Terms and Conditions

Advance Bookings;
For advance bookings, a minimum two night stay is required. Single night booking subject to availability.

Debit cards, Delta & Maestro, are accepted at no additional charge.

Children over twelve welcome.

Liability;
You shall be liable for any damage caused to any part of the hotel and grounds or equipment by any person invited by you or on your behalf. The hotel shall not accept liability in respect of any loss or damage to articles brought into the hotel or to vehicles left in the car park.

Cancellation Policy;
All of our bookings are strictly non-refundable.

Nobody likes to pay cancellation charges or be left out-of-pocket, particularly if the reason for cancelling is for some kind of emergency, so for this reason we STRONGLY advice taking out ADEQUATE TRAVEL INSURANCE to cover you for this unfortunate event.

Smoking;
Since the Smoking ban has come into force Burlington House is now STRICTLY TOTALLY NON-SMOKING VENUE. This INCLUDES all bedrooms and the entire building. It is illegal to smoke anywhere in the building. If you want a smoking bedroom, please DO NOT BOOK. All our bedrooms are strictly NON smoking rooms.

Privacy Policy



This privacy policy 16th September 2018 is for website www.burlington-hotel-oxford.co.uk, managed by Burlington House Hotel Ltd and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store that data and how your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are managed.

Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website.

Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.



The DPA and GDPR May 2018

This website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from 25 May 2018.



Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device. In order to manage cookies, you should undertake a web search and knowing your browser will be required for specific step by step guidelines on how to manage cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files saved to the user's device or computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their device or computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below this privacy policy



Website Visitor Tracking

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your devices hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.



Downloads and Media Files

Any downloadable documents (none at the time of the policy document version), files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.

We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.



Contact and Communication with us

Users contacting with us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in 'the privacy policy' above.



Email Mailing List and Marketing Messages

We may operate an email mailing list program in the future, to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe through an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named in 'The policy' above. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through an automated online service, or if not available, other means as detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages. The type and content of marketing messages subscribers receive, and if it may contain third party content, is clearly outlined at the point of subscription. Our limited third parties are listed in the Resource Section below.

We do not undertake email marketing messages containing tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages.



External Website Links and Third Parties

Although we aim to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. External links may be clickable text / banner / image links to other websites.

Shortened URL's; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL's (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter and meaningful. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUVo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.



Registration Forms and bookings from third party suppliers

All completed registrations forms, diary entries and bookings received through third parties are kept for a minimum period of 12 months as stipulated in (Immigration (Hotel Records) Order 1972 (as amended)).



Social Media Policy and Usage

We may decide to adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.

There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.



Resources and Further Information

- Overview of the GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003





Information about our use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

- Analytical / performance cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

- Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Content Expires
Google Analytics _utma Random Number 2 years from now
Google Analytics _utmb Random Number 1 day from now
Google Analytics _utmc_ Random Number When you quit your browser
Google Analytics _utmz_ Random Number 6 months from now



You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Ownership of Site; Agreement to Terms of Use

These Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms of Use") apply to The Burlington House Website.

The Site is the property of The Burlington House Website. By using the site, you agree to these terms of use; if you do not agree, do not use the site. The Burlington House Website reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, The Burlington House Website grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.

Content:
All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, artwork and computer code (collectively, "Content"), including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, "look and feel" and arrangement of such Content, contained on the Site is owned, controlled or licensed by or to The Burlington House Website, and is protected by copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including "mirroring") to any other computer, server, Web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without The Burlington House Website express prior written consent.

Your Use of the Site:
You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. The Burlington House Website reserves the right to bar any such activity.

You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Site, or any other systems or networks connected to the Site or to any The Burlington House Website server, or to any of the services offered on or through the Site, by hacking, password "mining" or any other illegitimate means.

You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to the Site, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Site or any network connected to the Site.

You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the Site, or any other customer of The Burlington House Website, including any account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit the Site or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Site, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Site.

You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Site or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Site or to The Burlington House Website.

You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any transaction being conducted on the Site, or with any other person’s use of the Site.

You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to The Burlington House Website on or through the Site or any service offered on or through the Site.

You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.

You may not use the Site or any Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of The Burlington House Website or others.