This privacy policy applies to Ravenswood Hall Hotel. We strive to deliver outstanding products, services, and experiences. We value your business and, more importantly, your loyalty. We recognise that privacy is a major concern and are committed to safeguarding your privacy online.  This privacy policy explains our practices regarding the personal information we collect from you or about you on this site or via our apps, through written or verbal communications with us, when you visit our property, or from other sources.

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What information do we collect about you?

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At every touch point or guest interaction, and in conducting every aspect of our business, we may collect personal information. This personal information may include: your contact information; information related to your reservation, stay or visit; participation in a membership or loyalty program; participation in a contest, sweepstakes, or marketing program (even if you do not stay with us); information related to the purchase and receipt of products or services; personal characteristics, nationality, income, passport number and date and place of issue; travel history; payment information, such as your payment card number and other card information, as well as authentication information and other billing and account details associated with mobile billing; guest preferences; marketing and communication preferences; information about vehicles you may bring onto our property; reviews and opinions about our hotel (if they are identified or associated with you); groups with which you are associated for stays at the hotel; information provided on membership and account applications; and other types of information that you choose to provide to us or that we may obtain about you.

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We may ask for details on joint travellers, including their names. We may also collect information related to conversations, including recording or monitoring customer service calls for quality assurance and training purposes, and other communications such as in-app messages and SMS.

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We collect information about you when you register for our database, book with us, or order online gift vouchers. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete guest surveys, provide feedback and participate in competitions. Website usage information is collected using cookies. 

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• On-property Collection:  We collect additional personal information during registration/check-in at our hotel, including such information as may be required by law. We may also use closed circuit television and other security measures at our property that may capture or record images of guests and visitors in public areas, as well as information related to your location while on our property (via other technologies). We may also use closed-circuit television and other technologies that record sound or video for the protection of our staff, guests and visitors to our property where permitted by law.

• Event Profiles:  If you plan an event with us, we collect meeting and event specifications, the date of the event, number of guests, details of the guest rooms, and, for corporate events, information on your organization (name, annual budget, and number of sponsored events per year). We also collect information about the guests that are a part of your group or event. If you visit us as part of a group, we may have personal information about you provided to us by the group and may market to you as a result of your stay with a group or attendance at an event in accordance with your preferences as permitted by law. If you visit us as part of an event, we may share personal information about you with the event planners, as permitted by law. If you are an event planner we may also share information about your event with third-party service providers who may market event services to you as permitted by law.

• Social Media: If you choose to participate in Ravenwood Hall sponsored social media activities or offerings, we may collect certain information from your social media account consistent with your settings within the social media service, such as location, check-ins, activities, interests, photos, status updates and friend list. We may also allow you to enter into contests to provide photos, such as of your stay with us, which you may share with your connections on social media for votes, shared offers or other promotions.

 

How will we use the information about you?

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Marketing and Communications: Where permitted we may use your personal information to provide or offer you newsletters, promotions and featured specials, as well as other marketing messages in accordance with any communications preferences you have expressed. We use your information to provide reservation confirmations; to send you marketing messages; and to conduct surveys, sweepstakes, prize draws, and other contests. We may provide these communications via email, postal mail, online advertising, social media, telephone, text message (including SMS and MMS), push notifications, in-app messaging, and other means. With your consent, we also use user-generated content (such as photos) from social media services to deliver display advertising or on our website and apps. Ravenwood Hall Hotel will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside Ravenwood Hall Hotel. In reserving a table, your details will automatically be provided to BookaTable, who may use your information to contact you about your upcoming booking, and request feedback.

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If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt out at a later date. You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any email we send.

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Other:  In addition, Ravenwood Hall may disclose personal information in order to: (i) comply with applicable laws, (ii) respond to governmental inquiries or requests from public authorities, (iii) comply with valid legal process, (iv) protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of Ravenwood Hall, site visitors, guests, employees or the public, (v) permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain, (vi) enforce our websites' terms and conditions, and (vii) respond to an emergency.

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COOKIES

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Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. For further information, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

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You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

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SENSITIVE INFORMATION

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The term "sensitive information" refers to information related to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life, or sexual orientation, genetic information, criminal background, and any biometric data used for the purpose of unique identification. We do not generally collect sensitive information unless it is volunteered by you. We may use health data provided by you to serve you better and meet your particular needs (for example, the provision of disability access).

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PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

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We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 years of age. As a parent or legal guardian, please do not to allow your children to submit personal information without your permission.

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PROTECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Ravenwood Hall will take reasonable measures to: (i) protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, and (ii) keep personal information accurate and up-to-date as appropriate. We also seek to require our affiliates and service providers with whom we share personal information to exercise reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of personal information about you. For online transactions, we use reasonable technological measures to protect the personal information that you transmit to us via our site. Unfortunately, however, no security system or system of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure.

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For your own privacy protection, please do not send payment card numbers or any other confidential personal information to us via email.

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We will not contact you by mobile/text messaging or email to ask for your confidential personal information or payment card details. We will only ask for payment card details by telephone when you are booking a reservation or promotional package.

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CHANGING AND ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

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To the extent required by applicable law, you may be able to request that we inform you about the personal information we maintain about you and, where appropriate, request that we update, correct and/or delete personal information about you that we maintain in our active database. We will make all required updates and changes within the time specified by applicable law and, where permitted by law, may charge an appropriate fee to cover the costs of responding to the request. Such requests must be submitted in writing to enquiries@ravenwoodhall.co.uk or to the following address – Ravenwood Hall Hotel, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds IP30 9JA.  To protect your confidentiality, we can only respond to such requests to the email address that you have registered or otherwise provided to us. Please remember that if you make such a request, we may not be able to provide you with the same quality and variety of services to which you are accustomed. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

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RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

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We retain personal information about you for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

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We will destroy your personal information as early as practicable and in a way that the information may not be restored or reconstructed.

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If printed on paper, the personal information will be destroyed in a secure manner, such as by cross-shredding or incinerating the paper documents or otherwise and, if saved in electronic form, the personal information will be destroyed by technical means to ensure the information may not be restored or reconstructed at a later time.

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OTHER WEBSITES

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Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

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We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 27th March 2018.

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HOW TO CONTACT US

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Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:

By email – enquiries@ravenwoodhall.co.uk

By post – Ravenwood Hall Hotel, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds IP30 9JA.