Terms and Conditions

The Cottage Beyond

Website Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

These terms tell you the rules for using our website https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/ (our site). Please also see our Acceptable use policy at the end of this document.

Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/ is a site operated by The Cottage Beyond ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number  and have our registered office at The Cottage Beyond Kittisford Barton Wellington GB TA21 0RZ United Kingdom. Our main trading address is The Cottage Beyond Kittisford Barton Wellington GB TA21 0RZ United Kingdom. Our VAT number is 162693687.

To contact us, please email info@thecottagebeyond.co.uk or call 07843529072.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Policy: https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/terms#privacy.

• Our Cookie Policy: https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/terms#cookies.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. 

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

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.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@thecottagebeyond.co.uk or 07843529072.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard.

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site and/or otherwise leave comments or feedback, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with all applicable laws. In addition, you must not upload content or otherwise make contributions to our site that: 

• is unlawful or serves an unlawful purpose including terrorism or extremism, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive;

• facilitates illegal activity;

• is in breach of any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

• depicts sexually explicit images;

• harms minors;

• promotes unlawful violence, intimidation or bullying;

• is discriminatory based on race, gender, gender identity, age, colour, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability; 

• is defamatory; 

• infringes third party intellectual property rights; or

• is otherwise illegal or causes damage or injury to any person or property;

and we reserve the right, without liability or prejudice to our other rights, to disable your access to any material and/or remove any content or contribution that constitutes the same.

You warrant that any such contribution you make to our site complies with our standards (we may issue content standards from time to time) and does not breach the above list, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. 

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with our content standards.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service to expire when the user deletes the content from the site;

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

• Please note that we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. 

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/terms#privacy.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

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 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 that 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.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

If you are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to info@thecottagebeyond.co.uk. Please include your name, your organisation name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Site, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Our response may take up to [TIME].

Once approval has been obtained, 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, and we may withdraw permission without notice at any time. 

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

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 link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@thecottagebeyond.co.uk.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

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Acceptable Use Policy

PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE. BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS WHICH BIND YOU. 

1. What’s in these terms

   1.1 This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you use our service, including (but not limited to) the input of data and information, or uploading content, to our Website contacting other users on our Website, link to our Website, or interact with our Website in any other way (these “Terms”).
   
   1.2 It should be read alongside our website terms and conditions: .
   
   1.3 These Terms are provided by The Cottage Beyond (“us / we / our”).

2. By using our Website you accept these Terms
   By using our Website: https://www.thecottagebeyond.co.uk/, you accept the Terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Website. 

3. We may make changes to the Terms of this policy
   We amend these Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the Terms that apply at the time.

4. Prohibited uses

   4.1 For the purposes of this section, the defined term “Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, moral rights, trade marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up and trade dress, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, rights in computer software, computer generated works, algorithms, database rights, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets), and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
   
   4.2 Use of our Website shall be in accordance with our terms of website use
   
   4.3 You may not use our Website:
   
   To process or disclose personal data which has not been requested by us (“personal data” has the meaning given to it in the Data Protection Act 2018); 
   
   a) To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
   
   b) To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

   1. To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out in clause Content standards.

   2. In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation, that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.

   3. Except as specifically allowed for by law or within these Terms, you shall not, (and shall not attempt to);

      1. copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, publish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of the Website including any (or any part of its) contents in any form or by any means, except where permitted within the functionality of the Website; or

      2. reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Website; or

      3. access all or any part of the Website (including any modules) in order to build a product or service which competes with the Website; or

      4. use the Website to commit plagiarism; or 

      5. license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the Website available (and/or any of its contents) to any third party; or

      6. use the Website within a software application, website or software which competes with our operations; or

      7. exceed the indicated storage capability of the Website (as notified to you from time to time);

      8. use screen-recording technology to record and/or capture your use of the Website; 

      9. attempt to obtain, or assist third parties in obtaining, access to the Website; or

      10. in respect of the Website, perform stress tests or similar load testing.

   4. You must not:

      1. infringe our Intellectual Property Rights, including those arising in the Website or its contents, or the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party in relation to use of the Website or its contents;

      2. use our Intellectual Property Rights, other than as permitted under these Terms, without our prior written consent;

      3. permit any third party, to infringe our Intellectual Property Rights or the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party in relation to their use of the Website;

      4. scrape any part of the Website or its contents; 

      5. use the Website in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users; and

      6. collect or harvest any information or data from the Website or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers. 

      7. you understand that any information, data or content input onto the Website will be viewable by us, the primary licensee and such other authorised persons that we may permit from time to time.

   5. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in these Terms should be construed as authority for you to use our Intellectual Property Rights, save for access and use of the Website (which is provided as is) and/or as otherwise agreed by us. 

   6. You are not permitted to use our branding, trade marks and/or logos and we reserve our right to enforce our intellectual property rights against you should you do so. 

5. Content standards

   5.1 These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute, interact with and/or otherwise upload to our Website and in general, your use of the Website (“Contribution”).
   
   5.2 We will determine, in our discretion, whether a Contribution breaches these content standards.
   
   5.3 A Contribution must:
   
      a) Be accurate (where it states facts).
   
      b) Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
   
      c) Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is used and/or posted.
   
