COOKIES POLICY

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, The Bells Serviced Apartments, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, 
www.thebellsleeds.com (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 1st May 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on [the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.

For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit 
www.allaboutcookies.org

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

_gaNon-essentialAnalyticalFirst partyPersistent2 yearsTo distinguish website visitors_gat
Non-essentialAnalyticalThird PartySessionSessionUsed by Google Analytics to throttle request rate_gidNon-essentialAnalyticalThird PartySessionSessionRegisters a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
CollectNon-essentialMarketingThird PartySessionSessionUsed to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
Impression.php/#Non-essentialMarketingThird PartySessionSessionUsed by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login ButtonUUID#[abcdef0123456789]{32}
Non-essentialMarketingThird PartySessionSession

How to opt out of cookies

Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.

For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.

Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested.

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookiesTo opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: 
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

[Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

Third party cookies

Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you. Third party cookies used in relation to our website include:

Google AdWords cookies to track whether you have come to us via an advertisement we have placed on a search engine results page or elsewhere across the internet, such as another website and to record information relating to how you came to us such as your location when you accessed our website, the time of day you visited and the device you were using. Google may use different cookies to track how you came to our website depending on what advertisement you clicked on and where.

Google remarketing cookies to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google re-marketing, click here: 
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=enMore information

For information about the cookies Google uses in relation to the above, see the ‘Advertising’ section on the Types of cookies used by Google page in Google’s cookies policy, which is available here: 
https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/For information about how Google uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following link 
www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

How to opt in or out from third party cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookiesProcessing information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookiesLegal basis for processing:
 consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using third party cookies by clicking I accept the purposes for which
you use the advertising cookies in our cookie tool.

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting 
www.allaboutcookies.org

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Cookie control tool

You can accept or reject cookies by using our cookie management tool.

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

Google Chrome: 
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GBMozilla Firefox: 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+HistoryMicrosoft Internet Explorer: 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorerApple Safari: 
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_USSome browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Google Adsettings

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here 
https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:

unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalise ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: 
https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: 
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Copyright, credit and logo

This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit 
https://gdprprivacypolicy.org

The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.

Terms & Conditions

– I confirm I have received my keys, codes and information for my apartment – management holds no responsibility for lost codes or keys resulting in guests not being able to access The Bells after reception hours have finished. Loss of your apartment key will result in a £150 replacement fee.

– I agree to all terms and conditions associated with my booking at The Bells Serviced Apartments, Leeds on behalf of all guests staying on this visit. A copy of these terms and conditions can be provided on request.

– I agree that any incidentals, accidental damages, additional charges including soft drinks, alcohol or consumables or any items that may go missing during my stay will be charged to my card used to place the £100.00 pre-authorisation at check-in. This is held and then returned to your card by Worldpay within 3-10 working days subject to any deductions aforementioned.

– Photographic ID from all guests in your party (either UK Driving License or valid Passport) is also required for our records only.

– The Bells operates a zero tolerance policy to drug use, any guests found or suspected of taking drugs in the apartment will be removed from the building without the right to re-entry and will not be refunded.

– Check-out is 11am unless a late check-out is requested and paid for on arrival. The Bells management are allowed access to the apartments after these check-out times for the purpose of house-keeping and security checks. Any guests that do not depart before the 11am check-out time and have not purchased a late-check out prior to check-in will be charged for a late-check out at £50.00 from the deposit.

– Please note every apartment is a NO-SMOKING apartment and the fine for smoking in our establishment is £250.00, should we need to relocate a guest or close an apartment due to a fumigation fee caused by you or your party you agree the full cost of relocation or apartment closure will be charged to your security deposit.

– You agree that if there is a problem with your initial payment after your departure such as a chargeback or fraudulent claim that the funds will be retrieved from your security deposit and details of the transaction will be passed to the relevant authority and you will not be able to re-book with us. 

– Guest numbers must not exceed the maximum occupancy rate of the apartment(s) booked at any point. Failure to follow this will incur a fine of £250.00 per person over the limit and will be taken from the security deposit.

– To ensure guests are considerate of other apartments and neighbouring residencies, noise levels are to be kept to a minimum at all times, no speakers are to be used externally. Any noise complaints will be charged at £150 plus any compensation fees in relation to other guests affected by your noise.

– The apartments are not to be used for commercial videography/photography purposes without prior written consent from a senior representative of The Bells Serviced Apartments.