Last updated: July 10, 2025.
SoloEurope.co.uk respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share personal information when you visit SoloEurope.co.uk, contact us, subscribe to communications, or otherwise interact with the website.
1. Who We Are
For data protection purposes, the data controller responsible for SoloEurope.co.uk is:
Legal name: [Insert individual or company name]
Trading name: SoloEurope.co.uk
Address: [Insert business or correspondence address]
Email: [privacy@soloeurope.co.uk or other applicable email]
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use the website, we may collect the following information.
Information You Provide
This may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Information submitted through a contact form
- Newsletter subscription details
- Messages, feedback, or enquiries
- Competition or survey responses
- Information submitted when commenting on an article
- Business or collaboration information
Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is necessary and specifically requested.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit SoloEurope.co.uk, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Approximate location based on IP address
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Links clicked
- Date and time of access
- Error logs and security information
- Cookie and advertising identifiers
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, analytics tools, advertising technologies, and similar services.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Respond to enquiries and messages
- Send newsletters or updates where consent has been provided
- Improve website content and user experience
- Understand website traffic and visitor behaviour
- Detect fraud, abuse, spam, and security threats
- Display and measure advertising
- Manage affiliate relationships
- Maintain business and accounting records
- Protect our legal rights
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements
We will not use personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those described in this Privacy Policy unless permitted or required by law.
4. Lawful Bases for Processing
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful bases:
Consent
We may rely on your consent when:
- You subscribe to a newsletter
- You accept non-essential cookies
- You agree to receive marketing communications
- You voluntarily provide information for a specific purpose
You may withdraw your consent at any time.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information where it is reasonably necessary for our legitimate interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
These interests may include:
- Operating and improving the website
- Understanding how visitors use our content
- Preventing fraud and protecting website security
- Responding to business enquiries
- Measuring website and advertising performance
Contract
We may process personal information when necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to perform an agreement with you.
Legal Obligation
We may process or retain information when required to comply with applicable laws, tax requirements, regulatory duties, court orders, or lawful requests.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
SoloEurope.co.uk may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand visitor activity, improve performance, and support advertising.
Cookies may include:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for core website functions, security, network management, or saving your privacy choices.
Preference Cookies
These cookies remember settings such as language, display preferences, or selected options.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the website, which pages are popular, and how the website can be improved.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies may be used to display relevant advertisements, limit repeated advertising, measure campaign performance, or create advertising profiles.
Where required, non-essential cookies will not be activated until you provide consent through the website’s cookie consent tool.
You may accept, reject, or adjust your cookie preferences through the cookie banner or privacy settings available on the website.
You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.
6. Analytics
We may use analytics providers to understand website performance and visitor behaviour.
Analytics providers may collect information such as:
- Device and browser information
- Approximate geographic location
- Pages viewed
- Visit duration
- Referral source
- Interaction events
Where required, analytics technologies will be used only after appropriate consent has been obtained.
Update this section with the services actually used by the website, for example:
- Google Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Other analytics provider
7. Advertising and Affiliate Partners
SoloEurope.co.uk may work with advertising networks, affiliate programmes, and commercial partners.
These partners may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising performance, attribute bookings or purchases, prevent fraud, and display advertisements.
Potential partners should be listed here when applicable:
- [Google AdSense]
- [Booking affiliate programme]
- [Hotel or flight comparison partner]
- [Other advertising or affiliate networks]
Your interaction with a third-party advertisement or affiliate service may also be governed by that provider’s privacy policy.
8. Email Communications
When you subscribe to a newsletter, we may use your email address to send travel content, website updates, or promotional communications.
You may unsubscribe at any time by:
- Clicking the unsubscribe link in an email
- Contacting us directly
- Adjusting your communication preferences where available
We may retain limited information on a suppression list to ensure that we respect your unsubscribe request.
9. Contact Forms and Enquiries
When you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, message, and any other information you voluntarily provide.
We use this information to:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Maintain a record of communications
- Prevent spam and misuse
- Manage potential editorial or commercial relationships
Please do not submit passport details, payment card information, medical records, or other sensitive data through the general contact form.
10. Sharing Personal Information
We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate the website, including:
- Website hosting providers
- Content delivery and security providers
- Email and newsletter platforms
- Analytics providers
- Advertising and affiliate networks
- Website developers and technical support providers
- Cloud storage providers
- Accountants, insurers, and professional advisers
These providers may process information only as necessary to perform their services and according to their contractual or legal responsibilities.
We may also disclose information:
- When required by law
- To respond to lawful requests
- To protect our rights or the rights of others
- To investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- As part of a merger, acquisition, sale, or restructuring of the website or business
We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling personal data directly in exchange for money.
11. International Data Transfers
Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are used as required by applicable data protection law.
These safeguards may include recognised adequacy arrangements, approved contractual protections, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
The retention period may depend on:
- The type of information
- The reason it was collected
- Whether an enquiry remains active
- Legal, tax, accounting, or security requirements
- The need to establish or defend legal claims
- Whether consent has been withdrawn
When information is no longer required, it may be deleted, anonymised, or securely archived where retention is legally necessary.
13. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organisational measures designed to protect personal information from:
- Unauthorised access
- Accidental loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Disclosure
- Destruction
However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
14. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on applicable law and your circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your information
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to certain processing
- Request transfer of eligible information
- Withdraw consent
- Object to direct marketing
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Some rights are subject to legal conditions and exceptions.
To exercise a right, contact: privacy@soloeurope.co.uk
We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.
15. Complaints
Please contact us first if you have concerns about how your information is handled.
You may also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or another appropriate supervisory authority.
16. Children’s Privacy
SoloEurope.co.uk is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, remove the information.
17. Third-Party Websites
SoloEurope.co.uk may link to external websites that operate under their own privacy policies.
We are not responsible for how third-party websites collect, use, or protect personal information. You should review the privacy policy of each external service before providing information.
18. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to:
- Website services
- Technology
- Advertising or analytics providers
- Business practices
- Legal or regulatory requirements
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