   5.4 A Contribution must not:
   
      a) Be defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful, inflammatory, bully, insult, annoy intimidate or humiliate.
   
      b) Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy.
   
      c) Promote any illegal content or activity, including but not limited to financial crime, violence, terrorism or sexual exploitation. 
   
      d) Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age. Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person  including giving the impression that the Contribution emanates from us, if this is not the case.
   
      e) Infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any other person.
   
      f) Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
   
      g) Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person  including giving the impression that the Contribution emanates from us, if this is not the case.

6. Breach of this policy

   6.1 Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of any other agreement entered in respect of the Website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
   
      a) Issue of a warning to you.
   
      b) Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website.
   
      c) Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our Website.
   
      d) The commencement of legal action against you.
   
   6.2 We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
    
7. How this contract can be transferred
   We can transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to any third party, provided this does not adversely affect your rights under these Terms.

8. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
   The Terms of this policy, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Cookies

COOKIE POLICY

This policy sets out information about our use of Cookies on our website.

"We" or "us" means The Cottage Beyond (registered company number [NUMBER]).

Our registered address is The Cottage Beyond Kittisford Barton Wellington GB TA21 0RZ United Kingdom.

“Website” means .

We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller under number [NUMBER].

If you wish to contact us, please click here info@thecottagebeyond.co.uk.

What is a cookie?

A ‘cookie’ is a type of data file that is stored on your device when you visit a website or perform actions while visiting a website. A cookie file contains information that is transferred to your device’s memory which is recalled when you revisit our site, or when you perform certain actions on your device. Where we refer to a cookie in this policy, this incorporates similar tracking technologies.

Necessary Cookies

When you first visit our website, we only use necessary cookies. This means that additional cookies (called “Optional Cookies” in this policy) won’t be used unless you agree to accept/enable all cookies, or select your own cookie preferences.

Optional Cookies

Optional cookies are used for analytical, performance, advanced functionality and advertising purposes. More information is set out in this policy. Optional cookies help us improve our website and we believe accepting all optional cookies provides you with the best user experience.

Cookies can be "First Party", i.e. set by us, or "Third Party", i.e. placed on your device by another organisation when you visit our website. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by an organisation providing a service to us or by our business partners, so that they can advertise products and services to you on our website and elsewhere on the internet. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access third-party cookies stored from other websites; nor can other organisations access the data in the cookies we use on our website.

Changing your preferences

You can select to accept/enable some or all of the optional cookies either within the settings of your own device or by selecting the option provided on our website.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie. Session cookies should expire when you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire after a set period or are deleted. For each of the cookies used on our website we have set out the duration in the tables below.

The Cookies we use on our website.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary Cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that allow page navigation or enable you to access certain areas of our website. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies. Necessary Cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences but doing so may result in reduced or limited functionality of our website. In some circumstances our website may cease to function as intended if necessary cookies are disabled, deleted or otherwise altered. We do not accept any liability for any loss arising where necessary cookies are disabled, deleted or otherwise altered. We use the following necessary cookies:

Cookie name	Purpose	Controller	Further Infromation (including duration of cookie)
_scrumpy_session	Enables us to associate data with your visit to the site, e.g. the date you've selected in a search, the properties you've looked at prior to enquiring, etc.	Our  Cookie	This cookie is session based and is deleted the next time you close your browser.
_ga	Analytics (anonymous) Site Usage	Google	1 Year 1 Month 4 Days
_gid	Analytics (anonymous) Website use and performance	Google	1 Day
_gat_scrumpyNetwork	No Desctiption	Our Cookie	1 Minute
_gat	Performance	Google	1 Minute
_gcl_au	Analytics As efficiency	Google	3 Months
_gat_gtag_UA_*	Analytics Unique user ID	Google	1 Minute
_fbp	Analytics Facebook (Meta) to display advertisements on Facebook websites	Facebook	3 Months
AWSALBCORS	Necessary Load balancing	Amazon	7 Days
cookieconsent_status	No description	Our Cookie	1 Year
_ga_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views	Google	1 Year 1 Month 4 Days
fs_uid	Anonymized visitor tracking	FullStory	Expires after 1 year
fs_cid	Stores the consent state for the device	FullStory	Expires after 1 year
_fs_tab_id	Provides unique ID for multi tab playback	FullStory	Expires when the tab is closed
fs_lua	Captures a timestamp of the last user action	FullStory	Expires after 30 mins

Optional Cookies

We and third parties like to use cookies on this website to enhance your user experience, personalise content and advertisements, provide social media features, and analyse the traffic/visitor actions on our website. Optional cookies help us to provide you with the experience we intend to provide when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website and the service we provide.

We need to obtain your consent to use Optional cookies; this is usually by way of a pop-up notice. As set out in this policy, you can change your preference at any time.

Advanced functionality, Analytics and Performance

We use advanced functionality cookies to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

We use analytical/performance cookies to enable us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors use our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

We would like to use the following optional advanced functionality, analytics and performance cookies:

Cookie Name	Purpose	Controller	Further Information (Including duration of cookie)
Google Analytics__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz	This cookie allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily	Third Party Cookie / Our Cookie	For further information, please visit:http://www.google.com/analytic s/
[Insert Name]	[Insert brief description of the purpose of the cookie]	[Third Party Cookie]	[This cookie is session based and is deleted the next time you close your browser] or [This cookie stays on your device for [INSERT NUMBER] days/months/years]

Advertising

We do not use advertising cookies.

Business Information

The Cottage Beyond
Registered Office: The Cottage Beyond Kittisford Barton Wellington GB TA21 0RZ United Kingdom
VAT Number: 162693687

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