Privacy Policy & Cookies

This site is owned and managed by Downs Farm, and can be contacted via DownsFarmScilly@gmail.com

Cookies:  This site uses cookies. Cookies are small data files that improve your experience of using this website. Cookies do not identify you personally.

Managing the cookies on your computer:  You can restrict or block cookies set by our website and others by changing the settings in your browser. Doing this however may impact the way our website works for you in the future. Visit the About Cookies website at http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/ to find out more about restricting or blocking cookies in different browsers.

Visit the About Cookies website at www.aboutcookies.org.uk to find out more about restricting or blocking cookies in different browsers. 

Website management: Our website is developed using a website hosting company squarespace.com. To enable the website to run effectively the following cookies are on the website, these also ensure your security when using our website and provide analytics on the website.

_acloggedin: Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account. Cookie. January 1, 2025.

ACUITY_CART: Stores details about a client's package, gift, or subscription purchase, including the item purchased and the quantity. Only applies to the new scheduler. local storage. No expiration.

_client_acloggedin: Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account. Cookie. January 1, 2025

_dd_cookie_test: Tests if cookies are supported. Cookie. Expires instantly.

_dd_s: Tracks browser errors. Cookie. Four hours.

_dd_site_test: Tests if cookies are supported. Cookie. Expires instantly.

_grecaptcha: Helps reduce spam in Acuity Scheduling. local storage. No expiry.

_ssid: Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes. Cookie. Four years

CART: Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart. Cookie. Two weeks.

CHECKOUT_WEBSITE: Identifies the correct site for checkout when checkout on your domain is disabled. Cookie. Session.

client_username: Remembers a logged in Acuity Scheduling client's username between visits. Cookie. One year.

clientUser: Stores the Acuity Scheduling client's username, OAuth2 Access Token, and OAuth2 Refresh Token. This cookie is required for functionality of logged-in clients. Cookie. 30 days.

Commerce-checkout-state: Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal. session storage. Session.

Crumb: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Cookie. Session.

hasCart: Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart. Cookie. Two weeks

Locked: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. Cookie. Session.

orderStatusSessionToken: Authenticates a visitor who logs into an order status page. Cookie. One year.

PHPSESSID: Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Acuity Scheduling. Cookie. One month.

RecentRedirect: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. Cookie. 30 minutes.

remember_client: Remembers Acuity Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account. Cookie. 365 days.

siteUserCrumb: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users. Cookie. Three years.

SiteUserInfo: Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account. Cookie. Three years.

SiteUserSecureAuthToken: Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account. Cookie. Three years.

squarespace-announcement-bar: Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it. local storage. Persistent.

squarespace-likes: Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post. local storage. Persistent.

squarespace-popup-overlay: Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it. local storage. Persistent.

squarespace-video-player-options: Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace. local storage. Persistent.

ss_cookieAllowed: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies. Cookie. 30 days.

ss_sd: Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions. Cookie. Session

Test: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors. Cookie. Session.

TZ: Enables a Acuity Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences. local storage. Persistent.

Third party cookies:  Third party cookies are set by other websites. We use their online tools to make our website work better for you. 

Google analytics

Measuring website usage through Google analytics We use Google Analytics to view statistics on the way you use our website. We can check:

  • How many people have visited our website and what content they look at

  • How you got to our site

  • How many times documents have been downloaded

  • What people are looking for on our website

We use the following third party cookies set by Google Analytics.

  • _ga Used to distinguish users and expires after two years.

  • _gid Used to distinguish users and expires after 24 hours.

  • _gat Used to throttle request rate and expires after 24 hours. collect Used to send date to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour, expires end of session.

For more information, please read Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB 

Embedded content: We embed videos on some pages of our website. These services set cookies when you visit a page that includes their content.

Guest Registration: We are required to collect the following information about all guests aged 16 years and over and retain it for 12 months:

  • For guests who are British, Irish or Commonwealth citizens: Full name and nationality. 

  • For all other guests: Full name, nationality, passport number and place of issue and details of next destination and full address there if known. 

This information, the information we need to contact you and any other information you choose to share with us will be kept for no more than 5 years, unless you ask us to destroy your records. We will never share this information with a third party. We will use this information solely to comply with legislation and to market Downs Farm accommodation to you.

We also reserve the right at any time to ask you for any other information we are required to collect by applicable law.

You have a right to access the personal data that is held about you. You can also advise us if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

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