Terms and Conditions 

Bracken Crag, Craig Walk, Bowness on Windermere, LA23 2JS

Payment and Deposit Terms 

*Please note: 2022 – due to high rate of the Covid virus, we will only be taking balance payments 14 days before your stay to allow a more flexible cancellation period. Updated 3rd January 2022.

  • The booking fee includes all bedding and linen, and towels. 
  • 30% of the booking fee is due on booking, the remainder to be paid no less than six weeks before arrival date (42 days).  Payment is due in full if arrival is less than six weeks from booking. Payment by card will be taken automatically to these terms if booking online
  • Deposits are non refundable
  • Payments by bacs, paypal, and the following cards: Visa Debit / Delta, Visa Credit – no charge.
  • A non refundable deposit of 30% of the booking total is required.
  • Full booking balance must be paid 42 days before arrival.
  • If the booking is cancelled less than 14 days before arrival then a charge equal to 50% of the stay will be made.
  • In the event of a no show or booking reduction (after arrival date) the full cost of the booking is charged.
  • Please arrive no earlier than 3.30pm, when bags can be left, but the property may not be ready until 4.30pm. Should you request alternative check in times please enquire, we will do our best to accommodate you.
  • Please depart no later than 11 am. Late checkout fees of apply.
  • Please leave the property clean and tidy (this includes for example, emptying the dishwasher).  It is expected that further cleaning and presentation work will be required after your departure.                         
  • Lost key charge £15 per set. Please only use the key box keys for entry and return them immediately to the box throughout the duration of your stay. You will find sets of keys hanging in the hallway for your use.
  • Pets. Only 1 x small, short haired, well behaved and fully house trained dog is allowed. Dogs must be crate trained for during the night and are not allowed on the furniture or in the bedrooms. They must not be left alone in the apartment. If your dog does not tick each of these boxes, this is probably not the place for you. Damage charges apply.  Dog bowls are provided but please bring own crate, bedding and dog towels.          
  • Hen / Stag / Party groups are not permitted         
  • The garden area is owned by the downstairs neighbours and is for access only. Please do not smoke / socialise in the garden. No smoking is permitted in the property. Smoking will result in your departure with no refund available.                                    

Please be considerate to the owners of the properties adjacent and do not make excessive noise, especially at night.

Cancellation BY THE HOLIDAYMAKER
1. Holiday cancellation insurance is not provided by us and is not included in the price of the holiday. You should therefore satisfy yourself that you have holiday/travel/cancellation insurance appropriate to your own circumstances in place.
2. In the event that you have to cancel your holiday you must notify us immediately and in writing.    
3. We shall seek to re-let the property at the best possible price but not necessarily at the advertised brochure/web site price. If the holiday accommodation is re-let, monies received by us for the re-let holiday, less any discount offered in order to obtain another booking, less a cancelation fee of £50 will be refunded within 2 weeks after the re-let holiday has been paid for.
4. If we are unable to re-let the holiday accommodation for the period of the cancelled holiday, all monies paid by the holidaymaker to us shall be forfeited. 
5. Deposits are non refundable

Cancellation BY BRACKEN CRAG In the extreme situation that would cause us to cancel your holiday, you will be given as much notice as possible and all monies paid will be refunded in full. This is the full extent to the liability we accept.

Competition / Prize T&Cs can be found on this page https://www.brackencrag.co.uk/competition-voucher-tcs/

Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

Who we are

Our website address is: www.brackencrag.co.uk.

This notice refers to personal data, which is defined as information concerning any living person (a natural person who hereafter will be called the Data Subject) that is not already in the public domain.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU. It should be noted that GDPR does not apply to information already in the public domain.

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 anonymised 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

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 you 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.

Additional information

Bracken Crag uses the information collected from you to provide quotations, make telephone contact and to email you marketing information which we believe may be of interest to you and your business. In you making initial consent to marketing contact from Bracken Crag we shall maintain a marketing dialogue with you until you either opt out (which you can do at any stage) or we decide to desist in promoting our services. Some personal data may be collected about you from the forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We may from time to time use such information to collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website.

Bracken Crag websites use cookies, which is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Any information Bracken Crag holds about you and your business encompasses all the details we hold about you and any sales transactions including any third-party information we have obtained about you from public sources and our own suppliers such as credit referencing agencies.

We will only collect the information needed so that it can provide you with marketing and consulting services, we do not sell or broker your data, although coincidentally there may be times when your information could be contained in data that Bracken Crag has purchased from a third-party list broker, on behalf of a client.

Legal basis for processing personal data

In order for us to process personal data we must have a lawful purpose for doing so. This is outlined below.

Legitimate interests

When you provide your personal details to us we use your information for our legitimate business interests. Before doing this, we will carefully consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights.
The following are some examples of when and why we would use this approach.

Direct Marketing: We will send Direct marketing via the postal service and by email. We will also make sure our direct marketing is relevant for you and where possible tailored to your interests.

