Castle Howard Estate Limited (“Castle Howard”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting and maintaining the security of any personal information we hold about you.
The purpose of this statement is to explain to you what personal information we collect and how we may use it. It is important that you read this statement so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data and what your legal rights are. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
For your ease of use this statement is provided in a layered format so to expand and read the relevant section please click on the headings below.
Castle Howard is the controller and is responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this statement. If you have any questions about this statement, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.
Data Protection Team privacy@castlehwoard.co.uk Castle Howard Estate Ltd, Castle Howard, York, YO60 7DA Telephone number: 01653 648333
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 (www.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.
Our 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 the following types of personal data about you:
For holiday homes, to comply with regulations, we will need proof of identity or proof of residency. This is Special Category Personal Data which we will request directly from you.
Otherwise we do not generally collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
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 (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through direct interactions (for example when placing an order, becoming a Friend of Castle Howard), through automated interactions (for example when using our website or signing up to our e-mail newsletter) and from third parties (for example a tenant referencing agent) or publicly available sources.
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:
We have set out below, a description of 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.
Please 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.
Purpose/Activity
Types of personal data
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To manage your account and register you as a customer.
Identity Data, Contact Data, Billing Data, Interaction Data and Marketing and Communications Data.
Performance of a contract with you.
Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated.
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges.
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us.
Identity Data, Contact Data, Billing Data and Interaction Data.
Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts due to us.
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about our changes to the terms of our privacy policy.
(b) Asking you to take a survey or provide feedback.
Identity Data, Contact Data, Feedback Data and Marketing and Communications Data.
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (data protection law).
Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how you use our products/services.
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
Identity Data, Contact Data and Technical Data
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 restructuring exercise).
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
To deliver relevant website content to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of our website
Identity Data, Contact Data, Marketing and Communications Data and Technical Data
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 email you about products or services that we think may be of interest to you.
Identity Data, Contact Data, Interaction Data, Feedback Data and Marketing and Communications Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests to promote our business
To register you on our The Friends Scheme
Your photograph to print on your membership card, your Identity Data, Contact Data. Financial Data and Transactional Data
Purchasing online tickets
Your Identity Data, Contact Data and Financial Data.
To obtain your tickets for pre-booked events
Your Identity Data, Contact Data. Financial Data.
When on our Estate to use holiday homes, motorhomes, caravans and camping
Your Identity Data, Contact Data. Financial Data and Transactional Data. For holiday homes, in order to comply with our Site Licence and Planning Permission from Ryedale District Council, we will also collect evidence of permanent residency
When you are a tenant of our Estate
Your Identity Data, Contact Data. Financial Data and Transactional Data. You may also be required to complete a third party tenant referencing form for a tenant referencing agent who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We may contact you (by email or post) with information about our products, services, promotions, any future events and to send regular newsletters after every transaction. Every communication from Castle Howard will also give you the option to review these choices online or by post.
You can unsubscribe at any time to our e-newsletter, follow the link in the footer.
We will always treat your personal information with the greatest of care. We will never sell or transfer them to other companies or organisations for marketing purposes without your permission.
We use Google Signals Data Collection. This is to show you (and people like you) adverts via social media platforms and Google products for our services, events, offers, competitions, or opportunities to support us. You can opt out of targeted advertising on these platforms, but this may make the advertising you see less relevant. You can learn more about opting out of Google Analytics Advertising Features here.
We may share your personal information with our trusted service providers, sub-contractors and agents that we may appoint to perform functions on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, including payment providers, ticketing system providers, email distribution services, marketing service providers, IT service providers, postal mailing providers, accountants, auditors and lawyers. We may share your personal information which is then hashed into randomised code, with social media platforms such as Google and Meta for the purposes of targeting advertising and completing data analytics.
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 Cookie Policy page.
We use live chat software on our website, this is provided by Click4Assistance, a 3rd party UK based Software Company. Information regarding how the data is processed and stored can be viewed here:
https://www.click4assistance.co.uk/click4assistance-web-chat-software-cookie-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 using the contact details set out above.
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.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in above:
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 do not transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area.
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.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:
Request access 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.
Request correction 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.
Request deletion of personal data we hold about you in certain circumstances: 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.
Object to the way we use 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.
Restrict the way in which we use your personal data in certain circumstance:. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer 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.
Withdraw consent at any time 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 services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the contact details set out above.
No fee usually required
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.
What we may need from you
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.
Time limit to respond
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest: means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product 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 using the contact details set out above.
Performance of Contract: 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.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means: processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
EXTERNAL THIRD PARTIES