Privacy Policy
At Kevin Andrew Owenson Property Management Services Unipessoal Lda, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By using our website, you are agreeing to be bound by this Policy.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to ;
Who are we?
We are Kevin Andrew Owenson Property Management Services Unipessoal Lda, a property management and rental company for services in the Algarve, Portugal. We operate the www.algarvillas.net website. Kevin Andrew Owenson Unipessoal Lda is Registered in Portugal with Business No.: PT 510 528 988
Our registered trading address is Urb. Monte Carvoeiro D83, Praia do Carvoeiro, Lagoa 8400-562, Algarve, Portugal
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about our property rentals.
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a reservation from our website, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below. Your bank details held on file are NEVER passed to a third party.
How is your information used?
We may use your information only to:
- Process a reservation that you have made.
- carry out our obligations to satisfy local rental licensing laws.
- send you communications which you have requested, such as confirmations, holiday invoices supplied via email
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (such as tax and accounting records). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
Who has access to your information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information.
We may transfer your personal information to a third party accountant as part of our legal obligation to submit rental information to the Portuguese tax authorities. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
How you can request your information?
We hold the information you provide us in the form of a booking form.
You have the right to ask for a copy of this information Kevin Andrew Unippesoal Lda holds about you by emailing ;
How we protect your information
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Use of cookies
Like many other websites, algarvillas.net website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. More information on how to switch off cookies on your computer can be found on the internet. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies are used on this site to aid navigation and to keep track of your preferences. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to benefit from the features that use them...
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Review of this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 24th May 2018.
Contact us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions or complaints, please contact us by email at