Ordering online: In order for us to process an order, payment details are taken and contact information collected, such as name, address, telephone number, and email address.

Your best interest: Processing your information to protect you against fraud when transacting on our website, and to ensure our websites and systems are secure.

Personalisation: Where the processing enables us to enhance, modify, personalise or otherwise improve our services/communications for the benefit of our guests and visitors.

Analytics: To process your personal information for the purposes of customer analysis, assessment, profiling and direct marketing, on a personalised or aggregated basis, to help us with our activities and to provide you with the most relevant information as long as this does not harm any of your rights and interests.

Research: To determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising and to develop our products, services, systems and relationships with you.

Due Diligence: We may need to conduct investigations on potential customers and business partners to determine if those companies and individuals have been involved or convicted of offences such as fraud, bribery and corruption. Any communication we send in this manner will give you the opportunity to unsubscribe very easily.

Consent

We also rely on consent for lawful processing where we have no legitimate interest. An example of this may be when you sign up to receiving marketing through our website. Every marketing email we send gives you the opportunity to withdraw consent by unsubscribing.

Disclosure

We may on occasions pass your Personal Information to third parties exclusively to process work on our behalf. We require these parties to agree to process this information based on our instructions and requirements consistent with this Privacy Notice and GDPR.

We do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement with us without your consent. However, we may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental request. We may also enforce our Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of our Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Bracken Crag, our clients and/or the wider community.

Retention Policy

We will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for five years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After five years any personal data not needed will be deleted.

Data storage

Data is held in The United Kingdom using different (multiple) servers. Bracken Crag does not store personal data outside the EEA.

Your rights as a data subject

At any point whilst Bracken Crag is in possession of or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:

  • Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
  • Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
  • Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing.
  • Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
  • Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
  • Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.

In the event that Bracken Crag refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.

Bracken Crag at your request can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed

You can request the following information:

  • Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
  • The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
  • If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of Bracken Crag or a third party such as one of its clients, information about those interests.
  • The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
  • Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
  • How long the data will be stored.
  • Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
  • Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Regulator).
  • Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
  • The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
  • Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

To access what personal data is held, identification will be required

We will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your national ID card, driving license, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If Bracken Crag is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.

About our partner sites

Freetobook is booking software used by accommodation providers to enable their customers to make online bookings and manage those bookings.

This document applies to the processing by freetobook of personal data collected by properties using freetobook online booking system in relation to the provision of accommodation by those properties.

  1. Your Personal DataProperties using freetobook as their booking engine, collect and store information that you give when you make a booking. You are asked for your name, address, telephone number and email along with payment information and “the names of any guests travelling with you”. This may also include your IP address. This information is stored in the freetobook System in order to process your booking. You may be contacted by the Property you have booked with in relation to your booking. 

    Your data is also stored after you have stayed but will be kept no longer than necessary in order to comply with legal obligations and for properties to welcome your repeat business.
  2. Data processed directly by third partiesIf you provide payment information, this will be processed directly by secure PCI Level 1 compliant payment gateway providers.
  3. Joint ControllersIn the context of providing booking software to accommodation providers to facilitate online booking, freetobook and the accommodation provider shall together operate as joint data controllers for the processing of your personal data.
  4. Security ProceduresIn accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), freetobook observes reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorised access and misuse of personal information. We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect and safeguard any personal information given to us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal information on our servers. Only authorised personnel are permitted to access personal information in the course of their work.
  5. Control of your Personal DataYou have the right to access data that is stored on behalf of properties taking bookings via freetobook system. You need to email or write to the property you booked with to request an overview of your personal data. 

    You can also contact the property you booked with on freetobook System if you believe that the personal information they have for you is incorrect, if you believe that they are no longer entitled to use your personal data or if you have any other questions about how your personal information is used or about the Privacy Statement. You need to email or write to the property you booked with.
  6. ReviewsYou may also be asked to send feedback after your stay in order for the property to further improve their service. Your email address will be used for this purpose. If you complete a review it may be posted on the property website, facebook page, twitter or google plus. However, no identifying details will ever be attached to a review posting. 

    To Process your information as described above, we rely on the following legal bases:

    Performance of a contract. The storage of your information may be necessary to perform the contract that you have with the accommodation provider you are booking with.

    Legitimate Interests.We may use your information for our legitimate interests, such as for administrative, fraud detection and legal purposes.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is placed in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device. These cookies are used only to help you make a smooth booking and contain information like the date searched and language of booking. There is a difference between session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies will only exist until you close your browser. Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted once you close your browser. We use persistent cookies in Google Analytics to analyse visitor traffic and behaviour.

By using freetobook website or proceeding with a booking you are consenting to the above use of cookies.

All requests should be made to brackencrag@icloud.com

Complaints

In the event that you wish to make a compliant about how your personal data is being processed by Bracken Crag, you have the right to complain to us . Please email brackencrag@icloud.com