Privacy Policy

This website collects some personal data from its users. This page explains what is collected, why, and your rights.

Data controller and owner

8 Owls Bed and Breakfast, 8 High Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9DU, UK. Email: info@8owls.co.uk.

Types of data collected

Among the types of personal data that this website collects, by itself or through third parties, are: cookie and usage data, and any details you choose to give us through the contact form (name, email address and the content of your message).

Personal data may be freely provided by the user, or collected automatically when using this website. Any use of cookies or other tracking tools by this website or by the owners of third-party services used by this website, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the user.

Failure to provide certain personal data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. Users are responsible for any personal data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this website and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the data to the owner.

Third-party services used by this website

The following services are embedded in or linked from this website and may set their own cookies or collect usage data under their own privacy policies:

• eviivo, our online booking system. Booking data is entered on eviivo's website, not ours.
• Google Maps, embedded on the Find Us and Contact pages.
• Google Fonts, which serves the typefaces used on this site.
• Our contact form provider, which passes messages from the contact form to our email inbox.

Mode and place of processing the data

Methods of processing

The data controller processes the data of users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorised destruction of the data.

The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the data controller, in some cases the data may be accessible to certain persons involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as data processors by the owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the data controller at any time.

Place

The data is processed at the data controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the data controller.

Retention time

The data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the user, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the user can always request that the data controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected data

The data concerning the user is collected to allow the owner to provide its services, to respond to enquiries, and for analytics where an analytics service is in use.

Additional information about data collection and processing

Legal action

The user's personal data may be used for legal purposes by the data controller, in court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this website or the related services. The user declares to be aware that the data controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this website (system logs) or use for this purpose other personal data (such as IP address).

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of personal data may be requested from the data controller at any time using the contact details above.

The rights of users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their personal data has been stored and can consult the data controller to learn about its contents and origin, to verify its accuracy or to ask for it to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for its transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose its processing for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the data controller at the contact details above.

This website does not support "Do Not Track" requests. To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honour "Do Not Track" requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The data controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its users on this page. If a user objects to any of the changes, the user must cease using this website and can request that the data controller removes their personal data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all personal data the data controller holds about users.

Definitions

Personal data: any information regarding a natural person that is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information. Usage data: information collected automatically from this website or third-party services it uses, such as IP addresses, the pages requested, the time of the request, browser and operating system details and the path followed within the website. User: the individual using this website. Data controller: the person or organisation that decides the purposes and means of processing personal data; unless otherwise specified, the owner of this website. Cookie: a small piece of data stored on the user's device.

This privacy policy relates solely to this website. Latest update: September 2026.