Welcome to The Villas Collective’s privacy notice.
The Villa Collective respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This
privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website
(regardless of where you visit it from) or when you otherwise provide personal data to us via other
means (such as over the telephone) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so that you can easily click through to the specific
areas set out below. Alternatively you can download a pdf version of the policy
Please also use refer to the Glossary that we have set out at the end of the Policy, if there is any
terminology used in this privacy notice that you are unfamiliar with or that you don’t fully understand.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how The Villa Collective collects and processes
your personal data, including any data you may provide through this website or via any other means
(such as over the telephone) when you purchase travel services, when you sign up to our newsletter,
when you take part in a competition etc.
This website is not intended for children and the only circumstances in which we collect data
relating to children, is where you make a booking of travel services and you have children in your
party.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair
processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal
data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy
notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Collective Group Ltd t/a The Villa Collective is the controller and responsible for your personal data
(collectively referred to as The Villa Collective, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice.
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this
privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise
your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the
details set out below.
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity:
Collective Group Limited
Name or title of data privacy manager:
Nick Cookson
Email address:
nick@villacollective.com
Postal address:
119, Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Rd, London W2 5EU
Telephone number:
+44 (0) 203 950 1588
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the
UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the
chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first
instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on 16/05/2018 and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us
informed if any of the details you provide to us should change, during the course of your relationship
with us.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. 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 notice of every website you visit.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that
person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous
data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have
grouped together follows:
This includes data relating specifically to your identity, such as your first name, maiden name, last
name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
This includes data relating specifically to your identity, such as your first name, maiden name, last
name, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
This includes data relating to how you may be contacted, such as your billing address, delivery address,
email address and telephone numbers.
This includes data relating to your means and methods of payment, such as your bank account and payment
card details.
This includes data relating to the transactions you have carried out with us, such as details about
payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
This includes more technical data that we may obtain when you make use of our website, such as your
internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and
location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the
devices you use to access this website.
This includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
This includes your preferences in relation to whether or not you want to receive marketing from us and
our third parties and also your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.
Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as
this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage
Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine
or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you,
we will treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy
notice.
We collect the following special categories of personal data about you.
Details about your:
We collect and process the above data only where it is strictly necessary to do so in order to deliver
the travel service that you have purchased. Furthermore, we will only collect and process the above
special categories of sensitive personal data where you have provided us with your explicit consent to
do so.
You are not under any obligation to consent to us processing your sensitive personal data. However,
without your consent, we won’t be able to make the necessary arrangements to provide the travel services
that you have booked or are attempting to book. As a result, if you do not provide your consent, we will
be unable to proceed with your booking.
If you are happy to consent to our use of your sensitive personal data, you will also be able to
withdraw your consent at any time. However, as this will prevent us from providing the travel service
you have booked, we will be required to treat any withdrawal of consent as a cancellation of your
booking and the cancellations in clause [TBA] of our Booking Terms and Conditions will become payable.
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you
fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are
trying to enter into with you.
In other words, where we require details from you in order to provide you with your chosen travel
services, if you do not provide us with the necessary details then we will not be able to provide the
services you have booked or are attempting to book.
In this case, depending upon when you fail to provide the necessary data, we may either not be able to
process your booking or we may have to cancel your booking, in which case we will treat this as a
‘cancellation by you’ in accordance with our Booking Terms and Conditions. We will notify you if we are unable to process a
booking or are required to cancel a booking for this reason.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
You may give us your Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Technical, Usage and Marketing
Communications Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
This includes personal data you provide when you:
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment,
browsing actions and patterns.
We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also
receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further
details.
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
Technical Data from the following parties:
Search information providers such as:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your
personal data in the following circumstances:
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in
relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message . You have the
right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal
data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate
interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific
purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on
to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in
relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message . You have the
right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer. | a) Identity; (b) Contact. (C) Marketing and Communications. |
Performance of a contract with you. |
To process and deliver your booking including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges; (b) Collect and recover money owed to us. |
(a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Financial; (d) Transaction; (e) Marketing and Communications. |
(a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us). |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy; (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey. |
(a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Profile; (d) Marketing and Communications. |
(a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation; (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services). |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey. | (a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Profile; (d) Usage; (e) Marketing and Communications. |
(a) Performance of a contract with you; (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business). |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data). |
(a) Identity; (b) Contact; (c) Technical. |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise); (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation. |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
(a) Technical (b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around
marketing and advertising.
We have established the following personal data control mechanisms :
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you
may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and
offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased
services from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside The
Villa Collective group of companies for marketing purposes.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the
opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data that you
have provided to us as a result of a purchase of travel services or other such transactions.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or
access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become
inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookies policy .
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably
consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original
purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible
with the original purpose, please contact
us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain
the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with
the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in
the table in paragraph 4 above.
Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Specific third parties, such as:
Villa owners
Villa managers
Villa agency partners
On location service providers
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to
our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this
privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in
accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data
for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and
in accordance with our instructions.
We share your personal data within the Company. This will involve transferring your data outside the
European Economic Area (EEA).
Many of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their
processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Where you have made a booking of travel services which are located or otherwise due to be fulfilled
outside the EEA, we are required and are permitted to transfer your personal data to the supplier of
the services that you have purchased, outside the EEA in order to:
For all other transfers of data that are unrelated to the provision of travel services to you,
whenever your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection
is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Please contact us if you want
further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of
the EEA.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we
limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties
who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and
they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you
and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected
it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and
sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of
your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve
those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In addition to the above, by law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including
Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers
for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: you can contact us and Request erasure.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated
with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information
indefinitely without further notice to you.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal
data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights).
However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your
right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure
to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also
contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a
month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we
will notify you and keep you updated.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer
than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this
case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our
business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We
make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and
your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use
your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you
(unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain
further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on
you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Means processing your data where it is necessary for the
performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before
entering into such a contract.
Means processing your personal data where
it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
Other companies in The Villa Collective acting as joint controllers
or processors and who are based Vietnam and provide IT and system administration services and
undertake leadership reporting.
You have the right to:
To your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).
This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are
lawfully processing it.
Of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have
any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the
accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove
personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right
to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to
object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where
we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not
always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be
notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest
(or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you
want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and
freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct
marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to
process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to
suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
Of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to
you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used,
machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you
initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with
you.
Where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your
consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to
you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.