Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy and Cookie Policy

1. Who we are

M/s HH & SS Holdings Plc is registered address at our prestigious Office in Central London - 85 The Great Portland Street, Marylebone London, W1W 7LT United Kingdom and is the owner of this website www.hhssholdingsplc.com.

The www.hhssholdingsplc.com website is owned, managed and operated by HH & SS Holdings Plc. Where the terms "we", "us" or "our" are used in these terms and conditions this means Shanti Swami or a specific Group company as the context dictates and where the terms "you" or "your" are used this means you.

2. Your Data

In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, as amended from time to time, any information you provide will be safeguarded and controlled by us as Data Controller. Please see: Where to Find Out More. In order to provide information to you, we need to collect certain personal details from you. These details may include, where applicable, your name and address, company name, contact details such as telephone numbers and email address. If any other personal details are required, we will of course tell you.

Except where expressly permitted by the Data Protection Act, we will only deal with the personal details you give us as set out below unless you agree otherwise. We will not pass your data to third parties other than companies within the HH & SS Holdings Plc or to our website hosting company or. Subject to the exceptions set out in this Privacy Policy, we promise to keep all personal details you give us confidential. We have appropriate security measures in place to protect this information, as detailed below.

We will not pass your details to other third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

3. How we use your data in connection with your booking

We do not store personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), however, we may need to pass on some or all of the personal details you provide us with to certain governmental agencies and third parties to deal with and/or investigate any emergency incident, or in the interests of security and/or because we are required to do so by law, regulation and/or by a court of competent jurisdiction. Such third parties may be situated outside the EEA. We may also need to pass your personal details to certain governmental agencies both in and outside the UK because we are required to do so by law, regulation and/or by a court of competent jurisdiction.

We may also use your details to contact you to provide you with information about us or the HH & SS Holdings Plc that we believe may be of interest to you. Please note: the time period for which we keep information varies according to what the information is used for. In some cases, there are legal requirements to keep data for a minimum period. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we will retain it for no longer than is necessary.

4. How we use your data to inform you of relevant products and services

If we wish to contact you with details of HH & SS Holdings Plc promotions, products and services or relevant promotions, products and services of other carefully selected companies or signing up for email updates, we will only do this with your prior consent. This is in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (as amended by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) egulations)

5. How you can opt-out from receiving further marketing communications

At any time, you can tell us by writing to us at:

M/s HH & SS Holdings Plc, 85 The Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London W1W 7LT, that you do not want us to use your details for the purposes of marketing, by opting-out of future communications.

6. The use of cookies - how we collect information

Our website uses cookies which collect data to enable us to improve our service to you and to provide certain features that you may find useful. Cookies are small text files that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable us to recognise your computer and help us to track visitors to our site. We use first-person tracking visitor cookies that enable us to better understand the products and services that will be most suitable to you and to optimise the design of the site based on how our customers and visitors use it.

The cookies we use will also recognise repeat visitors to the site and in conjunction with other information we hold on our customers will attempt to record specific browsing information against an individual profile. This information allows us to accurately identify your behaviours and needs, allowing us to easily tailor offers and information which may be of interest to you.

The cookies we use fall into one of four categories found in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK Cookie guide published in April 2012 as follows:

Types of cookies used on this site:

Strictly necessary cookies - Some of the cookies on our website are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. For example, accessing certain information for stakeholders and media.

Performance cookies - Some of the cookies on our website collect information about how visitors use the website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages.

These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.

Functionality cookies - These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

1 - Domain is the URL of the area in question

2 - Cookie name is the name of the cookie which is placed on the client machine

3 - Purpose is a brief description of the reason for setting the cookie

4 - Lifetime is the length of time between when the cookies is set and when it expires

5 - Type is selected from the Legend displayed above

6 - Data cookie holds is for providing any further info on the data you are holding, particularly around anything which may be client sensitive

7 - Linked to other data is to provide any further info on the cookies relationship with any other sites or cookies

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How to Opt Out of Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you wish, you can set your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies. The 'help' portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. You should repeat this procedure with each one if you use multiple browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc) and, if you connect to the web from multiple devices (e.g. from work and at home), then you will need to set each browser on each device. We are in the process of assessing how to implement a feature to allow you can opt out of cookies being set on our website giving you more options to opt out in the future.

Please note that if you disable cookies or refuse to accept a request to place a cookie then it is possible that some parts of our website will not function properly and that the advertising you receive when you visit this website will not be tailored to your interests.

The cookies we use do not detect any information that is stored on your computer. For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed, visit the following website: www.allaboutcookies.org

In addition to using cookies to help tailor our offers and information, we may collect Internet Protocol addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and for system administration. Generally, we don’t link these addresses to any person’s name or identity. It is possible though that in the event of a dispute with us, and where relevant to this dispute, that we could contact your internet service provider to link an Internet Protocol address to a person’s name or identity.

7. Your rights and responsibilities regarding your data

You are generally entitled to ask us what details of yours we hold, why we're holding or processing them and to whom we have disclosed or may disclose them. To do this you may send a letter to the Data Protection Officer, M/s HH & SS Holdings Plc, 85 The Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London W1W 7LT,  In order to process this information we may charge a small administration fee of £10. We promise to respond to your request within 40 days of receiving your request in writing and along with payment of any applicable fee. There are circumstances where we shall be within our rights to refuse such a request.

If you believe that any of your personal information that is held or being processed by us is incorrect then please write to us immediately as we cannot be responsible for any problems that may arise due to inaccurate information that you have provided us with.

8. Links to third party websites

This privacy statement only covers websites that we own and control. It does not cover links from our website to other third party websites and accordingly any information collected by the parties who own and control those websites or their use of cookies. Please be aware that individual organisations operate their own policies regarding the use and sale of personal information and the use of cookies.

When viewing third party websites linked from our website, we strongly recommend that you refer to the specific terms and conditions of subscription or booking, along with the privacy policy of the third party website as these may differ from our own. These policies will also confirm exactly who you are contracting with as part of your purchase, which is important in the event of an incident, query or claim.

If you have a concern regarding the way your personal information will be used on other sites, then you are advised to read the relevant privacy statement or in the absence of such a statement on the site, contact the company concerned.

9. Changes to this policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

10. Contact us

Any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to: Data Protection Officer, M/s HH & SS Holdings Plc, 85 The Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London W1W 7LT.

11. Find out more about Data Protection

Read more about Data Protection on Infomation Commissioner website.