Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
Who controls your data
The three cottages on this website are operated by two separate legal persons, and the data controller for your personal information is the Owner of the cottage you enquire about or book:
For Eryri Cottage and Siabod Cottage, the controller is Snowdonia Breaks Limited (company number 07211501, registered office 8 Beecham Court, Wigan WN3 6PR), registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under reference ZC162668.
For Bwthyn, the controller is Ian Greenhalgh (address for service 8 Beecham Court, Wigan WN3 6PR), registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under reference ZC162684.
If your enquiry or booking concerns more than one cottage across the two Owners, each Owner controls the data relating to its own cottage. You can contact us about your data at hello@snowdoniabreaks.com.
What we collect, and why
When you make a booking or contact us, we collect the details you provide — typically your name, email address, phone number, the dates and cottage you're interested in, number of guests, and anything you tell us in your message. We use this only to respond to you, to manage your booking and stay, and to meet our legal and accounting obligations. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.
Our lawful bases are: performance of a contract (to take and fulfil your booking); legitimate interests (to respond to enquiries and run the business, balanced against your privacy); and legal obligation (to keep records required by law, such as for tax).
Payments
When you pay on this website, you enter your card details on a secure payment page run by Stripe, not on our site. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe tells us when a payment has gone through, and we can see limited details such as the card type and its last four digits: enough to match the payment to your booking and to make refunds.
If you pay a deposit, Stripe keeps your card on file so that the balance can be taken on the date agreed when you booked. We don't use it for anything else.
Stripe also uses payment information to prevent fraud and to meet its own legal obligations. It does that under its own privacy policy.
Who helps us run things
We're a small business, and a few trusted companies help us run it. Each handles your data only to provide its service to us, not for its own purposes:
- InMotion Hosting runs the servers that hold this website and our booking records. InMotion is a US company and its servers are in the US, so your data is held there. InMotion processes it only on our behalf, under a data processing agreement that includes standard contractual clauses to protect data transferred abroad.
- Stripe processes card payments (see "Payments" above).
- Anthropic provides an AI service we use to help draft some of our messages and reviews, which can include the text of messages you've sent us, for example through Airbnb. Anthropic processes this on our behalf and isn't allowed to use it for anything else, including training its AI.
- Plausible Analytics counts visits to this website so we can see which pages are useful. It uses no cookies and collects no personal data.
How long we keep it
We keep booking and enquiry records for as long as needed to provide your stay and handle any follow-up, and thereafter for the period our legal and tax obligations require — generally six years for records with a financial or contractual element, including payment records, after which they are deleted or anonymised.
Cookies
This website sets a single essential cookie and uses no tracking or advertising cookies of any kind. The full (and mercifully short) detail is in our Cookie Policy.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to have inaccurate data corrected, to have data erased where it is no longer needed, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these, contact the relevant Owner using the details above and we will respond within the time the law allows. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).