Privacy Policy
WHO ARE WE
This privacy policy sets out how SurfandUnwind.com uses and protects any information that you give surfandunwind.com when you use this website.
SurfandUnwind.com is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Surfandunwind.com may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@surfandunwind.com
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us (info@surfandunwind.com) as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Affiliate marketing
The website contains advertising and affiliate marketing links. These are typically served through our marketing partners who track impressions, clicks and transactions, usually by using cookies, on behalf of their advertiser clients and affiliate partners.
By accepting our Policy you consent to the use of third party tracking (including cookies) from our marketing partners shown below:
Booking.com
Agoda
Amazon
How does affiliate marketing work?
Clicking on affiliate marketing links or advertisements will track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases we earn a commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, when you make a purchase on their website.
We use marketing partners in this way to help generate an income from the website, this allows us to maintain and run the website to give you the best overall experience and valued information for free.
NEWSLETTERS/MAILING LISTS
We collect personal information as part of the registration process for our Flight Deals newsletter. We use that information to tell you about the stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about, to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information and sometimes to check that our records are right and that you are satisfied. We do not rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use MailChimp, a third-party provider to deliver our newsletter. We gather various statistics around email opening and clicks using the tool to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. You can read more about MailChimp and it’s privacy notice here. You can also unsubscribe to general mailings at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our team at info@surfandunwind.com
COOKIE POLICY
We use cookies, pixels and tags (which we shall collectively define as “Cookies”) to make our site work properly. We sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too. More information on the Cookie Law from the ICO website.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
WE USE COOKIES TO:
MEASURE WEBSITE USAGE WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use this software to collect information about how our users use SurfandUnwind.com, this helps us to improve the website and information we provide.
Google Analytics itself stores information about:
- Pages you visit on the website
- How long you spend on each page and the website
- How your found the website
- What you click on whilst on the website
We do not collect or store any of your personal information such as name or address etc, we do not identify you via personal information.
CROSS PLATFORM ADVERTISING AND USER RECOGNITION
We also use Cookies provided by Facebook. These Cookies operate in different ways but they are both used in connection with Surf and Unwind advertising served to a user of the Surf and Unwind web site on Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access, Facebook and the Surf and Unwind web site. Further information on each Cookie is set out in the below.
FACEBOOK PIXEL
This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables Surf and Unwind to measure optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enablesSurf and Unwind to see how our users move between devices when accessing theSurf and Unwind web site and Facebook, to ensure thatSurf and Unwind’s Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the Surf and Unwind web site. For further information about the Facebook Pixel please see:
https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This Cookie is placed by Google. It enablesSurf and Unwind to learn information about our users use of theSurf and Unwind web site such as the time of visit, the pages viewed, whether the user has visited before and the web site visited prior to visiting the Surf and Unwind web site.
For further information about Google Analytics please see:
https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
TURN COOKIES OFF
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won’t affect the user’s experience that make your site experience more efficient and may not function properly.
Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although our analytics cookies may persist for a year.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We may share anonymous demographic information relating to location and behaviour on our website via Google Analytics data with other parties. This is used to demonstrate the readership of the website and how our audience is. No personal information is shared with other parties.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHAT RIGHTS YOUR HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer at info@surfandunwind.com.
We intend to review our privacy policy in six months time to ensure it’s relevant and as up to date as possible. Our current privacy policy was last updated 14th Feb 2019.