Cookie Policy Details
Cookie Policy
Black Water River Holiday Lets
Inchbae, Garve, Ross-shire, IV23 2PG
Last updated: September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Black Water River Holiday Lets uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect, use and protect personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device when you visit a website. They help websites operate correctly and can be used to remember preferences, improve functionality, understand how visitors use a website and support advertising or other online services.
Similar technologies, including scripts, tags, pixels and local storage, can perform comparable functions. UK rules apply to these technologies as well as traditional cookies.
How We Use Cookies
Our website is built using Wix. Wix and services connected to our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, maintain its security, remember visitor preferences, understand website usage and provide additional features.
The cookies available on our website may change as we add, remove or update website features.
Wix provides a cookie consent system which can prevent non-essential cookies and scripts from loading until the visitor has made the appropriate choice.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are required for the website to operate correctly. They may be used for purposes such as security, fraud prevention, maintaining website sessions, remembering privacy choices and providing functions specifically requested by a visitor.
These cookies cannot normally be switched off through our website because the website may not function correctly without them.
UK law allows certain storage or access technologies to be used without consent where they are strictly necessary to provide an online service requested by the visitor.
Functional and Preference Cookies
Functional cookies help provide additional features and may remember choices you make when using the website.
For example, they may remember certain display or website preferences or enable additional services provided through the site.
Current UK legislation also provides a limited exception for certain technologies used solely to adapt a website's appearance or functionality to a visitor's preferences, provided the relevant legal requirements are met and visitors are given an appropriate way to object.
Analytics and Statistical Cookies
We may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use our website. This can include information such as which pages are visited, how visitors move around the site, which devices or browsers are used, how long pages are viewed and how visitors arrive at the website.
This information helps us identify which parts of the website are useful and where improvements may be required.
Under the current UK rules, some limited website analytics used solely to produce aggregate statistical information for improving the website may qualify for a statutory exception to consent, provided specific conditions are satisfied and visitors have a simple and free way to object.
Analytics that track, profile or identify individual visitors, or information used for advertising purposes, does not fall within that statistical exception and normally requires consent.
Where our website's cookie consent system requires permission for analytics cookies, those technologies will not be activated until the appropriate permission has been given.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Our website may use marketing technologies if we use services such as online advertising, social media advertising, remarketing or advertising measurement.
These technologies may help measure the effectiveness of advertising or understand whether someone who saw an advertisement later visited our website.
Marketing and advertising cookies are not treated as strictly necessary and will not be used without the appropriate consent where consent is legally required.
Third-Party Services
Our website may contain or use services supplied by other organisations. These could include services such as Google Maps, booking systems, payment providers, social media services, videos or other embedded content.
If a third-party service is embedded directly into our website, it may need to store or access information on your device. Where consent is required, we aim to prevent that content or its associated cookies from loading until you have made the appropriate choice.
Wix's current cookie consent system can use placeholders to prevent supported third-party components, including Google Maps, from loading until appropriate consent has been provided.
Simply following an external link from our website—for example to Google Maps, what3words or a tourist attraction—may take you to another organisation's website. Any cookies placed after you visit that external website are controlled by that organisation and are subject to its own privacy and cookie policies.
Types of Cookies on Our Website
Depending upon the features currently enabled on our website, cookies may fall into the following categories:
CategoryPurpose
EssentialSecurity, website operation, sessions and privacy choices
FunctionalAdditional website features and visitor preferences
AnalyticsUnderstanding website traffic and improving the website
MarketingAdvertising, campaign measurement and similar marketing functions
The exact cookies used can change when Wix, installed apps or third-party services are updated.
Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie consent banner. This allows you to make choices about non-essential cookies.
Depending on the website configuration, you may be able to accept all cookies, decline non-essential cookies or choose individual categories.
You can change your preferences later using the Cookie Settings, Privacy Settings or similar link displayed on the website.
Where we rely on one of the statutory exceptions that does not require consent, we will provide the information and means of objecting required by law.
UK guidance requires visitors to receive clear information about the technologies being used, their purposes, relevant third parties and how long information will be stored or accessed.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
You can also manage or delete cookies using your internet browser.
Most browsers allow you to delete existing cookies, block particular cookies, block third-party cookies or prevent websites from storing cookies altogether.
Blocking essential cookies may prevent some areas of our website from working properly.
How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Some cookies are session cookies and are removed when you close your browser.
Others are persistent cookies and remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
The length of time depends on the particular cookie and the service that created it.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if our website changes, if we introduce new services or if legal or regulatory requirements change.
The most recent version will be published on our website and the date at the top of this page will show when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or your privacy, please contact:
Black Water River Holiday Lets
Inchbae
Garve
Ross-shire
IV23 2PG
Telephone: 07301 269 916
Email: admin@blackwaterholidaylets.co.uk
One important thing before you publish it
Because your website is on Wix, I recommend running the Wix/Usercentrics Website Scan once the site is substantially finished. That identifies the actual cookies and third-party services currently being used, including their purposes and durations. Wix specifically provides this scan as part of its current cookie-banner system.
That will allow us to add an exact “Cookies We Use” table to this policy rather than guessing which Wix, booking, Google or analytics cookies are installed.
The ICO's current cookie/storage guidance was substantially updated and finalised on 29 April 2026, including the newer statistical and preference-related exceptions, so I've based this version on the current guidance rather than the older pre-2025 template language.