Acknowledgements

I have credited here the original authors of the work I have used to create various elements of this site.

Terms of Use

By using www.tywynholidays.co.uk (the "Site"), you signify your agreement to all terms of use, conditions and notices contained or referenced herein (the "Terms of Use"). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use this Site. No contract or engagement is created by this web-site. tywynholidays.co.uk is not obliged to respond to any enquiries.

tywynholidays.co.uk reserves the right to require reasonable identification before following up with any enquiries. The Web is an evolving medium and therefore tywynholidays.co.uk reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to update or revise these Terms of Use at any time. Please check the Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use constitutes tacit acceptance of those changes.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Third party links and resources on our site

This Site may produce automated search results or otherwise link you to other sites on the internet. These other sites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites are not under the control of tywynholidays.co.uk, and you hereby acknowledge that tywynholidays.co.uk does not make any representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such other sites. Inclusion of any such link on this site does not imply endorsement of the site, or any other aspect of the information located on such sites by tywynholidays.co.uk, nor does it imply any association with its operators.

Linking to our site

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists without our consent. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below. If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact p.ratcliffe@tywynholidays.co.uk.


Acceptable Use Policy

Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.

You may not use our site:

  • in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation
  • in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect
  • for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way
  • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards
  • to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam)

You also agree:

  • not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site (except as otherwise provided for in these terms)
  • not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt: any part of our site; any equipment or network on which our site is stored; any software used in the provision of our site, or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of these Terms upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site
  • immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site
  • issue of a warning to you
  • legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach
  • further legal action against you
  • disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Disclaimer of warranties

All content is provided "as is" and "as available" for your use. The content is provided without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. tywynholidays.co.uk and its respective affiliates from time to time do not warrant that the content is accurate, reliable or correct; that this site will be available at any particular time or location; that any defects or errors will be corrected; or that the content is free of viruses or other harmful components. Your use of this site is solely at your risk. Because some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties, these exclusions may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances shall tywynholidays.co.uk and its respective affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, this site. This limitation applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if tywynholidays.co.uk or its respective affiliates have been advised of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, tywynholidays.co.uk and its respective affiliates' liability in such jurisdictions shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

By using this Site you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless tywynholidays.co.uk company, its respective affiliates, managing directors, principals, agents, employees, contractors, officers, and directors from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney's fees, that arise from: (a) any content posted by you to the Site; or (b) any use or misuse of this Site by you. tywynholidays.co.uk reserves the right, at it own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with tywynholidays.co.uk in asserting any available defences.

Choice of law and forum

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Severability

Unless otherwise specified herein, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and tywynholidays.co.uk with respect to this Site and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and tywynholidays.co.uk with respect to this Site. If any provision of this Terms of Use is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future law effective during the term hereof, such provision shall be fully severable and this Terms of Use shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision never comprised a part hereof, and the remaining provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision or by its severance from these terms.

Termination

tywynholidays.co.uk reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of this Site, with or without notice.

Copyright notice

All rights, including copyright, in the content of these web pages are owned or controlled for these purposes by tywynholidays.co.uk. The material on this website includes, without limitation, the text, SEO functionality, artwork, photographs, images, and all audio and/ or visual material on this website).

In accessing the tywynholidays.co.uk's web pages, you agree that you may only download the content for your own personal non-commercial use.

Except where expressly stated otherwise, you are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of these tywynholidays.co.uk web pages for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of tywynholidays.co.uk.

OUR PRIVACY POLICY

tywynholidays.co.uk ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use)  sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully as this privacy policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site.

We do update this policy from time to time so please do review this policy regularly.

Information we collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:
  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site (tywynholidays.co.uk);
  • Information provided voluntarily by you. For example, when you register for information or make a purchase;
  • Information that you provide when you communicate with us by any means;
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders;
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

Cookies

This website blog section of this site uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for website's to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a users computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the users computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the users interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through it's server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it's external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor it's visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Storing Your Personal Data

In operating our website it may become necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Union for processing and storing. By providing your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We do our upmost to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure that your data is treated stored securely.
Unfortunately the sending of information via the internet is not totally secure and on occasion such information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send us electronically.  Sending such information is entirely at your own risk.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:
  • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
  • and to notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by post or telephone.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you by electronic means with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please let us know.

Disclosure of your information

We may 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 tywynholidays.co.uk or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred 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 to protect the rights, property, or 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.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (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. 
Our site 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.

Access to information

The Data Protection Act 1998 Act ( the “Act”)  gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contacting Us

To contact us, please email p.ratcliffe@tywynholidays.co.uk

Thank you for visiting our site.

 

Credits

Images
The professional-looking images on this site were provided by Matthew Sillence. View Matthew's work at 500pxart.com/mattsillence

Videos
The fantastic beach-walk video on the home page was created by AltaVideo

Template Design
The template was provided by templatemo.com

Blog Page
The blog plugin was provided by WordPress

Availability Calendar
Chris Bolsen coded the availability calendar. For more information and examples, see:http://www.cbolson.com/

Enquiry Form
The enquiry form was adapted (minimally) from a form designed by Jennifer Perrin. This work has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Apartment Photo Gallery
This gallery was created by Trent Foley.

Gallery on Home Page
This gallery was created using juicebox™. Download a copy from juicebox.net.

Photo Sliders
The photo sliders that appear on various pages throughout the site were provided by dev7studios.com.

Tywyn Photo Gallery
This gallery was created by Mary Lou.