text: Manchester Apartments Limited – Privacy & Cookies Policy
  Manchester Apartments Limited, company number: 09628875 (we or us) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
  This policy (together with our online booking terms and any other documents referred to in them) 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 to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting mapartments.co.uk (Site) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. You may also be asked to accept the terms of this privacy policy before completing an online booking or submitting an online query on our Site.
  For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Manchester Apartments Limited of 60 Oxford Street, Manchester, England M1 5EE.
  Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms (including online booking and online query forms) on our Site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, WhatsApp or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use any services on our Site (which shall include our online booking service), ask a question on our Site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our Site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our Site. Should you complete an online booking on our Site, we will also collect information from you as part of the tenancy application process. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, guarantor and referee information (including their name, address and phone number) and financial and credit card information.
  – technical information, which may include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, and operating system and platform;
  – information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our help team number.
  Information we receive from other sources. This is information we receive about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data if we intend to share the data internally and combine it with data collected on this Site. We will also have told you for what purpose we will share and combine your data. We work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies). We will notify you when we receive information about you from them and the purposes for which we intend to use that information.
  A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or other device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive.
  Except for essential cookies, Google Analytics cookies will expire after the following time frames: new visitor information (2 years), average length of time on website (30 minutes) and referral information (6 months).
  – to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and/or any of our group companies (including any tenancy agreement) and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
  – to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please let us know when you submit the relevant data (which could be on our online booking form, comment/query form or any other form on which you submit information to us on the Site);
  – to ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device.
  – to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service (when these are available from time to time), when you choose to do so;
  – credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you (which may be as part of a tenancy application).
  – If Manchester Apartments Limited 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 online booking terms and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Manchester Apartments Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  The data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It will also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of any online booking, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
  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. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at hello@mapartments.co.uk.
  Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to hello@mapartments.co.uk.