Our Policies

Privacy & Cookie Policy

This Privacy Policy together with any other documents referred to herein sets out the basis upon which personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Who we are
“We” or “us” means The Barn at Mead Farm, Edale Road, Hope, Derbyshire, S33 6SF

Information we collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us.
You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide if you register to use our website, subscribe to our service, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our website, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our website. The information you give us may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, date of birth, financial information; personal description; dietary requirements; medical conditions; allergies; dependants personal information, next of kin details, employment status/history.

Information we collect about you.
With regard to visits to our website we may automatically collect the following information:

  • technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
  • about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call us.

Information we receive from other sources.
We may receive information about you from third parties such as online travel agents or booking engines. When that data is collected from you, you should be informed by those third parties at that stage that it may be shared internally by us and combined with data collected from multiple sources.

We also work with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

Information we receive from cookies.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Further details can be found in our Cookie Policy.  By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us.
We will use this information to:

  • notify you about changes to our service
  • ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device.

Where you have indicated to us that you are happy for us to do so, we may also use this information to:

  • provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already enquired about or receive from us; and
  • provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please leave the relevant box blank situated on the form on which we collect your data.

Information we collect about you.
Examples of how we will use this information includes (but is not limited) to:

  • administer our services, and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
  • improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device
  • allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so
  • keep our services, website and premises safe and secure
  • measure or understand the effectiveness of our service

Information we receive from other sources.
We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above depending on the types of information we receive.

Disclosure of your information
You agree that we can share your personal information with:

  • our suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them to allow us to provide services to you, and only where they are under a duty to deal with your personal data in accordance with the law; and
  • anonymously, with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website or business.
  • We use third party processors and as such may share your information with them. The processing of this information will be in line with the third parties.

Privacy Policy.
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions of supply of services and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or our safety, the safety of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area. By providing us with your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing and/or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on secure servers operated by a third party. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will ask for your permission before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. If you have given us permission to disclose information about you to a third party, you may revoke that permission at any time by contacting us in writing.

You have the right (subject to certain restrictions) to request any of the following; we ask that you send such requests to our contact details as listed above:

  • Access – to access all the personal data we hold about you
  • Erasure – that we erase all personal data we hold about you, if that data is no longer being used for the purposes you have consented to or if you revoke your consent
  • Portability – to copy or transfer the personal data we hold about you to another party

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Data retention

We will not store your data for any longer than is necessary. If you are a user of our services, then your information will be held for as long as you continue to use our services.

If you cease to use our services, your personal data will be anonymised for statistical purposes shortly after you stop using our services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process.  When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy. We may notify users by email of changes to this Policy.

Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about how we process your personal data you can get in touch by email at info@thebarnatmeadfarm.com so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to make a complaint directly to a supervisory authority by contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK.

By contacting us, using our services or visiting our website (www.thebarnatmeadfarm.com) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy unless you inform us otherwise.

Effective Date: 1 January 2022