Cookie & Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.islandwebsites.co.uk and our details are on the Contact page of this site.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Your contact information

We obtain your contact information when you email us via our Contact Form on the Contact page, or voluntarily send it to us by other means (such as over the phone or by mail). Any information you provide to us, including your contact details, is only used for the purposes of answering your query. We keep your contact information for a short period after your booking or enquiry for administrative purposes, but it is not kept on file or used to contact you for marketing purposes. We do not pass on your information to third parties unless required to by law.

How we protect your data

We take appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date, and that we only keep it as long as is reasonable and necessary.

Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We do our best to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our website, so any transmission is at the user's own risk.

Analytics

We use Statcounter to track visitor data (including data such as pages visited, time spent, approximate visitor location). This is not personally identifiable.

*For more information on Statcounter and to opt out of cookies, see below.

Cookies

How we use cookies: A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If 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 webpage 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.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your personal contact data with third-party organisations unless required to by law.

How long we retain your data

We keep your personal contact information for a short period for administrative purposes, but it is not kept on file long-term or used to contact you for marketing purposes. Site visitor data collected via analytics companies (StatCounter) (non-personally identifiable to you) is accessed for a period of approximately six months.

What rights you have over your data

You can request a copy of any 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.

*Statcounter information

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser.

We use Statcounter to help us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

• Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
• IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
• Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
• Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
• Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called "is_unique") may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.

You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/
For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy the:
https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy

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