Reviews Policy for Alpine Park Cottages, Devon

Consumer Reviews Policy

1. Definitions
   1. The following defined terms apply to this Consumer Reviews Policy:

2. Who can submit a review
   1. We welcome reviews about your experience with us and your stay at the Property, directly and via Third Party Review Platforms.
   2. We ask guests who have stayed with us to leave a review via our departure letter. For more information about leaving reviews, please see the How to leave a review section.
   3. We also welcome reviews about your experience by submitting a review via Third Party Review Platforms.
   4. You must be over 18 to leave a review.
3. We do not incentivise reviews
   1. We do not offer any incentives for reviews (whether positive or negative). 
4. How to leave a review
   1. Prior to departure, guests are given a departure letter. Here you will be asked to leave a review via TripAdvisor, Facebook or Google Reviews
   2. If you booked your stay via an OTA, the OTA may request your feedback directly. The OTA’s review collection process and policies will apply. Links to guidance produced by the OTAs we use on submitting reviews can be found at the end of this policy.
   3. You can also leave feedback via publicly available websites such as social media channels and Google public review function.
5. Review Standards
   1. Your review must:
      1. Reflect your genuine experience (both positives and negatives) following a stay at Alpine Park Cottages.
6. Where and how we display reviews
   1. We publish all reviews that comply with our Review Standards (whether positive or negative). Sometimes we remove old reviews and make clear the time period of review information being displayed.
   2. We may display review information such as an overall rating by averaging the ratings received. Where such information is displayed, we explain what information is being displayed and the calculation.
   3. We reserve the right to hide all reviews (whether genuine or fake) and cease taking reviews at any time.
7. We may use your review in our marketing
   1. We may include all (or a representative part) of your review in our marketing material in any media (for example, on our website, in a brochure or in advertising). Your identity will not be revealed.
8. Please report suspicious reviews
   1. All reviews must comply with clause 5: Review Standards.
   2. If you think any review is fake or otherwise does not comply with clause 5, please report to us via the contact details on our Website.
   3. If you think any review submitted to a Third Party Review Platform is fake or otherwise does not comply with clause 5, please report to the Third Party Review Platform via the Third Party Review Platform website. Please see the end of this policy for useful links.
9. How we investigate and deal with suspicious reviews
   1. If our own monitoring or a report from you or someone else suggests that a direct review does not comply with the Review Standards, we will promptly investigate.
   2. Our investigation shall commence on notification (clause 9.1) and we will use reasonable endeavours to complete the investigation within 12 weeks. Investigations shall be conducted by a Director and Company Secretary of Mynards Holidays Limited
   3. We may:
      1. immediately remove it (or not publish it, where it has been detected before publication). We will do this where we are certain it is non-compliant.
      2. investigate it further (which may involve contacting the reviewer for evidence that it is compliant) and flag it as a possibly fake review until our investigation is complete or remove the possibly fake review until our investigation is complete. If we then determine the review is non-compliant we will permanently remove it.
   4. If we identify one review as non-compliant, we may remove all reviews submitted by the same reviewer and refuse to publish any further reviews from the same reviewer.
   5. If we remove a review or are investigating it, we will not include that review in any aggregated review score.
   6. If you disagree with our decision as to whether a review is compliant, you can contact us via the contact details on our Website. We will deal with the issue you raise in accordance with our customer complaints procedure.
   7. Where we host reviews regarding the products or services of other traders (e.g., reviews about the Owner and/or the Owner’s Property) and, on assessment, deem the trader responsible for the banned reviews, we may take the following additional steps if we deem necessary on an assessment of the facts:
      1. notify consumers that the trader has benefited from banned reviews by putting a clear notice on the website;
      2. terminate the commercial relationship with the trader; and/or
      3. notify the CMA of the trader's breaches of the banned practices.
   8. For information on how the Third Party Review Platforms sanctions people who submit fake reviews, please see the Third Party Review Platform’s website.
   9. If a review is removed from a Third Party Review Platform or otherwise does not comply with our Review Standards, we will remove it from our website.

Schedule 1 – Third Party Review Platforms

Reviewed 23^rd July 2026 V1