moved to another page if that information can be used to make the website work better. For example: avoiding the need to ask for the same information several times during a session (e.g. when filling in forms), or remembering that you have logged in so that you don’t have to re-enter your username and password on every page.

Cookies for Analytics

We use analytics to measure how many visitors are using the website, which pages interest them and so on, and this involves storing cookies:

For more information please visit the Google Analytics website.

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.

Marketing

We may periodically send promotional material to you about new Serviced Apartments, products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting based on the profile we have created about you to the email addresses and phone numbers which you have provided.

If these are similar to products, services and bookings previously supplied by us to you, we will assume, under our legitimate interests to promote similar goods and services, that you are willing to receive this information unless you tell us otherwise. Please note that we do not want to send you information that you do not want to receive and you can opt-out at any time (please see ‘The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing’ below for further information).

We will always ask your permission before sending you email marketing information (unless you have already received similar services, products or bookings from us as mentioned above). We do this by asking for your positive confirmation (e.g. by providing a tick or inserting your contact details in the relevant boxes) indicating that you wish to receive marketing and you can opt-out at any time (please see ‘The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing’ below for further information). This ensures you only receive information that you have given us permission to send and are willing to receive.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for research purposes and/or to ask about your experience using our Serviced Apartments and services as part of a continual programme of customer service improvement. We may contact you by email, telephone, text, social media and/or mail. We may also use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

How long we will keep your personal information

All emails and your personal data is stored in the cloud on other companies’ software. i.e. Tokeet (our channel manager) and Mailerlite (our email marketing software provider). We have no need to personally store your data. We retain your information in these cloud-based systems for a range of purposes which determine the period of time for which we need to keep such information. For example (the list is not exclusive):

We will remove your data from our systems at the end of the applicable data retention periods unless we are required by current or future law to retain your personal information for a longer period.

Our approach to information security

To protect your information, amazing apartments has policies and procedures in place to make sure that only authorised personnel can access the information, that information is handled and stored in a secure and sensible manner and all systems that can access the information have proportionate and reasonable security measures in place. To achieve this, employees, contractors, sub-contractors and third-party suppliers have contracts, with defined roles and responsibilities.

While we take commercially reasonable measures to ensure the safety and security of your data, due to the inherent risks with the Internet, we are unable to warranty the absolute security of your data when using our services.

Transfers of your information out of the EEA

We may from time to time need to transfer your personal information to support partners which are located outside the European Economic Area, for the purpose of ensuring our websites are operating correctly or in relation to third parties to whom we share your data. Any transfer of your data will be subject to adequate levels of protection that will safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach.

Your rights

In order to process any of the requests listed below, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases your response will be necessary for you to exercise this right.

The right to access the information we hold about you

At any point, you can contact us to request details concerning the information we hold about you, why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we got the information. In most cases, you may be entitled to copies of the information we hold concerning you. Once we have received your request we will respond within 30 days.

The right to correct and update the information we hold about you

If the data we hold about you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us, and we will ensure that it is updated.

The right to have your information erased

If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or tell you the reason why it cannot be deleted.

The right to object to the processing of your data

You have the right to request that amazing apartments stop processing your data. Upon receiving the request, we will contact you to tell you if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue. If data is no longer processed, we may continue to hold your data to comply with your other rights.

The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing

You have the right to request that we stop contacting you with direct marketing. On promotional emails, we provide an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the email which will unsubscribe you from that service. If you wish to opt-out with respect to more than one email address, you must complete a separate request for each email address.

Please note it is not possible to ‘opt-out’ of receiving communication from us which relates to your bookings or customer satisfaction surveys sent as part of the booking (which are not considered marketing for these purposes). This ensures that we can always contact you as a result of circumstances that may affect your stay with us and in order for us to improve our services going forward.

The right to data portability

You have the right to request that we transfer your data to another controller. Once we have received your request, we will comply where it is feasible to do so.

The right to object to automated decision making/profiling

You have the right to request that we stop profiling you in relation to our direct marketing practice. You can inform us, and we will deal with your request accordingly.

The right to complain

You can make a complaint to us by contacting us via contactus@amazingapartments.co.uk or to the data protection supervisory authority – in the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office, at https://ico.org.uk/.

Consent

In those cases where we need your consent to process your information, we will ask you to make a positive indication (e.g. to tick a box or insert your contact details on the relevant form or web page requiring consent). By actively providing us with your consent, you are stating that you have been informed as to the type of personal information that will be processed, the reasons for such processing, how it will be used, for how long it will be kept, who else will have access to it and what your rights are as a data subject and that you have read and understood this privacy policy.

Sharing your information

The information and data we collect is important for amazing apartments and we understand that you care about the use and storage of your personal information we value your trust in allowing us to do this. We do not share this with anyone else, we will never disclose, rent, trade or sell your personal information to any third parties for their marketing purposes.

In the event that amazing apartments or any part of its business is sold to or integrated with another business, amazing apartments may disclose your personal information to the new owners (and their professional advisers on the transaction) to be used by the new owners and their group of companies in the same ways as set out in this privacy policy, including to continue providing you with the same services and marketing information services as are currently provided by amazing apartments.

We may also provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third parties in order to better understand our services, website and overall customer satisfaction which may include personally identifying information.

Contact details

If you have any queries about this policy, need further information or wish to lodge a complaint you can use the details below to contact us.

Data Protection Officer

Amazing Apartments Ltd
11/8 Hawkhill Close
Edinburgh
EH7 6FG

contactus@amazingapartments.co.uk

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access the website.