Black Cat Treasure Hunts Privacy, Terms & Cookie Policies



Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Tim Carter, Trading as Black Cat Treasure Hunts.
Business Address: 52 Hartfield Road,Seaford,East Sussex. BN25 4PW.

1. Introduction


1.1 Use of this site is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

1.2 Use of this site constitutes by the Purchaser acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

1.3 Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before downloading or purchasing a hunt or requesting a Personalised hunt, as you will be required to confirm that you agree with these Terms and Conditions when you submit your order.

1.4 Black Cat Treasure Hunts reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time.

1.5 If any of these Terms shall be determined to be unenforceable by reason of Law, then to the extent that a Term is held to be illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed to be severed, and remove from the relevant Clause so that all remaining Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force.

1.6 These Terms and Conditions should be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

1.7 The failure of Black Cat Treasure Hunts to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a formal waver.

2. Access to this site


2.1 Black Cat Treasure Hunts shall not be liable if this site is unavailable nor does Black Cat Treasure Hunts guarantee that the site will be free of viruses or other harmful components.

3. Information on this site


3.1 Whilst Black Cat Treasure Hunts will endeavour to ensure that the information on the site is correct no warrantee, express or comply is given as to its accuracy and Black Cat Treasure Hunts do not accept any liability for any error or omission.

4. Limitation on Liability and Exclusion of Liability upon Black Cat Treasure Hunts


4.1 It is hereby agreed that Black Cat Treasure Hunts shall not be liable for any damages including, and not by way of limitation, for any loss of business or loss of profits arising in Contract, Tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use this site or any material or Treasure Hunts contained on the site or from any action taken by the Purchaser or on his behalf arising from the use of this site.

4.2 Black Cat Treasure Hunts entire liability to you in Contract, Tort, and negligence or otherwise in relation to orders placed on this site shall be limited to £500 for any one incident or series of related incidents.

4.3 Save as expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions any warranties or obligations implied by Statute or Common Law or Common Usage or by a course of dealing shall be excluded to the fullest extent permitted by Law.

4.4 It is hereby expressly agreed that any Purchaser of any hunt purchased from Black Cat Treasure Hunts shall be solely responsible for their safety and their property and any party undertaking the Trail. Black Cat Treasure Hunts cannot be held responsible for any loss or damaged property.

4.5 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall limit Black Cat Treasure Hunts liability for death or personal injury cause by negligence.

5. Use by the Purchaser of this site.


5.1 The Purchaser acknowledges by using this site that any copyrights, trade marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws in favour of third parties are hereby recognised and acknowledged.

6. Proprietary Rights.


6.2 The Purchaser acknowledge that the Purchaser will not allow third parties who are not guests of the Purchaser to use the hunt which the Purchaser has purchased and that the hunt that has been purchased for the personal use of the Purchaser and their guests invited by the Purchaser to undertake the hunt and that the Purchaser will not resell or make publicly available the hunt for other parties to use without an expressed written consent of Black Cat Treasure Hunts.

7. Personal Trails


7.1 If a personal Trail is requested the Purchaser acknowledges that Black Cat Treasure Hunts shall retain any Intellectual Property Rights including copyright in the hunt produced.

7.2 It is hereby acknowledged by the Purchaser that they will keep indemnified and save harmless Black Cat Treasure Hunts in respect of any claim brought by any third party against Black Cat Treasure Hunts relating to any information provide to Black Cat Treasure Hunts to assist them in preparation of the Personalised hunt the Purchaser warrants that they are authorised and entitled to provide such information to Black Cat Treasure Hunts.

8 Refund and Cancellation Policy


8.1 Black Cat Treasure Hunts does not offer refunds for any hunts downloaded or Personal hunts provided to the Purchaser and once payment has been made cancellation is not possible.

9. Privacy Policy


9.1 Black Cat Treasure Hunts will adhere to the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998.

9.2 Black Cat Treasure Hunts will use the personal information which has been provided solely to administer activities on the site and for the purpose of marketing.

9.3 Whilst Black Cat Treasure Hunts will take every reasonable precaution to ensure that any credit card information is kept secure and strictly confidential and he Purchaser hereby acknowledges that they are aware that the transmission information via the Internet is not guaranteed as secure and therefore whilst every effort will be made to protect personal data including credit card information, this security cannot be guaranteed and the transmission of data is at the Purchasers risk.


Cookie Policy

About cookies

Please note that Black Cat Treasure Hunts website uses cookies. By using this website, you agree to our cookie policy.

Cookies are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on our website

Currently the Black Cat Treasure Hunts website only uses 'session cookies', whereby no information is retained. These cookies function purely to improve your experience using the website.

Google cookies

Black Cat Treasure Hunts uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

When you use this website, you may also be sent the following third party cookies, which may be used for the following purposes:

Add this tool (top right) - Checks for your past recommendations and usage stats.

Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools > Internet Options > Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking "Tools > Options" and "Privacy".


Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of Black Cat Treasure Hunts website.

Privacy Policy

1.0 Our core beliefs regarding user privacy and data protection
    •    User privacy and data protection are human rights
    •    We have a duty of care to the people within our data
    •    Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
    •    We loathe spam as much as you do!
    •    We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

2.0 Relevant legislation
Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
    •    UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
    •    EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
    •    EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

3.0 Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

3.1 Site visitation tracking
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.
Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

3.2 Comments & testimonials
Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog or give us a testimonial, the name and email address you enter with your comment may be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third party data processors detailed below. Your name may be shown on the public-facing website along with a photo only if you have added one.
Your comment and it’s associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and it’s associated personal data deleted, please email us here using the email address that you commented with.
If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.
NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

3.3 Contact forms and email links
Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page, a booking form or an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

3.4 Email newsletter
If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be added to our customer database.
If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.
While your email address remains on our database, you will receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.
You can unsubscribe from the system at any time using a link at the bottom of any correspondence or by contacting us.

4.0 Member/ customer information
If you have purchased a hunt or other product from the website or you have signed up to the mailing list, some essential member and contact information is stored within the website database.
You request this information from us and you can unsubscribe from the system at any time using a link at the bottom of any correspondence or by contacting us.

5.0 About this website’s server
This website is hosted by Modern Websites in the UK. The server is located just outside Vancouver, Canada and is managed by In2net.
Some of the data centre’s more notable security features are as follows:
    •    The facility is monitored by security cameras all around the building.
    •    Security guards will be on duty during after hours.
    •    All  server cabinets are secured in locked rooms and locked cabinets.
    •   All clients have their own access card and cabinet key to enter the server room and open only their own cabinet.
    •    This website server is mounted in a managed cabinet which only accessible by In2net staff.

    •    All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

6.0 Our third party data processors
•    Google (Privacy policy)
•    Wufoo (Privacy Policy)

7.0 Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

8.0 Data Controller
Please contact us for this information.

9.0 Data Protection Officer
Please contact us for this information.

10.0 Changes to our privacy policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.
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