This Cookie Policy was last updated on 20th March 2025, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://gairlochhighlandlodge.net (“the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). The following informs you about how we use cookies on the website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this website, and stored by your browser on your computer or other device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code may be executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon / pixel tag is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website, used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons. We use Google Analytics to ascertain user interactions on the website, such as page views, navigation, etc., and this uses web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website: for example, your details within the “contact us” form. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
Statistics cookies are used to optimise the website experience for our users. These allow us to get insights in the usage of our website, primarily through Google Analytics. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing / Tracking cookies
Marketing / tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising, or, to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
We do not utilise advertising, but we do monitor a user’s journey within our website, to enable us to identify popular and not so popular pages, features, articles, etc.
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, you will see a pop-up relating to cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy.
You can also disable the use of cookies via your browser, but this may impact the optimal operation of our website.
8. Enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed.
For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your preferred browser(s).
Please note that our website may not work optimally if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again, with your consent, when you re-visit our website.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
- With respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- You have the right to supplement, correct, or have us delete your personal data, whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- You have the right to request all your personal data from the controller, and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- You have the right to object to the processing of your data, and we will comply with this.
To exercise these rights, please contact us, referring to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy.
If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office).
10. Contact details
For questions and / or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
The Old Inn
Flowerdale Glen
Gairloch
IV21 2BD
Scotland
https://gairlochhighlandlodge.net
info@gairlochhighlandlodge.net
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