1. WHAT ARE THESE TERMS

1.1 What these terms cover: This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies when you make use of our website https://www.daylesfordstays.com (our site). Use of our site includes accessing or browsing or placing reservations.

1.2   Print or Save:  You should print a copy of this policy or save them to your device for future reference.


  1. ABOUT US

2.1 Who we are.  ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’ means The Fox at Oddington LLP, a company registered in England and Wales under company number OC433190 and with our registered office at 43 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BG as the operator of The Bell.  We are a limited liability partnership company.

2.2 How to contact us: We can be contacted by email to guest.services@thebellatcharlbury.com or by phone at 01451 767000.


  1. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may revise this policy at any time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.  Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make.   We will also provide a new notification banner in the event of a change to the cookies used.


  1. WHAT ARE COOKIES

4.1. General: Cookies are files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website and which may then be retransmitted to the site the next time you visit.

4.2 Variations: There are different types of cookies and functions vary depending on their characteristics.  They also stay on the device for different periods of time.

4.3 First-Party Cookies: These are cookies set by the website owner.

4.4 Third-Party Cookies: These are set by parties other than the website owner.  They enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. booking system, advertising, interactive content).  The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

4.5 Why are they used: Cookies are widely used by owners of sites in order to make websites work (referred to as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies, or work more efficiently (“functionality cookies”).  They may store information about how you use the site to allow us to improve our site by helping us to understand how people are using our site or provide other analytics.  Cookies may allow us to distinguish your device from other users of our website and track your interests and preferences so that information doesn’t have to be repeatedly provided we can enhance your experience.

4.6 Further information: You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and  www.youronlinechoices.eu


  1. ACCEPTANCE OF COOKIES

5.1 Notification Banner: When you first access our site, you will receive a notification banner clear message advising you that cookies are in use.  This message may also appear if we change any cookies in use that have a bearing on this policy.  At this point only ‘essential cookies’ are in use as we do not require your consent to use of those cookies.  By clicking to ‘accept’ you signify that you understand and agree to the use of all cookies, as further described in this policy.  By clicking ‘decline’, only the use of ‘essential cookies’ shall remain, and you can’t turn them off within our systems unless your change your browser settings.  However, access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.  Alternatively, you can also exercise your rights to set your preferences for cookie usage by selecting which categories of cookies you accept or reject.  You cannot reject ‘essential cookies’ as they are strictly necessary to provide you with the website.  We will only use ‘essential cookies’ unless you have given your prior consent to use of other cookies.

5.2 Preference Period: Once you have interacted with our messages your preferences will remain valid for a period of twelve (12) months.  However, we also provide access to a Cookie Consent Manager on our website enabling you to change your preferences.

5.3 Browser control:  Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings, including the ability to refuse or restrict cookies or and to delete cookies after they have been placed on your device.  However, this may affect the functionality of the websites you visit.  You should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

5.4 Advertising network control: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising.  For more information, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.


  1. COOKIES WE USE ON THE SITE

6.1 Essential Cookies: these cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

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Purpose: Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode.
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Service: Cloudflare View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 30 minutes

6.2 Analytics and customisation Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site.  The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, the pages visitors have visited on the site and where visitors have come to the site from.  We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.  This allows us to make improvements to the site by understanding how people use it.  They can also be used to measure how effective our marketing campaigns are.  The cookies may also be used to recognize you when you visit our site and return.  This enables us to customize our site for you and remember any preferences.

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Purpose: Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions
Provider: .thebellatcharlbury.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days
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Purpose: Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user
Provider: .thebellatcharlbury.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days

6.3 Performance and Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of the site but are nonessential to its use.  However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

6.4 Targeting/advertising cookies:  These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  They prevent the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers and, in some cases, select advertisements that are based on your interests.  We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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Purpose: __________
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Service: __________
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Expires in: 30 days
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6.5 Social Networking cookies: These cookies enable you to share the site content through third-party social networks and other websites.  These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.


  1. OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

7.1 Web beacons: We may use web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”).  These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited the site or opened an email including them.  This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within the site to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns.  In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functionality.

7.2 Flash cookies: Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about use of services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.  If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your device you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage used the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel.  You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies, how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your device without being asked and (For Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).  Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications.


  1. THIRD PARTY TARGETED ADVERTISING

Third parties may serve cookies or web beacons on your device to serve advertising through our website.  These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in.  They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.  The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.


  1. LINKED SITES

The website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications (including our online booking and reservation system).  Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.  We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.  When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy and cookie notice of that new site.