Privacy policy

This notice explains how the personal data of visitors to the Villa Acqua Marina website, and of anyone who sends a request through the contact form, are processed pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code).

The data controller is the owner of Villa Acqua Marina, whose details are given below. For any question about your data you can write to the email address shown.

Requests sent from the website are received and handled by Di Casa in Sicilia (Fine Property s.a.s., VAT no. IT02905810830, email info@dicasainsicilia.it), the agency appointed by the owner to reply to requests and manage bookings for the villa.

If you choose to book through the Di Casa in Sicilia portal, the data you enter on that website will be processed by the agency in accordance with its own privacy notice.

• Data you provide when filling in the request form: full name, email, phone number (optional), arrival and departure dates, number of guests and any message.
• Browsing data: to run the website, the hosting provider's servers automatically record some technical information (such as IP address, browser type, pages requested, date and time).
• Preferences saved in your browser: chosen language and other technical settings, described in the Cookie policy.

Please do not include special categories of data (such as health information) in your message unless strictly necessary.

• To reply to your request for availability or information and send you a quote: pre-contractual measures taken at your request (Art. 6.1.b GDPR).
• To manage any booking and your stay, including the legal requirements for holiday rentals (such as reporting guests to the public security authority and tax obligations): performance of the contract and legal obligation (Art. 6.1.b and 6.1.c GDPR).
• To keep the website secure and prevent abuse and spam: legitimate interest of the controller (Art. 6.1.f GDPR).

Your data are not used to send you advertising or newsletters and are not subject to automated decision-making or profiling.

Data are processed electronically with appropriate security measures. Requests that do not result in a booking are kept for as long as needed to handle them and in any case no longer than 24 months from the last contact. If you book, data are kept for the duration of the relationship and for the subsequent periods required by law (for example 10 years for tax records). Browsing data are kept by the hosting provider for a limited period, unless needed to investigate any unlawful activity.

• Di Casa in Sicilia, the agency handling requests and bookings (see section 2);
• the website hosting provider, Hostinger International Ltd. (Cyprus, European Union), and email service providers, acting as data processors;
• advisers and professionals (such as the accountant) and the authorities, where required by law.

Data are not disclosed publicly or sold to third parties. If you choose to contact us via WhatsApp, the service is provided by WhatsApp/Meta under its own privacy notice.

Data are normally processed within the European Union. The Google Maps map is only loaded if you activate it: in that case Google may process some data (such as your IP address) in the United States as well, on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the safeguards provided by Articles 45 and 46 GDPR.

Providing the data requested in the form is optional, but without your name, email and dates of stay we cannot reply to your request.

At any time you may request access to your data, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability, and object to processing based on legitimate interest (Articles 15-22 GDPR), by writing to the controller or to info@dicasainsicilia.it. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority (www.garanteprivacy.it).

This notice may be updated. The current version is always published on this page, with the date of the last update.