Privacy Policy
Last updated: 9 September 2026
This privacy policy explains how personal data is handled when you visit Cottages For Holidays at cottages-for-holidays.com, contact us, use the site search or accommodation search, or follow advertising and booking links.
Controller
The controller responsible for this website is:
Max-TD Pty Limited
Paramount Cl
Belrose, NSW 2085
Australia
ABN: 84 135 956 277
ACN: 135 956 277
Email: hi@princ-solutions.com
Provider and editorial responsibility details are available in the Legal Notice.
Data processed when you visit the website
Our web server processes technical access data needed to deliver and protect the website. This can include your IP address, the requested URL, the date and time of access, the referrer URL, browser and device information, the amount of data transferred, and error or security information.
We use this data to provide the website, maintain security, investigate faults, and prevent misuse. Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in the secure and reliable operation of the website. Server logs are retained for operational, security, and legal needs and are deleted or anonymised when they are no longer needed.
Hosting and secure transmission
The website is hosted on servers in Germany. HTTPS encryption protects data transmitted between your browser and the website while it is in transit. Hosting and other technical service providers process data only as needed to operate, secure, and maintain the website.
Contact requests
If you contact us by email or through the contact form, we process the information you provide, including your name, email address, subject, and message, to answer your request. For a request related to a contract or a possible contract, the legal basis may be taking steps at your request before entering into a contract. For general correspondence, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to and documenting the request. Consent is used only where it has been requested separately.
We retain contact messages only for as long as necessary to handle the request and for applicable security, evidence, accounting, tax, or legal obligations.
Matomo website statistics
We use a self-hosted Matomo installation at analytics.max-td.com to understand aggregated website use and improve the service. The site uses a cookieless configuration: Matomo does not use analytics cookies, and the tracking loader sends a Do Not Track signal. Technical information such as the page viewed, link interactions, referrer, browser and device details, and the IP address used for the connection may be processed on our Matomo server.
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in obtaining privacy-friendly, aggregated usage statistics. You can also prevent this tracking by enabling Do Not Track in your browser.
Cookies, storage, and consent choices
The website may use technically necessary browser storage for security, forms, and remembering choices. Matomo does not use analytics cookies. Google advertising services may use cookies or similar identifiers where permitted and, where required, after a consent choice.
You can accept or reject the available advertising purposes in the consent message and change or withdraw your choice through the consent controls provided by the advertising service. You can also delete stored data through your browser settings. If you have questions about a consent choice, contact us at hi@princ-solutions.com.
Google AdSense and advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertising and finance the website. Depending on your location and consent choice, Google and its advertising partners may process your IP address, browser and device information, online identifiers, consent signals, and interactions with advertisements to deliver, limit, secure, and measure ads. Personalised advertising is used only where the required consent has been given.
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, is the Google service provider for users in the EEA and Switzerland. Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, may also process data. Details are provided in Google's Privacy Policy and Google's business data and privacy information. Google may process data outside your country and uses the transfer safeguards described in its privacy information.
Booking.com and accommodation search
The website contains links and a search form that lead to Booking.com. When you actively submit the accommodation search or follow a booking link, details such as the destination, travel dates, number of guests, and number of rooms are sent to Booking.com. Booking.com then processes the data under its own Privacy and Cookie Statement. We may receive commission information if a booking or other qualifying action follows an affiliate link.
Other external links
Links may lead to accommodation providers, tourist information services, map services, image sources, or other external websites. No data is sent to those websites merely because a normal text or image link is displayed. The external provider receives connection data when you follow the link and is responsible for its own privacy practices.
Recipients and international transfers
Personal data may be processed by hosting and technical service providers, communication providers, Google advertising services, Matomo, and external booking services where this is necessary for the purposes described above. Because Max-TD Pty Limited is based in Australia and some service providers operate internationally, data may be processed outside your country. Where European data protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, the relevant adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism is used.
Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was collected and for applicable security, evidence, accounting, tax, or legal obligations. Data is deleted or anonymised when it is no longer needed. The retention periods of Google, Booking.com, and other external providers are governed by their own privacy information.
Your privacy rights
Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, or objection. You may withdraw consent at any time for the future without affecting earlier lawful processing. To exercise your rights, email hi@princ-solutions.com.
If the GDPR applies, you may complain to the data protection authority in your place of residence, work, or the place of the alleged infringement. In the United Kingdom, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office. In Australia, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Children
This general travel information website is not directed at children. We do not knowingly request personal data from children without the consent or other legal basis required by applicable law.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the website, services, or legal requirements change. The current version and update date are published here.