The use of the web pages and services provided to the visitor/user by the website rhodesvillas.com, owned by «Rhodes Luxury Villas», hereinafter “the Company”, presupposes your unconditional agreement with the present website’s Privacy Policy regarding the Protection of Personal Data. Therefore, the visitor/user is required to read carefully the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If you do not agree, you must leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or developments in the industry. We will not explicitly inform our customers or users of our website of such changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any changes to this Privacy Policy. The continued use of the COMPANY website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy, means your unconditional acceptance of these terms on your part.
We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary.
We will never sell, rent, distribute or in any way disclose your personal data.
If you are under 16 years of age, you must have your parents’ consent before you use the services of this website.
Alongside the internal IT systems of our company, this website has been designed so as to comply, with regard to the protection of users’ personal data, with the following laws/regulations:
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Monitoring website traffic
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user activity. We use these data to determine the number of people who use our website, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their path through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, your device, your internet browser and your operating system, none of this information makes you personally known to us. GA also records the IP address of your computer, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor which is compliant with the requirements of European legislation.
Contact forms and email links
If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link on our website, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transferred to or processed by any third-party data processor, as defined below in the section “Our third-party data processors”. Instead, these data will be emailed to us via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS security protocol (sometimes also known as SSL), which means that email contents are encrypted before being sent over the internet. The contents of the email are decrypted on our local computers and devices.
Email newsletter
If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter, the email address you submit will be forwarded to MailChimp, which provides us with email marketing services. MailChimp is a third-party data processor (see the section “Our third-party data processors” below). The email address you submit will not be stored in the database within the website or in any of our company’s internal IT systems.
Your email address will remain in MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use its services for our email marketing or until you explicitly request its removal from the list. You can do this by using the unsubscribe link contained in all email newsletters we send you.
For as long as your email address remains in MailChimp’s database, you will periodically (approximately once a month) receive email newsletters from us.
What is a cookie?
The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a series of information in text form, which the website transfers to the web browser found on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily for the duration of your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, they distinguish you from other visitors to the same website or remember certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie, as well as a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
The basic types of cookies that websites may use are described below.
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies
These remain in the cookie file of your browser even after the browser is closed, sometimes for one year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g. to remember your username or your preferences for the customization of the website).
First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed in the browser and/or on the hard drive of your device by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identification code to you for the purpose of tracking your navigation on the website. Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
On this website, we use cookies to improve visitors’ experience of using the site. The operation of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Below is information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and the impact that disabling them will have on the website’s functionality. If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics cookies are analytics/performance cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can inform us about how many visitors use the website, the time and duration of access, and also provide information on how visitors navigate the various parts of the site. This information helps us improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transmitted to and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.
For more information regarding the Google Analytics service, please click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can disable tracking by Google Analytics by clicking on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en=GB
If you disable these cookies, your use of the website will not be counted and will not be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. The operation of the website will not be affected.
Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.
Cookies from social networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our website with them by clicking on one of the embedded “Share” buttons.
If you disable these cookies, the “Share” function will not be available.
All web traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These entities have been carefully selected so as to comply with the legislation mentioned in this text.
For any of your personal information that is stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to ensure its protection.
We will report any unlawful breach of the database of this website or the database of any third-party data processor to any and all directly concerned individuals as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, where it is obvious that personal data stored in identifiable form have been stolen.
