Data Privacy policy
Personal data collected
Cookies
When visiting this website, www.chettinadretreat.com, you are asked to accept the website’s use of cookies.
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time. Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.
We use cookies to provide you with a great user experience and to help our website run effectively. We do not store and use this data for marketing purposes.
Our website is build from a Squarespace template called Artesia and operates on the Squarespace platform and their servers. www.squarespace.com.
All Squarespace websites uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on user websites. These cookies vary depending on the features in use.
Specific cookies in use. (Cookie Name/Duration/Purpose):
Crumb/Session/Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browserinto taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.
RecentRedirect/30 minutes/Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom url redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
CART/2 weeks/Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart. (Not applicable, as we currently do not have an online store).
hasCart/2 weeks/Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart. (Not applicable, as we currently do not have an online store).
Locked/Session/Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
SiteUserInfo/3 years/Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account. (Not applicable, as we currently have no customer account features).
SiteUserSecureAuthToken/3 years: Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account. (Not applicable, as we currently have no customer account features).
Commerce-checkout-state/Session/Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal. (Not applicable, as we currently do not have an online store).
squarespace-popup-overlay/Persistent: Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it (Not applicable, as we currently do not have an online store).
squarespace-announcement-bar/Persistent: Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
Test/Session: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Notice of May 12 2019. We have disabled all shopping features from our site.
Notice of May 12 2019. We have disables all Squarespace analytics features, and thus do not track user information (location, number of visits etc, from any visotors)
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Contact forms
When visitors use contact forms on our website, we receive an email with all the information provided in that form: name, email, message to us etc. We receive the information by direct email. We use this information to maintain a direct communication with you - we never hand over your private data to any third parties, except when we need to tell the Chettinad staff who is coming, what they reqeusted for lunch and such practical and necessary information we need to share to make your stay work and wonderfull as exected.