Privacy Policy

Bekonscot Model Village (“We”) commit ourselves to protecting and respecting your privacy when visiting our website. We’re a nice bunch of people here, we don’t like spam, and we comply with all necessary legal requirements. We provide all information on this website in good faith and are here to ultimately give you a jolly good fun day out.

We will not sell, give away or share your individual data that you trust us with.

This privacy policy sets out how we will process and use any personal data that you provide to us, or that we may collect as a result of visiting our website which can be accessed from the URLs www.bekonscot.com, www.bekonscot.org.uk, www.bekonscot.co.uk and others responding to the same address. Please read the following information to understand our practices with regards to your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Any information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes provided information at the time of registering to use the virtual village, e-postcards, posting on the blogs, subscribing to newsletters (they’re very interesting, if you haven’t signed up, by the way), contacting us for bookings, requesting further services or subscribing to any service offered by us on the site. We might also request further information and if you should report a problem with our site.
We may keep a record of any correspondence if you should contact us.
Details of the resources you access and of your visits to our site
Details of transactions you may carry out through our site and of the completion of your orders.

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer; this is statistical data concerning your browsing actions and does not identify you individually. This information includes your IP address where available, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report collective information to any advertisers.

We may also collect information about your general internet usage using cookie files stored on the hard drive of all computers. The cookies contain valuable information that is transferred to your computers hard drive. In collecting this information we are able to improve our site and deliver a better and more personalised service.

You can refuse to accept cookies but note that in doing this you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. You can do this by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting.

Where we store your personal data

Any data that we collect from you is stored within the European Economic Area (EEA). This data will only be processed by staff operating inside the EEA working area. In submitting your personal data, you agree to the storing and processing of this data. To ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy we will endeavour to take all reasonable necessary steps in protecting your privacy.

We will do our best to protect your personal data, but unfortunately, the transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our sites. Any transmission of data is at your own risk.

Uses made of he information

We use the information held about you in the following ways:

To notify you of any changes to our service.
To ensure that the content of our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
Where you have consented to be contacted, to provide you with the information, products and services requested from us or in the event that we feel will be of interest to you.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, should you choose to do so.
In allowing ourselves to carry out our obligations concerning any contracts entered into between you and us.

We may also use your data to inform you and provide information on goods and services that may be of interest to you.

If you do not want your data used in this way or passed onto third parties for marketing purposes please tick the relevant box on the form in which we collect your data.

We do not disclose information which will identify individuals to our advertisers. We may however provide them with collective information about our users. We may also use collective data to help our advertisers reach their target audience. The data collected may also be used by us in order to comply with our advertiser’s wishes in displaying their advertisement to their target audience.

Disclosure of your information

We will never disclose your personal information to third parties, with the exceptions of:

To the prospective buyer or seller of any business or assets in the event that the company is sold or bought.

If we are under a duty to comply with any legal obligation to disclose or share your personal data. To protect the rights, property and safety of our customers or others, or to enforce our terms of use for the site. For the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction this may include exchanging information with other companies and organisations.

Third party websites

From time to time our site may contain links to and from the websites of our friends, suppliers, partner networks, advertisers or affiliates. If you visit any of these sites please note that they have their own privacy policies and you should check these before submitting any personal data. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Access to information

In accordance with the Act you can exercise the right to access any information we hold about you. Any request may be subject to a fee in order to meet our costs in providing any details of the information we may hold about you.