Barwheys Privacy Policy

Barwheys understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data are used and shared both offline and online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits our websites or properties.

Our website (“our site”) is:

  • www.Barwheys.com

Our property (“our property”) is:

  • Barwheys, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 7JS

We will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our site. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our site immediately.

  1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“Account” means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of our site;
“Cookie” means a small text file placed on your computer or device by our site when you visit certain parts of our site and/or when you use certain features of our site. Details of the Cookies used by our site are set out in section 13, below;
“Cookie Law” means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;
“personal data” means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to us via our site. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the EU Regulation 2016/679 – the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);
“we/us/our” means Barwheys, whose registered address is Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 7JS
  1. Information About us

What Does This Policy Cover?

Our site is owned and operated by Barwheys, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 7JS

  • Our Data Protection Officer is Angela Burnett and can be contacted by email at enquiries@barwheys.com  or by post at Barwheys, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 7JS
  1. What Does This Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our site. Our site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

  1. Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Policy and our use of personal data have been designed to uphold:

  • The right to be informed about our collection and use of personal data;
  • The right of access to the personal data we hold about you (see section 12);
  • The right to rectification if any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact us using the details in section 2);
  • The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you (we only hold your personal data for a limited time, as explained in section 6 but if you would like us to delete it sooner, please contact us using the details in section 2
  • The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;
  • The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);
  • The right to object to us using your personal data for particular purposes; and
  • Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact us using the details provided in section 2 and we will do our best to solve the problem for you. If we are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

  1. What Data Do we Collect?

Depending upon your use of our site, we may collect some or all of the following personal data (please also see section 13 on our use of Cookies and similar technologies):

  • Name
  • Business/company name
  • Contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers
  • Geographic information such as address and post code
  • Demographic information such as date of birth and gender
  1. How do we use Your Data?
    1. All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times. For more details on security see section 7, below.

Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your data for the following purposes:

Providing and managing your Booking;

Providing and managing your access to our site;

Supplying our services to you (please note that we require your personal data in order to enter into a contract with you);

Personalising and tailoring our services for you;

Replying to emails from you;

Supplying you with emails that you have opted into (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by emailing enquiries@barwheys.com;

  1. With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email, telephone, text message or post with information, news and offers on our services. We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
  2. You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it.
  3. We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases):
    1. Personal data obtained for the purposes of buying one of our services will be retained for no longer than one year after your us of our services.
    2. Personal data will be retained for marketing purposes for as long as we have your consent to hold such data. You can remove permission for this at any time.
  4. How and Where Do we Store Your Data?
    1. We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above in section 6, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
    2. Your data will only be stored by Barwheys
  5. We will never share your data with any third party without obtaining permission from you.
  6. What Happens If our Business Changes Hands?
    1. We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.
    2. In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.
  1. How Can You Control Your Data?

In addition to your rights under the GDPR, set out in section 4, when you submit personal data via our site, you may be given options to restrict our use of your data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails and at the point of providing your details).

  1. Your Right to Withhold Information

You may access certain areas of our site without providing any data at all but you will not be able to book our services.

  1. How Can You Access Your Data?

You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by us (where such data is held). Under the GDPR, no fee is payable and we will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge. Please contact us for more details at enquiries@barwheys.com or using the contact details below in section 14.

  1. Our use of Cookies

Our site does not currently use Cookies. Our policy will updated immediately if this changes in the future.

  1. Contacting us

If you have any questions about our site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at enquiries@barwheys.com or by post at Barwheys, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 7JS. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data we hold about you (as under section 12, above).

  1. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on our site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations. We recommend that you check our site regularly to keep up-to-date.

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